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Employee of the Demos Center Varvara Pakhomenko on the course of elections in South Ossetia in South Ossetia, elections to parliament are held as the Russian authorities protect the rights of children of this week - "Khodorkovsky readings"

Vladimir Baburin: Today in our studio is Vasily Duma, a member of the Federation Council from the Kostroma region, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, a member of the Commission for Interaction with the Accounts Chamber and a member of the Commission on Natural Monopolies.

About 2 thousand police officers were taken to the streets of Moscow in front of several rallies taking place today in the Russian capital. The City Department of Internal Affairs emphasized that some shares were not authorized by the authorities, but the organizers intend to hold them.

Russian oppositionists intend to hold an unauthorized rally in the center of Moscow, on Triumphal Square. At the same time, the police promises to stop him. As the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov told Interfax, “any unauthorized measures that violate public order will be suppressed under the current legislation” (end of the quote).

The turnout of the voters in the Parliament of South Ossetia exceeded 70 percent. This was reported in the Central Election Commission of the Republic. Any violations during the vote have not yet been recorded. The election campaign in South Ossetia was accompanied by scandals, as a result of which several opposition politicians could not participate in the elections.

In Moscow, in the 75th year of his life, the famous actor Vyacheslav Nennya died. For almost 50 years he played on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. The innocent also starred in more than 60 films, among which - "Chairman", "Beware of the Car", "Garage", "Guest from the Future".

In Iran, a bomb was neutralized on board the aircraft, representatives of local security forces said. The explosive device was stated in the toilet of a airliner, which made a flight from the Iranian city of Ahvaz to Tehran. The plane, on board of which there were over 130 people, immediately returned to Ahvaz, where the bomb was neutralized.

In Paris, the robbery of the jewelry "Shopa" was committed. An unknown man, threatening with a weapon, took the jewelry by almost $ 9 million and disappeared. No one was injured. The store is located on Vandomskaya Square, where there are several more large jewelry stores, as well as the Ministry of Justice of France.

The identities of three men who died as a result of the explosion of a car in the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia were established. It is reported that one of them is Hamathan Gadaborshev in the federal wanted list. It is alleged that he was the leader of the group that organized a number of sabotage acts. Information that there is a woman among the dead was not confirmed.

In Vladikavkaz, as a result of shelling by unknown cars, 2 people were killed, two more with severe wounds were hospitalized. The attack was committed at the entrance to Vladikavkaz. It is reported that fire was conducted from automatic weapons from the car, on which the attackers disappeared. The identities of the dead and the circumstances of the incident are specified, the shooting is being conducted.

On Sunday, May 31, at 18 o’clock in the live air of the RS in the program "All Free" by Viktor Shenderovich - animator, director Harry Bardin. Ask your question to the program participants.

The Prosecutor General of Armenia did not find facts of violation of the law in the elections of the mayor of Yerevan. The country's central election commission said that voting is taking place without serious incidents. Earlier, the Opposition Armenian National Congress announced the beating of journalists and giving bribes in polling stations.

Work of observers in the elections in South Ossetia

The son of Jewish immigrants from tsarist Russia became the "king of the swing", Benny Gudman was born a hundred years ago, May 30, 1909. Like all the great jazzmen, he began to play early, but he went to real glory for a long time. America Jazz to Hudman was divided by racial signs: America of Black Orchestras and America of Belykh Orchestras.