In Nigeria, Boko Haram wages an armed struggle with Western civilization The Nigeria parliament extended on Tuesday for another six months a state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of the country, introduced due to the sharp increase in the wave of violence by Islamic extremists. Earlier on Tuesday it became known that Nigeria asks the UN to introduce the Islamist group "Boko Haram" on the list of terrorist organizations.

Russian striker Vadim Shipachev At the 2014 World Hockey Championship, the group stage ended in Minsk. The Russian team in his last match won the team of Belarus 2: 1. Having won all the meetings of the group stage, the Russian team took first place in Group V. In group A was the best of the Canadian team. According to the results of the group tournament, couples of the Particular quarterfinal matches were formed.

US Vice-President Joseph Biden makes a speech to Romanian and American pilots in Bucharest, May 20, 2014 US Vice-President Joe Biden said that Russia's aggression in Crimea near the borders of NATO recalls the causes of the existence of the North Atlantic Union and why such countries as Romania are part of this organization. The vice president spoke at the joint American-Romanian maneuvers "Carpathian Spring" in Romania.

In Tomsk today a picket was held in support of the local TV company TV-2. About a thousand people entered the central square with posters. Among them were ordinary spectators of the channel, and deputies of the city and regional Duma, representatives of public organizations. They expressed solidarity with reporters of the television company, which was on the verge of closing.

In Tomsk, a picket will be held today in support of the local television company TV-2, Radio Liberty correspondent reports. One of the first regional television channels in Russia is pressure, he is threatened with closing. TV-2 has not been aired for a month due to a breakdown on a local television program, which signalmen cannot eliminate. Despite this, Roskomnadzor demanded to restore broadcasting today, otherwise the department threatened to deprive the license.

Anna Politkovskaya In Moscow, the jury issued an indictment in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Former policeman Sergey Khadzhikurbanov and a native of Chechnya Lom Ali Gaitukaev organized a crime. The direct performer was Rustam Makhmudov. The Ibrahim brothers and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs are found guilty of complicity in the murder. The Investigative Committee has already said that it would continue to search for the customer of the murder of Politkovskaya.

Alexander Kravtsov Director of the Center for Sports Training of the national teams of Russia Alexander Kravtsov at the reporting and election conference of this organization on May 20 in Moscow was elected new president of the Russian Biathlonists Union. Kravtsov was replaced by the founder of the ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov, who led the SBR since October 2008. In April, Prokhorov announced that he would not participate in the elections of the head of the organization for a new term .

The United States does not see any signs of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border with Ukraine . As the representative of the White House Jay Carney said on Tuesday, Washington will welcome such a step in Moscow and immediately unveil this data. Carney noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced the day before that he had ordered the troops to return to the places of constant deployment, more than once made such statements in the past.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a memorandum of resolving the conflict in the east of the country. The document called "Memorandum of mutual understanding and peace" provides primarily the implementation of constitutional reform to decentralization of power, the amnesty of the participants in the east of the country and - in the case of the complete addition of weapons - the withdrawal of troops from the region.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced the opening of a representative office in Rostov-on-Don. The Rostov branch is of key importance for Donbass, said the head of the representative office, the leading researcher at the Russian Institute of Strategic Research, Eduard Popov. Popov explained its significance by the fact that the Donetsk and Rostov regions have a common border and many family and economic ties.

Elena Rykovtseva: with us Yuri Pilipenko, editor -in -chief of the weekly "interlocutor". Before me is a fresh issue. This weekly is already overwhelmed, they are called from everywhere, they want to read, because Alina Kabaeva is a big interview - the number one star of the Russian press. She did not give such an interview to anyone before.

How to repel attacks on the Internet? We are talking about this with the opposition Marina Litvinovich, a member of the HRC, Ivan Zasursky and Executive Director of the Association of Internet publishers Vladimir Kharitonov.

The army of Thailand took power in the country to stop the street clashes of the opposition and supporters of the Clans of Chinavat in Thailand in Tuesday on Tuesday May 20 after many months of anti -government performances and street riots announced the introduction of martial law for an indefinite time. Since November last year, when protests began, about 30 people became victims of violence in the country.

Ana Ivanovich On May 19, the tennis player from Serbia, the ex-first racket of the world, visited the UNICEF office in Belgrade and transferred a million dinars (about $ 12 thousand) to the fund of support for flood victims in Serbia. This was reported by the official website of the Women's Tennis Association.

Promotion in support of TV2 TV2 suits Roskomnadzor, which threatens the television company with a review of the broadcast license The Tomsk Media Group, which includes TV2 television company, filed a lawsuit not only to Roskomnadzor, but also to the OTRPC (Tomsk Telecenter), which serves part of the company's equipment and delivers a signal to the final consumer.