The Verkhovna Rada has created a temporary commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances of the death of Right Sector coordinator Alexander Muzychko. The commission will be headed by non-factional people's deputy Yuriy Derevyanko, it will include representatives of all factions and three representatives from public organizations. 232 out of 279 deputies voted for this decision, Interfax reports.

The court decision on the illegitimacy of the Bratsk Duma came into force. “The decision of the Irkutsk Regional Court “On recognizing the composition of the deputies of the Duma of the municipal formation of the city of Bratsk of the fifth convocation as incompetent” has come into force.

Deputies propose introducing a Day of Military Glory in honor of the capture of Paris in 1814. The corresponding bill has been submitted to the State Duma. Political scientist Alexey Vlasov discussed the situation with presenters Oleg Bogdanov and Oksana Barykina. The document proposes to establish a new holiday on March 31. The date will coincide with the day of the surrender of Napoleonic France and the completion of the foreign campaigns of the Russian army in 1813-1814.

The developer filed lawsuits against residents who blocked construction The Sormovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod began to consider a precedent-setting civil lawsuit for the city by the construction company AKA Invest LLC against Nizhny Novgorod resident Alexey Kharuzin. Trying to stop construction near his home, he disabled a mobile drilling rig by pouring sand into the gas tank and cutting the tires. The developer estimates his damage at 113.3 thousand rubles, another 8 thousand rubles.

XXXVI Russian Antique Salon opens old art fair Photo: Dmitry Lekai, Kommersant / buy photo The spring Antique Salon opens tonight at the Central House of Artists. At the same time, the anniversary of the main participants of the salon, the largest Moscow and St. Petersburg dealers is celebrated - the International Confederation of Antiques and Art Dealers (ICAAD) of Russia and the CIS countries is ten years old. With details - TATYANA MARKINA.

More than 500 people gathered at the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, among them representatives of the radical Right Sector movement, who intend to demand from deputies the resignation of Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, ITAR-TASS reports. Representatives of the “Maidan self-defense” are also located near the building, who intend to prevent a possible storming of the legislative building.

The head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, Yuriy Prodan, in his letter to the European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger, called for resolving the issue of reverse flow from the EU due to the likelihood of a cessation of gas supplies from Russia to the west. “Unfortunately, pessimistic forecasts regarding the new price for natural gas supplies from the Russian Federation have come true.

For each Weekend issue, as part of the Private Memory project, we select one of the events from 1953-2013 that fell during that week. The scale of these events from the point of view of history is different, but imprinted forever in the memory of contemporaries, they acquired a common dimension - a human one. We publish stories from people whose knowledge, opinions and impressions we consider absolutely valuable.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that he intends to meet with the acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov. “I maintain relations with Turchinov, and also talked with representatives of the current coalition, in particular with Vitali Klitschko. In the near future we will meet with Turchinov and figure out how to maintain relations between our countries. We are neighbors,” Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with Ukrainian television, ITAR-TASS reports.

The proposal to go to Scandinavia for a beach holiday sounds crazy. What about palm trees, Pina Colada and the Aram-Zam-Zam dance? Meanwhile, millions of Europeans annually go to sunbathe not to the south, but to the north - to regions lying approximately at the latitude of St. Petersburg. The Baltic and Atlantic coasts are waiting not for seals rendering their fat under the sun, but for daring and swift killer whales. The main thing when traveling on your own is to plan your route in advance.

The head of Japan's State Security Committee, Keiji Furuya, said that Tokyo could lift sanctions against the DPRK if, at intergovernmental negotiations in Beijing, it makes progress on the release of the Japanese abducted by the DPRK secret services in the 1970s and 80s.

The Novosibirsk Regional Prosecutor's Office supported the investigation's request to arrest the managers of Neograd LLC, suspected of embezzling more than 1 billion rubles belonging to investors.

Crimea can become a mecca for fans of roulette and blackjack: the authorities are looking for a place to create a gambling zone on the peninsula. Construction will require a revision of current Russian legislation and significant costs, experts warn. Photo: Pavel Kassin, Kommersant / buy photo A gambling zone may be created in Crimea. This was stated by the Prime Minister of the Republic Sergei Aksenov.

Mikhail Trofimenkov about “Green Chains” by Grigory Aronov A brilliant film by Grigory Aronov about how, at the beginning of the siege, Leningrad teenagers - the poet Stepka (Volodya Leletko), the flamboyant Tatar boy Vaska Kozhukh (Igor Urumbekov) and the right Mishka (Sasha Grigoriev) - catch the "rocket men" signaling the German bombers. They are led by a sort of “ideal dad” - NKVD Major Ivan Vasilyevich.

Direct flights between Yekaterinburg and New York may be opened by the end of the year. This was announced at a meeting of the extended board of the Ministry of International and Foreign Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk Region by its head, Andrei Sobolev. “Negotiations are underway to open direct flights on the routes Ekaterinburg - New York, Ekaterinburg - Kostanay and Ekaterinburg - Karaganda,” the minister said.