Monstration in Moscow In Russia, the May Day procession "Monestation 2019" takes place in this environment. According to the ideologist of the action and the organizer of the event in Novosibirsk, Artyom Loskutov, thirty cities will join monstration this year. In Moscow, the action took place in parallel with the Pervomaisian rally of the Communists, several hundred people took part in it, Radio Liberty correspondent reports.

Pre-election polls predict the victory of the former US Vice President Joe Biden on the primaries of the presidential candidate from the Democratic Party. According to the results of the research of three sociological centers, a politician by at least 10 percent is ahead of his closest rivals. Biden's success in the race allows him to focus his criticism on the main target, the US president, and not on competitors on primaries.

The court in London sentenced the founder of the WikiLeaks project Julian Assange by 50 weeks of prison for failure to appear for a meeting in 2012. This was reported by Reuters. In 2010, Assange, accused of sexual violence in Sweden, was arrested in London and released on bail. In 2012, he disappeared at Ecuador's Embassy, which violated the conditions of liberation.

In Krasnoyarsk, about 50 people came to monstance. At the entrance to the participants, the police checked the inscriptions on the posters. If the banner did not suit them, they asked him to remove it. They did not miss the poster "He is not the king for us, he is God for us!" The main slogan of the Monstrium-2019 in Krasnoyarsk-"It is written correctly from my words.

Students of the University of North Carolina (archive photo) In the United States, two people died in Charlotte as a result of shooting at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Four more were injured, and two of them are in critical condition. It is reported by Reuters. Data on the victims was confirmed by the spokeswoman for the University of Lester Oliva.

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Protest shares were held in many cities of the country and were crowded

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About 1,200 people took part in the Novosibirsk monstance. At first, the processing people carried the main slogan "Khan" to us, and then replaced it with another - "the city is needed, not this rag." The organizer of Monstration is artist Artem Loskutov.

In Tokyo, a ceremony of access to the throne of the new emperor Japan Naruhito was held. He was awarded symbols of imperial powers - a large state seal and regalia: a sword, jasper laid down in caskets, and a metal mirror. It is stored in the temple, where the goddess of the Sun Amateras, who is considered the ancestor of the monarchs dynasty, is symbolically. The ceremony of intronization of the 126th emperor was held in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplification of the receipt of Russian citizenship refugees from Ukraine who lived in the territory of Donbass in 2014. The message about this is posted on the Kremlin website. Putin’s decree allows us to apply for citizenship to Ukrainians who lived in the Donbass before the start of an armed conflict and having legal status in Russia.