The dispute due to tiny islands put China and Vietnam on the brink of a new "socialist war" *"First Socialist War" is called Military conflict between China and Vietnam in February-March 1979 At first, the anti -Chinese demonstrations were quite peaceful. Hoshimin, May 11, 2014/Photo: Le Quang Nhat/AFP/East News ** China annexed these islands in 1974 after confrontation with the pro -American regime in Saigon.

On May 13, in the Turkish province of Manis, the coal mine of Soma caught fire. The fire took the lives of almost 300 people. Few surviving miners were saved due to the fact that ... violated safety precautions. Soma, Türkiye, May 13, 2014 /Photo: EPA /ITAR-TASS A few years ago, Alp Gürkan, General Director of Soma Coal Inc., who owning the mine, presented Somu as the safest mine in Turkey - they say, coal is mined there using high -tech equipment.

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Is there life without GPS? On May 13, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin dumbfounded the venerable audience: since June 1, Russia may suspend the work of the US navigation system on its territory Turn from navigators to paper cards is still premature. Vladivostok, May 14, 2014 /Photo: Yuri Smityuk /ITAR-TASS *Global Positioning System - a global positioning system. ** Global navigation satellite system.

Typically, President Putin did not prone to shakes, who say that he builds himself a system of protection from his own surroundings On May 12, the president unexpectedly shifted a number of sign figures from his posts, including the head of his department of affairs of Vladimir Kozhin. The beneficiaries and victims of personnel changes ranked The New Times Evgeny Murov Observers commenting on the resignation of the administration of President Vladimir Kozhin are clearly “knocking down focus”.

On May 16, the space industry of the Russian Federation suffered the next fiasco: the Proton-M launch vehicle was unable to bring into the orbit the most powerful Express-AM4R communication satellite worth 1 billion rubles. The wreckage of the rocket and satellite burned at an altitude of 160 km above China.

We are so that we are the heirs of Tolstoy and Chekhov, but the truth is that we are the heirs of the scoop Photo: Getty Images/Fotobank Have you been to Athens? If you have been, then, of course, remember this picture: Parfenon soars over the city, and below, literally at a different level, modern Greeks live ... These are, as a rule, the sweetest people, only they have nothing to do with those who created Parthenon.

What laws deputies of the State Duma adopted in May, which are about to accept and what all this is fraught with citizens: The New Times watched a seasonal exacerbation on the Okhotny series According to the new requirements for bloggers of the Navalny investigation, officials may turn out to be “outlawed” /photo: from Facebook by Alexei Navalny While the country lived from one May holiday to another, State Duma deputies actively, if not furiously, were submitted for consideration and adopted

On May 15, in Moscow, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky was presented with a badge of honor and a mantle of a professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice From March to May 2014, the Russian authorities carried out three special operations. These are the annexation of Crimea, the awarding of orders and medals to three hundred journalists and the "Venetian award" of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky.

On May 16, Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov announced a possible blocking of Twitter and Facebook in Russia In an interview with Izvestia, Ksenzov literally said the following: “Tomorrow we can block Twitter or Facebook in Russia within a few minutes.

On May 19, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, despite criticism from EU partners, once again called for autonomy for ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia on the territory of Ukraine. Viktor Orban is known for his love of football and militant rhetoric. He declares a fight against various areas of public and private life very regularly in almost every public speech.