Vitaly Portnikov: Another Ukrainian organization became a victim of Russian justice. The association of Ukrainians in Russia, the oldest organization of Ukrainians in the Russian Federation, which appeared back in the "perestroika" years, ceases to exist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Previously, the same fate befell the federal national-cultural autonomy "Ukrainians of Russia".

In Tunisia, at the next process in the case of former president, Zina El Abidin Ben Ali Prosecutor demanded to sentenced him to the death penalty. Ben Ali and 22 people - former high -ranking officials - are accused of the deaths of more than 20 participants in the anti -government unrest of January last year, who led to the overthrow of the former president. The military tribunal judges Ben Ali in absentia - after the resignation, he fled to Saudi Arabia.

The protest against the appointment of Sergei Eroshchenko and. O. Governor of the Irkutsk region In Irkutsk, a group of initiative citizens organized a protest against the appointment of Sergei Eroshchenko acting as the governor of the region. Eroshchenko entered the list of three candidates for the post of head of the region, which the United Russia party will present to President Vladimir Putin.

Andrey Ostalsky Some of the British authors have long come up with the name of the Euro financial monster Frankenstein. This refers to: something unnatural and ugly. And today, this metaphor is as if brought to its logical end: the monster, as you know, not only itself turned out to be non -viable, but also began to really threaten its creator. In Britain, many are gloating: we told you, but you did not want to listen to us!

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Vasily Yakemenko, founder of the party in power Having dealt with the new government, the bloggers began to study the changing party palette. There were many news reasons for this in recent days - for example, Dmitry Medvedev finally joined the United Russia party. The network was surprised at the eight -digit number of his party card, from which it seems that the party has more than 80 million members.

The international human rights organization of Amnesty International in the annual report on the observance of human rights in the world has criticized the authorities of Russia, paying special attention to the violation of freedom of speech and assembly, unreasonable arrests of activists and leaders of the opposition after mass protests in December last year.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia did not receive from the convicted Russian entrepreneur Viktor Butt a petition for his transfer to Russia. According to the RIA-News in the press service of the department, such a request is necessary in accordance with the Convention in force between Russia and the USA. Earlier, US Minister Eric Holder said the American authorities can consider the question that Buta was serving a sentence in their homeland if they receive a corresponding request from Russia.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, 14 passenger trains are delayed due to problems with power supply on the way. It is reported that on the eve of the Tarbagatay-Hook section, as a result of a power line, the voltage was underestimated in the contact network of the Trans-Baikal Railway, which led to the malfunction of the train movement. According to the Ministry of Energy, the complete restoration of power supply on the site is possible by eight in the morning Moscow time.

In the north-east of Afghanistan, unknown militants abducted five employees of the humanitarian organization, including two women-doors from Western countries. This was reported today by representatives of the police and the governor of the province of Badakhshan. All five stolen are employees of a foreign non -governmental organization. They went on Tuesday from the city of Fayzabad to the Yavan district to Visit patients with hospitals affected by recent floods.

Participants in the Okupayabai action on clean ponds in Moscow The Basmanny Court of Moscow did not accept the complaint of the leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, the decision on the liquidation of the protest camp in pure ponds. As the agency’s press service reported today, this is due to the fact that Mitrokhin does not have the right to appeal this decision.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, signed on Monday May 21, the head of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Legisions (MISiS) Dmitry Livanov was appointed head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The DPRK modernizes its nuclear complex. According to experts of the US-Yuzhno-Korean Institute at the University of Hopkins, satellite pictures indicate that North Korea over the past year significantly increased the volume of work at the Musudan-Ri missile testing training ground and can demolish the nearest villages to expand it. It is noted that new designs will allow the launch of the Yunha -3 launch vehicles, the test of which failed in April, or even larger missiles.

In the Czech Republic today, according to updated data, 7 people were injured in the accident of the Russian AN-30 aircraft at a military airfield near the city of Regionallav. Previous information about 17 or 19 wounded did not fit, reports the Czech agency čtk with reference to the head of the ambulance service. Most of the victims have burns, two are in serious condition.