A tent of activists on the sculpture of Euro at the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt The German police liquidated the camp of left activists at the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. According to the representative of the police Manfred Fonkhoyisen, the protesting reported that they were obliged to leave the territory - after the court decided that the anti -capitalist camp poses a threat to public security.

Russian experts began an analysis of the records of on -board self -writings of the Sukhoi Superjet -100 aircraft crashed in Indonesia. Self -Premises were discovered by Indonesian military on Wednesday night and delivered from the place of tragedy in a deep gorge to the helicopter site in the village of Cijeruk. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the speech recorder has much burned, but the memory module is not damaged.

The new French Prime Minister Jean-Mark Ero officially took office on Wednesday. In the residence of the head of government in Paris on Wednesday morning he was welcomed by former Prime Minister Francois Fiion, who, after a short conversation with the new prime minister, left the building. It is expected that the composition of the new government will be called today.

In Greece, the head of the transition government, which became Panagotis Pikhranos, the chairman of the country's highest administrative court, is brought to the oath . He must lead the executive branch to the new parliamentary elections scheduled for June 17. The leaders of political parties at a meeting with President Karolos Papulis, previously agreed on the candidacy of the prime minister and the election date.

Former co -owner of Yukos Platon Lebedev The Tver court of Moscow today rejected the lawsuit of the former co -owner of the company Yukos Platon Lebedev, who sought compensation for the illegal extension of his detention from May 17 to August 17, 2010. Lawyers insisted on paying Lebedev 180 thousand rubles for moral suffering suffered by him.

Opposition camp on pure ponds in Moscow, May 14, 2012 In the early morning of May 16, the opposition camp at the monument to the Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbaev was liquidated. Now activists are being discussed in the square near the Barricade. About how legitimate the actions of citizens and the authorities are discussed by a member of an unenvoidable expert and legal council, lawyer Sergei Nasonov.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Representatives of the Human Rights Society Memorial turned to members of the Human Rights Council under the President with a call to leave him. They offer human rights activists to connect to the open struggle for civil and political rights. The appeal was signed by Sergey Kovalev, chairman of the Memorial, and Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Center Memorial.

Maria Biesh In Moldova, after a long illness, the famous opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR Maria Bieshi died. She was 76 years old. The singer’s funeral will be held on Saturday in the central cemetery of Chisinau. In the 1960s, Maria Bisha became the laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and the winner of the Miura Tamaki International Vocal Competition in Japan. Bieshu founded and for about 30 years headed the Union of Music Moldova.

Moscow, Barrikadnaya, 16 May 2012 In Moscow, at the barricade - a new place for the collection of oppositionists after accelerating the camp on pure ponds - the situation is calm, there are no conflicts with local residents, the police are peacefully configured, Radio Liberty correspondent Elena Polyakovskaya. Activists intend to hold an assembly in the evening - a meeting at which it is supposed to decide what to do next.

Opposition camp on pure ponds In Moscow, at the Barrikadnaya metro station, more than a hundred participants in the Opposition Opposition, Okopayabai, gathered, whose camp on pure ponds was overly dispersed in the morning by the police by court decision. According to Radio Liberty correspondent, police officers who arrived on two buses have not yet interfered with what is happening. The head of the Presnya police department talked with the opposition.

Moscow, Barrikadnaya, 16 May 2012 In Moscow, in the area of the Barrikadnaya metro station , the number of activists who moved from pure ponds , where the police, dispersed their camp, dispersed from pure ponds. By the evening of the opposition, about five hundred gathered on Barrikadnaya. The new place of the gathering was visited by opposition politicians Harry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov, the leader of the "solidarity" Ilya Yashin came.

Russian experts began an analysis of the records of on -board self -writings of the Sukhoi Superjet -100 aircraft crashed in Indonesia. Self -Premises were discovered by Indonesian military on Wednesday night and delivered from the place of tragedy in a deep gorge to the helicopter site in the village of Cijeruk. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the speech recorder has much burned, but the memory module is not damaged.

Should Russian human rights activists refuse to cooperate with the current government? The members of the Board of the Society "Memorial" Svetlana Gannushkina, Valentin Hefter and Alexander Cherkasov argue about this in the "faces of the time" . Vladimir Kara-Murza: Representatives of the Human Rights Society Memorial turned to members of the Human Rights Council under the President with a call to leave him.

The bridge over the Golden Rog Bay is the largest infrastructure project in preparation for the host of the APEC summit in Vladivostok The growth rate of the Russian economy in the first quarter was better than experts predicted. Can this be considered a sign of the economic upsurge that has begun? The total volume of Russia's GDP in January-March, according to the first preliminary data, increased by 4.9 percent to the level of the same period of last year, the Federal Statistics Service said.

Participants in the Opposition campaign on Isaakievskaya Square in St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg on May 16, opposition festivities on Isaacievskaya Square continued. Every day more and more people come there, and the classes walking are becoming more and more diverse. These festivities, which began on the night of May 8 to 9 as the support of the Moscow unlimited action on the Pure Ponds "Okopayabai" , gain strength.