Rosneft is considering the option of building not an oil refinery, but a cheaper bitumen plant in Chechnya, RBC reports. The publication obtained a letter from Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Kirill Molodtsov to the government apparatus. Rosneft considers the construction of a refinery with a capacity of one million tons of oil per year unprofitable, the publication writes.

State Duma deputy Vladimir Gutenev said on Ekho Moskvy that Russia has begun deliveries of S-400 missile systems to China, Interfax reports. “India is now actively eyeing the S-400. We have now delivered the first divisions to China, ”the agency quotes the deputy’s statement. When exactly the deliveries began and how many launchers China received, Gutenev did not specify.

Turkey has detained three men allegedly linked to the perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Anis Amri. This is reported by local media with reference to the police. The detainees are German citizens of Lebanese origin, their names are Mohammed Ali Khan, Yousef Darwish and Bilal Yousef Mahmoud. They were detained last week at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, from where they were going to fly to Europe, writes The Hurriyet Daily News.

A passenger plane with 43 people on board crashed while landing in South Sudan. Initially, it was reported that all passengers and crew members died in the crash. However, it soon became clear that there were no victims: people were evacuated before the liner burned down. The representative of the President of South Sudan called the incident a miracle. According to him, the people on board received only minor injuries.

In Warsaw, a court sentenced lawyer Stanisław Sh. to four years in prison for spying for Russia. The man, who has Polish and Russian citizenship, was accused of collaborating with the GRU in 2012-2014. The court acknowledged that it collected information about Poland's energy sector for Russian intelligence. In addition, he was engaged in propaganda in the interests of the Russian Federation, TVN24 reports . The defendant pleaded not guilty. Lawyer Stanislav Sh. was detained in October 2014.

Matt Brittin, head of Google in Europe, has apologized to companies and organizations whose ads on YouTube were placed on videos with extremist or offensive content. “I would like to apologize to our partners and advertisers who may have been hurt by their ads appearing on controversial content,” Brittin said. He promised that the company will increase control over both ad placement and verification of downloaded videos, reports the BBC.

Blogger Nikolai Danilov, known as Norwegian Lesnoy, was detained on Red Square. He was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department because he went to the square with a green face. Photojournalist Aleksey Yushenkov reported about the detention.

The second part of the archive of the American military Martin Manchff was published on the website of the present time, which in the early 1950s worked at the US Embassy in Moscow. The collection includes color photographs and films - the city’s daily life was shot on them. The current life in Moscow of 1953-54.

On March 20, Pobeda Airlines announced gratitude to the crew of its Samara-Moscow flight for the fact that volleyball player Alexander Kimerov was disembarked from the plane. The 215 cm tall athlete first tried to move to a seat with more legroom, and when he was denied this, he stretched his legs into the aisle. This provoked a skirmish, as a result of which Kimerov was taken out of the plane. Meduza tells how this story developed in six quotes.

In Barnaul on the morning of March 20, an unidentified man doused politician Alexei Navalny with green paint before the opening of the campaign headquarters. Navalny's supporters considered this a good reason to announce their support for the politician: And Twitter users - to compare Navalny with Fantomas, Shrek and Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.

The Security Service of Ukraine has prepared a document on the ban on entry into the country to the representative of Russia at Eurovision 2017 Yulia Samoilova. This was stated by the head of the department Vasily Gritsak. “At this moment, the decision to ban her entry has not yet been made, but, I’ll tell you a secret, the corresponding document has already been prepared,” 112 Ukraine quotes him. “My position is clear. I think she should not come to Ukraine,” he said.

Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta rental bicycles for seasonal storage in a warm warehouse The city bicycle rental in Moscow opened in 2014, and almost immediately began to criticize the impractical spending of budget money. In the first three years, the capital's authorities spent 450 million rubles on the project. Another 600 million was allocated by the Bank of Moscow and Sberbank, which for this money received advertising at rental points.

FBI Director James Comey, at a hearing in the US House of Representatives, confirmed that his agency is investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election, including checking the connections of Donald Trump's entourage with Russia. “As a general rule, we do not comment on pending investigations, including confirming that they are ongoing,” Koumi said.

American billionaire David Rockefeller, the oldest member of the Rockefeller family, has died in New York State. He was 101 years old. In the Forbes Billionaire Ranking published on March 20, David Rockefeller was listed in 581st place with a fortune of $3.3 billion. David Rockefeller is the grandson of the first dollar billionaire, John Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil. He was educated in economics, worked in the civil service and served in the army during World War II.

Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Anya Kuznetsova Presidential Presidential Presidential Rights On Monday, March 20, Anna Kuznetsova, authorized by the President for Child Rights, announced an increase in the number of children's suicides in 2016 - immediately by 57 percent. “One of the main reasons for this situation is the avalanche -like spread of“ death groups ”,” Kuznetsova said.