The flag of the European Union The European Union urged the UN countries to follow the EU example and impose sanctions against Russia. The application was published on the Russian -speaking website of the EU Foreign Policy Service on the face of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 28 of the European Union and the EEAS head Federica Mogherini.

Alexey Rogozin. Photo: Newstula.ru The son of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Alexei Rogozin will take the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense. According to RBC, Rogozin Jr. himself announced this. According to another source in the military department, the question of the transition of Rogozin to the executive branch was worked out for a long time.

Dmitry Tarasov. Photo: Web.de The Union of European Football Associations fined the Lokomotiv football player Dmitry Tarasov for 5 thousand euros for the demonstration of Mikey with a portrait of Vladimir Putin. This is stated in the report of the UEFA press service. According to the head of the All-Russian Trade Union of the football players Alexander Zotov, Tarasov is pleased with the decision of the control and disciplinary instance. “We expected a more strict punishment,” Zotov said .

145 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the Central Committee of the National Guard of Paris published a proclamation establishing the commune. The conclusion of a truce with Prussia after the war lost by France caused unrest in Paris and the formation of a revolutionary government, which united neo-Jacobins, socialists and anarchists. They accused the government of Adolphe Thiers of betraying the national interest.

95 years ago, on March 18, 1921, the Kronstadt uprising was crushed. Soviet troops under the command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, advancing on the ice of the Gulf of Finland, captured the fortress and began a brutal massacre. 2103 participants in the uprising were sentenced to death, 6459 to various terms of imprisonment. About a thousand more sailors died in battle. Soviet troops lost 527 people killed.

Sergey Zhukovsky. Photo: Procspb.ru With one fasting of a radical nature in the social network, you can ruin your whole life. This was stated by the head of the department of the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg to supervise the legality of the activities of state security bodies and the implementation of the legislation on counteracting extremism Sergey Zhukovsky, Interfax reports .

Moody's logo The subsidiary of the Moody's International rating agency - Moody's Interfax - withdrew all ratings on the national scale in Russia. As TASS reports , this is stated in the agency’s message. "Moody's recalled ratings in connection with the features of the business," the press release says. "The decision was made in the light of legislative changes and other potential restrictions that affect the assignment of ratings on the national scale in Russia," the report said.

Alexander Sokolov. DZARASOVR video frame on YouTube The judge of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow Konstantin Pokhilko extended for three months, until June 21, the arrest of an activist of the initiative for holding a referendum "For responsible power!" Alexandra Sokolov. This was reported by RBC with reference to lawyer Olga Chavdar. As Chavdar noted, investigator Natalya Talaeva over the past three months has not carried out a single investigative action with her client.

Launch of a ballistic missile in the DPRK. Photo: Japantimes.co.jp North Korea launched two ballistic missiles towards the Sea of ​​Japan. According to Yonhap, this was reported by the military from the United Committee of the chiefs of staff of the country. The missiles were launched on the night of March 18. The start of the second rocket was marked 22 minutes after the launch of the first. As noted in the message, at an altitude of 17 kilometers, her trace was lost.

The announcement of the French police on the search for Salah Abdeslama In the Molenbek area in Brussels, during a special operation, one of the main suspects in the case of terrorist attacks in Paris Salah Abdeslam was detained. It is reported by Reuters with reference to representatives of the Belgian police. During the shooting arising, Abdeslam was wounded and blocked in one of the houses. The media also report the detention of two more terrorists.

Sergey Krivov. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Klintsovsky court of the Bryansk region postponed on March 31 a consideration of a petition for the parole of the Swamp Prisoner Sergei Krivov, the correspondent of the "faces" reports. The court session was held in IK-5, where the political prisoner is serving a sentence. The court granted the defense of the admission of an employee of the apparatus of the Commissioner for Human Rights Valentin Bogdan as a defender along with a lawyer.

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: kremlin.ru Ella Pamfilova, Commissioner for Human Rights, submitted an application to the State Duma on early termination of powers in connection with the entry into the Central Election Commission. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ombudsman. "The application for the reservation of authority was submitted to the State Duma," the press service said.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on early termination of powers of deputies for a systematic failure to fulfill duties, Interfax reports . The document was made by "fair Russia." The explanatory note notes that at present the deputy is not responsible for his voters for his pre -election promises. No one can withdraw his mandate from him, even if he does not fulfill his deputy duties.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo with personal VK page The Kursk communist activist Sergei Lavrov was charged with calls against extremist activity. This was reported by his colleague from Krasnodar Daria Polyudova.

Lyudmila Esipenko. Photo from the personal page "VKontakte" The Simonovsky court of Moscow sent under house arrest Lyudmila Esipenko, accused of the pogrom of the exhibition "Sculptures, which we do not see" in the capital's arena in the summer of 2015. As TASS reports , the term of preventive measure was elected until April 30. Justifying his petition, the interrogator said that Esipenko disappeared from the preliminary investigation authorities.