Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, 1976 Memory of the great ballerina The great Russian ballerina and choreographer Maya Plisetskaya died in Munich from a heart attack at the age of 89. She continued to successfully go on stage in concert performances after official departure from ballet 25 years ago. The daughter of the repressed Soviet Genconsul on Svalcebergen Mikhail Plisetskiy, shot in 1938, was rehabilitated during the Khrushchev thaw.

Konstantin Kuzminsky (1940-2015). Photo by Snezhana Dubrovskaya Memory of Konstantin Kuzminsky In the United States, the poet and publisher Konstantin Kuzminsky died on May 2. He was 75 years old. Since the mid-1960s, Kuzminsky took part in the unofficial literary life of Leningrad, compiled a number of samizdat copyright books (including Joseph Brodsky, Stanislav Krasovitsky, Henry Sapgir), the samizdat "anthology of Soviet pathology." He held apartment exhibitions of unofficial art.

Europe surrounded by refugees. What to do with the flows of people running from zones of conflicts - from Libya to Donbass?

Rezo Chkheidze The most famous of his films "Father of the Soldier" (1964) In Tbilisi, at the 89th year of his life, the Soviet and Georgian film director Rezo Chkheidze died . The most famous of his films "Father of the Soldier" (1964). Chkheidze also shot films such as "Well, Youth" (1969), Maya from Tskhneti (1959), "Life of Don Quixote and Sancho" (1988).

Found bodies 10 drowned, reports the Italian coast guard The number of migrants saved off the coast of Libya reached 4800; The bodies of 10 drowned were found . According to the Italian coast guard, all saved were delivered to Italy. Their citizenship has not yet been established.

A week of solemn events in Russia on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory-with the climax of May 9 on the Red Square of the capital; May 6 will be 3 years since the events in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow; On the same Wednesday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow will consider the next complaint of lawyers of the Ukrainian military personnel of Nadezhda Savchenko; On May 7, the European Court of Human Rights must, after 10 years after filing, make a decision in the case of physicist Valentin

Defendants in the "Swamp case" in the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, February 2014 On May 6, on the stage of theater.doc, the premiere of the performance dedicated to the "Swamp Things" will be held On May 6, three years have been performed from the date of the events of the opposition campaign "Millions march" on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, which served as the basis for a criminal case of riots. By this time, there are already more than 30 defendants in the case.

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Photo exhibition about the Donbass Both sides of the conflict in the Donbass are accused by Lrue Lrug of violation of the ceasefire In the east of Ukraine, a six -hour battle ended in the village of Shirokino near Mariupol. As the military personnel Alex Petrov reported from the scene , two fighters were easily injured; All the attacks were repulsed by the Donbass and Azov battalions.

The Great Patriotic War is so permeated with all kinds of myths that for many it turned from a living tragedy into something museum and pompous. The historian Oleg Budnitsky, analyzing some myths, tries to return the human dimension to the war.

The statement by Human Rights Watch states that the organization has photographs, video materials and other evidence of the use of cassette ammunition when applying airstrikes on the positions of the Husites The Human Rights Watch (HRW) human rights organization on Sunday accused the coalition of cassette bombs, headed by Saudi Arabia during an air-air operation against Shiite rebels in Yemen.

OSCE observers in the village of Shirokino, March 25, 2015 It is reported that the battles in Shirokin have been going on for two days During the battle with the separatists in the village of Shirokino near Mariupol, two fighters of the Donbass national guard battalion received, later one of them died during the operation. This was reported on the page of the battalion in Facebook . The report said that the battles in the village have been going on for two days.

Observer Enlargian Observer Stanislav Pozdnyakov "OVD-Info": on the night of April 30 to May 1, bleeding opened, he was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute and operated on Independent observer Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who suffered as a result of an attack in the elections in Balashikha, was removed the spleen. According to the website of the Activist Dmitry Georgievsky , on the night of April 30 to May 1, the wounded, he had bleeding, he was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute and operated on.

On the eve of the three -year anniversary of events in Bolotnaya Square Radio Liberty publishes materials about the "Prisoners of Bolotnaya". The 29-year-old economist from Zhukovsky, Alexei Gaskarov, was sentenced to 3.5 years in a colony for participating in the riots and the use of violence in relation to police officers.