Journalists from Russia traveling to illuminate the Ukrainian elections of the president are deployed on the border: difficulties arose immediately at a number of film crews and correspondents. According to ITAR-TASS, the crew of VGTRK, headed by the special correspondent, Alexander Rogatkin, was removed from the train in the Ukrainian city of Konotop, despite the fact that the journalists had accreditation of the Ukrainian CEC for elections. The motivation is unclear.

In the south of Syria, a tent town was fired in a matar near the city of Deraa (110 km south of Damascus), where the election rally was held in support of Bashar al -Assad. As a result of the mortar shelling of the rally, 39 people were killed, 205 were injured, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to AP. The shelling occurred late in the evening on Thursday. Earlier, 21 dead and 30 were injured were reported.

In the Volyn and Rivne regions of Ukraine, mourning for the military who died as a result of an ambush at the Volnovakha Donetsk region was declared. According to the latest data, the number of victims of the attack on the checkpoint reached 17 - one of the wounded fighters died in the hospital. Five more are in serious condition.

PSG announced the transfer of the defender of Chelsea and the Brazilian national team David Louise. According to the French media, David Luizu signed an agreement with the PSG agreement with the Option option for another season. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed, but presumably amounts to 50 million pounds. Recall, PSG was among 9 clubs convicted of UEFA in violation of the financial Fair-Play.

In St. Petersburg there was a large accident involving a truck, a PAZ and SUV route bus: according to the updated data, six people died. The emergency occurred on Lenin Avenue at the entrance to the Krasnoye Selo, reports Fontanka.ru . A truck collided, Toyota Land Cruiser SUV and PAZ bus of the 636th route. A long cork was formed at the scene of the accident. Initially, the four dead were reported, later doctors stated the death of six.

The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev believes that the EU will not impose sector sanctions against the economy of the Russian Federation. The day before, the European Union outlined three levels of sanctions . They threaten the Russian Federation in the event of a breakdown of the presidential election in Ukraine, which will be held on Sunday on May 25.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved and introduced an agreement with Vietnam and Nicaragua on cooperation in the study and use of space space for peaceful purposes. This happened against the backdrop of a discussion of refusing the supply of RD-180 missile engines to the United States . According to Interfax , the corresponding decisions signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev are posted on Saturday on the government’s website.

Chemical weapons in Syria and capacities for its production cannot be destroyed within the planned period until June 30 of this year, said UN Secretary General Pan Gi Moon. According to him, the operation will last "over a limited period of time." "Some activities related to the elimination of the Syrian chemical weapon program will continue after June 30, 2014," he wrote in a monthly report to the UN Security Council, a copy of which was at the disposal of ITAR -TASS.

Representatives of the Ebay Internet auction reported details about the most powerful cyber attack in the history of the company, during which the data of all 145 million site users were compromised. At the week, Ebay asked users to change passwords in connection with cyber attacks, now one of the top managers of the company Devin Venig told Reuters details.

Russia cannot guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and reproaches for non-fulfillment of obligations on the Budapest memorandum in this case are unfounded, said the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. The memorandum signed in 1994 with the participation of Russia, the USA and Britain provided guarantees of security and territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for the country's abandonment of nuclear weapons.

At the World Hockey Championship in Minsk, the first semifinal match was held. The Russian team defeated the current champion - the Sweden team - with a score of 3: 1 and went to the final. In another semifinal pair, the teams of the Czech Republic and Finland met.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, defended the gas strategy of development: he said that prices in Europe are fair, competitive, taking into account the US export export export, as well as predictable. And he urged Europe not to be afraid of close ties with Russia and actively develop import routes without the participation of unreliable transit countries like Ukraine.

The Junior World Hockey Championship with the puck of 2018 will be held in Magnitogorsk and Chelyabinsk. The corresponding decision was made by the Congress of the International Hockey Federation, which takes place these days as part of the World Cup in Minsk. The tournament among junior teams under 18 will be held from April 19 to 29, 2018, the official website of the Russian Hockey Federation reports. This year, the junior championship of the world took place in Finland.

The head coach of the Russian national football team Fabio Capello, who missed three training sorts of colds , will arrive in Moscow from Milan on Saturday at 16:00 Moscow time. This was reported to the ITAR-TASS correspondent by the press attach of the national team Ilya Kazakov. The Russian team began preparations for the 2014 World Cup on Thursday. During the absence of Capello, his assistant Christian Panucci leads the training process.

During the special operation in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, four suspects in the illegal armed forces (NVF) were destroyed, a representative of the INGUSTIC Office for Interfax said on Saturday. According to ITAR-TASS, five people were killed. The militants killed a policeman, in whose house they took refuge, as well as his wife. "In the early morning, law enforcement officers in a private household in the village of Sagopsha were blocked by a group of militants.