Georgian President Georgy Margvelashvili postponed the approval of the new government composition proposed by the Prime Minister of the country Irakli Garibashvili, the news agency " News-Georgia " reports. Margvelashvili said that he wanted to give the prime minister and parliament “to conduct consultations in a more calm environment and determine the composition of the government”.

On May 1, 1917, Fedor Khitruk, a multiplier, creator of Winnie-Pooh was born. Personal business Fedor Savelyevich Khitruk (1917-2012) was born in Tver. His father Savely Khitruk was a member of the 1905 revolutionary events, during the formation of the Soviet regime he served as a food commissar, in 1931 he was seconded to Germany from the "Stock -Export". In 1931-1934, the family lived in Stuttgart, where Fedor studied at the art-craft school.

Russian experts train in the Donbass a 50,000th contingent, said Andrei Taranov, Deputy Head of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, on the air of Radio “ Freedom ”. According to Taranov, in the territories not controlled by Kyiv there is a military contingent of 50 thousand people organized in the form of army corps. The army of Ukraine is ready for air and artillery defense, the deputy head of the administration of Poroshenko said.

Oleg Kupriyanov, the official representative of Gazprom, commented on the new lawsuit of the Ukrainian Naftogaz, RIA Novosti reported. “The sum of the claims of Gazprom to“ Naftogaz of Ukraine ”is greater than the amount of Naftogaz’s claims to Gazprom,” said Kupriyanov. However, the representative of the Ukrainian side against the Russian representative of Gazprom refused to name the exact amount of the claims of the Ukrainian side.

A three -story underground garage fell in the Washington residential complex Watergate, The Washington Post reports. As a result, one person suffered, he was taken to the hospital, his life is out of danger. At the site of the emergency are fire engines and other special equipment. Outside the building is a large number of construction workers. The police blocked the roads adjacent to the building. According to preliminary data, the collapse was knitted with the repair in the complex.

General Filip Breedlove, the Commander -in -Chief of the North Atlantic Alliance in Europe, said NATO no longer regarding Russia as a partner, writes The Washington Times . Speaking in the US Congress, the general said that the alliance forces in Europe over the past 20 years have been designed for situations in which NATO perceived Russia as a partner. “What Moscow is currently showing cannot be considered as cooperation,” he explained.

The head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, said in a congratulatory speech dedicated to the holiday on May 1 that the DPR took place as a state and won, the Donetsk news agency reports .

In Novosibirsk, on May 1, the “Monestation” campaign, which has already become traditional, but the unauthorized by the authorities, the youth procession under ridiculous and absurd slogans, began, began, Interfax reports. According to the inventor and ideologist of the action - the youth artist Artem Loskutov - the "Monstrans" had to join the column of the Yabloko party on the citywide procession on May 1.

The combination of fans of the Russian national hockey team made ten cheese goals, TASS reports with reference to the leader of the association of Eduard Latypov. As Latypov explained, the number of washers corresponds to the number of matches that the team should play to reach the final-seven matches of the group stage and three playoffs. “On every game day, a date, participants in the match, account and the best player will be written on the new cheese puck.

Media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev, who bought from the Finnish Sanoma the third business newspaper Vedomosti, has not yet discussed the possibility of buying other shares in the publication. He told about this to the Interfax agency.

Polit.ru conducts a traditional survey on its VKontakte page. This time, readers were offered to answer the question whether they plan to celebrate on May 1 - the holiday of spring and labor. Intermediate survey results: For me it is just an additional day off - 39.6% No - 33% For me, this is an ordinary weekday - 12.3% Yes - 7.5% I will celebrate the day of solidarity of workers - 7.5%.

Anton Baryshnikov Chichester inscription in the wall of the building of the city council "King of Britain, Legate of Augustus" In April 1723, a wonderful find was made in the center of the small English town of Chichester (County of the West Sussex). The workers who digged the foundation on the corner of Lyon Street and North Street stumbled upon a meter stove from the Pyrgyz “marble”.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed amendments to the law on the status of veterans and guarantees of their social protection, providing for the assignment of the status of a participant in hostilities to persons who took part in the ATO as part of volunteer battalions. The condition for obtaining this status is the entry of volunteer battalions into the armed forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other official military units.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine filed a new lawsuit against the Russian Gazprom to the Stockholm Arbitration Court, Arseny Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine, said on its Facebook page.

In April, the level of oil production in Iraq reached 3.08 million barrels per day compared to 2.98 million barrels a month earlier. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Ministry of Oil of the country. “Exports in April reached the highest level since the 1980s, exceeding 92.3 million barrels (per month), which brought about $ 4.8 billion,” the ministry said.