Is the Committee of National Salvation capable of putting a barrier to mass falsifications in the Russian elections? On the air, the initiators of the creation of the Committee Anatoly Baranov, Eduard Limonov and Sergey Udaltsov. Page of the program

Now Yandex will have international shareholders The main search engine in Runet Yandex completes the IPO on the American Nasdaq exchange. The first of the Russian companies of the telecommunications and information technology sector posted its shares in the foreign financial markets of Vimpelcom, one of the three largest cellular operators in Russia today. This happened in 1996 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Sarah Shurd (in the center) with mothers remaining in custody of Bauer and Fattal American tourists, arrested in Iran two years ago, were allowed to call home. This was their third call since the detention. The 28-year-old Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal told their families about the 17-day head, which they announced when they stopped transferring letters. According to relatives, the conversation in both cases lasted about four minutes.

On Tbilisi, the third day continues the protest of the opposition demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili. According to Radio Liberty, according to some reports, the situation in the country may worsen on May 25, when the former Prosecutor and Minister of Defense of the country intend to return to Georgia from France.

The other day, a well-known Russian political scientist, recently expelled from the Kremlin with gratitude, Gleb Pavlovsky, commenting on the Radio “Freedom” the decision of the St. Petersburg parliamentarians to resign Sergey Mironov, dropped a wonderful phrase: “I think this is a serious degradation of St. Petersburg as a political center. He loses his own, I would say that he had some moral rights that had 10 years ago to act as one of the political capitals of Russia.

12 people were killed and at least 14 were injured, according to updated data, as a result of the attacks of militants on the Naval base of Mezhran in the city of Karachi in the south of Pakistan. According to local authorities, the attackers occupied one of the premises of the base and continue to shoot back. They invaded the territory of the complex on Sunday evening and set fire to at least two aircraft of marine aviation standing on the runway.

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Mullah Mohammad Omar The Taliban denied information about the death of their leader Mullah Omar in Pakistan. The message that Omar died during a shootout on the way from the city of Kvett to the Mountain District of North Vaziristan was transmitted today by the Afghan private television channel Tolo. A senior representative of the Pakistani Security Service told reporters that this information is being verified.

Former head of the IMF Dominic Stross-Khan Traces of the DNA of the ex-head of the International Monetary Fund were found on the clothes of a maid New York hotel, which accused Dominic Struss-Kana of an attempt to rape. This was announced on Monday by the American television channel NBC. Strauss-Kan denies his guilt. Now he is under house arrest in New York. Due to the accusations, Strass-Kan was forced to resign from the post of head of the MFV.

Joseph Brodsky (photo Marianne Volkova) Alexander Genis: Samovar opened on May 24, on Brodsky's birthday. Since then, this date has always been celebrated in a restaurant. But today they remember Brodsky not only here. After some break, the serious American press again remembered him. In the fresh release of the intellectual weekly '', New Yorker '' tells about this in detail the article by Kita (aka Konstantin) of Hessen.

The National Bank of Belarus has devalued the national currency - the Belarusian ruble - by more than 50 percent. The message about this was published on Monday evening on the website of the National Bank. The official exchange rate on Tuesday is set at the level of 4930 Belarusian rubles per dollar, while on Monday it amounted to a little less than 3200 rubles. The currency crisis in Belarus lasts several months. At the official course, it is almost impossible to buy foreign currency.

Journalist Oleg Kashin and representative of the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Vasily Yakemenko on Monday refused to conclude a settlement agreement on the official of the official on the protection of honor and dignity. On Monday, preliminary hearings in the case were held in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, the consideration was essentially scheduled for June 20. Kashin wrote brutally beaten last year on his blog, which does not exclude Yakemenko’s involvement in the attack.

In the Primorsky Territory, during the prosecutor’s inspection of the military unit, where Major Matveev served as the president, the embezzlement of food worth one million rubles was revealed to the president. In the video message posted two weeks ago, the former major of internal troops, Igor Matveev, talked about the fact that recruits and contractors in his units give instead of food to dog food and that 18 migrant workers from China live illegally on the territory of the unit.