Dmitry Medvedev in Simferopol. Frame of the video broadcast President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on bringing pension payments to residents of Crimea to the average level in Russia. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Simferopol at a meeting on the socio-economic development of Crimea, RIA Novosti reports. "A fundamental decision was made to bring pensions in the Crimea to the average Russian level at the expense of a special surcharge.

Vigadas Ushatskas. Photo: eeas.europa.eu Sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine will not affect ordinary Russian citizens. This was in an interview with Kommersant by the head of the EU representative office in the Moscow Vigadas Ushaskas. "The sanctions adopted by the EU do not concern ordinary citizens of Russia. Moreover, some EU countries have decided to facilitate visa procedures for Russian citizens.

Sergey Shoigu and conscripts. Photo: mil.ru Residents of Crimea will be called up for military service since 2015. This was announced at a selector meeting by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, RIA Novosti reports. This year there will be no Crimean call. “It is assumed that they will serve on the Crimean peninsula until the end of 2016, and later throughout the Russian Federation,” said Shoigu. Shoigu did not specify what categories of Crimean citizens the call would be extended.

The inscription "Foreign agent" on the doors of the Moscow Office of the Movement "For Human Rights". Photo by Dmitry Zykova/Grani.ru The Federation Council is preparing the next tight corrections to the Law on NPOs. According to the "Independent Gazeta", it is proposed to give the Ministry of Justice the right to independently decide whether the non -profit organization "foreign agent" is. In addition, the department will be able to fine organizations for untimely reporting.

A meeting of the Crimean parliament. Fall of the fifth channel. The head of the Republic of Crimea will not be elected by direct vote. This was stated by the head of the Crimean Constitutional Commission Grigory Ioffe in an interview with Kommersant. According to the draft constitution, the head of the republic, elected by the parliament on the proposal of the President of Russia, will be led by the Peninsula.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma has submitted a bill on the introduction of administrative and criminal liability for concealing double citizenship. The project is published in the database of documents of the lower house. The deputy of the LDPR faction Sergey Ivanov proposed to introduce the obligatory notifying nature of the acquisition of citizenship of a foreign state, and to establish administrative and criminal liability for non -compliance with this requirement.

Vitaly Milonov. Photo from the info -group of the deputy in VKontakte The deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Uneneros Vitaly Milonov, proposed to establish a new unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Russia - the police police. According to Interfax, Milonov expressed such an initiative in a letter to the Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The State Duma introduced a bill on the ban on state officials, as well as their spouses and minor children, have grounds for permanent residence in foreign states, that is, citizenship or residence permit. The project is published in the database of documents of the lower house. The initiative was developed by Eser Alexei Kazakov.

Alexander Skobov. Courtesy Photo The concentration of Russian troops at the Ukrainian borders, which was reported all last week, this time, it seems, turned out to be elementary intimidation. Does this mean that the threat of a large-scale invasion of continental Ukraine has passed and the Kremlin is ready to be satisfied in a marodic, in a shakal captured by the Crimea?

NATO meeting. Photo from the site www.nato.int The Foreign Minister of NATO countries can discuss the possibility of placing constant alliance bases in the Baltic countries. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by a diplomatic source in the alliance. A meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry of NATO countries will be held in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. "We have not yet discussed permanent bases.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma has submitted a bill proving to the punishment of up to five years in the colony for participating in protests. The document, the text of which is published on the website of the lower house, was prepared by the unicorn Andrei Sidyakin and Andrey Krasov and the reference Igor Zotov. On Monday, the bill was registered and sent for consideration by the speaker Sergei Naryshkin.

The action of the Avtomaydan at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, 03/31/2014. Photo: Nika Maksimyuk/Grani.ru Avtomaydan held an action against the annexation of Crimea at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". Activists hung up posters throughout the Russian diplomatic fence, which depicted the coat of arms of Nazi Germany and a portrait of Vladimir Putin with a mustache and bangs, like that of Adolf Hitler.

Alexander Turchinov. Photo: President.gov.ua Ukraine considers the possibility of abandoning non -block status. According to "Facts and Comments", such a statement made President of the country, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Turchinov. "Today, this issue is very acute, and Ukraine is negotiating to create conditions so that any country does not have a desire to conduct aggression against our state," the head of state said.

Kim Jong -un examines artillery guns. Photo: Tsak North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire at the border in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap South Korean agency reports . After, during the artillery teachings held by the DPRK, several shells fell south of the borders, the South Korean military response of the K-9 self-propelled howitzers response. F-15K fighters are sent to the incident area.

75 years ago, on March 31, 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced Anglo-French guarantees for Poland in case of aggression. He declared in the House of Commons that England and France "will give the Polish government all possible assistance that they can give if Poland is attacked." This was a response to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. On April 6, these guarantees were formalized into a Polish-British military convention.