Day: March 30, 2017

The signing of the Alaska purchase Treaty on March 30, 1867. A classic painting by Emanuel Leutze © Emanuel Leutze/Public domain/wikipedia.org In a glass display case of a provincial Museum — a brass plate 20 x 20 cm with embossed on it the words: “Russian Land ownership”. But in Russia such will not find — only the ocean, only in Alaska. All newly annexed territory of the Russian pioneers were stolbit, says TASS Natalya Volkova, Director of the Museum of the city of Shelekhov, Irkutsk region. But to install wooden poles in Alaska had any sense — they could easily burn the indigenous people the colonizers or competitors. Therefore, Grigory Shelikhov ordered to bury embedded boards in the ground of Alaska. Grigory Shelikhov (in some historical documents his name is spelled as Shelekhov, hence the name of the city) — industrialist, the merchant, the Explorer, the man who makes the

The UK Prime Minister did not exclude the possibility of fees for withdrawal from the EU Moscow. March 29. INTERFAX.RU Prime Minister Theresa may did not rule out on Wednesday that London will have to transfer to Brussels “fee for withdrawal” from the European Union. “Of course, we will carefully study the rights and responsibilities to the EU”, — she declared on air of TV channel BBC One. While the British Prime Minister did not specify the exact amount that may be paid by Britain in the EU. Last week European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that Britain should pay in the EU about 50 billion pounds before leaving the Union. This amount will include the cost of all the projects that informed London agreed to Fund. While the British authorities are counting on an agreement about the priority of trade with the EU after the country’s withdrawal from the

Chizhov: the EMU knows that the situation Samoilova blow to the image of “Eurovision” MOSCOW, 29 Mar — RIA Novosti. The leadership of the European broadcasting Union (EBU) understands that the prohibition of the security service of Ukraine on entry to the Russian participants of “Eurovision-2017” will hurt the prestige of the contest, and the EBU, said Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov. The Director General of the EBU, Ingrid Deltenre said in an interview with newspaper Blick on Wednesday that if the decision on participation of Russia in “Eurovision” will not be reached in the coming weeks, Ukraine may be sanctioned: in particular, it may be suspended from participation in the contest. “I can say that the competition “Eurovision” song contest, including the contest of this year, it held the European broadcasting Union, not Ukraine. There can not understand that the decision of the SBU in Kiev