The United States may impose new sanctions against Russia in connection with the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. This was stated by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert at a briefing on March 15. She recalled that in late February, the United States imposed sanctions against the DPRK for using chemical weapons to poison Kim Jong-nam , the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

In the case of an attack by a pack of stray dogs on people in the Istra district of the Moscow region, an individual entrepreneur was detained. He is suspected of providing services that do not meet security requirements. The detainee signed an agreement on catching stray dogs with the administration of the Istra district.

A footbridge collapsed in Miami. Five or six vehicles are under the collapsed structure, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Alejandro Camacho told Reuters. Several people were killed in the collapse, he said; the exact number of victims is still unknown. The Miami-Dade County Fire Department reported numerous casualties. CBS Miami, citing the head of the district Carlos Jimenez, reports six injured and at least one dead. Rescue work is underway at the scene.

Lokomotiv Moscow lost the home match to Atlético Madrid 1:5 and were knocked out of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League. On aggregate, Lokomotiv lost with a total score of 1:8. The only goal of Lokomotiv in the two-legged confrontation was scored by the Polish defender Maciej Rybus. Angel Correa, Saul Niguez, Fernando Torres (twice) and Antoine Griezmann scored against Atletico in Moscow. Two more Russian clubs play in the 1/8 finals of the Europa League: Zenit and CSKA.

On March 15, the last presidential debates took place. They were hosted on the Russia 1 channel by Vladimir Solovyov. Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin left the debate after Maxim Suraikin (Communists of Russia) brought Lydia Filkin to the studio. She publicly accuses Grudinin of the fact that, heading the Lenin state farm, he promised her family free housing, but then took it away. Grudinin was replaced in the studio by journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

Violations were found in the work of about 100 high-ranking officials in Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, acting head of the republic, said. “Now I have material for at least 100 leaders about various violations of certain requirements,” Vasiliev said, emphasizing that “we don’t have the task of jailing everyone.” Colonel General, former head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasiliev, was appointed head of Dagestan in October 2017.

How history develops around the Lazurnensky orphanage Evgeny Berg / "Medusa" The teachers of the boarding school in the Chelyabinsk region, whom the children accused of rape returned to work Teachers of the Lazurnensky boarding school near Chelyabinsk, whom her former pupils accused of systematic sexual violence, returned to their work.

Sergey Knowenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Ruban and Nadezhda Savchenko in court in Kyiv. March 9, 2018 In March 2016, the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced by the Russian court by the age of 22 on charges of murder of VGTRK journalists in the Donbass. In May, Russia freed her in exchange for two Russians convicted in Ukraine.

March 15. The debate ended in Russia: "I will break your jaw, bitch, break!" - Merciful propagandon! - The provocateur Bandera! - I'll give you me in the face right now! What did you say? - Bastard, went out of here. - I'll be your jaw, bitch, I will break it! Scum, hired scum! Such a discussion occurred today on the last election debate.

Meduza's readers vote on reforms to life in the Motherland For a more detailed breakdown of how Meduza’s Russian readers voted on these questions, you can view the results here . The text is in Russian, but there are little cartoons to make it universally understandable, hopefully. Here’s a tip: “за” means “for,” and “против” means “against.”

On Thursday, former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov announced the creation of a new political party with Ksenia Sobchak, who’s running for president in this Sunday’s election. Gudkov says the new organization’s tentative name is “The Party of Changes,” and it will be created by reforming the existing “Civil Initiative,” which nominated Sobchak for the 2018 presidential race.

Why is the Netflix film a big event in the science fiction genre Peter Mountain / Paramount Pictures Netflix was released “Annigilation”-the film by Paramount Pictures, which limited itself to rental in the USA and China, and gave the right to show in other countries an Internet giant. In the picture based on the book from the fantastic cycle, Jeff Wandermer's “South Lim”, Natalie Portman played the main role. "Medusa" tells why this premiere is a big event in the genre of fantastic cinema.

Former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov announced the creation of a party together with Ksenia Sobchak, who is running for president of Russia in the 2018 elections. According to Gudkov, they conditionally call the new organization the Party of Changes. The party will be created on the basis of the "Civil Initiative" Andrei Nechaev, who headed the Russian Ministry of Economy in 1992-1993. Sobchak was nominated for the presidency by the "Civil Initiative".

Participants of the International Theater Educational Forum, held in St. Petersburg on March 5-6, signed an open letter in support of the defendants in the Seventh Studio case. The text of the letter was published on March 15 by the St. Petersburg theater magazine. The letter states that Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexei Malobrodsky, Yuri Itin and Sofya Apfelbaum, accused in the Seventh Studio case, are respected people in the theater community and do not pose a danger to society.

Vladimir Simicek / AFP / Scanpix / Leta President of Slovakia Andrei Kiska accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fitzo, March 15, 2018 February 25 ↓ Journalist of the Slovak edition of Aktuality.sk 27-year-old Jan Kutsyak was found dead in his house in a small town near Bratislava. Together with Kutsyak, his bride Martin Kushnirov was killed.