Why are Russian passports to Ukrainians? Donetsk, at the passport hundred. Valentin Sprinchak / TASS The Decree of the President of Russia on a simplified procedure for providing Russian citizenship to those who live in the unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics” was justified exclusively by humanitarian goals.

The armed uprising of the opposition in Venezuela: failure or success? Who will betray Maduro tomorrow? Photo: Reuters On the morning of April 30, Juan Guydo published a video message in which he appeared surrounded by armed people and urged his supporters to take the streets and join the final phase of “Liberation Operation”. The appeal was recorded in Altamir, the Karakas area near the military airfield of La Carlot. It was there that Guydo called on his supporters.

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held telephone conversations. Trump reported this on Twitter, calling them "long and very good." According to the Kremlin website , the conversation occurred on the initiative of Washington and lasted about an hour and a half.

What to look at the May: the choice of "Novaya Gazeta" "By God's will." Why was the church silent? The viewer learned about the release of the film “By the will of God” by the famous French director Francois Ozon thanks to the next action of the Ministry of Culture. The distributors of the picture (A-One Films) received a letter with a request to postpone the date of the premiere without a “written explanation of the ministry”.

The Moscow Interior Ministry launched an inspection after a clash between police and the Russian Guard with participants in the Hip-Hop festival at the Luzhniki stadium on May 1. This was reported by the TV channels REN-TV and Channel Five without reference to sources . The skirmish, as Mediazona wrote , occurred after people were no longer allowed to enter the stage through the fences due to too many visitors.

The Conservative Party of Great Britain lost most of the elections in more than 30 local councils in the elections, it follows from the preliminary results that Sky News cite. In England, deputies of 248 local councils were elected, at the moment the results of 163 were known. Conservatives received about 1900 seats and lost more than 680 mandates compared to the results of 2015. Laborists lost more than 90 seats and most in four tips.

The Nalchik City Court arrested a participant in the March rally in Magas Ruslan Dzeitov in the case of clashes with police (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was his lawyer hanging about this by Tsoroev was informed by the MBH Media. The day before, Fortanga reported his detention. According to them, he became the 22nd person involved in the criminal case. At the end of April, the court in Nalchik also arrested another participant in the rally - Magomed Nalgiev.

President Vladimir Putin instructed the Olympic Committee to ensure the participation of all members of the Russian team in the 2020 Olympics by December 2, as well as to restore membership in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). This is stated in the message on the Kremlin website.

The Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self-proclaimed DPR in Donetsk began accepting applications for a Russian passport under a simplified procedure. The authorities have already reported on receiving the first hundred appeals, reports . RIA Novosti By the beginning of the reception at 9:00 Moscow time, there were more than 80 people near the building, the agency correspondent said . Why did we get up in 2014? To become part of our great motherland...

In Malaysia, Vietnamese citizen Doan Thi Huong has been released from prison a month after being sentenced in the murder case of Kim Jong Nam, the brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Her lawyer told CNN about this. Before the end of the day, Huong will be put on a flight to Hanoi. She was one of two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam in February 2017. The second defendant in this case, an Indonesian citizen of City Aysya, was released from custody in March.

The Central Bank of Russia bought 55.3 tons of gold from January to March, becoming the world's largest buyer of the precious metal during this period. This was announced by the World Gold Council (WGC). At the beginning of April, Russia's reserves amounted to 2168.3 tons, or 19% of the world's gold reserves. In 2018, she also purchased 274.3 tons of gold.

The Trump administration is seeking ways to financially support opposition leader Juan Guaidó, told CNN. Capitol sources At the moment, they are trying to develop ways to get money for the salaries of the military and government employees through neighboring countries, such as Colombia, bypassing the country's air defense systems. U.S. embassy staff have also been instructed to return to Caracas in the coming weeks to reopen the embassy, ​​according to the channel.