The Russian Consul in Simferopol Vladimir Andreev said that he was leaving his post due to disagreements with the Russian Foreign Ministry. Andreev expressed disagreement with the position of Moscow about his statements regarding the Crimean Tatars. As reported, in an interview with the ATR television channel, which was aired on May 21, Andreev called the film "Haitarma" on the deportation of the Crimean Tatars distorting the truth.

In Moscow, the Soviet and Russian film director Petr Todorovsky died. He died at the age of 87 from a heart attack. Todorovsky was born in 1925. He participated in the Great Patriotic War, was wounded, awarded orders and medals. In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of VGIK, later he began to work as a film director. Peter Todorovsky shot the films "Fidelity", "Focus", "City romance", "Military Field Roman", "Ankor, still Ancor", "On the main street with the orchestra" and others.

The complaints of the Memorial International Society and the Human Rights Center Memorial to prosecutorial inspections are considered by the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today. Both organizations filed a court on April 8. A preliminary court hearing took place on May 7. Inspections of Russian non -profit organizations (NPOs) in connection with the assumptions of the authorities about their foreign financing and political activity began at the end of March.

Assembly of Mazda cars in Vladivostok, April 2013 The volume of foreign direct investment in Russia in January-March exceeded the first quarter of last year by 63% and amounted to $ 6.3 billion, Rosstat said on Friday. For comparison, in China for the same period, according to official statistics, direct foreign investments increased in last year’s level by only 1.4%, while amounting to $ 29.9 billion. In Brazil in the first two months of the year - $ 7.5 billion.

Former Russian priest Sergei Baranov from Tambov, who made the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group, provided political asylum in the Czech Republic. He informed the Czech media that he intends to go to the Greek Catholic Church. In September last year, the Church Court of the Tambov diocese deprived Baranov’s sanctuary.

Sochi. May 24, 2013: meeting of the presidents of Serbia and Russia - Tomislav Nikolich and Vladimir Putin Russia and Serbia signed a declaration of strategic partnership . In the negotiations in Sochi, Russian and Serbian presidents - Vladimir Putin and Tomislav Nikolich spoke out for the further development of cooperation in the field of energy.

Independent sociologists as "foreign agents". We are talking about this with Vladimir Roman, head. Department of Sociology of the Indem Foundation.

Unlike the May earthquake in Iran, Russia escaped destruction Russian scientists and meteorologists recorded the echoes of a large earthquake that occurred in the Sea of Okhotsk today in Moscow and a number of Russian cities.

The complaint of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the illegality of the inspection prosecutor's office has been rejected Barack Obama spoke about the US strategy in further struggle against international terrorism How promising is the energy cooperation between Serbia and Russia? Director Peter Todorovsky died Andrey Sharogradsky International Radio Offer Freedom. Author and host of the information and analytical digest, podcast "Time of Freedom"

At the London airport, Stansted landed the Pakistani passenger aircraft, on board which a certain incident occurred, the essence of which has not yet been reported. According to preliminary data, we are not talking about a terrorist attack. On board the Boeing 777 were 297 passengers. The details are not known. An investigation is underway. Earlier, the British Ministry of Defense reported that a fighter was sent to accompany the liner flying from Lahore to Manchester and redirected to London.

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Roskomnadzor called the inclusion of the VKontakte social network in the list of prohibited sites. The error is eliminated. The department noted that only one page was supposed to get into the register, but the employee mistakenly included one of the IP addresses of the Internet resource. Usually, by decision of Roskomnadzor, sites on which children's pornography are placed in the register, as well as materials that promote suicide and drug use.