The first mining company received the right to explore and mine lead-zinc ores at a federal subsoil site in the Arkhangelsk region. The site includes the Pavlovskoye field. The one-time payment for the use of this site will be 17.105 million rubles. The first mining company duly applied for the right to use the Pavlovsk deposit after providing a certificate from Rosnedra about the discovery of lead-zinc deposits on the Southern Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arkhangelsk region.

Former coach of the Russian youth team Andrei Talalaev took over the leadership of Volga Nizhny Novgorod, RIA Novosti reports on March 29. After 22 rounds, Volga with 18 points shares 14th-15th place in the standings with Yekaterinburg Ural. The team will play away against CSKA on March 31 in the 23rd round of the Premier League.

American Serena Williams became the winner of the Women's Tennis Association tournament in Miami (prize fund - $5.4 million), ITAR-TASS reported on March 29. In the final match, number one seeded Williams defeated the second racket of the tournament, Chinese Li Na. The meeting ended with a score of 7:5, 6:1. In the semifinals, Williams knocked out Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova from the tournament (6:4, 6:3). The victory at the Miami tournament was Serena Williams' seventh in her career.

Dobkin will run in the elections from the Party of Regions, Tyagnibok from Svoboda In Kyiv on Saturday, congresses of four Ukrainian parties took place, which nominated their candidates for the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine. Yulia Tioshenko, who became a candidate from Batkivshchyna, has already submitted registration documents to the CEC. Oleg Tyagnibok will take part in the elections from the Svoboda party, and Mikhail Dobkin, who is under house arrest, from the Party of Regions.

Context 385 1 min. ... Yesterday, at an operational meeting, Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Malinovsky said that in the Central Federal District, based on the results of supervisory checks, prosecutors sent 555 materials about corruption crimes to the investigative authorities, for which 441 criminal cases were initiated. He noted that in 2013, law enforcement officers were not active enough in identifying facts of corruption in government bodies and local self-government.

Yesterday, the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Natalya Komarova, during a speech on the work of the government to regional deputies, instructed the relevant departments to develop standard affordable housing projects for individual residential developments (IZhS). According to her, standard designs of prefabricated frame houses made of Ugra wood can be a solution for families with low incomes.

The leader of the Right Sector party, Dmitry Yarosh, submitted to the Central Election Commission a complete package of documents for registration as a presidential candidate. As the Interfax agency was informed by the press service of the Central Election Commission, Dmitry Yarosh is running in the elections as a self-nominated candidate. Thus, 19 candidates already want to participate in the fight for the presidency.

The head of EU diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, demands that the radicals in Ukraine immediately return to the authorities all illegally stored weapons and condemns the actions of the Right Sector militants who surrounded the building of the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday, March 27, Mrs. Ashton said in a communiqué. ITAR-TASS reported this on March 29. “I strongly condemn the pressure of Right Sector activists who surrounded the building of the Verkhovna Rada in Ukraine.

Russia has no intentions or interests to cross the borders of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the program “News on Saturday with Sergei Brilev.” “We have absolutely no intention or interest in crossing the borders of Ukraine.

On March 28, a postal envelope with an unknown powder arrived at the government building of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. After this, 18 employees who were in the building at that moment were taken to the infectious diseases department of the hospital with suspected inhalation poisoning. According to doctors, the condition of all those hospitalized is satisfactory. Now they are under the supervision of specialists, writes Lifenews.ru .

Tennis ATP tournament in Miami (USA). Prize fund: $4.7 million 1/4 finals. Rafael Nadal (Spain, 1) - Milos Raonic (Canada, 12) 4:6, 6:2, 6:4. Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic, 7) - Alexander Dolgopolov (Ukraine, 22) 6:4, 7:6 (7:3). WTA tournament in Miami (USA). Prize fund: $5.4 million 1/2 finals. Serena Williams (USA, 1)-- Maria Sharapova (Russia, 4) 6:4, 6:3. Li Na (China, 2) - Dominica Cibulkova (Slovakia, 10) 7:5, 2:6, 6:3. Hockey NHL Championship “San Jose” – “Winnipeg” 3:4.

Moody's has put Russia's sovereign credit rating under review with the possibility of downgrading due to the impact of the crisis in Ukraine on the country's economy, AFP reported on March 29. Moody's explained that it expects "increased economic uncertainty due to the conflict in Ukraine to cause GDP to contract by about 1.0% in 2014, down from the roughly 2% growth expected before the crisis."

From the beginning of this year until the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Malaysian immigration services did not check a single passenger against the Interpol database of stolen passports, Reuters reported on March 29, citing Interpol. The airliner, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared from the radar screens of civil air traffic controllers on the night of March 8.

Residents of the peninsula spend hryvnia waiting for Russian currency Two currencies - Russian and Ukrainian - have been circulating on the peninsula since Monday. However, the hryvnia remains the main currency - there is much more of it in Crimea. Rubles and hryvnias, according to the plan of the Crimean government, will coexist until January 1, 2016. While the Russian currency is in short supply, there are no euros or dollars in banks.

The leader of the UDAR party, Vitaliy Klitschko, called for the nomination of a single presidential candidate from the democratic forces, ITAR-TASS reported on March 29. In his opinion, the only candidate “may be Petro Poroshenko.”