Rinat Akhmetov Separatists demand that the businessman Rinat Akhmetov pay taxes to the so -called Donetsk People’s Republic, threatening to drive him out of the Donbass otherwise. Taxes pay enterprises, and the company de-Jure is owned by Rinat Akhmetov. Residents of Donbass are expecting a statement from Akhmetov about loyalty to the "Donetsk People’s Republic", according to the appeal of one of the leaders of the separatists of Roman Manekin.

In Lugansk, pro -Russian activists abducted the head of the district election commission No. 106, said the head of the Committee of voters of Ukraine Alexander Chernenko. According to him, the abducted is kept in the building of the SBU of the Luhansk region in the building of the SBU captured by the separatists. Chernenko also said that pro -Russian activists tried to detain the head of another district election commission, came to his house, but he was not there.

In Mariupol, Donetsk region, an attack on the National Guard checkpoint was attacked last night. It is reported that the shooting group "Channel 5" fell under the shelling. As the journalist of the Canal Irina Gerasimova reports, shelling from automatic weapons was made from the city. There are no wounded or killed among the Ukrainian security forces, the journalists were not injured.

The Central Bank of Russia withdrew the license at the Bank of the Moscow Lights. The financial regulator’s report notes that the credit institution did not satisfy the claims of creditors for monetary obligations. In addition, the Bank "Moskvy Lights" pursued a risky credit policy. The bank is a member of the deposit insurance system.

In the largest city in Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, dozens of opponents of the LGBT community in protest against same-sex marriages erected a brick wall at the entrance to the night gay club. 10 days ago, the country's authorities announced the beginning of the investigation of the circumstances of the brutal murder in Astana of a woman who openly lived with her partner. The killer dismembered and burned the body of Christina Chernysheva.

LGBT activist Alexander Ermoshkin (left) and his lawyer in a court in Khabarovsk, May 16, 2014 The Central District Court in Khabarovsk refused the former teacher and LGBT activist Alexander Ermoshkin to restore at work at the school, Radio Liberty correspondent Yevgeny Kulgin reports. The court considered insufficient evidence that Alexander Ermoshkin’s statement about leaving his own free will was written under pressure.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 took away the lives of about three thousand people In New York, a museum of memory of the victims of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 opened In New York, on Thursday, the Museum of Memory of Victims of Terrorist Investigations on September 11, 2001 in New York, Wesington and Pennsylvania opened. As a result of these terrorist attacks, almost three thousand people died.

The Russian economy rolling into a recession already creates real problems for business, including small and medium The Russian government sharply reduced the forecast of the growth rate of the country's GDP this year, in fact, recognizing that the national economy has already passed from stagnation to recession. The problems associated with this today are already noticeable not only at the macroeconomic level, but also at the business level, including small and medium.

Donetsk separatists Freedom quotes on May 16, 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 20:22 16.5.2014 The country of the victorious anti -fascism. Pushkino and DPR Everywhere in Russia one fascism. For example, in Moscow on Tverskaya.

The launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the spacecraft Express AM4R ended unsuccessfully-due to problems in the motor installation of the third stage of the launch vehicle, and the satellite was not taken to orbit. As the head of Roscosmos, Oleg Ostapenko, told Interfax, according to preliminary information, a rocket with a satellite burned in dense atmosphere. "Express –Am4R" is considered the most powerful and high -tech Russian communications satellite.

Vladimir Medinsky (in the center) during the presentation of an honorary diploma to him The awarding to Vladimir Medinsky honorary title of Italian University caused irritation of the public Filippomaria Pontani, a professor at the University of Venice, KA Foscari, publicly opposed the award of an honorary scientific title to the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky .

A shameful story with an honorary mantle for the Minister of Culture of Medinsky at the Italian University of CA 'Foscari. Of course, the honorary title was assigned to the Russian policy for a reason, the institute had reasons, only scientific. Now a dubious mantle has been added to a dubious dissertation. We’ll talk about this in the program.

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Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov denied his own statement that the agency plans to close access to the Twitter social network. He expressed confidence that Roskomnadzor would be able to agree with the social network of interaction. Earlier on Friday, Izvestia published an interview with Ksenzov, in which he stated that his department could "block Twitter or Facebook in Russia for several minutes and does not see much risks in this.