The French national football team beat the Russian team in a friendly match with a score of 4:2. The first half ended with a score of 2:0, in the second the Russians managed to score two goals, but also conceded two. The first in the match at the Stade de France was Ngolo Kante, and Andre-Pierre Gignac doubled the lead of the French.

The plane carrying the passengers of an EgyptAir A320 plane hijacked on March 29 landed at Cairo airport. This was reported by the press service of EgyptAir. At the airport, the flight was met by a delegation led by Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail. According to TASS, some passengers, for whom the MS181 flight from Alexandria to Cairo was transit, refused to fly to Cairo and decided to go to their destination from Cyprus.

In Dagestan on the evening of March 29, two vehicles of the temporary operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were blown up. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. There is no official information about the victims yet. Shortly after the incident, it was reported that one police officer was killed and two were injured.

The post of Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia may be taken by State Duma deputy from the A Just Russia party Tatyana Moskalkova. RBC reports this.

They recalled the legendary 1999 match. And at the same time watched football The Russian national football team is preparing for Euro 2016. Today, Leonid Slutsky’s team plays a friendly match with the owners of the European Championship - the French national team. At the Stad de France stadium. In 1999, it was at this stadium that the Russian team won the French with a score of 2: 3 - this was one of the best matches in the history of the team. "Medusa" leads online.

Belgian Health Minister Maggie de Blok said on March 29 that 32 people had died in the attacks in Brussels. It is reported by AFP. Information about 35 dead, transmitted by the Belgian authorities on March 28, was received due to an error. According to the ministry, three names appeared both in the list of those who died at the scene of the attacks and in the list of those who died after hospitalization. The Belgian prosecutor's office said that all the dead were identified, according to AFP.

Lawyer Oleksiy Tarasov, representing the interests of the Russians Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko convicted in the United States, confirmed the possibility of their exchange for the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko. “There is a possibility of exchange and it is above zero. Certain actions are being taken in this direction, ”Tarasov told RBC. He noted that he could not disclose what kind of negotiations are underway.

Service for publishing photos and videos Instagram promised to allow users to upload videos up to one minute long. This was reported in the company's blog. This feature will be rolled out gradually over the next few months. In addition, Instagram will allow you to merge several videos into one video before publishing. This feature will appear this week in version 7.19 for iOS. Now the maximum video length for advertisers is 30 seconds, for ordinary users - only 15 seconds.

Latvia blocked the website sputniknews.lv, where news from the Russian state agency Sputnik was published. According to whois data, this domain is registered to Rossiya Segodnya, another Russian government agency. As Vedomosti notes with reference to the decision of the Latvian authorities, the registration of the Sputnik domain in the European domain zone violates the restrictions imposed on Russian government organizations.

A teenager named Jason Oakes tweeted a video on March 27 of him slipping on a banana peel. The young man wanted to check if the banana skin is really as slippery as it is shown in cartoons. And I was convinced: really slippery. Later, others wanted to repeat Oakes' experiment, and this is how the #BananaPeelChallenge flash mob was born on Twitter . An Arkansas newscaster also tried the banana skin experiment, but not live.

The so-called "suicide belt" that the EgyptAir plane hijacker threatened to blow up turned out to be a fake. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation. The ministry said in a statement that this information was confirmed by the security services of Cyprus, where the liner landed.

Internet troll scared university employees throughout America Photo: Julio Cortez / Ap / Scanpix On March 24, employees and students of American universities were perplexed: why leaflets with swastikas and calls to fight against the Jews for the superiority of the white race suddenly began to get out of their printers. As it turned out later, the famous Internet troll and white nationalist Andrew Orenheimer had fun.

How Israeli special services recruited Otto Skorzeny: The Forward Photo: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum During the Second World War, Otto Skorzeny was called the most dangerous person in Europe.

The rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Evgeny Ivakhnenko, said that the university does not plan to fire consulting professors Yuri Mann, Nina Pavlova, Vadim Gaevsky, Nikolai Fedorov, Vladimir Dybo. “All this information about some kind of dismissal of scientists was inspired by someone. I had no such intentions, and without me such decisions simply could not be made, ”Ivakhnenko said.

Roskosmos plans to take a long break from launches after the test launch of the launch vehicle from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, scheduled for late April. This was announced by Andrey Mazurin, executive director of the launch vehicles and ground-based space infrastructure department of Roscosmos. “In 2017, we will not have a launch, most likely. In 2018 and beyond, there will be insignificant numbers [of launches] depending on the program,” Mazurin said.