Afrin. Photo: Thekurdishproject.org Russia opens a new military base in Syria - on the territory of Rozhava (Syrian Kurdistan). According to Reuters, this was stated by Redur Khalil, spokesman for people's self -defense units (YPG) - the Rozhava army. The agreement, Khalil said, was concluded on March 19 and entered into force on Monday. “This is the first agreement of this kind,” said YPG press secretary.

Dmitry Aristov. Photo: minjust.ru President Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Minister of Justice Dmitry Aristov as director of the Federal Bailiff Service. The same decree, as reported in the Kremlin’s press service, Aristov was relieved of the previous position. Aristov was born in 1972 in Solikamsk of the Perm region.

Information Security Center of the FSB. Photo: wikimapia.org The business of the FSB officers accused of Gosizman will be engaged in the special services investigator Mikhail Svinolup, known in the case of a large mother from Vyazma Svetlana Davydova. According to RBC, two sources close to the leadership of counterintelligence told about this. Information was confirmed by lawyer Ivan Pavlov, participating in the case as a defender.

One hundred years ago, on March 20, 1917, the Provisional Government of Russia issued a "Manifesto on the approval of the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Finland and on its application in full." It abolished the restrictions on Finnish autonomy introduced as part of the policy of Russification in the reign of Nicholas II, and declared the government's intention to expand the powers of the Finnish Seimas and introduce into it draft laws on an independent high court, on freedom of the press and

Petition for the ban on abortion. Photo: Tatarstan-mitropolia.ru In the Orthodox churches throughout Russia there is a collection of signatures for the ban on abortion. This was reported on her Facebook by a journalist, specialist in church problems, Ksenia Luchenko. According to her, a familiar priest from Central Russia told her about this. "We were sent from the patriarchy to a petition about the ban on abortion so that the parishioners were signed after the service," he said.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia. Photo: minjust.ru The government instructed the Ministry of Justice to work out the issue of possible adjustment of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, which provides for punishment for repeated violations at rallies. According to Izvestia, this was announced by the deputy head of the department Dmitry Aristov.

Lev Levinson. Courtesy Photo The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court on recognizing the extremist organization of the Jehovah's Witnesses Management Center in Russia, its liquidation and prohibition of activities.

District Court of Warsaw. Photo from the official site The judge of the District Court of Warsaw Agnoshka Domanskaya sentenced the lawyer Stanislav Sh. To four years in prison for espionage in favor of Russia. It is reported by RMF24. During the closed trial, it was found that Sh. Having Polish citizenship and Russia, in 2012-2014, worked for Russian GRU.

Tomomi Inada. Photo: Japantimes.co.jp The Minister of Defense of Japan Tomomi Inada expressed a protest against the placement of the Russian division in the South Kuril Islands and the deployment of the Earth-Corab class missiles there. According to Kyodo, she stated this at a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Shoigu in Tokyo.

Yuri Bulbochan. Photo with personal FB page The former deputy of the Moldova Parliament from the Democratic Party, who was speaking for European integration, was detained in the case of espionage in favor of Russia. This was reported on Sunday by Newsmaker. Bulbochan was detained on March 17 after a search of his house. The case was opened in the summer of last year.

Alexander Sagaidak. Photo from the social network In St. Petersburg, an action movie of a private military company Alexander Sagaidak, who died in late February in Syria, was buried. It is reported by Fontanka.ru. The corpse of a 45-year-old Sagaidak was in the morgue of a military hospital in Rostov-on-Don for some time. Doctors say that the militant died of heart failure. However, the acquaintances of Sagaidak claim that in reality he died in battle.

Russian Academy of Sciences. Photo: Wikipedia All three presidential candidates withdrew their candidates from the elections. As TASS reports , the chief scientific secretary of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Paltsov stated this at the general meeting.

Kirill Bob, in court, 03/20/2017. Photo by Vitaly Zubenko The judge of the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol Irina Giyeva arrested the leader of the regional branch of the Youth Apple Kirill Bob, for two months in a fabricated case of drug storage. This was written on his FB page by the lawyer of Politzek Vitaly Zubenko. As reported on the Yabloko website, the party expressed its readiness to make a pledge as an activist.

Alexey Krapivin. Source: Novayagazeta.ru Details of a major operation to launder Russian money in Eastern Europe, called "Landromat", are published in Novaya Gazeta. In fulfillment of the decisions of the Moldavian court from Russia, $ 22 billion was illegally withdrawn. The mechanism was opened by the "new" and the center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP) with the assistance of journalists of European publications.

Julia Samoilova. Photo: vokrug.tv The SBU prepared a decision on the ban on the entrance to Ukraine by the singer Julia Samoilova, who was nominated by Russia to the Eurovision Song Contest-2017 in Kyiv. This was reported by "Interfax-Ukraine" with reference to the director of the special services of Vasily Gritsak. “She did not just visit Crimea,” Gritsak remarked. “She left traces on social networks, where she spoke about Ukraine, her power, taken by the Euro -Atlantic integration.