Alexander Yesenin-Wolpin. Photo: Irene Caesar In the USA, in the 92nd year of his life, one of the leaders of the human rights movement in the USSR, poet, philosopher, mathematician Alexander Yesenin-Volpin died. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the friends of the deceased. Yesenin-Wolpin was born in 1924. His father, poet Sergei Yesenin, committed suicide when the boy was a year.

March 16 at 19:00 in the Moscow Library named after Anna Akhmatova (34 Krylatsky hills, 34), Polina’s anti -war book “Thin silver thread” will be read. Adults and children from the art studio "Artcekh" under the guidance of director Oksana Zhovich will read texts. In the book of Polina, Zherebtsova "Thin silver thread" of 33 Chechen stories. These are stories from the city of Grozny, covered by war. People are trying to survive, maintain mind and humanity. Passage: Ct.

Two years ago, on March 16, 2014, a "referendum" was held, as a result of which Crimea was annexed to Russia. It was held on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. Two options were put up for a vote: the entry of Crimea into Russia as a subject of the federation or the restoration of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea of ​​1992 while maintaining Crimea as part of Ukraine.

FIFA office. Photo from the website Hereandnow.wbur.org The International Football Federation appealed to the US authorities with a request to recover the damage caused as a result of the actions of corrupt officials of football organizations. This is stated in the statement published on the FIFA website.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo The thing to do or shut up. Before such a difficult choice in relation to Syria, the Russian leadership Mark Toner put the Russian leadership three weeks ago, and this, of course, upset those to whom he addressed. It turned out that the representative of the State Department was badly brought up, which was immediately indicated by our various speakers, but the incident itself made a difficult impression.

Relatives of the Ukrainian political prisoners of Nikolai Karpyuk and Nikolai Klykh came to Grozny. They should have witnessed witnesses at the process. On Monday, a meeting of the Supreme Court of Chechnya in the fabricated case of UNA-UNSO did not take place due to the illness of the judge . On Thursday, an arrest appeal was assigned. Karpyuk and Klykh promise to be taken to court. Video: Olga Reshetilova and Ivan Lyubish-Kirtei The native side of protection

The detention of Graham Phillips in Riga. Frame delfi.lv In Riga, the British journalist Graham Phillips, who collaborates with the Russia Today, was detained on the annual march of the legionnaires. It is reported by DELFI.LV. Initially, Phillips tried to lead the column of legionnaires, but the protection of the action did not allow him to do this.

The militants of the Islamic State. Frame of the video The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced the 28-year-old native of Dagestan Ali Gaziev to eight years in prison in a maximum security colony, the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory reports . He was found guilty of committing a crime under Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code (undergoing training in order to carry out terrorist activities).

State Department of the United States. Summer "Vesti". Sanctions against Russia will remain valid until the occupation of Crimea continues. This is stated in the statement of the US State Department, published on the official website of the department. "The United States does not recognize the referendum held by Russia on March 16, 2014," the document says.

Anton Siluanov. Photo: government.ru The reserve fund can be completely exhausted by 2017. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in the response of the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov to a request from the State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Sergey Obukhov and Valery Rashkin. "In 2015, for the indicated purposes, the reserve fund funds were used in the amount of 2.6 trillion rubles.

95 years ago, on March 16, 1921, an agreement on friendship and brotherhood was signed between Soviet Russia and Turkey. According to the agreement, the former Kars region, the southern part of the former Batumi region and the former Surmalinsky district of the Erivan province with Mount Ararat went to Turkey.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Photos of faces Materials were received in the Lefortovo Court of Moscow in relation to two officials of the Ministry of Culture. According to TASS, the investigation petitions for the arrest of the Director of the Department of Property Management and Investment Policy Boris Mazo, as well as the director of Oleg Ivanov, subordinate to the Ministry of Federal State Property Committee, detained in the theft of budget funds.

Igor Kalyapin after the attack. Photo: Grani.ru In Grozny, an attack was attacked on the head of the committee on the prevention of torture by Igor Kalyapin. This was announced on Twitter by an employee of the human rights organization Dmitry Utukin. “Just at the entrance to the Grozny City hotel, they attacked Igor Kalyapin. They beat, threw eggs,” Utukin wrote.

Lyudmila Esipenko with the work of Sidur in her hand. Frame of the video In Moscow, Lyudmila Esipenko, a participant in the pogrom of the exhibition "Sculptures, which we do not see" in the Moscow arena in the summer of 2015, was detained. Such information is reported by TASS with reference to lawyer Oksana Mikhalkin. Esipenko was called for interrogation, and at the end of it was detained.

Boris Nemtsov goes to serve 15 days of arrest. Frame Grani-TV The co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in Moscow in February 2015, a few months before his death, in the fall of 2014, filed a statement about threats to his address to the police in Yaroslavl. It is reported by Rosbalt with reference to the case file about the murder of a politician.