The Ministry of Defense of South Korea announced on Thursday that joint analysis with American experts confirmed that all the drones that had crashed over the past months in the country have arrived from the DPRK. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the South Korean media. The representative of the military department Kim Min Sok told reporters that experts came to this conclusion after studying the GPS coordinates, which were equipped with UAVs.

In Saudi Arabia, the editor of the Internet portal “Free Saudi Liberals” Raifa Badami sentenced to 10 years in prison, a thousand lashes and a fine of 260 thousand dollars. It is reported by Reuters . Badavi is accused of a critical discussion regarding religion, its significance in society was conducted on his website. Often, the highest clergy of the country fell under the blow of visitors to the site.

Social activists intend to find out the circumstances of hospitalization in the pre -trial detention center of the former deputy head of the anti -corruption headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Kolesnikov, Interfax reports. According to the agency, the head of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission (PMC), a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Anton Tsvetkov, Boris Kolesnikov is currently in a hospital with a traumatic brain injury.

The Law Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the law banning total listening and collecting telephone metadata of American citizens, Reuters reports . The legislative act, which received the unofficial name “Law on Freedom”, was approved by the Committee unanimously, which guarantees its future support by both parties of the Congress.

On May 22, 2014 (Thursday), as part of the Public Lectures project “Polit.ru” ”, Alexander Sergeyevich Gorsky , doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, physicist-theoretic, will perform. From 1982 to 2014 - an employee of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEF), held the post of head. department of theoretical physics. Lecturer at the Faculty of General and Applied Physics of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics and Quantum Theory of the MIPT field.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday, May 8 that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed a 15,000th military group on the territories bordering on the Russian Federation, Interfax reports. “The concentration of the Ukrainian armed forces on the Russian-Ukrainian border continues. - said Antonov.

Among the 34 foreign top managers who refused to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum this year, due to the unfavorable foreign policy around Russia, were the heads of the German concern Siemens and the largest credit financial institution Deutsche Bank. This was written on Thursday by Izvestia with reference to a comparative analysis of the current and previous lists of guests of the International Forum.

Employees and passengers of the flight of the Airlines Airlines became witnesses of childbirth on board the aircraft near the resident of the village of Zyryanka, Verkhnekolymsky district of Yakutia; The woman gave birth to twins. This was announced by the director of the village airport Sergey Yakovlev, Interfax reports. The press service of the air carrier specified that the fights of the passenger began in the middle of the flight, the woman was accompanied by a midwife.

The former head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti -Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Denis Sugrobov was detained, Interfax reports with reference to the lawyer of the detained Georgy Antonov. According to Georgy Antonov, on Thursday the Basmanny Court of the capital, the court will decide on the extent of suppressing for the detainee. Earlier, the investigation sent a petition to the court to arrest Denis Svugrobov.

The plans of the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on the colonization of the moon were not his personal initiative, but by a brief presentation of the draft concept of the Russian lunar program, the text of which was at the disposal of Izvestia. The project of the lunar program was developed with the participation of various enterprises of Roscosmos, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University.

On May 8, 1962, Valery Todorovsky, screenwriter, film director, producer was born. Personal business Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (52 years old) was born in Odessa, in the family of film director Peter Efimovich (“Beloved woman of the mechanic Gavrilov”, “Military Field Roman”, “Interdaeum”) and the worlds of Grigoryevna Todorovsky. In 1984 he graduated from the Faculty of Faculty of VGIK (he did not enter the directorial).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko suggested that Vladimir Putin include soldiers of the Belarusian army in the Victory Parade on Red Square on May 9, Interfax reports. “I think it will be normal if in the parade on Red Square our (Belarusian - approx.“ Polit.ru ”) units will take part,” Alexander Lukashenko said in the Kremlin with the President of Russia.

The temporary president and Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov and Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday evening made a joint statement in which they announced their initiative to collect round tables of national unity. It is reported by Interfax . “We are ready to talk with everyone who has legitimate political goals and is ready to defend them with legal means - with those who have no blood in their hands.

The State Committee of Ukraine on Broadcasting demanded to introduce a ban on broadcasting by Ukrainian TV channels of Russian series and films, which, according to his assessment, "praise the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation." It is reported by ITAR-TASS .

Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu said that by 2021 the number of Yars and Bulava missile systems in the strategic nuclear forces will quadruple. reports this Interfax . “Taking into account the role and importance of long-range precision weapons in strategic deterrence, it is planned to increase the number of carriers of precision weapons fourfold by 2021,” Shoigu said during a training session on managing the Armed Forces.