US President Donald Trump, at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, commented on his recent allegations that he was illegally tapped under the Obama administration. Responding to a question from a German journalist, Trump said, extending his hand towards Merkel: "As for the wiretapping by the previous administration ... At least, perhaps we have something in common." Trump's words apparently refer to the revelations of former American intelligence officer Edward Snowden.

In New York, a laptop was stolen from the car of a Secret Service agent, ABC News reports, citing sources in American law enforcement agencies.

The cosmetics company Natura Siberica announced that from April 2 it will stop using pantocrine, an extract from antlers, young deer antlers, in its products. The decision was announced days after several Facebook users criticized the company, which bills itself as a manufacturer of “quality organic cosmetics,” for using a product that involves sawing off the antlers of live deer.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. We watch football and cinema, read Sorokina, listen to Dorn While Dmitry Medvedev is sick, we are discussing football and tax reform -with Alexander Polivanov, “Eurovision” -with Julia Samoilova, the continuation of “Trainspotting” and the Disney Gay-Propaganda-with Anton Dolin, the new novel by Vladimir Sorokin-Galina Yuzefovich, the new clips of Ivan Dorn and “Mushrooms”-with Alexander-with Alexander Gorbachev.

The administration of Nizhny Novgorod on the morning of March 16 agreed on an application for a rally against corruption and for the resignation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, filed by activists of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny. A few hours later, the deputy head of the city administration, Maria Kholkina, sent a letter to the organizers stating that they had refused to hold the rally, the headquarters reported.

Carnegie.ru - how to explain the unexpected results of elections in Holland Photo: Muhammed Muheisen / Ap / Scanpix / Leta In mid -March, elections were held in the Netherlands, which became a kind of prologue for the series of important votes in Europe - including in France and Germany. Contrary to expectations, the radical right in the Netherlands not only did not win, but also took only 20 seats in parliament.

On March 15, the editor of the religion department, Life, Vladislav Maltsev discovered a mistake in the text of the Kommersant correspondent Alexander Chernykh. Journalists entered the skirmish , during which Maltsev explained what he was better than black: The comment was noted by the journalist Oleg Kashin. Readers discussed porcelain tiles ... ... And they suspected that the owner of the "Life" Aram Gabrelyanov may not like this approach to work. Apparently, it happened.

The speech of Natalia Poklonskaya in honor of the third anniversary of the annexation of Crimea Photo: Igor Cossack / "Kommersant" The State Duma deputy, the former prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya on March 17, on the eve of the third anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia, said in the parliament. At first we thought to do with a brief retelling, but no - here every word is valuable. Tomorrow marks three years since the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia.

The Tushinsky Court of Moscow sentenced Igor Drozdov to 13 years in a strict regime colony, who was found guilty of the murder of documentary filmmaker Tamara Yakzhina in 2015. The verdict was handed down on March 16 . On March 12, 2015, Drozdov, who was Yakzhina's neighbor, decided to "show things off [with her]" because she made remarks to him about smoking in the stairwell, according to a statement from the Moscow prosecutor's office.

The Paramount Pictures studio has published a new trailer for the fifth part of the Transformers. Kinocheck International Transformers 5: The Last Knight Trailer 2 (2017) The film "Transformers-5: The Last Knight" will tell about the leader of the Autobots Optimus Prime and his attempts to find allies to save the universe. The plot develops in several temporary segments, including in the Middle Ages and during the Second World War.

The election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), scheduled for March 22, may be postponed to autumn 2017. This was reported to TASS by two academicians - Valery Rubakov and Vladimir Zakharov. The powers of the current head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov expire on March 27, Zakharov recalled. If the elections are postponed, he said, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Kozlov will be appointed acting president.

Photo: Andrew Villa / Flickr (CC by-ND 2.0) Vogue called sweatshirts with Cyrillic inscriptions one of the main trends of last year-in 2017, even a mass market produces them. The spring-summer collection of the most famous Russian designer of Goshi Rubchinsky is sold around the world, and his name Cyrillic is next to the Kappa and Fila logos. In February 2017, Cyrillic was even on the cover of The New Yorker.

Why "American gods" based on the novel Neil Gaiman is the most anticipated series of spring Photo: Canada Film Capital, Fremantle Media North America / Starz At the Festival of Music, Cinema and Media Technologies, South BY Southwest (SXSW) in Texas showed the first series of “American Gods” - the adaptation of the cult novel Nile Gaiman. Medusa observer Yegor Moskvitin visited the pilot’s premiere and decided that the fantasy “American Gods” is the most anticipated series of spring.

Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Georgy Matyushkin, in a response to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said that 20,000 rubles is “reasonable compensation” for a man who suffered as a result of a police beating. This was reported by RBC, which had the document at its disposal. The questions of the ECHR were related to the case of Artur Ivanov, a resident of Novocheboksarsk, who was beaten by the police in April 2007.

Photo: Alexei Filippov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta leader of the Russia young movement, State Duma deputy Maxim Mishchenko during a speech on Kaluga Square, April 3, 2008 On Friday, March 17, the Novomoskovsky court of the Tula region sentenced the former leader of the youth pro -Kremlin movement “Russia Young” Maxim Mishchenko to two and a half years in prison on charges of fraud.