On March 24, the Latvian Armed Forces reported the appearance of Russian Air Force aircraft over the Baltic not far from the country's airspace. A message posted on the Twitter of the Latvian Armed Forces refers to two detected Su-27 aircraft of the Russian Air Force. Earlier, on March 24, the Latvian Armed Forces tweeted about the detection of four Russian military aircraft near the borders of the country's airspace - two Tu-22Ms and two Su-27s.

The Bank of Russia plans to increase the risk factor for foreign currency loans issued to individuals starting from July 1, 2015 to a prohibitive level The draft amendments to Instruction 139-I “On Mandatory Ratios of Banks” were published on March 24 on the regulator’s website. The document sets the risk ratio for foreign currency retail loans at 300%.

Fox has officially announced the release of the sequel to The X-Files. The new season will include six episodes and filming is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2015. The X-Files will star Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, who played FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder in the previous nine seasons. The series is produced by creator and executive producer Chris Carter. The premiere date will be announced later.

The leadership of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation closed the collegiums of the ministry for journalists. Such a decision, explained in the press service of the department, is dictated by the incompetence of journalists.

In Tyumen, part of the residential five -story building fell. As the Ministry of Emergencies said, the corner of the building collapsed from the first to the fifth floor. According to the ministry, the house was recognized as emergency, it "is under the resettlement of the residents." The Ministry of Emergencies reports that as a result of the collapse there are victims. According to the Interfax agency, three people were injured, one of them was hospitalized.

Frame: Central Children's Store on Lubyanka / YouTube The central children's store on Lubyanka (before the reconstruction there was the "Children's World") shot a series of commercials for his upcoming discovery. They show how children arrange impromptu interrogations of their parents, prompting them to a trip to the store. One of the videos is demonstrated how children move from interrogation to torture in the form of crying: this is called “apply pressure” in the video.

Rescuers working at the crash site of a Germanwings A320 have found one of the crashed plane's flight recorders, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Which flight recorder - speech or parametric - was found, the Minister of the Interior did not specify. What is the state of the "black box", Kaznev did not report. The discovered flight recorder will help in the investigation of the causes of the plane crash, said the head of the French Interior Ministry (English).

Photo: Volontery70.rf The Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University held a body-art competition in honor of the 70th anniversary of the USSR’s victory in World War II. Participants were asked to draw on their own bodies “images of the forces active during the Great Patriotic War, from the cavalry to the pilots to the rocket artillery.” The contest took place on March 23, 2015.

The film crew of the Russian TV channel REN TV came under fire in the village of Shirokino, Donetsk region. Journalists reported that their car was fired upon at the exit from Shirokino. The driver of the car in which the film crew was traveling crashed into a tree due to shelling and was injured. The wounded driver was taken out of the city, but the journalists, according to them, have not yet been able to leave Shirokino.

Leroy Merlin, a French retailer operating in the DIY sector (building materials, home and renovation goods), plans to accelerate the expansion of its network in Russia. In 2015, Leroy Merlin plans to open 10 new hypermarkets in Russia, Vincent Genty, CEO of the company in Russia, said. In 2014, six new hypermarkets of this network appeared in the Russian Federation, he recalled.

Four regions of Russia - Belgorod, Penza, Smolensk and Ulyanovsk regions - abandoned part of the suburban train routes, which were restored in February at the request of President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by Vice-President of Russian Railways Mikhail Akulov. For what reason the regions abandoned the routes, he did not explain.

What is known and what is not known about the plane crash in France Photo: Claude Paris / Ap / Scanpix On the morning of March 24, the A320 Airman Germanwings crashed. The liner performed a flight along the route of Barcelona - Dusseldorf in conditions of good visibility, but in the French Alps it suddenly began to decline and fell in the mountains a few minutes later. Rescuers were able to get to the place of disaster only in half a day - for this they had to use helicopters.

Shot: Fritz Dog / YouTube Fritz (Fritz) is a gold retrient from California, who does not know how to catch food thrown to him, but constantly tries to do it. He has his own channel on YouTube, which shows how he (not) catches various objects-from a steak and a hot dog to a broccoli and a banana. Fritz Dog Fritz Tries to Catch A Medium Rare Rib Eye Steak The best attempts by the dog gathered in one video - it turned out a whole drama about how food and dog mouth are looking for each other.

Rain correspondents went to the museum captured by the authorities Screenshot: Rain TV channel Perm-36 is a former Soviet colony of maximum regime, where Vladimir Bukovsky, Sergey Kovalev and other dissidents sat. Some, like the poet Vasily Stus, died there. For 18 years, the museum has existed as an independent organization that was financed by the state and foreign funds.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation responded to the publication of the report of the Institute for Law Enforcement Problems “Criminal Statistics. Through openness to manageability”, which refers to the multiple underestimation of crime in Russia.