Peter Wilcox comes out of the Crosses. Photo: Greenpeace 30 Greenpeace activists and crew members of Arctic Sunrise have complained to the European Court of Human Rights, according to the website of the environmental organization. They require recognition illegal their detention and arrest after a peaceful action against oil production in the Pechora Sea.

Alexander Pochinok. Frame "Vesti" In the 57th year of life, politician Alexander Pochinok died. This was announced on Twitter by the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov. “Sasha Pochinok passed away. Farewell to, friend. Rip,” Venediktov wrote. Alexander Pochinok was born in 1958 in Chelyabinsk. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic University. In the 1990s, the repair was part of the State Duma of the first and second convocations.

The flag of "other Russia". Photo: nb-licantrop.livejournal.com Activists of the Unregistered Party "Other Russia" were detained near the building of the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow. According to the correspondent of "faces", 5-6 people tried to deploy the stretching "Kyiv - Russian City" and scattered leaflets. Party leader Eduard Limonov previously repeatedly spoke in support of the actions of the Russian authorities in Ukraine - the introduction of troops and the annexation of Crimea.

Detention of activists with the Criminal Code. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Russian lawyers began collecting signatures under the open appeal against judicial unprincipled and police arbitrariness . The document refers to court decisions on the "swamp case" and the politically motivated actions of law enforcement agencies in connection with anti -war protests. According to the initiators of the appeal, numerous evidence suggests that the vast majority of these detentions were illegal.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The bill on a simplified procedure for the adoption of a new subject to Russia is recalled from the State Duma as unnecessary for the situation with the Crimea. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the Duma committee on constitutional law and state building by Vladimir Pligin. Earlier, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Turbjern Jagund submitted this bill for consideration by the Venice Commission, Piligin noted.

Belgorod riot police. Photo: Belnovosti.ru The investigating authorities opened a criminal case against the commander of riot police Igor Chaplygin, Kommersant reports. He was suspected of abuse of authority. After the initiation of the case, Chaplygin quit law enforcement agencies. The publication does not specify whether he was elected a preventive measure. According to the article on excess of powers, Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs threatens to four years in prison.

Fragment of the cover of the textbook Lyudmila Peterson Tens of thousands of people signed petitions for a revision of the federal list of school textbooks for the 2014–2015 academic year. On the Change.org website, signatures are collected under nine appeals on this topic. The Ministry of Education and Science did not include more than 130 books in the list. It did not include, in particular, the benefits of Lyudmila Peterson and Leonid Zankov popular in the professional community.

Criminal case. Photo from the site www.nr2.ru In Khabarovsk, a criminal case has been instituted against one of the leaders of the forest management department of the Khabarovsk Territory, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khabarovsk Territory.

Natalia Poklonskaya. Photo from a personal page in "Odnoklassniki" The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev granted the petition of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to detain and delivery to the court to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention of the self -proclaimed prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya . This was reported by the press service of the department.

A car with a miletic. Photo: Yu. Timofeev The website of the Russian public initiative contains over 100 thousand signatures for the abolition of special signals in civil servants. Now the proposal must be considered at the federal level. The initiators were the Blue Buckets community. “The initiative implies the abolition of the right to travel for cars that are not cars of operational services in execution.

Foreign Ministry. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Russia calls for a constitutional assembly in Ukraine with an equal representation of all Ukrainian regions to prepare the new basic law of the country. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Army of Ukraine. Frame 5 of the channel I.O. President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov today at the plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada announced the signing of a decree on partial mobilization, Interfax reports. He explained that the decree was signed in connection with the situation around the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In the Verkhovna Rada, a draft law is also registered, which the parliament should approve the presidential decree.

EU Council logo The Council of the European Union hopes for the signing of the political part of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU on March 21, the Council resolution says . The commitment to the transition to the signing of "other parts of the agreement, which, together with the political part, constitute a single document, is also confirmed.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo: Er.ru Foreign Ministers of the EU countries agreed on sanctions because of Crimea against 21 officials. This was reported on Twitter by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkyavicius. "The Foreign Council agreed on sanctions on the ban on the entry and freezing of assets against 21 officials from Ukraine and Russia. The EU would take other measures for several days," Lynkevichus wrote according to the results of the discussion.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the recognition of the Republic of Crimea as an independent and sovereign state. The decree was published on Monday evening on the Kremlin website. "Given the will of the peoples of Crimea at the General Crimean referendum, held on March 16, 2014, to recognize the Republic of Crimea, in which the city of Sevastopol has a special status, as a sovereign and independent state," the decree says.