The Monaco football club beat Manchester City 3-1 at home and reached the ¼ finals of the Champions League. This was the second match between the teams - the first ended with a score of 5:3 in favor of Man City. The clubs each scored six goals against each other, but Monaco advanced on more away goals. In the second match, Monaco managed to score the first goal already in the eighth minute - Kylian Mbappé scored. In the 29th minute, Fabinho doubled the lead of the hosts.

Literary critic Alexander Gavrilov was interrogated on March 15 at the Investigative Committee. He reported on Facebook that the interrogation lasted five hours. What exactly was discussed during the interrogation, the critic did not write. The fact that he was handed a summons for interrogation on March 15, he previously told Open Russia. On March 10, Alexander Gavrilov's house was searched.

The center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, which has the most seats in the current parliament, is winning the elections to the lower house of the Dutch parliament, according to exit polls. Exit polls show that the party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will win 31 out of 150 parliamentary seats - ten fewer than the current composition.

The SCM group of Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov announced that since March 15 it has not controlled the operation of assets located in the separatist-controlled territories of eastern Ukraine. The company's statement mentions 22 enterprises and companies, of which 11 operate in the energy sector (owned by DTEK ), eight in the mining and metallurgical sector ( Metinvest ). SCM also lost control over two business centers and the Dokuchaevsk flux-dolomite plant.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Interview with Julia Samoilova, who will present Russia at Eurovision Sasha Sulim talked to Medusa journalist with singer Julia Samoilova, who should represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest (from May 9 to May 13 in Kiev). Julia moves in a wheelchair: she diagnosed spinal muscle atrophy.

In several cities of Belarus, after the next "March of the Neteagers", several dozen participants in the actions were detained. In Minsk, according to TUT.BY with reference to human rights activists, about 40 people were detained. The unregistered human rights center "Viasna" reports about the detention of eight people after the action in Mogilev and several people in Grodno.

The US Federal Reserve raised the base rate from 0.5-0.75 percent to 0.75-1.0 percent. The previous increase took place in December 2016. After the last increase, the Fed announced that it expects to raise rates three times in 2017. Raising the base rate is aimed at fighting inflation in the US and often leads to an increase in the dollar. This is reflected both in the exchange rates of other countries (including Russia), and in the commodity market, where trading takes place in dollars.

On March 13, the Saudi Arabian authorities held the first meeting of the council for the protection of women's rights. There were 13 men at the meeting, and not a single woman. According to Prince Faisal bin Mishal bin Saudi, the task of the council is to provide women with new employment opportunities. The prince also explained that "women are the sisters of men." The council is headed by Faisal's wife, Princess Abir bint Salman (she is not in the photographs).

Regnum editor-in-chief Yury Baranchik, who was detained in Moscow at the request of Belarus, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to grant him political asylum in Russia. “This means that the competent authorities of the Russian Federation, together with the decision on the issue of Baranchik’s extradition to Belarus, will have to resolve the issue on the merits of this petition,” Regnum quotes the journalist’s lawyer.

Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta employees of the US Ministry of Justice put on the wanted list of Russians accused of breaking the company Yahoo. Washington, March 15, 2017 On March 15, the US Department of Justice officially accused two FSB officers and two hackers of Russian descent of breaking the Yahoo and gained access to several million mailboxes.

What did we learn from the posts of Mikhail Slobodin Photo: Maxim Kimerling / "Kommersant" In mid-March, the former general director of Vimpelcom (Beeline) and the energy CAS Holding Mikhail Slobodin published two posts on the medium blog, in which he analyzes his job in detail. In Russia, Slobodin was wanted on charges of creating a criminal group, which allegedly gave bribes to officials in the Komi Republic-so that it set the profitable “CAS Holding” tariffs for electricity.

Photo: Alexander Nekrasov / TASS On Monday, March 13, the government commission approved the bill on the restriction on traveling abroad for some Russian police officers. The document was submitted to the State Duma of the previous convocation, in the summer of 2015, a deputy from the LDPR Dmitry Nosov (it was subsequently excluded from the party for passion for the “personal PR”).

Hockey club "Medvescak" from Zagreb decided to stop playing in the Continental Hockey League. From autumn 2017, he will play in the Austrian Ice Hockey League (EBEL). For what reasons it was decided to refuse to play in the KHL, Medvescak does not officially explain. The Croatian club had already played in the Austrian League from 2009 to 2013 before moving to the KHL. Medvescak played in the KHL from 2013 to 2017.

The National Bank of Ukraine proposed to ban subsidiaries of Russian banks from withdrawing money outside Ukraine, including conducting operations in favor of parent companies. Deputy head of the National Bank Yakov Smoliy said that these are five financial institutions - Sberbank, VTB, Prominvestbank (owned by Vnesheconombank), VSbank (subsidiary of Sberbank) and BM Bank (owned by VTB).

Anxious questions about what is happening in Ukraine Photo: Peter Sivkov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta employees of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine on Khreshchatyk during the Nationalist attack on the Alfa-Bank branch in Kyiv, March 15, 2017 In the past few days, the domestic political situation has sharply aggravated in Ukraine, and this can lead to the next deterioration of Russian-Ukrainian relations.