The Insider opens a series of historical essays about North Korea. Professor of the University of Kunmin in Seoul Andrei Lankov tells about the economic model, according to which the DPRK lived in the 20th century, and the causes of hunger, which led to huge human victims. The history of modern North Korea began with a catastrophe - with a great hunger, or, if you use official North Korean expressions, from the "difficult campaign" 1996–1999.

The official representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the use of a non-existent statement by the Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher that 15 million people should live in Russia. On the air of the Radio Says Moscow, Zakharova said: “I said at a briefing: we will be glad if we are told that this was not.” Zakharova also promised that the message would be corrected.

US President Donald Trump said that he would like to be listened to as they listen to the country's leader Kim Jong -uns in the DPRK, NBC News reports . “He says and his people sit and listen carefully. I want my people to do the same ”(“ He Speaks and His People Sit Up in Attend. I Want My People to do the Same). Earlier, Trump said that Russia joined Crimea due to the fact that President Putin did not respected US President Barack Obama. “I want fake news editions to write this correctly.

In instead of Gulzhan Moldazhanova, its deputy Valery Pechenkin was appointed General Director of the Basic Element industrial group. This was reported by RBC with reference to the data database data. As the agency notes, before his arrival at Bazel in the early 2000s, Valery Pechenkin worked in special services for more than 30 years: in 1997-2000 he was deputy director of the FSB and oversaw the counterintelligence department.

The company "Rusal", owned by Oleg Deripaska and fell under US sanctions, appealed to the government with a request to provide additional benefits. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to sources. “Rusal” asks from July 1 to cancel the export allowance for the transportation of its finished products and reduce tariffs for the transportation of raw materials. In early April, Washington introduced new restrictive measures against a number of Russian companies and individuals.

The Russian media reports on the decision of the Swedish court in connection with the appeal of the decision of the Stockholm arbitration, according to which Gazprom must pay the Ukrainian “Naftogaz” $ 2.56 billion.

The owner of the TGVPN proxy service, Vladislav Zdolnikov, filed a lawsuit against Roskomnadzor with a demand to recognize the actions to block the IP addresses used by the service. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the lawyer of Roskomsvoboda, Sarkis Darbinyan and Zkolnikov himself. The plaintiff demands that Roskomnadzor exceeded his authority, as well as exclude the addresses of the service from the register of prohibited resources.

US President Donald Trump stated on Fox News that Russia annexed Crimea due to the fact that President Putin did not respect US President Barack Obama. “I want fake news editions to write this correctly. President Obama missed Crimea because Putin did not respond to him, ”Trump said.

The authorized Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova refused to meet with Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, serving a sentence in a colony in the city of Labytnangi. She reported this on her Facebook. Denisova said that she had met with the head of the colony and the head of the penalty department in the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The official said that Denisov “under no circumstances” could meet Sentsov without explaining the reason for the refusal.

The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova arrived in the Russian colony, where director Oleg Sentsov, who announced the hunger strike, was located, but she was refused a meeting with him. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the adviser to the Ombudsman Elena Myachin. “An authorized in the colony, we are waiting for a meeting with the leadership of a correctional institution,” said Myachina.

In Krasnoyarsk, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a participant in the action “He is not a king” on May 5, Natalia Podolyak, who touched the policeman with his foot, trying to help the detainee who had lost consciousness. The decision to initiate the case was published by the activist Ruslan Rudenko.

The police freed 30 people who were kept in slavery in the Odessa region. This was announced by the head of the National Police of Ukraine Sergey Knyazev on his Facebook. According to him, there was a woman among them in the eighth month of pregnancy, and "she was never shown a doctor" As the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov reported, earlier police detained a woman born in 1969, who intended to sell her 15-year-old son into slavery for 50 thousand hryvnias.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that "in November 1991, in her speech in Houston, the ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher said that" only 15 million people are economically advisable. " "Historical performance by Margaret Thatcher" - Fake. Firstly, in 1991 she did not make a speech in Houston.

At the Moscow City Hall and the Presidential Administration, it was decided that Anton Krasovsky, Ilya Yashin and Dmitry Gudkov will not participate as candidates for the Moscow Mayor. It is reported by Rain with reference to a source close to the Kremlin and the interlocutor participating in the campaign of Sobyanin. According to the sources of Rain, the authorities decided not to help these candidates overcoming the municipal filter so that only system parties participate in the campaign.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who announced a hunger strike in the colony, gained two kilograms in weight, said Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, in an interview with the Yekaterinburg Channel Fourth. “His state of health is satisfactory today. He every day - with his permission - receives a dropper with a full set of all nutrients, proteins and vitamins, ”Moskalkova said. “He not only did not lose weight, but added two kilograms,” she added.