Photo: Alexey Chumachenko / Ukrainian photo / Photoxpress On March 23, the former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov was shot in the center of Kiev - in the fall of 2016, he emigrated with his wife, an opera singer and also former deputy Maria Maksakova to Ukraine. Voronenkov said that he has enemies in Russia, including from the FSB. The Medusa journalist Yevgeny Berg visited Kyiv a day after the death of Voronenkov and talked with the people who knew him.

More than 100 people were killed in an airstrike by international coalition forces in the Iraqi city of Mosul. A total of three buildings were destroyed as a result of the airstrike on Thursday, March 23; more than 80 bodies were recovered from the rubble of one of them alone, writes The Guardian. According to The New York Times, Baghdad has already reported that the airstrike was carried out at the request of Iraq.

Hundreds of people were detained Photo: Vasily Maximov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On March 25, an unauthorized rally was held in Minsk, dedicated to the main holiday of Belarusian opposition to the Day of Volya. This time, citizens were going to demand the abolition of “tuneus tax” and holding free presidential elections.

Film studio Warner Bros. She showed the first trailer for the film Snyder "League of Justice". In a short video you can see Batman (Ben Affleck still plays it), a miracle-female, aquamen, flash and other DC comics-but not Superman. However, he will appear in the film itself. According to the plot of the film, Batman collects a detachment from the superheroes “Justice League” to fight the villain Steppenswulf. The film will be released in November 2017. Warner Bros.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kamuina Nsapu militants captured and beheaded about forty police officers. This is reported by Reuters, citing a statement by local authorities. Six of the captured militants were released because they spoke the local dialect. The weapons and police vehicles were seized.

Photo: Paul Hackett / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta tens of thousands of demonstrators in London reached on Saturday morning, March 25, on the march "Unit for the sake of Europe." Participants in the action want to stay in the European Union and ask the Government of Great Britain not to submit an application for withdrawal from the EU. The march ended at the British Parliament building, where on March 22 the terrorist killed four people.

In the capital of Belarus, an inconsistent promotion of the opposition was held Photo: Sergey Gapon / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In Minsk, on March 25, an opposition action was held in honor of the Day of Will - an unofficial holiday in honor of the announcement of the Belarusian People's Republic. In Minsk, not one of the applications for a rally was approved; One of the opposition leaders Nikolai Statkevich did not seek permission.

In Minsk, law enforcement agencies detained a total of several hundred people before and during a protest rally that was not coordinated with the authorities. More than 50 people were detained near the Academy of Sciences, where the protest procession was supposed to start, writes Tut.by. There is no exact data on the number of detainees, the authorities do not disclose official information about detentions.

In Rome, on the day of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, 27 countries of the European Union adopted a declaration on the common future of Europe. Representatives of Great Britain, which is still a member of the EU, did not take part in the meeting and did not sign the document.

Daniil's monologue Pilchen and Video from a lecture Photo: Friebitt / YouTube Students of the Moscow State Conservatory published a video from a lecture on the cultural policy of Russia. The teacher Farid Kulmukhametova ordered a four -year student Daniil Pilchen to read the text about the “fifth column” and the capacity of the “traitors”. Pilchen fulfilled her request, but read out the list with a sarcastic tone, clearly ridicuating the content.

On March 10, the Ukrainian group “Mushrooms” released the new song “Ice” and the clip for it. Rap Pesnya about love, singing the romance of urban outskirts, has already become one of the most popular compositions of the year in Russian-in two weeks, the clip on YouTube watched almost 20 million times. He provoked dozens of parodies, and everyone dance from the song from Ivan Urgant to Philip Kirkorov.

Minsk police began arrests on the square near the Academy of Sciences, where earlier the opposition announced a gathering of participants in an uncoordinated protest rally. According to a correspondent for Meduza, the police are detaining those who linger on the square under the pretext of checking documents. The police do not detain journalists. Detentions of passers-by began before 14:00 Moscow time - it was at this time that the meeting of the protesters was scheduled.

Former head of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev was elected president of the European Tennis Association. He will serve in this post for three years, after which new elections will be held. Currently, Dmitriev also holds the post of Vice President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. His intention to leave this position due to his election as ETA President was not reported.

Moscow law enforcement agencies have begun checking violations in the removal of ten children from a Moscow family, Kommersant writes. With the requirement to check the procedure for legality, Mikhail Romanov, a State Duma deputy from United Russia, spoke earlier. According to Romanov, the check has been underway since March 6, within its framework, the police determines whether the officials disclosed information that constitutes the secret of adoption and medical secrets.

As follows from unretouched photographs from the site of the attack on a unit of the Russian Guard in Chechnya, the attackers were shot in the head, writes Novaya Gazeta. According to experts interviewed by the publication, it can be concluded from the photographs that the shots were fired at close range. On the hand of one of the attackers, who was also shot in the head, there is a mark similar to a handcuff mark.