The serial master class with students from the Southwestern University "Neofit Rilski" (city of Blagoevgrad) in atelier "Podkrepa", was dedicated to the creation of jewelry and decorative items from authentic cords (provided to us by the cord workshop in Etar), jewelry and accessories of leather, clay objects for decoration using the techniques of furches, plates, sgraffito ceramics and potter's wheel draining.

The United States is still "a ways away" from any possible decision on whether to re-introduce U.S. troops into Ukraine, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Monday, even as he acknowledged low-level planning underway.

President Joe Biden decided to withdraw American troops from Ukraine before Russia's Feb. 24 invasion in order to avoid a direct conflict with a nuclear-armed adversary.

The so-called M.P. in the State Duma from the annexed  Crimea by Russia - Mikhail Sheremet has proposed the Soviet flag to become the new state flag of Russia. This was announced on May 18, 2022 by the Russian agency RIA Novosti.

Sheremet said the West feared the Soviet flag because "the red flag of victory reminds him of the greatness of our people and our great victory".

The member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, elected with the list of the party "United Russia" - Oleg Morozov has threatened Poland that Russia will attack it immediately after Ukraine. Morozov wrote about this in almost plain text in his Telegram channel.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday the bloc would provide a further 500 millions euros worth of military support to Ukraine and that he was confident a deal could be reached in the coming days to agree an embargo on Russian oil.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the G7 foreign ministers meeting in northern Germany, Borrell said the military support would be for heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery and take the bloc's aid to about 2 billion euros.

TRACECA will conduct a study tour on the possibility of increasing trade on the route "Central Asia - European Union" through the ports of the Caspian and Black Seas, the TRACECA administration announced on Thursday - May 12, 2022.

According to a source from TRACECA, the trip will last from 16 to 24 May 2022.

What Happened: Germany has dropped its opposition to a Russian oil embargo as long as it has enough time to wind down imports and find alternatives, The Wall Street Journal reported April 28. On April 27, Germany's economic minister announced that the country had struck a deal with Poland to increase oil imports through the Polish port of Gdansk, which is equipped to handle supertankers and has a pipeline that can send crude oil to a German refinery in Schwedt on the German-Polish border.

At its meeting on April 28, 2022, the German Bundestag approved the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine. This was reported by "Der Spiegel". 586 of the 693 members of the German Parliament present, voted in favor of the proposal, 100 opposed and seven abstained, said Bundestag Deputy Speaker Wolfgang Kubicki. (https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-bundestag-stim… ).

It could take years for Austria to stop gas supplies from Russia, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said in an interview with OE24.TV, Trend reports citing TASS.

Denmark became the first donor to the fund set up by the European Energy Community to rebuild energy infrastructure in Ukraine. This was announced on April 25, 2022, by the press service of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine on its official website.

It is noted that the funds from the fund will be used to restore the energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed after the full-scale invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine.