Chuvash Republic official government portal The memorial to the victims of the 1961 fire at a school in Elbarusovo According to preliminary figures, at least 40 children died in the March 25 fire at the “Winter Cherry” shopping center in Kemerovo. There are few disasters in Russian history that claimed so many young lives. In recent history, only the Beslan hostage crisis comes to mind.

The maximum concentration of the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was found on the front door of their home, Scotland Yard reported on March 28. Police believe the Skripals were first exposed to the poison at their home, the report said. Traces of the nerve agent have also been found in other locations where detectives have been working in recent weeks, but in lower concentrations than at home.

Residents of Kemerovo Nadezhda Vostrikova and Igor Sabadash, whose daughter, three grandchildren and daughter-in-law died in a fire in a shopping center, filed complaints with the city prosecutor's office against the actions of employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is reported by RBC.

A Bulgarian commission that is working to uncover information about citizens' work for the secret services during the years of socialism has reported on the collaboration of philosopher Julia Kristeva with the First Main Directorate of the State Security Committee, which was involved in foreign intelligence. According to published information , Kristeva, who had lived in France since 1965, became an agent of the agency in 1971 and operated under the pseudonym Sabina.

In the center of Moscow on the evening of March 28, Blogger Ilya Varlamov was detained. According to him , he was detained by the FSO or FSB officers during an interview with RBC, which he gave on the street. First, Varlamov was kept in the "gray building without a sign" for about an hour.

The authorities of Ecuador have deprived the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, who lives in the embassy of this country in London, from the means of communication with the outside world. This was reported on Twitter by the National Secretariat of Communications of Ecuador. The decision came into force on March 27.

An ecological catastrophe is unfolding around the Russian capital, and locals are fighting back Marina Zlunitsina Residents of Kolomna block the road leading into the “Volovichi” trash dump. March 27, 2018 Since early 2018, the people of Volokolamsk have been organizing protests against a local trash dump that has been spewing noxious fumes into their city, located just outside Moscow.

March 28. On the day of mourning, power is looking for provocateurs The developed technology of provocations, an attempt to rock the situation, the planned action to discredit - this is what the Russian government told citizens on the day of national mourning for the dead during a fire in the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry".

In Kemerovo, people who died in the “Winter Cherry” began to bury. Reporting Irina Kravtsova Maxim Lisov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta the funeral of one of the dead in the Winter Cherry, March 28, 2018 Three days after the fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, where, according to official figures, at least 64 people were killed, the funeral began in Kemerovo.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Ukrainian prankster Yevgeny Volnov (real name Nikita Kuvikov) in absentia. He called the morgues of Kemerovo with a question whether they were ready to accept 300 dead from the burning Winter Cherry shopping center. The press service of the court also reported that Volnov was put on the international wanted list.

Several criminals robbed a bank in the Moscow district of Sokolniki, RIA Novosti reports citing a source. Information about the robbery was confirmed to Interfax by the press service of the Moscow police. According to RIA Novosti, five criminals in camouflage attacked a branch of the Binbank and took "a large amount of money" from there. TASS reports that the robbers demanded one hundred thousand dollars. The attackers managed to escape by car.

The UK authorities will check the circumstances of issuing "golden visas" to 700 Russian citizens in 2008-2015. This was stated by the head of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs Amber Rudd, answering the question of the head of the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee, Yvette Cooper.

The best songs of Oleg Anofriev Alexander Yakovlev / TASS Oleg Anofriev in his cottage in the suburbs. July 18, 2000 On March 28, at the age of 87, People's Artist of Russia Oleg Anofriev died. He served in the theaters named after Mayakovsky and the Moscow City Council, headed the theater-studio of the film actor and starred in fifty films. But most of all he was remembered by the audience as a magnificent singer, whose voice sounded in many Soviet films and cartoons.

Update . The number of detainees in Kolomna increased; About 20 more people were taken, a local resident Irina Naletova told Novaya Gazeta. OMON employees detained three residents of the city of Kolomn, Moscow Region during the campaign against the importation of garbage from Moscow to the local landfill "Volovichi". This was reported by "New Gazeta" with reference to a local resident Irina Naletov. Also, one of the readers of Medusa reported the detentions.

Netflix streaming service has published a trailer for the movie "Codrom" with Ed Harris in the title role. The picture will tell about the head of the recording company, which goes to Kansas to fulfill the request of a dying father, a famous photographer. The main character needs to show the Kodachrome film, and this can be done only in one laboratory, which is on the verge of closing.