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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

50 years ago, on June 5, 1967, a war began in the Middle East, in which there was a small Israel on one side, and on the other - almost the entire Arab world. On June 11, an agreement was signed on a ceasefire. Hence the name - six -day war In the spring of 1963, the power in Syria was in the hands of the extremist wing of the Baas nationalist party, which immediately led to an exacerbation of the already tense situation on the borders of Israel with the Arabic states surrounding it.

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.

The Russian Guard is a little bit and this name will become as iconic for Russian domestic politics as Lubyanka - for the Soviet one. The structure, built by the former guard of Putin, now the Army General Viktor Zolotov, receives all the greatest resources and powers - now the opportunity to use the army for his needs ( more details - on page 40 ).

On May 29, in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, not just negotiations between the presidents of Russia and France took place - the world saw a meeting of two political styles and two different eras, which, in principle, should not have intersected Putin's photographs from Versailles are reminiscent of scenes from Paolo Sorrentino's film Molodost, where the aged hero realizes that there is nothing more valuable in life than youth, but he can only watch with envy the interesting life of the

The first in the history of Ukraine by the correspondence process on charges of the former president of the treason began on May 4, the next two preparatory meetings were held on the 8th and 29th. None of them caused public interest. True, at the very first meeting, a couple of dozen people with posters “Vybivtsia May Boti Plutrors” came to the Court Building on Marshal Tymoshenko (“The killer must be convicted”).

At the end of May, the government was forced to introduce an emergency regime of the federal level in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Irkutsk region and in the Stavropol Territory. This means that without the help of the center, the regions can no longer cope with the revelry of the elements. Krasnoyarsk Territory and Irkutsk region are burning. In the Stavropol Territory - the strongest flood over the past 50 years.

At midnight on May 31, New York time, US President Donald Trump surprised the social network with a tweet that ended in the middle of a sentence with the cryptic word “covfefe” (covfefe). The word immediately became a meme In 2004, Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America was published.

So, you came to the demonstration of May 1, “Peace, Labor, May”, and as a result you ended up in the Department of Internal Affairs. Why were you detained? Yuri : We ourselves break our heads over this, why we were detained. There was an agreed event, there was an announcement that a march dedicated to social issues was held.