Presidential elections were held in Ukraine Click to increase the picture “Wait, I take a picture with the future president,” a friend acquired Petro Poroshenko and quickly made a frame with an outstretched hand. The current favorite of the presidential race, and then - in December last year on the Maidan - “just” billionaire and politician Petro Poroshenko reluctantly smiled at the lens.

In Cannes, they watched 3D from Godard, horrified by the war in Ukraine and remembered about a woman who fascinated de Gaulle The Hungarian director Cornel Mundruzo shot the film “White God”, whose main character - the dog - suffers from human cruelty. Cannes, May 2014 /Photo: Regis Duvignau /Reuters *Cm. Yuri Gladilshchikov. "Third Cannes Andrei Zvyagintsev", The New Times No.

Rostelecom announced the launch of the new Russian search engine "Sputnik" The market, meanwhile, is full of rumors about plans to establish total control over the Internet Photo: Peter Kovalev/ITAR-TASS “The new search engine does not have a task at all to compete with Yandex or Google is a niche product that should facilitate the interaction of the population with the state, an online initiative like the public services portal,” Dmitry Chistov, representative of the satellite press service,

On May 20, the deadline for warning Roskomnadzor against the Tomsk independent television channel TV-2 expired. The agency can now suspend its broadcast license at any time. Or even take it away The most popular word in Tomsk now is "feeder". This word would never have entered the lexicon of Tomsk residents, if on April 19, late in the evening, the air of the only independent city channel TV-2 had not gone out.

On May 21, well-known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez opened the first independent media on the island on the Internet. 14ymedio, or “Fourteen and a Half”, is the name of the media and is a news and analytical site, very traditional in form: it publishes reports on what is happening in the country, there is a column of opinions, cultural events are announced, in a separate section are given advice to women. In short, nothing out of the ordinary. Except for one.

On May 25, extraordinary presidential elections were held in Ukraine Elections in Cosmach-a village in the Kosovo district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine/ Photo: Reuters/ Kacper Pempel 21:10 Polling stations completed the work. EXIT -Poll data: Petro Poroshenko - 55.9%of the vote, Yulia Tymoshenko - 12.9%, Oleg Lyashko - 8.0%, Anatoly Gritsenko - 6.3%, Sergey Tigipko - 4.7%, Mikhail Dobkin - 2.1%, Olga Bogomolets 1.9%.

What will happen? What to expect? Questions that many of us have been waking up and going to bed with over the last few weeks. And then there are pictures of a military coup in Thailand: the military is on the street, opposition leaders are detained and are in the barracks. The Thais are no strangers - they had a dozen such coups, we have the experience of the State Emergency Committee and the execution of the parliament of the ninety-third year.

The gas supply contract, signed during the visit of Vladimir Putin to China, is not so much about raw materials, business and profit. This, in fact, is a value choice, a new paradigm for Russia, which will affect not only external, but also domestic policy For 30 years, Russia will supply gas to China from Eastern Siberia through a pipeline, which is not yet.

Elections in Cosmach-a village in the Kosovo district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine/ Photo: Reuters/ Kacper Pempel 10:00 CEC processed 41.49% of the protocols. Petro Poroshenko still leads with 54.1% of the vote. At the same time, 13.15%voted for Yulia Tymoshenko. 21:10 Polling stations completed the work.

Report from Shanghai The main result of the visit of Vladimir Putin to China was the “contract of the year”-the parties went to the contract on 30-year supplies of Russian gas to the Celestial Empire for a total of $ 400 billion for almost 10 years. How and why they came - the New Times sorted out The mood of the leaders of China and Russia, apparently, is different.

A report from the hospital, where Mikhail Kosenko is forcibly treated, and from the Zamoskvoretsky court, where the second “swamp process” comes In the next month or two, one of the defendants in the “case of May 6” Mikhail Kosenko will be released After two years of imprisonment, Kosenko can be released home, but no one is going to punish the police who beat him with batons.

On May 25, 91th year, the former president and last communist leader of Poland Wojciech Yaruzelsky died Photo: http://brykczynski.com.pl/ In 1985-1989, he headed the State Council of the Polish People's Republic (PNR). In 1989 he was elected president of the republic. In 1990, he left politics, transferring power to the elected President Lech Valens. In December 1981, Yaruzelsky declared martial law in the country.

Anomalous rains caused the strongest floods in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia Topchitz Polish, Bosnia and Herzegovin. May 16, 2014/Photo: Dado Ruvic/Reuters The city of Obranovats, 30 km from Belgrade, suffered the most. Water instantly rose by 5-6 meters, flooding the city in a few hours. May 18, 2014 /Photo: AP /ITAR-TASS On May 21–23, mourning was declared in Serbia.

Up to a third of the places in the new composition of the European Parliament, following the election of May 25, can receive radical parties and movements What determined the current preferences of voters in the Old World - the New Times found out In France, the National Front Marine Le Pen was the leader in election polls with 24% /photo: Philippe Wojazer /Reuters The Independence Party of the United Kingdom, led by Nigel Faraj, received 27% /photo: Georges Gobet /AFP elections The Netherlands

In the next month or two, one of the defendants in the “case of May 6” Mikhail Kosenko will be released After two years of imprisonment, Kosenko can be released home, but no one is going to punish the police who beat him with batons.