In St. Petersburg today, at the 93rd year of life, the People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Makarova died. According to the press service of the Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater, the date and place of the funeral have not yet been determined. Lyudmila Makarova was admitted to the BDT troupe after the end of the theater studio in 1941. Then, during the Great Patriotic War, she served in the Baltic Fleet Theater.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen said that there is data on the partial allocation of Russia to his troops from the border with Ukraine. According to him, for the first time we are talking about most military units deployed previously in these regions of Russia. Rasmussen gave an interview to Reuters on the sidelines of the meeting of the NATO parliamentary Assembly in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. He also said that on June 2 a meeting of the NATO Council - Russia will be held.

Vladimir Kara-Murza : History as always persistently reminds of itself. A series of anniversaries continues to be related to the quarter -century anniversary of the first congress of people's deputies of the USSR. Veterans of the interregional deputy group gathered this week. We will have a co -chair of the interregional deputy group Yuri Afanasyev , there will also be experts of the People’s Deputy of the USSR Yuri Boldyrev , Gennady Burbulis , Sergey Stankevich .

Petersburg National Bolsheviks attacked the Latvian consulate. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, on the night of May 30, a group of St. Petersburg activists of the unregistered "other Russia" came to the General Consulate of Latvia and, having thrown the building with lighted firecrackers and smoke bombs, hoisted the Russian flag on its facade.

During a visit to Poland, US President Barack Obama will meet on Wednesday with the elected President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. This was announced by the Deputy Assistant of the US President for National Security Ben Rhodes during a telephone press conference. She was dedicated to the upcoming trip of the American leader to Europe - to Poland, Belgium and France.

Gunther Ettinger, a member of the European Energy Energy Commission, announced the payment of part of the debt for the supply of Russian gas. Ettinger said this on Friday in Berlin, where gas negotiations were held with the participation of representatives of the EU, Russia and Ukraine. According to the European diplomat, consultations will continue in Brussels on Monday June 2.

Since the beginning of 2014, about two thousand people became victims of air strikes inflicted on the positions of the rebels in the city of Aleppo in the north of the country. According to the Syrian Center for Human Rights, based in the UK, they died from January 1 to May 29. Among the dead are 283 women, as well as 576 people who were less than 18 years old.

25 years of MDG: Why did the USSR die? We are talking with former people's deputies of the USSR Gabriel Popov and Nikolai Travkin. Experts Yu. Afanasyev, Yu. Boldyrev, Yu. Ryzhov, E. Barbulis.

Elena Rykovtseva: I present to you our guests: Alexander Morozov, editor -in -chief of the Russian Journal, with us, Igor Svinarenko, a observer of all the best publications. Igor Svinarenko: They kicked out of almost all. Elena Rykovtseva: What is left? Igor Svinarenko: From the media? "New Gazeta", where I am occasionally published, and "Russian magazine", "Polit.ru". Elena Rykovtseva: There are not so few publications left where Igor Svinarenko is published.

Film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the FSB The FSB accuses the Ukrainian film director and anti -fascist from Simferopol of work on the "Right Sector" and terrorism For several weeks, relatives and friends did not know anything about the fate of the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested in the Crimea, in addition to the fact that on May 11 he was detained by the FSB and would be transferred to Lefortovo.

Opposition leader Raul Hadjimba appeals to the protests by the presidential administration in Sukhumi In Abkhazia, the opposition at an extraordinary meeting of the parliament of an unrecognized republic is going to elect the temporary president of the country. While the current head of state, Alexander Ankvab, refuses to voluntarily leave his post. Ankvab said that he should have consultations with those who support him. He also does not intend to resign Prime Minister Leonid Lakebay.

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Valery Agafonov. At a concert in the Society "Knowledge". Vilnius. From the archive of the so -called Agafonova In the section "Our contemporaries" recall the veterans of the NKVD *** "Native Language" with the Lithuanian poet, American professor Thomas Ventslova Elena Bakhmetyeva (first wife): “It was the impression that the romance was created specifically for him. The feeling conveyed amazingly. He looked not interesting because he was poorly dressed.