The Icelandic authorities will not come to the World Cup in Russia. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the website of the Icelandic government. Iceland also decided to suspend bilateral dialogue with Russia at the highest level. When it is planned to resume, the Icelandic Foreign Ministry does not specify.

Internet users have noticed unusually large numbers of “dislikes” on videos related to Sunday’s deadly fire at the “Winter Cherry” shopping center in Kemerovo, recalling the orchestrated campaigns on YouTube against videos like those by Alexey Navalny that criticize or embarrass the government.

The government of the Ryazan region posted a press release on its website declaring mourning in memory of those killed in the fire in Kemerovo. Later, this information disappeared from the government website, writes the Ryazan online newspaper Side View. The publication also published a screenshot of the press release. In addition, the authorities asked local media to remove information about mourning, writes Side View.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is visiting China, Bloomberg reported, citing three sources. According to the agency, this is Kim Jong-un's first foreign trip since taking power in North Korea in 2011. reported on the visit of a high-ranking guest from the DPRK to China Earlier, the Japanese news agency Kyodo News and the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post . According to Kyodo News, he arrived by train through the Chinese border city of Dandong.

Czech President Milos Zeman ordered the director of counterintelligence BIS, Michal Koudelka, to check whether the Novichok substance could be produced or stored in the country. This was reported on the official website of the Czech President. In early March, a former GRU officer convicted in Russia of espionage, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the UK. According to British authorities, they were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, which was created in the USSR.

Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Vida Press A third of the dead are identified. There are children among them According to official information, the bodies of 64 dead were found. 23 of them are identified, among the identified - eight children. Another 13 people remain in hospitals with the consequences of carbon monoxide poisoning (the total number of victims is more than 40). According to the Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, all the victims who are in hospitals are recovering.

The Russian embassy in the US announced the vote on Twitter; users were asked to choose in which of the Russian cities the US Consulate General should be closed. There are three cities to choose from: Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. At the time of publication of the news, almost 14 thousand people took part in the voting. Most of the votes (44%) were for the closure of the US Consulate in St. Petersburg.

On March 25, the border service of Ukraine detained the fishing vessel Nord in the Azov Sea, registered in the Crimea and walking under the Russian flag. The ship, along with a crew of 10 people, was ruined in Berdyansk (Zaporizhzhya region). Administrative protocols on violation of the procedure for leaving the Crimea were drawn up on the crew members. In relation to the captain in the SBU, a notification was sent under a similar criminal article.

March 26. 64 people died in Kemerovo The fire exits were closed, and an employee of a private security enterprise turned off the warning system - these are the first results of the fire investigation in the Kemerovo shopping center “Winter Cherry”. Fire could not put out the whole day. 64 people were killed. Among them are children. The fire began on the top floor of the shopping center. According to the preliminary version, in the children's game room. Nearby were cinema halls.

Former fire inspector explains why in Russia people often die in fires Marina Lisova / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Firefighters extinguish the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry", March 25, 2018 On March 25, the Winter Cherry shopping center caught fire in Kemerovo - at least 64 people were killed, there are many children among them. This is far from the first fire with a large number of victims: in Russia in fires more people die annually than on average in the world.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called Russian diplomats expelled from the US, Canada and a number of European countries "intelligence officers", and their collective expulsion is the largest in history. Update . British Prime Minister Theresa May, during a speech in Parliament, also announced the "largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers," reports .

Three days of mourning has been declared in Ingushetia for those killed in a fire at a shopping center in Kemerovo. As the head of the republic, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, told TASS, this decision was made in solidarity with the residents of the Kemerovo region. The flag is flown at half mast in front of the Russian embassy in Washington. The press service of the Russian Football Union reported that the Russian team on March 27 will enter the match against the French team with mourning bandages.

Porn actress Stormy Daniels spoke about the connection with Trump - and about how they tried to make her silent 60 minutes / CBS News / AP / Scanpix / Leta interview with porn actress Stormy Daniels to the leading CBS television channel Anderson Cooper. March 25, 2018 On March 25, the first big interview with the porn actress Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford), dedicated to her relationship with Donald Trump, was published on the CBS channel.

On March 26, the US Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it had launched an investigation into the data breach of Facebook users. The commission will check the rules adopted in the social network for the protection of confidential information. $189 on the eve of the publication of investigations about Cambridge Analytica Facebook shares were worth , but then fell sharply. reported .

Sergey Gavrilenkov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta residents of Kemerovo carry flowers to the winter cherry shopping center, where 64 people died as a result of the fire.