The whole South Ossetia was without light on Sunday after the accident on the power lines: they were cut off due to avalanches and hurricane winds, TASS reports with reference to the IDGC of the North Caucasus. South Ossetia with the capital in Tskhinval - an unrecognized republic that has broken off from Georgia, which is closely connected economically with Russia.

More than seven thousand spectators, including Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, visited the military-historical reconstruction of the Sturm Berlin in the Patriot Park near Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Defense. A hundred stuntmen, dozens of samples of technology from the Great Patriotic War, took part in the reconstruction, and a “copy of the Reichstag” from corrugated panels became its symbol in social networks.

The striker of the St. Petersburg SKA and the Russian Hockey team Ilya Kovalchuk expressed a desire to return to the National Hockey League (NHL) next season, where he played for Atlanta and New Jersey from 2005 to 2013. This was on the air of the Sportsnet television channel by journalist Elliott Friedman.

In at least one of the Hong Kong shopping center, playgrounds were decorated with characters of the Japanese cartoon "Sosavich" - rabbits named Putin and Kirenenko (probably this is an erroneous spelling of the surname of the current head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko). This was reported by the ZNAK portal with reference to the human rights activist, the head of the organization "Rus sitting" Olga Romanov .

In the upcoming early general elections in the UK, the UKIP party plans to make the central point of its pre -election program the requirement to ban Muslims to completely cover their face in public places. Traditional hats - hijabs, nizaby, burka, burqa, as well as a curd should fall under the ban. According to the Air Force , on Monday, the leader of the UKIP Paul Nutton will publish a new party’s election program, which will also contain a proposal to ban the laws of Sharia in the UK.

The collapse of the breed occurred at the gold mining mine in the Plastovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, three miners remained under the rubble, TASS reports with reference to the data of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region. Later rescuers said that two bodies were found at the site of the collapse, and the Investigative Committee reported on initiating a criminal case on the fact of violation of labor protection rules.

The OSCE observation mission was blown up on a landmine in the Lugansk region. Information "Novaya Gazeta" was confirmed in the OSCE. One of the observers died, another mission employee was wounded. This is the first fatal incident for three years of the OSCE mission in the east of Ukraine. Interfax with reference to sources in the power structures of the LPR claims that the deceased is a US citizen.

North Korea announced her readiness to sink the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to demonstrate its military power. This is stated in the article by Rodong Simbun . On Sunday, the US Navy strike group began joint exercises south of the Korean Peninsula. "Our revolutionary forces are in full readiness to sink an American atomic aircraft carrier with one blow," TASS quotes the article quoted.

The editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov responded to the words of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who on the eve of stated that "Chechnya is small," and therefore everyone would know about the existence of gays in the republic. " As Muratov noted, since Chechnya is so small, it is amazing why the killer of journalist Anna Politkovskaya had been hiding there for years. “Kadyrov said that“ Chechnya is small ”and would“ know about all about everyone.

The small enterprise from Moscow received Gazprom Siberian contracts for 8 billion rubles, Interfax reports, which analyzed the success history of Inter Management LLC based on the databases and the SPARK system that accumulates data on enterprise registration. The company "Inter Management" was registered in Moscow in August 2016 with an authorized capital of 150 thousand rubles. At the moment, the owner of a 100% share of the LLC is its CEO Sergey Samarin.

"You won’t have time to slow down at a traffic light, and you already a girl in a St. George ribbon to the side of the side of the side bustle. The young man came out of the metro with a striped ribbon with a striped move, as a barrier - if you want to go, take it everywhere. But in the previous years they distributed it before the holiday itself, and this year they decided to start with preliminary widespread. Advertising, ”writes a former politician on his Facebook page.

Three divers, among them two citizens of the Russian Federation, drowned on Saturday in the area of ​​the island of Ahe in French Polynesia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. The incident occurred during immersion in the cave to a depth of 60 meters. Three bodies were discovered on Sunday, so far they could not be lifted to the surface.

In France, voting in the first round of the presidential elections came to an end. The new official data published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country indicate that the founder of the “forward” movement Emmanuel Macron leads in the first round of elections, gaining 23.72% of the vote after calculating 90% of the ballots. In second place is the chairman of the National Front party Marine Le Pen (21.90%). These two candidates go to the second round.

France presidential candidate, leader of the left-wing movement "Fearless France" by Jean-Luke Melanshon is gaining the largest number of votes in three overseas territories of France, the Belgian RTBF television company reports. Voting in the overseas territories of France (in Saint-Pierre and Michelon, Martinic and Guiana) located in the Western Hemisphere, due to the difference in time zones, took place on Saturday.

On Sunday, France chooses a new president, the course of which can determine politics far beyond the borders of the country and become a decisive factor for maintaining or destroying the European Union. Voting takes place two days after the terrorist attack in Paris against the backdrop of unprecedented security measures, and among the favorites - two pro -Russian candidates: the leader of the National Front Marine Le Pen and the Republican Firesua Fionon .