“To maintain the state of patriotic mobilization of the people, an external enemy is absolutely necessary, although this does not mean at all that it is necessary to fight with him; on the contrary, it is quite possible to cooperate. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Khamenei, once said that one must know the limits of rapprochement with America, otherwise Iran will be filled with American spies.

At the beginning of April 2015, one of the largest transactions of the year ended - VTB bought a control package of City Land Group LLC (SLG) from lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky for 15.1 billion rubles (more than $ 260 million), consolidating about 90% of the share in the company.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to allocate from the federal budget of a subsidy in the amount of 5 billion rubles to compensate the Russian manufacturers of part of their costs in the second quarter of 2015, TASS reports with reference to the draft Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, posted on the Unified Portal of Disclosure of Legal Information.

The General Director of the United Nations on Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) Irina Bokova was awarded the title of commander of the Order of the Honorary Legion. The corresponding decree signed by the President of France was published today in the official publication of the Journal Officiel, TASS reports. Irina Bokova was elected to the post of General Director of UNESCO in 2009. She became the first woman at the head of this international organization.

A group of unknown artists erected Fort Green in the Brooklysky Park in New York a monument to the former American intelligence officer Edward Snowden, who fled from the United States, escaping from possible persecution after the secret information about American surveillance programs.

The St. Petersburg SKA beat the Moscow CSKA in the overtime of the sixth match of the semifinals of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) and managed to equalize the score in the series, giving way to 0-3 in its course. Previously, this did not succeed in a single team in the history of the League. The meeting held on Sunday in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of the owners of the ice.

Thai police are investigating the murder of a Russian committed in one of the hotels. In connection with this crime, citizens of the Russian Federation who lived in the hotel with the deceased were also announced on the wanted list. Two of them were detained in hot pursuit. The corpse of Fedor Gusev, who arrived from Moscow, was found in one of the hotels in Pattaya, TASS reports with reference to the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand, Vladimir Sosnov.

The Falluji militia reports the destruction of the high -ranking leader of the Islamic State (IG), who previously served in the army of Saddam Hussein with the rank of general, reports the Kurdish edition of Rudaw . The Falluji Liberation Committee said that Abu Jihad Abdullah Dlery, who was killed by the militias, was a member of the top of the IG and is responsible for explosions of suicide bomber terrorists.

In Russia, they will complicate a comprehensive test in the Russian language, the history and foundations of law, which must be handed over to migrants who want to get a residence permit, temporary registration or employment in the Russian Federation. Now, five new open questions will appear in it, the answers to which foreigners will need to be entered by themselves. The lexical minimum for visitors will also be increased - up to 1250 Russian words.

The administration of the metropolitan district of Fili -Davydkovo planned to be held on May 8 - on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War - a large -scale festive action, within the framework of which it is planned to deploy a St. George ribbon with a length of 1418 meters. The action caused increased attention, because the network published an order according to which "it is planned to deploy a St.

At a closed meeting with the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in the framework of the Russian Business Week, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in addition to the prospects for the development of the pension system, spoke about the situation in the southeast of Ukraine and the proposal to “pick up Donbass”, which Petro Poroshenko received from Ukrainian colleagues, Forbes reports with reference to his own sources.

“A feature of modern Russia is that the authorities almost do not raise this issue for public discussion, and I understand the reasons for such silence.

In Kharkov, employees of the local aviation plant reached a rally demanding to pay them a salary debt. About 400 people took part in the action, the Ukrainian television channel 112.ua reports. Currently, the participants in the action dispersed, reports UNN . However, before that they threatened to block the central street of the city. People have not received money since August last year. The leadership of the plant promised that they would start paying debts to workers today, UNIAN reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday, which prohibits the transformation of religious organizations into legal entities of a different legal form. As specified on the Kremlin’s website, the document makes changes to the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations", as well as to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation. "The reorganization of the religious organization is carried out on the grounds and in the manner prescribed by civil law.

Petro Poroshenko announced readiness for a referendum on the country's state structure. Nevertheless, he is sure that Ukraine will remain a unitary state, and the only state language in it will be Ukrainian. Decentralization, according to the Ukrainian president, means, among other things, tightening liability for separatism. Representatives of the LPR and the DPR were not called to discuss the upcoming work on the new constitution.