Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Mid.ru Moscow is ready to participate in the discussion of the proposal on the direction of the peacekeeping mission to the Donbass, if this is of interest to the parties to the conflict. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov. He added that the conflict participants must agree “on those forms of observation of the implementation of the agreements” that they consider “mutual acceptable”.

The teachings of the Northern Fleet. Photo: mil.ru As part of a sudden check, the Northern Fleet, as well as individual formations of the Airborne Forces and the Western Military District, are given full combat readiness. This was stated by Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu at the National Center for Defense of Russia, TASS reports. He noted that the exercises are conducted by order of President Vladimir Putin.

Fire in the Novodevichy Monastery. Frame of the video In Moscow there was a fire on the bell tower of the Novodevichy Monastery, Interfax reports. Fire covered construction forests at an altitude of 30 to 70 meters. A message about the fire was received at the Ministry of Emergencies at 22:41 on Sunday. The first fire brigades arrived at the scene at 22:45. Burning wooden shields of forests fell from the bell tower. Building households and wood lit up from them.

Nadezhda Savchenko is participating in a video from the video. Photo: Yu. Timofeev/Grani.ru Ukrainian pilot, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko announced the resumption of a hunger strike. She wrote about this in response to a letter from a translator from French Natalia Mavelvich. "From 16.03 I am starving again after ten days of the break. And this time - to the victorious end!" - wrote Savchenko.

Fragment of the scenery for the opera "Tangizer". Photo: Tayga.info A fragment of the scenery in the Novosibirsk setting of Wagner’s opera Tangeyer, which caused the protests of the Metropolitan of the Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon, was removed from the performance.

Ksenia Sobchak. Photo from a personal page TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak temporarily left Russia, Kommersant reports . She made this decision on the recommendation of special services due to threats to her. Ksenia Sobchak voiced her intention on the evening of March 13, during a dinner at the Central House of Artists in honor of the release of the first issue of L`Officiel magazine under her leadership. Sobchak came to the event accompanied by her wife Maxim Vitorgan and two guards.

Sergey Kapkov. Photo: mos.ru In the Department of Culture of Moscow, an inappropriate consumption of 4.3 billion rubles was discovered. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the new head of the department, Alexander Kibovsky, who took the post last week in return for the resignation of Sergey Kapkov. “I have a difficult conversation with Moskontrol,” the official noted in this regard.

Mikhail Feldman, Dmitry Fonarev and Oleg Savvin (left to right) in the Central District Court of Kaliningrad, 02/25/2015. Photo by Katarina Radzikhovskaya Dmitry Fonarev, one of the three accused in the case of posting the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany on the garage of the Kaliningrad UFSB, partially pleaded guilty at the hearing in the Central District Court of the Regional Center. This was reported to the "Franes" by Dmitry Dinze - the lawyer of another defendant, Mikhail Feldman.

Petro Poroshenko. Photo: President.gov.ua President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko introduced to the Verkhovna Rada a draft appeal to the UN Security Council and European Council on the deployment of an international mission to maintain peace and security in the country. Data on the registration of the document are published on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Air Force A sudden test of combat readiness of the units of the armed CIL of Russia and, in particular, the Northern Fleet, declared on Monday, is an element of constant practice, not related to the international situation. According to TASS, this was stated by presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Ksenia Sobchak. Photo from a personal page TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak denied reports of her emigration. “Officially: friends exaggerated a little about emigration,” she wrote on Twitter and Facebook. Earlier, Kommersant reported that Sobchak temporarily left Russia on the recommendation of special services due to threats to her.

Donald Tusk. Photo: Premier.gov.pl The chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk will not go to celebrations in Moscow on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory. According to TASS, the politician said this in an interview with the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza. “I got an invitation. I won’t go,” said Tusk. “To be present at the military parade next to the current aggressors and those who use weapons against civilians in the east of Ukraine?

A year ago, on March 16, 2014, an illegitimate referendum on the status of the peninsula was held in Crimea, organized by pro-Russian separatists with the support of Russian troops. According to the separatists, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 96.77% of those who voted supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia, with a turnout of 83.1%, and in Sevastopol, 95.6% of voters voted in favor of annexation to Russia, with a turnout of 89.5%.

Zaur Dadaev. Frame of Channel One Investigators adjusted the prosecution against the murder of the co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov. This is reported by Interfax with reference to a source close to the investigation. Instead of a crime, the motive of political or religious hatred began to appear.

Vladimir Putin and Almazbek Atambayev in St. Petersburg, 03/16/2015. Photo: @dimsmirnov175 Vladimir Putin first appeared in public after a 11-day absence. According to RIA Novosti, on Monday in the afternoon in St. Petersburg he meets with the president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev. During the meeting, Putin commented on the previously emerging information about his illness. “It will be bored without gossip,” said the Russian leader. Atambayev confirmed that Putin is in good physical shape.