The acting President of Ukraine, Alexander Turchinov, said that “folk” referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions will not have legal consequences, but their organizers are waiting for criminal liability. This was reported on the website of the head of state. “This propaganda farce will have no legal consequences other than the criminal liability of its organizers,” Turchinov said.

The Russian national hockey team last Sunday match of the group stage of the World Cup, which is held in Minsk, won the Finland team - 4: 2. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . Already in the first minute of the fight, Viktor Tikhonov opened the score. Later, from among the players of the Russian national team, Alexander Ovechkin (in the 5th minute), Nikolai Kulemin (23rd minute) and Sergey Kalinin (35th) distinguished themselves.

Many things are best learned by trial and error. Even after reading many books, it is impossible to become any skilled pianist or joiner, start playing billiards or mastering judo’s struggle. Practice is necessary. After multiple repetitions of movement, they will become accurate, the brain will learn to make quick decisions, and as a result, billiard balls will begin to fall exactly into the louse or wonderful music will pour from under your fingers.

On May 12, 1909, Yuri Dombrovsky, a Russian Soviet writer, prose writer, literary critic was born. Personal business Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (1909-1978) was born in Moscow in a Jewish-Russian family, his mother was a biologist. Dombrovsky graduated from literary Bryusovsky courses and began to write early. In 1933 he was arrested for the first time and exiled to Kazakhstan. He worked as an archaeologist, artist, a journalist, was engaged in pedagogical activity.

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The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Pavel Kanygin, who was detained at one of the checkpoints of Artemovsk in the Donetsk region, was released. The publication website specifies that the journalist has already contacted the editors and is waiting for a meeting with colleagues. Earlier, a spokesman for the press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said that Kanygin was detained about midnight due to problems with documents.

In a telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with the president of the chairman of Switzerland the situation in the OSCE of Switzerland, the situation in Ukraine in the light of the results of referendums in Donetsk and Lugansk, the Kremlin press service said. The parties noted the importance of the efforts to resolve the crisis situation.

Information on the artillery shelling of the positions of supporters of the federalization for the Ukrainian military in Slavyansk is not true. The correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda Dmitry Steshin, who is currently currently in Slavyansk, wrote about this on his Twiter. “I'm sitting on the roof, barefoot, with a cup of coffee. I don’t hear anything! ”He notes .

Western countries should not use the situation in Ukraine for pressure on Russia. President of Belarus , Alexander Lukashenko, made such a statement on May 12 in Minsk during a meeting with the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, Interfax reports . “The deterioration of the situation in Russia, including in the economy, affects the entire post -Soviet space, ”Lukashenko emphasized.

Eurovision 2014 In Copenhagen on May 10, the Eurovision Song Contest ended. Its winner was the 25-year-old Austrian gay and transvestite Tom Neuvirt, who performed in the image of a bearded woman under the pseudonym Conchit Vurst. Thus, the 60th Eurovision Song Competition will be held in May 2015 in Vienna. Conducted to conquer Europe with the song Rise Like a Phoenix, while scoring 290 points.

The deaf-mute man of 30 years old was killed by adolescents in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for an accident, the alleged killers were detained. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the assistant manager of the investigation department in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Kamchatka Territory Elena Kirillov. According to her, the disabled person disappeared on May 7, when he went to work in his car.

Aeroflot extended restrictions on flights to Donetsk and Kharkov until May 31. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the company. The air authorities of Ukraine forbade Russian airlines to fly to the airports of Donetsk and Kharkov on May 2. Moscow left this action without a practical answer and did not close the airspace for Ukrainian aircraft. A few days later, Aeroflot stopped selling tickets to these cities.

The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu announced the readiness of the country's special services to help Nigeria in a special operation to free schoolgirls abducted by Islamists. This will be reported " Interfax ." “We are completely ready to help you find the girls and in the fight against terrorists operating in your country,” Netanyahu said during a telephone conversation with Nigerian President Jonathan Gudlak.

Two Crimean companies and 13 individuals fell into an expanded sanctions list of the European Union. It is reported by Reuters . The names of the sanctions will be published in the EU official magazine on May 12 in the afternoon.

The leader of the Radical Nigerian Islamic Sect “Boko Haram” Abubakar Shekau published a video in which he reported the possibility of exchanging 223 stolen schoolgirls for prisoners of the organization, the France Press agency in his microblog reports. Schoolgirls will remain hostages until the prisoners of Boko Haram are released from prisons, Shekau said. The agency also reports that the abducted girls accepted Muslimism.