Donald Tusk. Photo: Premier.gov.pl Europe is not yet ready to further tighten sanctions against Russia, despite the ongoing provocations by President Vladimir Putin. This was stated by the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk in an interview with The New York Times on the eve of his visit to the United States. "Using military or economic measures, Russia seeks to establish control of Ukraine," Tusk said.

The helicopter carrier of the Mistral class. Photo from the site www.rfi.fr The helicopter-bearer of Sevastopol under construction on the shipyards of the Saint-Nazer at the beginning of the next week will enter the open sea for running tests. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in DCNS. The participation of Russian sailors is not planned in trials. "The first running searches on the open sea are scheduled next week between March 16 and 20.

Passport. Frame TVC By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, more than 50 people received Russian citizenship. 35 of them are men born in Ukraine from 1953 to 1984. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. On January 14, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the holding in 2015 of three queues of partial mobilization . According to the document, the age of the calls is from 18 to 65 (for military specialists) years.

The detention of an activist of the "people's will" on the march of the memory of Nemtsov. Photo: vk.com/narvol_rus The employees of the Center for Combating Extremism conducted a search in the dormitory room of the MGTU named after Bauman, where the activist of the People’s Volya, Danila Krapivenko, who was detained on the memory of Boris Nemtsov, lives, reports OVD-info with reference to lawyer Sergei Vasilchenko. The operatives seized money, books, stickers and posters.

Philip Bridlav. Photo: NATO.int The commander of the NATO armed forces in Europe, General Philip Bridlav, said that he could not confirm the withdrawal of heavy weapons by militants of the self -proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk "people's republics" in the conflict zone in the Donbass. With the appropriate statement, he made the Ukrainian television channel "1+1", reports UNN.

Vladimir Putin. Photo by the presidential press service Vladimir Putin signed a federal law that reduces the minimum fines for receiving a bribe. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. In accordance with the amendments, for receiving a bribe, officials will be fined tenfold from its amount. Earlier, the law provided for a 25-fold fine. As an alternative, a fixed fine of 1 million rubles is set.

Joseph Dyadkin. Photo by Maxim Novikov Human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinsky group, one of the founders of the Tver Memorial, Joseph Dyadkin, died in Tver at the 87th year of his life. As reported on the website of the ICG, farewell and funeral will be held on March 11. Dyadkin was born in 1928 in the city of Belaya Church of the Kyiv region, graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute.

The mayor of Riga Neil Ushakov on the background of the M1A2 Abrams tank. Photo @nilushakov In the port of Riga from the Liberty Promise cargo ship with American military equipment and armored vehicles, M1A2 Abrams tanks, as well as the M2A3 Bradley infantry armored vehicles with a total of 120 units, reports the Latvian business portal DB.LV.

125 years ago, March 9, 1890, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Skryabin) was born, in 1930-1941 he was the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and occupied the second place in the Soviet hierarchy. Molotov was a champion among the members of the Politburo by the number of envied shot lists, sending 43,908 innocent people with one stroke of the pen, almost 3 thousand more than Stalin. But Molotov never played the independent political role.

Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin awarded the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov by the Order of Honor. The award was awarded "for the achieved labor successes, social activities and many years of conscientious work." The corresponding decree is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service The decision on the annexation of Crimea was made on the night of February 23, 2014. This was said by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the film by Andrei Kondrashov, entitled "The Way to his homeland", announced by the channel "Russia 1". In the announcement of fragments, Putin talks about the operation to transfer to Russia the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

A rally in Simferopol. Frame Radio Liberty In Simferopol, after a rally in honor of the 201nd anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, police officers detained the organizer of the action Leonid Kuzmin and two more participants, Radio Liberty reports . The reason was the use of Ukrainian symbols at a rally. About 50 people took part in the action. The rally took place in the Gagarinsky park.

The action in support of Savchenko in St. Petersburg. Frame "rain" On Nevsky Prospekt, during the Sunday campaign in support of the Ukrainian pilot, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko, the police detained five activists of the Democratic St. Petersburg. This was reported on the page of the VK group "Help for detainees in St. Petersburg." “And they just held hands, stood along the Nevsky, were with yellow-blue ribbons, without posters, without megaphone-a silent flash mob.

At the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Photo: Grani.ru In connection with the investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, two more people were detained in the Silkovsky district of Chechnya, Rosbalt reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. It is still unknown whether the investigation will ask the court to arrest their arrest. The source did not name the names of the detainees, but noted that one of them is a cousin of a senior Chechen security officer.