Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, which will be held in Ukraine, will be represented by Yulia Samoilova. The singer will take the song "Flame Is Burning" to the competition. And [Russia] will be represented by Yulia Samoilova – the incredible Yulia Samoilova, who proved with her life, her work that there are no barriers for her. First channel Samoilova has been disabled since childhood (she has Werding-Hoffmann spinal amyotrophy ) and uses a wheelchair.

Aeroflot and Rossiya Airlines have changed the schedule of their flights due to the strike of airport employees in Berlin. So, on the Aeroflot website it is reported that on Monday, March 13, flights SU2312/2313, as well as SU2316/2317 will be operated from Moscow instead of Berlin to Dresden and back. Flights SU2684/2685, SU2312/2313, SU2318/2319 scheduled for March 13 are cancelled.

Park Geun-hye, who was removed from power by the court due to a corruption scandal, left the residence of the presidents of South Korea - the Blue Palace in Seoul. A cavalcade of several cars, one of which was the former president of South Korea, according to The Guardian, proceeded from the Blue Palace to Park Geun-hye's house in Seoul's prestigious Gangnam district.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Netherlands is waiting for retribution for the deterioration of bilateral relations. “They will definitely pay and learn what diplomacy is. We will teach them international diplomacy,” Erdogan said, speaking at a ceremony in Istanbul. “I thought Nazism was dead, but I was wrong,” continued the Turkish president . — Nazism is still widespread in the West.

Moscow "Spartak" in the 19th round of the Russian Football Championship beat "Anji" with a score of 1:0. Spartak is eight points ahead of its closest rivals with 44 points. Zenit, which lost in the 19th round to Amkar, has 36 points. The same number of points for CSKA, which on Saturday beat Tom with a score of 4:0. According to the difference between goals scored and conceded, CSKA after the 19th round takes the second place in the standings, and Zenit moved to the third line.

The State Duma has prepared a bill amending the procedure for granting Russian citizenship. The document, in particular, proposes to give citizenship of the Russian Federation “by the right of the soil”, that is, to those who were born in the Russian Federation or whose relatives were born in Russia in a direct ascending line.

In Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, a fighter of the Russian Guard opened fire on traffic police officers who were trying to stop his car. The traffic police patrol, according to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, on the night of March 11 tried to stop the car, which, as it seemed to the police, was “driving strangely”. “The driver did not comply with the requirements, the police had to pursue him.

The flower garden in front of the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory was covered with a wooden deck in preparation for a rally-concert in honor of the annexation of Crimea. Photos of the flooring installation work appeared on social networks on March 11.

Until recently, several dozen fighters of the Russian private military company (PMC) RSB-Group were serving in Libya. Oleg Krinitsyn, the head of RSB-Group, told Reuters about this. According to Krinitsyn, his PMC was hired to clear one of the industrial facilities in the Benghazi region. The contractors, he said, arrived in Libya in 2016 and stayed in the country until February 2017. Krinitsyn did not disclose the name of the employer.

The instructions of Evgenia Voskobobinikova, the author of the book “In my place. The story of one fracture " The incident on the “Minute of Glory” television show with the dancer Evgeny Smirnov (the judges of the project Renata Litvinov and Vladimir Pozner invited him not to “exploit” disability), caused new discussions how to properly communicate with people with such features.

The Saudi authorities are considering a project to expel five million illegal migrants from the country. The project was submitted to the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia by one of the deputies, Sadka Fadel, the Al-Arabiya TV channel reports with reference to the Al-Khayat newspaper. The author of the legislative initiative points out that many foreigners illegally cross the borders of Saudi Arabia in order to somehow get the opportunity to permanently reside in the kingdom.

A new trailer for "Wonder Woman" with Russian dubbing was published. The video is posted in the Wbrussia channel on YouTube. Wbrussia Wonder Woman-The second trailer The dialogs in the trailer turned out to be too pathos (which is worth, for example: “In the name of good, your tyranny has come to an end over this world!”), But there are no complaints about the visual part. The film "Wonder Woman" tells about the Princess of Amazon Diana, who grew up on an island inhabited by women-warriors.

Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta March 12, a resident of Sochi Oksana Sevastidi, pardoned by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, was released . In March 2016, Sevastidi was found guilty of Gosizmen and sentenced to seven years in prison. The verdict was issued for several SMS sent by Sevastidi in 2008 to her friend in Georgia, in which she reported Russian military equipment in Sochi.

Update : The Union of MMA Russia disqualified the Dagestan fighter Aziz Dzhumaniazov, who hit the opponent after the battle, and his team Dagestan Fighters. The result of the duel was canceled, TASS was told by the First Vice President of the Union of MMA of Russia Radmir Gabdullin. One of the battles of the open martial arts martial arts championship in Dagestan ended with a mass fight with the participation of coaching staff and fans.

“How food manufacturers deceive us.” Fragment of the book Photo: Konstantin Chalabov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta On March 10, the Alpina Publisher publishing house published the book “Composition: how we are deceived by food manufacturers” , written by the English biologist Nikola Temple and a professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol Richard Evext. The book talks about fraud with food and the loudest scandals in the food industry.