During the telephone conversation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor of Germany, the Angels Merkel sides expressed the hope of continuing the dialogue of Kyiv with rebellious regions. This was reported on the Kremlin website. According to the report, the leaders of the two countries discussed the crisis situation in Ukraine, including in connection with the presidential election planned for May 25.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov turned to the organization on security and cooperation in Europe with a demand to apply all his resources to free the LifeNews TV channel captured by Ukrainian security forces. This was reported by the press service of the Russian foreign policy. “In connection with the detention of Lifenews journalists by Ukrainian military in Kramatorsk in the evening of May 18, S.V. Lavrov contacted the current chairman of the OSCE, President of Switzerland D.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine announced four main versions of events in Odessa on May second, as a result of which at least 48 people died. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to the head of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitaly Sakala. According to him, the case of riots in Odessa can be transferred to court within a month.

The international team of scientists at the University of Southampton (Great Britain) created the Jellyfish Database Initiative (Jedi) project, dedicated to monitoring the mass accumulations of jellyfish in oceans. An article published in the magazine Global Ecology and Biogeography is talking about the project. A unified database on the concentration places of jellyfish will predict their appearance in the future, as well as evaluate the environmental consequences of this.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation announced that the FCS does not use software with a total value of 148.4 million rubles, the federal property of more than 2.5 billion rubles have not been introduced into action, and technical means of control worth 220 million rubles are not used at all, or are used ineffectively, the press service of the department reports .

The US Department of Justice accuses several Chinese officials of theft of American trade secrets through cybersecha. It is reported by Reuters . As the source in American government circles explained, the companies spied by Chinese officials are involved in the energy and manufacturing industries. He did not specify what exactly the charges are brought by civil servants of China. It is noted that they managed to get a huge amount of industrial information, including regarding strategic plans.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called false information about the creation of a new type of troops as a result of the unification of the air forces and the airborne defense forces in the near future. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a senior official official. According to him, information about the merger of East Kazakhstan region and the Air Force is no more than “fantasies of journalists”.

A detachment of the ships of the Pacific Fleet of Russia, headed by the Varyag missile cruiser, arrived at the Chinese military port of Osun on Sunday, where he will take part in the Russian -Chinese military exercises “Marine Interaction - 2014”. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the management of the press service and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation liquidated the Yoga Yoga Federation. It is reported by RIA Novosti . With a claim for the liquidation of a public organization, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation filed a court. Representatives of the ministry explained that the Yoga Federation, registered in 2008, systematically violated its own charter and current legislation.

The UN Secretariat refused to confirm the receipt of the recognition of the sovereignty of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, reports ITAR-TASS . The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Duzharrik told the correspondent of the Russian news agency, which cannot confirm the receipt of such an appeal.

The vandals doused the monument to Peter the First, erected in the Royal Park of Brussels, ITAR-TASS reports with a white paint. The Russian Embassy in Belgium confirmed that the bust is indeed flooded with white paint, and the pedestal is covered with graffiti. “The inscriptions are chaotic, some abbreviations. We believe that there is no political background in this matter, ”said the diplomatic mission.

The Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Region completes the execution of documents for the draft for the Russian Figure Skating Champion Maxim Kovtun, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the Central Military District, Kovtun will be called up in the spring of 2014 for military service in the Balashikhi sports company in the Moscow region.

The US White House has not yet seen signs of any movement of Russian troops, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the statement of the official representative of the presidential administration Jay Carney. According to Carni, the US authorities would confirm if the Russian troops really moved away from the borders with Ukraine, but at this stage they did not see the relevant signs.

The election commander of Ukraine reports the difficulties with the delivery of electoral lists to sites in Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the first deputy head of the department Andrei Mager. According to him, today in the Donetsk region so far only 26% of polling stations have received voter lists. “In the Luhansk region, such a percentage is even less, it is 16%,” said Mager, clarifying that we are talking about preliminary voter lists.

Russian journalists who prepared the plot in the southeast of the country are currently interrogated in Kiev, said the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalivaichenko, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Nalvaichenko did not indicate the names of the detainees, but, presumably, we are talking about the journalists of the LifeNews television channel, detained on May 18 near Kramatorsk Donetsk region.