The German prosecutor's office has opened an investigation in connection with reports of surveillance by the Turkish secret services of immigrants from Turkey living in the country. It is reported by AFP.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing a number of decisions by the Obama administration to combat global warming. The decree, in particular, lifts the moratorium on the development of new coal deposits on federal lands. It also includes a revision of the 2015 Clean Power Plan, which called for lower carbon emissions (which was suspended by the Supreme Court in 2016). Trump also rescinded Obama's executive order declaring climate change a national security threat.

On March 28, guardianship officials and police came to the apartment of truck driver protest leader Andrei Bazhutin, who was arrested for 14 days, to pick up his three minor children. According to Fontanka, the day before at the court hearing it became known that the activist’s pregnant wife was being kept in the maternity hospital.

Laureates of the Russian national cinematography award “Nika” spoke from the stage in support of political prisoners, as well as people detained at protests on March 26. Moskovsky Komsomolets writes about this. As follows from the newspaper report, director Alexander Sokurov (received the Eldar Ryazanov Honor and Dignity Award) spoke from the stage about the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in the Russian Federation for terrorism, and spoke about the protests on March 26.

The Russian national football team played a draw with a score of 3:3 with the Belgian team, equalizing the score in stoppage time. The friendly match was held on March 28 in Sochi. CSKA defender Viktor Vasin opened the score in the third minute, but during the first half the Belgians bounced back and took the lead - first, Kevin Mirallas scored a penalty, and then Christian Benteke scored two more goals.

The Ukrainian Sberbank will change its name after the sale of the Latvian Norvik Banka and the company of Said Gutseriev to a consortium. Grigory Guselnikov, the owner of Norvik Banka, stated this in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station. “Most likely, it will bear the name of Norvik Banka, because it will be a subsidiary of the European Norvik Banka,” Guselnikov said.

In the film of the Foundation for the fight against corruption “He is not Dimon”, a separate chapter is dedicated to the Tuscan vineyards, which is owned by the offshore of the entrepreneur Ilya Eliseev, a classmate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Employees of the FBK suggest that Eliseev bought a vineyard in the interests of the prime minister. The Medusa correspondent went to Tuscany and bought in a store working at vineyards, five bottles of Eliseevsky wine.

The Scottish Parliament on March 28 supported a new referendum on independence from the UK. The proposal of the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was supported by 69 deputies, 59 voted against. Scottish Secretary of State David Mundell has said that the country will not negotiate a new referendum with Scotland until the EU exit process is completed, that is, according to The Guardian, until the 2020s.

How to prevent a protest promotion if you are the city administration On March 26, protest rallies, marches and pickets against corruption were held in dozens of Russian cities. Even according to official figures, tens of thousands of people participated in them ( almost one hundred thousand according to unofficial ones). In some regions, the authorities allowed rallies, but in most cities they were unauthorized.

FIFA has given Argentina captain Lionel Messi a four-match ban for insulting a referee during a match against Chile. The federation announced its decision a few hours before the next World Cup qualifying match against Bolivia. Messi was also fined nine thousand euros. The match with Chile took place on March 24. Argentina won by a narrow margin. Messi scored the only goal. During the match, he was unhappy about being punished for a foul and yelled at the referee.

Farida Kulmukhametova, a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, who asked students to read a text about the “fifth column” and “list of traitors” at lectures on Russian cultural policy, has resigned. Novye Izvestiya reports this with reference to Vice-Rector Larisa Slutskaya. Kulmukhametova wrote a letter of resignation after a conversation with Slutskaya and the head of the Department of Humanities Oleg Marchenko, the publication reports. Rector Alexander Sokolov signed the paper.

Roman Rubanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation , said that the FSB is working in the office of the organization, where employees are not allowed to enter for the third day. According to him, what kind of people they were, it became known after they showed their certificates to an employee of the Omega Plaza business center, where the office is located.

Update. Interfax, citing the data of the Romodanovsky court , reports that the claims against the leadership of the school in Belozerye were actually rejected. At the same time, according to an agency source in the administration of Mordovia, earlier the school management canceled the order on the dress code - this happened after filing lawsuits. Update 2: On March 29, the Ministry of Education of Mordovia said that a ban on headscarves for teachers introduced in December is still in effect.

The poet and journalist Alexander Delfinov (Smirnov) asked his Facebook friends to remember the “wildest, fiercest or most ridiculous” names of musical groups - such as “The crows ate your crops, Giuseppe.” CRAZY GROUP NAME. Many of us at least once tried to create our own band. Everyone has faced the problem of the name. G... Posted by Alexander Delfinov March 28, 2017 Dozens of comments with crazy names were left on post Delfinov's Facebook .

Photo: Yakov Knyazev / TASS The city election commission of St. Petersburg approved a referendum on the status of St. Isaac's Cathedral. It is assumed that at the vote, residents of the city will be able to resolve the issue of transferring the cathedral and two more architectural monuments of the Russian Orthodox Church.