Defenders of the Tsagovsky Forest at the place of cutting down The initiative group of defenders of the Tsagov forest on the eve met with representatives of the administration of the city of Zhukovsky and Mosavtodor. Civil activists still insist on the provision of documents confirming the legality of work in the Tsagovsky forest. The meeting of the defenders of the Tsagov forest with the builders in the city administration ended in vain.

Activists of the Blue Vederok company conduct a picket at the Government House in Moscow in order to remind his promise to the elected President Vladimir Putin - to radically reduce the number of special signals on officials of officials. The participants of the action launched a poster "Five days were left before the cancellation of the flashing lights. Putin, we believe you." In mid -April, the Blue Vederes Society already held a similar picket near the Borodino panorama building in Moscow.

Additional troops were introduced into the Egyptian capital of Cairo with the support of armored vehicles to stop unrest and clashes near the building of the Ministry of Defense. According to eyewitnesses, the situation is taken under control. According to the latest data, the number of victims of clashes increased to 11, among them one policeman. At least 50 people are injured.

Valery Zubov Mikhail Sokolov: Today, in our Moscow studio - State Duma deputy, Factory "Just Russia", Doctor of Economics Valery Zubov, a former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. We are talking about what the Russian province awaits in the next presidential term of Vladimir Putin, what can change, which may remain as before. Valery Mikhailovich, before our eyes there are a variety of personnel decisions related to the Russian regions.

In Moscow, dog handlers did not find any suspicious objects at the Molodezhnaya metro station. On Wednesday evening, the unknown called the police and reported the allegedly laid bomb at the station. On the same day, a message was not confirmed about the threat of an explosion in the building of the clinic of the Kaliningrad city hospital. The woman who reported the bomb was detained. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.

Kabul, the place of the explosion In the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, a group of militants on May 2 made a series of attacks - a few hours after a sudden visit to the country of US President Barack Obama . It is reported at least about six killed and approximately 20 wounded. Among the victims of the fighters in Kabul, the children who went to school in the morning, the Ministry of the Interior of Afghanistan said.

In Lithuania at the age of 83, the veteran of the international human rights movement, the founder of the Lithuanian Helsinki group, Viktors Pyatkus, died, Radio Liberty correspondent Irina Peters reports. The writer, human rights activist, dissident who, in Soviet times, who spent more than 20 years in the camps in the camps, Viktoras Pyatkus in 1976, together with Thomas Ventzlova, Aitan Finkelstein and others founded the Lithuanian Helsinki group.

The protests of the Muslims-Shiits on the eve of the Grand Prix of Bahrain. April 21, 2012 The rapidly developing drama with a possible boycott of the Ukrainian part of the upcoming European football championship , European politicians who entered into the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko , sentenced to conclusion and, as stated, in prison, is only one example in the chain of the last painful clashes of politics and sports.

Tennis Tournament WTA. Ashtoril. Second round Karina Knapp (Italy) - Maria Kirilenko (Russia) - 1:6, 6:1, 7:5 Nadezhda Petrova (Russia) - Yarmila Gaidoshova (Australia) - 7:6, refusal Tournament WTA. Budapest. Second round Elena Vesnina (Russia) - Ksenia Pervak (Kazakhstan) - 6:2, 6:3

International exercises at the training ground in Mulino On May 2, at about 16 hours at the Mulino military training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, an ammunition explosion occurred, as a result of which six military personnel were killed and four were injured. According to the correspondent of the RS in Nizhny Novgorod Sergey Anisimov, the incident, according to preliminary data, occurred during unloading of the time of ammunition. Perhaps safety precautions were violated.

New Gingrich One of the applicants for the nomination of the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party Nyut Gingrich officially announced the exit from the presidential race. He stated this to his supporters, speaking in a suburb of Washington - Arlington.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today resigned the governor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Gaevsky, the Kremlin press service reports. The temporarily acting head of the region was appointed Valery Zernkov. Earlier, Gaevsky, who was endowed with the powers of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory in May 2008, turned to the president with a request for a resignation.

Barack Obama's performance in Bagram US President Barack Obama, who was in Afghanistan, said with an indieent visit that the “time of the war” was coming to an end, and the defeat of Al-Qaeda is not far off. Obama spoke at the Bagram airbase a few hours after the signing in Kabul with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, cooperation agreements between the two countries after the withdrawal of US troops in 2014.