S-300 missile systems on the exercises of the Baltic Fleet On the eve of President Vladimir Putin ordered to bring the Northern Fleet into full combat readiness In the Baltic Fleet and in units of the Southern Military District and Airborne Forces, the highest combat readiness was announced as part of the strategic command and staff training in the Armed Forces of Russia.

Photo by Dmitry Borko "Russian railways" in the midst of the crisis are preparing to double the unemployment in the town on the Trans -Siberian In the Far East, in the midst of the economic crisis, Russian Railways eliminate one of their largest enterprises in the region. About 500 people can simultaneously remain without work in the city of Shimanovsk, Amur Region.

In Ukraine, an international competition of political caricature has ended. Russian politicians became his main "heroes" This year, the theme of the political carication contest is “totalitarianism”. According to the organizers, the competition is dedicated to the creation of a "new order" in the world, in which any aggression against a neighboring state can be justified by "dragging blood", just as it was during the heyday of the fascist states.

"From the school there was a call to the local father Vitaly, Father Vitaly complained to the head of the administration ..." "Having moved to Khvalynsk, I ended up in 1937 and really want to go back in 2015." Co -chairman of the Interregional Trade Union of Education Workers Andrei Demidov on the practice of dismissal of directors from Russian schools. I received a letter from the head teacher of the school in the city of Khvalynsk of the Saratov region.

Most citizens of Ukraine continue to hope for the return of the peninsula to their country Despite the obvious impossibility of returning Crimea in the near future to the jurisdiction of Kyiv, most citizens of Ukraine continue to consider the peninsula to their national territory and are sure that the success of economic and political reforms in the country will sooner or later change public sentiments in Simferopol and Sevastopol.

Queen Denmark Margret II during a visit to Moscow in September 2011. Now such a visit is hard to imagine. Hostility between Russia and Europe: a look from Denmark The negative attitude towards Western countries among Russians reached a record mark. According to a survey conducted by the Levada Center, 71 percent of the respondents stated that it negatively refers to the countries of the European Union, and 24 percent considered relations between the EU and Russia hostile.

The writer and businessman, former Deputy Prime Minister Alfred Koch about the death of Boris Nemtsov, Chechnya and Ukraine.

Verkhovna Rada building of Ukraine The districts introduce a special procedure for self -government until the withdrawal of all illegal armed groups, their military equipment as well as militants and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine and the restoration of full control of Ukraine over the state border The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the determination of certain regions of Donbass with a special procedure for local self -government.

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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin The mayor of Moscow said that the reductions became possible in connection with the transition to the electronic version of public services Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a meeting of the city government on Tuesday announced a reduction in 30 percent of the civil servant of the capital. About three thousand Moscow officials are planned to be dismissed until July 1.

Fedor Chaliapin Jeweler Alexander Marshak, friend and financier Fedor Chaliapin, recalls the years of emigration in Paris. The unique record of 1965, for the first time on the air Ivan Tolstoy: Archival hour. Bank in the throat, or 58 ties of Chaliapin. Today is the premiere, and not only the radio premiere. A friend, financier and confidant of the great singer Alexander Marshak will share with the memories of Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin.

Ukrainian soldiers on the streets of Konstantinovka Residents of the Donbass city of Konstantinovka got angry with the Ukrainian military guilty of a tragic accident The Ukrainian authorities say that the situation in the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region as a whole, was stabilized, some of the organizers that broke out there on Monday was detained. The reason for mass unrest was an accident : the combat vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran into a woman with two children.

Prime Minister Netanyahu votes at the polling station in Jerusalem Canal-10 and Canal-1 of Israeli television report that Likud and Zionist Union received 27 seats in the Knesset, with 120 seats, while channel-2 claims that Netanyahu leads with a small separation and received 28 seats, and Herzog-27. In Israel, polling stations closed after the day of voting in the elections to the Knesset.