Last fall, I was on a business trip in the village of Melovoye, Lugansk region , right on the border with Russia. No signs of the upcoming appearance of the "Lugansk People’s Republic" or at least some movement "for joining Russia" did not exist, as there was no Russian army near the border. The main specialization of chalk is the production of sunflower oil. A local small entrepreneur launched a motor working on waste - a husk of sunflower seeds, which he received from the oil plant.

The Career.ru website decided to find out how much time young specialists spend in search of work and what difficulties they face. It turned out that the search for the first work takes at least a month. On average, students and graduates have to spend up to 7 weeks. A third of the young specialists surveyed were spent on the search for the first job for 1-2 months. Only 3% of respondents said they were able to find the first work within a week.

Visit to J. Gubbels of the exhibition (1937) (Source: Bundesarchive) Nazis and German avant -garde Alexander Genis: When it comes to art, I do not believe in coincidence. Somehow secretly it manages to always manage to be relevant. How else to explain that this spring in two large museums of the city there are exhibitions that are directly related to fascism?

In Donetsk today, according to the correspondent of Radio Liberty in this city, explosions are heard, including strong enough. A large pillar of white smoke is visible on the horizon from the city center. The area where the explosions come from, perhaps located in the suburbs of Donetsk, are not excluded by the locals with whom our correspondent talked. In the remote part of the city where the column of smoke was noticed, the railway station is located.

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Investigators were obliged to verify the actions of police officers against a pensioner on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012, the Public Verdict Foundation reports. After the lawyers of the Fund, the Investigation Department abolished, as unfounded, refusal to institute criminal proceedings on the complaint of 69-year-old Turana Varzibyan and appointed an additional audit.

Elections to the European Parliament: Crisis of United Europe? We are talking about this with Franchista Yuri Rubinsky, Germanist Vladislav Belov, head of the Center for Party-Political Studies of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Schweitzer and Radio Liberty Sofia Kornienko.

According to the Safety and Cooperation Organization in Europe (OSCE), the presidential elections in Ukraine as a whole comply with democratic standards. The OSCE conclusions were presented today at a press conference in Kyiv, the coordinator of the monitoring mission of the organization in Ukraine Joao Soaresh.

American classic Bernard Malamud Alexander Genis: Unlike my school, American children grow without a compulsory list of fiction. But this does not mean that the country does not have a literary canon at all. There are, and even a few, (which, of course, questiones the very existence of the canon). The closest to this definition, perhaps, is like the literature that I found a place under the black binding of the famous series “American Library”.

Radical left and right -wing parties achieved noticeable success in the elections of the European Parliament at the end of last week. Populists won at least 160 out of 751 deputy places - this is 98 more than in the previous elections in 2009. Among the most successful radicals are the French National Front, the British Independence Party of the United Kingdom (UKIP), the Greek coalition of the Left Forces of Siriza and the neo -Nazi Golden Dawn. Show more To curtail

The victory in the presidential election in Ukraine Petro Poroshenko means a new redistribution of political and economic spheres of influence in the country. The Kiev political expert, the head of the sociological service "Ukrainian Barometer" Viktor Nebuzhenko suggests that Poroshenko will encounter strong resistance to the political environment and will be forced to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. - In Ukraine, a certain unification of the electoral field occurred.

In Egypt today, the presidential election began, which, as many believe, will win the ex-Minister of Defense and the former head of the Army Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. It was As-Sisi that led the actions of the military, who shifted last July against the backdrop of mass anti-government speeches of President-Islamist Mohammed Mursi. The Muslim Brothers movement, from which Mursi ran for the post of head of state, is now prohibited in Egypt.

In Donetsk, the city authorities urge residents not to leave the houses without particular need. In the official appeal of the head of the city administration, the situation is evaluated as "tense". Donetsk airport is closed. The railway station operates with interruptions. On several streets blocked by the police, vehicles are not allowed. The authorities are asking parents to follow the children. On Monday, the most fierce armed clashes in Donetsk took place in the airport area.

Narendra Modi is swore to the post of Prime Minister of India in India, the new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has an extremely contradictory reputation, the leader of the Indian People’s Party-Bharatia Dzhanat Party, is in the oath. Narendra Modi promises to pursue a policy of expanding contacts with Pakistan. An important symbolic point in this regard was an invitation to the inauguration of Modi Pakistani Prime Minister Navaz Sharic.