The United States announced the sending of about six hundred troops to Poland and the Baltic countries - to participate in military exercises. The Pentagon said that American soldiers based in Italy will arrive in Poland on April 23. The representative of the US Department of Defense said that American troops are also heading to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Five days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

In the picture: press secretary of the State Department Jen Psaki The representative of the State Department Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that the United States was closely monitoring the situation on the Korean Peninsula after reports of the possible preparation of the DPRK for another nuclear test. In this regard, she urged Pyongyang not to take any steps that would threaten the world in the region.

US President Barack Obama starts today a weekly trip to Asian countries. He will visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. As the US presidential adviser on national security, Suzan Rice, said on the eve of the visit, in each of their countries, the president will focus on two -way relations.

Pavel Durov page on the VKontakte network The founder of the popular Russian social network "VKontakte" Paul Durov, who previously reported about pressure from the FSB, said that he would not return to Russia. In an interview with the blog, Techkrunch Durov said: I am not in Russia, and I have no plans to return. Unfortunately, at the moment this country is incompatible with the Internet business. I'm afraid after I publicly refused to cooperate with the authorities, there is no way back for me.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky In the State Duma, an exhibition dedicated to the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky was dismantled. The exposition from the portraits of Zhirinovsky - up to the Zhirinovsky avatar - opened on the eve of April 21. But on the same day, the Council of the Duma recommended that the exhibition close due to insults that the politician allowed himself to the pregnant journalist.

Naberesh Sochi in the offseason The second part of the report from the postolimpian Sochi: the transformation of the city, pressure on civilian activists, migrant problems Continuation of the report of the Radio Liberty from the post -Olympic Sochi: a conversation with civil activist David Khakim, the transformation of the city as a shift in the barrel, migrants left without money. Part 1: Imeretinsky lowland. Part 3. Landing in Uch-Dere.

Russian skater Julia Lipnitskaya Sochi claims the 2017 World Cup Championship. This was announced by the President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, Alexander Gorshkov. "We prepared an application for the 2017 World Cup in Sochi, which was approved by the Ministry of Sports, now we are waiting for the decision of the international commission," Gorshkov said in an interview with the newspaper Sovetsky Sport.

The United States check information about the use of poisonous substances in Syria this month. This was stated on Monday by a representative of the US Department of State Jen Psaki. According to her, the United States has data on the use of toxic industrial chemicals in the city of Kfar Zeita, which is controlled by the Syrian opposition.

By the 450th anniversary of the birth of the great playwright. About the new translations and unknown comments, the preparation of the full works of Shakespeare is told by the literature historian Sergey Radlov.

Mustafa Dzhemilev The ex-head of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev said that he was banned from entering Crimea for five years-until 2019. According to the Majlis website, this morning, Dzhemilev, along with the deputy head of Majlis Aslan Omer Kyrymly, left Crimea to Kyiv, where Jamillev should have a meeting with US Vice President Joe Bayden.

The acting President of Ukraine, Alexander Turchinov, called for the renewal of the "anti -terrorist" operation against pro -Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. According to Turchinov, two bodies with traces of torture were found in the vicinity of Slavyansk on April 22. One of the dead is Vladimir Rybak, a member of the Fatherland party, which is headed by Turchinov.

US Vice President Joe Biden on Mikhalovsky Square in Kyiv, April 22, 2014. US Vice-President Joe Biden completed a two-day trip to Kyiv, during which he met with representatives of the Ukrainian government and the public. Before leaving, he made a previously undeclared stop in the hospital church of St. Michael, where many Maidan activists had previously hidden.

Mustafa Dzhemilev One of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev in an interview with Radio Freedom confirmed the information that he was forbidden to enter the territory of Russia and the Crimea annexed to it. As Dzhemilev said, he cannot yet say who made the decision - Moscow or the pro -Russian leadership of Crimea. According to Dzhemilev, “there are different conversations” that the ban is “amateur” of local authorities that Moscow does not know about it.