In Ukraine, the presidential campaign enters the finish line. A week later, May 25, Ukrainians Bu Dut choose the head of state. Early presidential elections in Ukraine will be held under enhanced security. The acting president of the country, Alexander Turchinov, signed a law that obliges the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine to ensure round -the -hour protection of the premises of the district committees.

In Syria, during battles near Damascus, the commander of the country's air defense troops, General Hussein Ishak, died. The statement of the Islamic Front rebel group says that General Hussein Iskhak died from wounds when the rebels attacked a military base in the city of Mleych on Saturday evening. The Associated Press Agency reported that sources in the Syrian government confirmed the death of Ishak.

On the 70th anniversary of the start of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Yabloko party held a rally in Moscow to honor the memory of all peoples affected by Stalinist repressions. The action was attended by members of the Committee for Combating Xenophobia, representatives of human rights organizations and national communities.

We discuss the mechanisms of dismissal and methods of restoration in the system of Russian higher education with an assistant professor at the State University of Management Elena Shakhmatova, Associate Professor of the Ural Federal University Marina Lordidpanidze, candidate of historical sciences from Ufa Larisa Chernikova, candidate of psychological sciences Julia Chebakova and co -chairman of the University solidarity trade union Pavlom Kudyukin.

Russian National Research Medical University named after N. I.

Flood in the Serbian city of Obreenovats In the Balkans up to 44, the number of killed as a result of a flood, which is called the strongest over the past hundred years, has increased. The death of 27 people in Bosnia was confirmed, 16 in Serbia and one in Croatia. The Prime Minister of Serbia Alexander Vuchich said on Sunday that only 12 people died in the city of Obreenovats. Thousands of people are evacuated.

Within 2 hours, from 6 to 8 pm, people went to the office of the St. Petersburg branch of the RPR-Parnas party on Nevsky Prospekt to write letters to the Prisoners of Bolotnaya. Such an action has already passed here earlier, then cards were written to prisoners. Now we decided that the queue for letters, although to write them, especially in the electronic century, is longer and more difficult.

The North Korean authorities made their rarely inherent recognition and an apology to the relatives of the victims - in connection with the collapse of a multi -storey residential building in the capital of the country of Pyongyang on May 13. Western agencies report the likelihood of the death of many dozen citizens. Korean official media reported “deep sorrow” and apologized for the tragedy.

On Sunday, a group of armed people attacked the building of the Universal National Congress on Sunday. The responsibility for the attack was taken by the forces faithful to General Califeh Haftar, who is not in the central authorities of Libya. This was stated by the representative of the Haftar, noting that his supporters tried to arrest the Islamist parliament in the building. Deputy Omar Bushch said that the attackers burned part of the parliament building.

The Moscow correspondent of the Polish “newspaper Vaslav Radzivinovich newspaper” was detained and interrogated in Crimea. The journalist was detained the day before in a cafe in Simferopol. Employees of the Crimean department of the FSB asked him for verification, after which they told Radzivinovich that he was "not the person for whom he betrays himself." According to the Ukrainian media, the FSB officers did not allow the Polish journalist to make any phone calls.

The editor of the RS information service, international observer, author and editor of the heading and podcast "Atlas of the World" Gosteva@rferl.org

In Moscow, in the 80th year of his life, the poet-songwriter Anatoly Transporecial died. He was the author of 22 collections of poems and poems. He wrote words to such songs as “Olesya”, “Grass by the house”, “Nightingale grove”, “Stork on the roof”. The spouse of the transverse informed RIA Novosti that his funeral will be held approximately on May 21. On the same day, farewell to the poet in the central house of writers will take place.

As much as you like, we can say that the Ukrainian elites made a lot of systemic errors that led to the split of society. Nevertheless, his critical position in relation to the Russian language was the main mistake of Kyiv, and the language, as you know, is the soul of the people. And in the hands of Moscow, he is a powerful instrument of political influence.

The propaganda war, information war, media manipulation - which terms are more precise to describe how Russian television illuminates the Ukrainian crisis. Signs of the beginning of the propaganda war: markers of “their or foe”, enemy language, suppression of the enemy’s information weapons. Damage caused by the propaganda war. Weapons and victims of information wars. Magic words, mythologems, transfers and other verbal battles. Induced mass psychoses caused by information wars.

Kit Jarrett He grew up in poverty and strict rules of the Church of Scientology, banned in many countries of the world. The blood of Hungarian gypsies, Irish and Frenchmen flows into his living. He was a worm at three years old. He remained at 69, which were celebrated on May 8 this year. His name is Kit Jarrett This is perhaps the only jazzman known to me, the transfer of which can be made on one of his only compositions or - and this is more precise - improvisation.