Israel brought the troops on increased readiness in the north of the country, in the Golan Heights area, Reuters reports citing a representative of the military. This happened after Israel discovered the "non -standard activity of the Iranian forces in Syria." The Israeli defense army also deployed air defense forces on the border with Syria. In addition, local authorities are ordered to prepare bomb shelters for residents of the region.

Paul Pogba and Konstantin Raush at Russia - France in St. Petersburg, March 27, 2018 The International Football Federation (FIFA) fined the Russian Football Union for the behavior of fans during the match of Russia and France on March 27, 2018. The amount of the fine amounted to 30 thousand Swiss francs (about 30 thousand US dollars). With a complaint about racist river, the organization Fare Network appealed at the match. She fights discrimination in European football.

Dmitry Svitnev, detained at the procession on May 5 in Krasnodar, announced the beating of police officers - numerous hematomas remained on the guy’s hips. According to him, the police beat him with their feet, and also beat other activists who refused to sign empty protocol forms. Someone had enough threat or the first poke under the ribs, others were inhaled in the face, Svitnev says. Human rights activists claim that Kuban police regularly use such methods to obtain readings and confession.

Opening Ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, May 8, 2018 In France, the 71st Cannes Film Festival opens. This year the jury is headed by the Australian actress, the winner of the two Academy Awards Kate Blanchett. The jury also included Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. Last year, his film "Dislike" received a special prize of the festival. In the competition program of the film festival 21 painting.

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Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday was elected Prime Minister of Armenia. According to local media, 59 deputies of the parliament supported the leader of the opposition, 42 opposed him.

The family of a Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili, who died on February 22 in South Ossetia, said that the Georgian authorities were ready to support their "individual claim" to Russia in the European Court of Human Rights. The members of the Georgian government, the leaders of the ruling party and the main opposition parties confirmed: they will provide the plaintiffs with all kinds of assistance during the trial.

Moscow is investigating the case of the organization "New Greatness", which included opposition -minded young people. 10 people were arrested, one of the girls at the time of the detention was 17 years old. The special services announced the organization with an extremist group, whose members threatens up to 10 years in prison. According to lawyers, "New Greatness" was created by a provocateur, an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism, who wrote the charter of this organization.

During the detention of an activist in the studio, May 7, 2018, Saratov The Volzhsky District Court of Saratov fined the coordinator of the local headquarters of Navalny Mikhail Murygin by 150 thousand rubles, accusing him of violating the established procedure for organizing a rally in the framework of the protest actions "He is not a king", which took place on May 5.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko among military personnel in the Luhansk region The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces) since the beginning of a military operation in the Donbass exceeded three thousand three hundred people. This was announced in an interview with the Ukrainian publication "Observer" Minister of Defense of the country Stepan Poltorak. At the same time, according to the minister, about a thousand people are non -eating losses.

Austrian citizen Diana Budisavlevich saved thousands of children from concentration camps in the fascist independent state of Croatia . This was one of the largest humanitarian operations in the history of World War II, but it was not customary to talk about the role of Diana herself for a long time. After the war, the authorities of the communist Yugoslavia confiscated her file cabinet with the names of 12 thousand children and abandoned the services of Budisavlevich to reunite families.

Vittorio Strada (1929–2018)-a legend man, a talented critic, translator, writer, publicist, brilliant European intellectual, died in Venice on April 30. Radio Liberty continues to publish a cycle of conversations with Vittorio Strada recorded in 2017. In the first conversation from this cycle, he talked about his first visits to Moscow, acquaintance with Boris Slutsky, Evgeny Yevtushenko and Boris Pasternak.

Why is the government that promises a lot to Vladimir Putin, and from which experts do not expect anything good? The opposition politician Vladimir Milov, State Duma deputies Andrei Svintsov (LDPR) and Oleg Shein (Fair Russia), political analyst Mikhail Tula. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Video and text by link https://www.svoboda.org/a/29215335.html

US President Donald Trump said Washington is leaving the agreement with Iran on Tehran’s nuclear program. This decision was made, according to him, on the basis of preliminary consultations with US allies in the Middle East. Trump announced that the decree on the resumption of anti -Iranian sanctions will be signed immediately and the sanctions will fully come into force.

Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump in the White House, April 24, 2018 The press service of French President Emmanuel Macron states that US President Donald Trump did not tell the French leader what decision he made relative to the nuclear agreement with Iran. Answering Reuters, the press service denied the current message of the New York Times that Trump told Macron about his intention to withdraw from the agreement.