The first 600 prisoners can start work on the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM) in June. Contractors of Russian Railways (Russian Railways) begin to arrange them for work that do not require high qualifications. It is reported by "Kommersant" with reference to three sources familiar with the situation. Prisoners will work with handymen, concrete workers and reinforcingers at the construction sites of the eastern training ground.

Dozens of figures of Russian culture joined the request to prohibit the expansion of hunting farms and hunting tourism. The corresponding petition on the website Change.org posted the charity fund for animal assistance "Giving Hope" on the eve. The petition is addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier, the State Duma adopted the so -called "hunting" amendments to the land and forest codes of Russia.

It will be fair to notice: this year the European Union suffered from the severe form of "Belarusian fatigue" exactly until the moment the Ryanair passenger aircraft made a forced landing in Minsk. A lot of problems facing the besieged regime of Alexander Lukashenko and the people's opposition to his rule were simply ceased to be priority for Brussels due to the continuing pandemic of Covid-19 , the deterioration of relations with Russia and the exacerbation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Meeting of the Public Supervisory Commission of Dagestan In 66 regions of Russia (in total 85), the chairmen of public observation commissions and their deputies are either former employees of law enforcement agencies or are associated with the authorities. This was reported by the publication "Project", whose journalists studied the composition of the commissions and biographies of their leaders.

Air France aircraft The French Airfrance Airlines canceled the AF1154 Paris-Moscow flight due to the lack of permission to enter the airspace of Russia. This was reported by the "New Gazeta" with reference to one of the passengers, Michel Syndyukova. Airfrance confirmed this information to reporters. Paris - Moscow flight passenger handed the newspaper a video on which the crew’s appeal to passengers is heard. "We still have no information, unfortunately.

In Minsk, a 17-year-old teenager, who, according to the Belarusian human rights center "Vesna", was a defendant in the case of "riots" during last year's protests against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, committed suicide. In social networks, Dmitry Stakhovsky posted a suicide note in which he spoke about moral pressure because of the criminal case in charge of him, accusing the investigative committee of his death.

US President Joe Biden believes that the introduction of new sanctions against the North Stream-2 project will damage US relations with European partners. The gas pipeline has already been almost completed and penalty measures at this stage would become “counter -productive,” Biden noted. The US President added that he "from the very beginning opposed the construction of" Northern Stream-2 ", but" he cannot prescribe to Germany what to do and what not.

Most Russians, 62%, are not ready to vaccinate from the Covid-19 coronavirus Russian vaccine "Sputnik V". These are the data of the analytical center of Yuri Levada (this organization was forcibly entered in the register of NPO - "foreign agents"). The causes of vaccination resistance go beyond medical Compared to last August, the number of those who do not want to vaccinated has grown by 8%. The number of people who want to get involved in the same period fell from 38 to 26%.

In California, in the city of San Jose, an armed attack on the workers of the railway station occurred on Wednesday. Eight people died , including the attacker, many were injured. The local branch of the CBS television channel reported that the fire was opened by railway workers gathered for the morning planner. A few moments before shooting a fire broke out in a house belonging to one of the local transport administration employees.

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All you need to know early in the morning of May 26 Good morning! Today, at midnight, Ukraine stopped air traffic with Belarus, many other countries refused to use the Belarusian airspace. What it will cost Belarus, read here . How to go to Europe now to Belarusians and whether the Russians will suffer from all this, it is explained here . And the news is: Russian woman Sofya Sapga, detained along with Roman Protasevich, was arrested in Belarus for two months.

In Moscow, the administration of the Museon Park closed the exhibition of the Volunteer Search Detachment "Lisa Alert" about missing children. This was told by the coordinator of the movement Oleg Leonov. The park administration, he said, substantiated the closing of the exhibition with an age rating of 18+. The exhibition was opened on May 25, on the International Day of the missing children.

The US President Joe Biden’s trip program became known to Europe: he will begin a visit from London, perhaps there will be a meeting in Bratislava with the leaders of the countries of Eastern Europe and Ukraine. Then June 16, Joe Biden in Switzerland will meet with Vladimir Putin. In Geneva, Baiden expects to discuss the problems of Ukraine, Belarus, strategic stability with the President of Russia, the President of Russia.

The European aviation regulator on Wednesday called on all world companies to avoid the airspace of Belarus for security reasons after the incident with the Ryanair. "The circumstances related to these events cause serious doubts about the compliance by the Belarusian authorities of the rules of international civil aviation," the European Aviation Security Agency said.

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