70 years ago, on June 5, 1947, US Secretary of State George Katlett Marshall made an initiative to provide economic assistance unprecedented in scale? European countries. So appeared the "Marshall Plan", which saved Western Europe from the arms of communism, raised it from the ruins and eventually led to the unification Winston Churchill considered the plan “Marshall Plan” the “most disinterested act in history”.

On June 2, Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

On May 31, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (Stockholm Arbitration) ruled in favor of the Ukrainian side on the dispute between Russian Gazprom and Ukrainian Naftogaz The dispute between Gazprom and Naftogaz concerned the so-called Putin-Timoshenko contract, concluded back in 2009. Of course, the parties to the agreements were the companies, and they were signed by their management.

In Moscow, opponents of the demolition of five -story buildings decided to organize a plebiscite. Despite the fact that a rally against renovation gathered about 20 thousand people and protests in different forms do not subside, the city hall or the Kremlin does not intend to deviate from their plans: the State Duma plans to adopt federal law in June in June.

On May 31, Rospotrebnadzor announced the detection of pesticides in 24 batches of Montenegrin wines - "in concentrations exceeding hygienic standards" A month and a half ago, the Russian Foreign Ministry suddenly announced that “anti-Russian hysteria is being whipped up” in Montenegro and urged Russians not to travel to this republic Then, a series of carbon-copied stories aired on Russian state channels, telling about Montenegro in a negative way.

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The upbringing of patriotism, love for the Motherland in our country is not put on a gear, as in the “Georope” mired in debauchery and liberalism. Every year, the state releases about 0.5 billion rubles. According to the article “Conducting measures to promote the patriotic education of citizens of the Russian Federation”. Another 873 million should be added to this, which, according to researchers from the Higher School of Economics (HSE), spend the regions “on patriotism” every year.

On May 30, the exposition of the works of Anselm Kifer, at the same time the brightest and most gloomy painter of the 20th century, opened in the Hermitage. Making a kifer exhibition right now for the Hermitage is appropriate than ever. Among other things, this is an opportunity to recover after the next hype associated with the exhibition of Belgian Jan Fabra and complaints about the museum of zoo defenders, singer Elena Vaengi and deputy Vitaly Milonov.

Cultural escort in the offensive: The New Times analyzes the results of the theater season One of the main socially significant events in culture this season was the evening-campaign “Stalin's funeral” in the Gogol Center, conceived by his artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov as a powerful civil statement.

That awkward for the United States the moment when the president of the country easily pushes back the prime minister of Montenegro (second on the right) to be in the focus of television cameras, Brussels, May 25, 2017 After the Maisk of NATO summites in Brussels and the G7 in Taormin (Sicily, Italy), the official Berlin did not skimp on the remarks and tiradeas, indicating its extreme concern with the results of three days of transatlantic meetings.

As a result of the hurricane, which swept over the Moscow region on May 29, 15 people died, according to the latest data. Was it possible to save them and how to protect themselves from the new destructive blows of the elements - the New Times sorted out The intersection of Tverskaya street and Tver Boulevard lost a traffic light, Moscow, May 29, 2017 In the video from the surveillance camera installed on Kirovogradskaya Street, there is a bus stop.

In 2017, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF) in all respects finally reached the development point that he had been striving for many years-among its regular participants there were almost no dissatisfied. Most of all, PMEF now resembles the Soviet Union on the eve of its decay: a huge mass of large state projects, the authors of which are too busy to hear each other, are too much connected by mutual obligations to solve something.

With the blessing of the Pope, the relics of Nikolai the Wonderworker*, who had never left the Italian city of Bari, were brought to Russia with the blessing of the Pope. Never before in Bari have been practiced by a part of particles of relics. Now, through the hole for collecting the world, invited forensic experts with the help of modern equipment seized the left rib.

The first recognition in cooperation with the KGB was made by an activist of the young front opposition organization Sergei Palchevsky - one of the suspects in the so -called Patriots case*, whom the Committee of State Security of Belarus accuses of preparing the riots. On April 27, he said that he agreed to become the KGB informant because of blackmail from the committees.

At the beginning of the last decade of May, when the society was passionate about the story with a police collision at Gogol-Center and director Kirill Serebrennikov, almost no one noticed the new Decree of President Putin, which approves the “Regulation on the operational-territorial association of the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation”. At first glance, this is a common and, moreover, a very boring bureaucratic document. But - only at first glance.