Ian Kelly participates in a video conference Before entering the diplomatic service, Kelly taught Russian at Columbia University in New York. The US presidential administration intends to appoint Jena Kelly a new ambassador to Georgia. This is stated in the press service of the White House, widespread on Monday. From 2010 to 2013, Kelly worked as a regular representative of the United States at the OSCE. Since August 2007, he was the director of the Russian Department of the State Department.

The President of Venezuela, who has just again endowed with "special powers", wrote an angry letter to the US President The Venezuela parliament again extended, by the end of 2015, the action of the so -called "authorizing act", or the "anti -imperialist law" , adopted at the end of 2013 and allowing President Nicholas Maduro "for the sake of building socialism and the struggle against external and internal enemies" to erase any decrees that have the power of the law - without approval by

Picket participant in Samara In Samara, on Monday, the World Court of the Samara district considered a complaint against the initiation of a criminal case against the head of the Voice-Volga region of the Lyudmila Kuzmina Foundation. With details, Radio Liberty correspondent in Samara Sergey Khazov. Lyudmila Kuzmin is suspected of tax evasion worth 3 million 200 thousand rubles.

"Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" achieved a criminal case

People's artist is a great friend of our radio. In the 2000s, Sergey Yuryevich conducted the “Three Generations” program on our waves. Today - Jurassic's thoughts about the theater, cinema, politics and society. Records from the archive of freedom.

Representative of the Office of the Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees in Russia Baisa Vak-Vaki On Monday, the UN delegation, who arrived the day before in the Rostov region, met in Azov with refugees from Ukraine. Representatives of the International Organization visited, in particular, two points of the temporary placement of refugees organized in the hotels "Surge" and "Sunny". To date, 92 refugees from Ukraine are in the city.

Previously, doctors warned Savchenko against the resumption of a hunger strike. The Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko, who was under arrest in a Moscow prison, resumed a hunger strike. This was announced by our radio station by lawyer Mark Feigin. Previously, doctors warned Savchenko against the resumption of a hunger strike. From last summer, Nadezhda Savchenko has been detained in Russia on charges of involvement in the deaths of Russian journalists near Lugansk.

New York Philharmonic How to become a super-Dirier. "Soviet ballet" at the American Academy Alexander Genis: On the air - our heading “Dialogue on Broadway”, which Solomon Volkov and I lead to the Broadway studio Radio Liberty. Solomon, what is they talking about Broadway? Solomon Volkov: Broadway lively discussing large changes that are coming in the conductor's world. I must say that with conductors on a modern musical stage it is especially difficult.

The flag of the Islamic state in an abandoned building in Tel Hamis, Syria The US State Department spoke about the possibility of negotiations with the Assad regime. Probably this step is part of the efforts of the United States in reconciliation with Iran US Secretary of State John Kerry states that Washington will have to negotiate with the regime of Syria Assad President on a peaceful settlement of the four -year civil war and creating a transition government.

Nikolai Petrov - About days without Putin, regime problems, a plane in a corkscrew and a year and a half before meeting the ground Russian President Vladimir Putin first appeared in public after a 10-day absence. His photos from a meeting in St. Petersburg with the president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev became a subject of close study.

Sergey Khazov about the court in Samara over the human rights activist

Since there is nothing to be proud of - there are no achievements - the holiday is in a conditional inclination: “But what would happen if Ukrainian fascists came to the Crimea ...” Obviously, there would be no economic sanctions against Russia, the fall of the standard of living and the war in the Donbass. But the main thing would not have changed: a concert in honor of Vladimir Putin would still be on Vasilievsky descent. Well, for a different reason.

The withdrawal of heavy weapons in the Donbass The Ukrainian authorities have completed the process of removing heavy weapons from the line of contact of the parties in the southeast of Ukraine, the country's foreign minister Pavel Klimkin said.

Over the past year, the situation with human rights in Crimea has sharply deteriorated, repressions have increased in relation to ethnic communities and religious minorities, in particular, Crimean Tatars, systematic violation of basic freedoms began, the statement said. Locals were delayed, interrogated, disappeared, non -governmental organizations and independent media were expelled from the peninsula.