Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, detained by the FSB of the Russian Federation in Crimea Russian filmmakers announced a fundraiser for a lawyer for a Ukrainian director and screenwriter Oleg Sentsov, detained by the FSB of Russia on May 11 in Simferopol. The FSB of Russia accuses him of organizing a terrorist attack. The Russian movie magazine “Session” gives director Alexander Sokurov about the situation in which Sentsov turned out to be: “I want to see the next film of this director.

Leonid Gozman Priorities lined up. “The traditional values are subject to protection and defense, in particular, the Cheka - the NKVD - KGB, personally Comrade Dzerzhinsky and, of course, SMERSH. There are also detachments - without them nowhere. Molotov Pact - Ribbentrop as the pinnacle of domestic diplomacy and an example of high morality in international relations. Katyn, in the sense that this is not us again. And most importantly - our father, I.V. Stalin.

Provincial charity funds in the new issue of the Russia in Movement program.

The leaders of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” threaten the nationalization of Rinat Akhmetov’s enterprises, the US Department of Finance expanded the Magnitsky list signed a large Russian-Chinese contract on the supply of natural gas to the premiere of the film “Maidan” Sergey Loznitsa at the Cannes Festival

Eduard Limonov at the Congress of the other Russia party dedicated to the situation in Ukraine, April 30, 2014 The Moscow City Hall confirmed the information that the opposition’s application for holding on May 31 on the triumphal square of the action in support of the freedom of assembly was agreed.

On May 20, a picket was held in Tomsk in support of the TV2 television company. About a thousand people entered the central square of the city. They expressed solidarity with reporters of the television company, which was on the verge of closing

US Vice President Joseph Biden plays at Larnaki Airport upon arrival at Cyprus on May 21, 2014 US Vice-President Joseph Biden arrived in Cyprus not in order to impose a solution to the problem of the divided island, but to help find a solution to the Cypriots themselves. He stated this at Larnaki Airport upon arrival at Cyprus on Wednesday. Biden said that according to the Cyprus press, he brought, as he put it, in his pocket, a peaceful plan for solving the Cyprus problem.

A group of researchers and teachers of history prepared an appeal to the authors of school textbooks on history. “By the decision of the Russian Historical Society (Rio), the competitions of publishing houses on writing“ ideologically correct ”school textbooks based on a single historical and cultural standard, which will be submitted for approval to the special expert council of Rio by April 15, 2015, and the textbooks approved from September 1, 2015 will go to school,” the appeal said.

The bilateral meeting of US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin is not provided for in Normandy. This was stated by the press secretary of the White House Jay Carney, speaking on Wednesday to journalists. According to him, the leaders of different countries gather in Normandy to honor the memory of the heroic battles that occurred there on the day of the landing of the Anglo-American allies 70 years ago.

Oleg Orlov Human rights activists will tell you about the results of the trip to Donetsk At 12 o’clock in an independent press center in Moscow, a conference of human rights activists began, at which they represent the results of their trip to Ukraine. Members of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov and Jan Rachinsky talk about what happened in the Donetsk region before the so -called referendum, how it was held and what the first consequences were.

Mikhail and Irina Prokhorov Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov is not going to leave the “Civil Platform”, but he will leave the post of head of the Federal Political Committee of the Party, the head of the Moscow branch Mikhail Vyshegodtsev told Interfax. He also called the incorrect information that the sister of Prokhorov - Irina could declare about leaving the party. The fact that Mikhail and Irina Prokhorovs leave the party "Civil Platform" was written today by Izvestia.

Alec Epstein When things in Russia are unimportant (and this happens much more often than the opposite), we always very much hope that at the decisive hour Russia and Russians will still save the West. It will save simply because people living in this very West, especially in the USA, it seems to us, are close to us and ours, such seemingly common values with them.

A frame from a video with the image of stolen Nigerian schoolgirls, which was distributed by Boko Haram The United States placed children in the African country, not far from Nigeria, eighty military personnel to assist in the search and salvation of schoolgirls stolen by the Islamist group "Boko Haram". About this US President Barack Obama informed Congress on Wednesday, the Washington Post newspaper reports.

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Joe Biden in Romania, May 20, 2014 US Vice President Joe Biden will visit Cyprus on Wednesday to discuss the EU sanctions against Russia in connection with the crisis in Ukraine. This issue is very sensitive to Nikosia, since billions of euros of Russian investors are stored in Cyprus banks.