He went on tour with a carriage of costumes, shoes, shirts, ties, cufflinks and hats. She could sleep in the gateway, knew how to fight, was unpretentious and became the first lady of jazz vocals. One thing can be said for sure: the second Ella will not be, as there will be no second Duke ...

Russia's actions in Ukraine forced NATO to think about Putin wages in Ukraine a hybrid war, says Major General Frank Van Kappen, a member of the upper house of the Netherlands parliament. In the past, General Van Kappen also worked as a security adviser at the UN and NATO. What is the Putin hybrid war and how far the West is ready to go in response, the general told Radio Liberty in an interview.

Friend of the cold and the product from barley The romantics of the Russian Golden Age in his youth were cheerful people: in their poetry and prose the wine sparkles, sparkles with colors, and the texts of the romantics themselves seem to roam, radiate the energy inherent in the process of fermentation.

Grigory Revzin Does the intelligentsia have a field for cooperation with the authorities? Special correspondents of the Kommersant publishing house, literary critic Anna Narinskaya and architectural critic Grigory Revzin - about life after the Rain television channel and without the Venetian Biennale. What form of protest awaits the new commissioner of the Russian pavilion Biennale this season? What can the Russian intellectual and manager disagree with the policy of the country's leadership do?

In Iraq on Saturday, there was an attack on three polling stations. In the province of Salalauddin north of Baghdad, the attackers shot four soldiers and blew up bombs in two polling stations. In the city of Kaim in the province of Anbar in the south of the country as a result of the explosion, the school building was completely destroyed, where the polling station was located.

The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced the employee of the correctional colony number 1 in the Yaroslavl region, the captain of the internal service Vitaly Belotelov. He was accused of beating a prisoner in March 2013. The court found Belotelov guilty of exceeding official powers with the use of violence against convicted Vacilia Illarionov.

The combat vehicle of the "People's Militia of Donbass" on the streets of Slavyansk The acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to ensure the safety of journalists working in the anti -terrorist operations zone in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

In Kostroma Picket against the construction of the nuclear power plant, April 26, 2014 In Kostroma on the day of memory of Chernobyl victims, the regional public environmental movement "in the name of life" held a picket near the city administration. The main goal of the action is to prevent the construction of nuclear power plants in the Kostroma region. About 30 people came to the picket at the city hall building.

April 26 in Russia - the All -Russian Ecological Subbotnik. In the post -Soviet conditions, the Leninist undertaking is experiencing a second birth. In general, no one is against clean streets, but there are different opinions on how to clean them.

In the south of Afghanistan, five troops of NATO forces were killed in the helicopter fall. The command of the command says that the causes of the disaster are investigated. Citizenship on board is not specified. The helicopter fall occurred during the period when NATO troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan. The last foreign soldier must leave the country at the end of 2014.

In Iran, three convicts for the death penalty for the murder of the prosecutor are hanged. The IRNA agency reported that the public execution took place today in front of the relatives of the murdered prosecutor and residents of the city, the province of Sistan and Belujistan in the southeast of Iran. The execution took place in the same place where in November last year the prosecutor and his driver were shot dead.

View from the gondola lift in the Rosa Khutor The final part of the report from the post -Olympic Sochi: Krasnaya Polyana, ski routes and a combined road The final of the reporting of the Radio Liberty from the post -Olimpian Sochi: a trip to the Olympic "Mountain Closure", the special world of the lift gondola and the environmental problems of the Mzymta River Valley .

Like an oligarch oligarch: a candidate for president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko explains his position to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who did not become a candidate for president of Russia The Kiev Congress "Ukraine-Russia: Dialogue", organized by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian Pen-Center and the Third Republic, ended. “We felt heroes, going to Kyiv. We risk our business, financing, loyalty of government agencies and partners. We arrived, and the Ukrainians seem to be told: what have you arrived?

- I am very glad that the Jewish hospital met them like that! They won’t take a step there. And rightly. Let them go to Kyiv, they have nothing to be treated in Odessa in Odessa. At first I shudder slightly from this human cruelty. It is clear that we are talking about the explosion of grenades at the checkpoint before entering Odessa, when seven defenders of this post suffered. They were just taken to the Jewish hospital.