The Russian team lost to the Belgian team with a score of 1:3 in the first match of the 2020 European Championship qualification. The scoring was opened in the 14th minute by Belgian midfielder Youri Telemans. Two minutes later, Denis Cheryshev scored a return goal. Belgium took the lead in the 45th minute – Eden Hazard converted a penalty. He scored a double in the 88th minute. The Russian national team will play its next qualifying match on March 24 against Kazakhstan.

Director of Rosgeology Roman Panov was dismissed ahead of schedule. This was reported to Kommersant by Deputy Minister of Economic Development Oksana Tarasenko. “A government directive has been received, the Federal Property Management Agency has issued an order [to fire Panov],” she said. Sergei Suchkov, First Deputy Director of the holding, has been appointed as interim head of Rosgeo. Roman Panov has headed Rosgeologia since 2013. In 2018, his contract was renewed for five years.

Grudinin's woes continue, Chikov on the future of Russia's free speech crackdown, and how lawmakers justify Internet isolation Wednesday, March 21, 2019 This day in history: five years ago today, on March 21, 2014, Vladimir Putin signed legislation “admitting the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation.” Despite his Swiss bank accounts, Pavel Grudinin was allowed to participate in Vladimir Putin’s reelection last year, but now he’s being kept from the parliament.

Reuters / Scanpix / LETA “We take him at his word” On March 18, 2018, Pavel Grudnin took part in Russia’s presidential election. He lost the race, obviously, but he took second place with 11.77 percent of the vote. During the campaign, the public learned that Grudinin had failed to close his Swiss bank accounts before submitting his candidacy registration documents on December 28, 2017, as required by the law.

EU leaders will propose to British Prime Minister Theresa May that Brexit be held no later than May 22. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the draft decision of the summit. The same date was previously given by The Guardian sources . At the same time, BBC News and the European version of Politico write that, according to the latest data, EU leaders are discussing the postponement of Brexit until May 7. Theresa May has asked the European Union to postpone Brexit to June 30.

The Soviet District Court of Nizhny Novgorod overturned the sentence of Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the creator of the “Male State” public page on VKontakte. "Today my case was reviewed. I was released from punishment, the suspended sentence and conviction were removed," Pozdnyakov told Novaya Gazeta. According to him, the repeal of the sentence is related to the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code.

US President Donald Trump said it was time for the US to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. "After 52 years, it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights," Trump tweeted, saying the territory was critical to Israel's security and stability in the Middle East.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has revised the draft list of potentially dangerous dog breeds, reducing the number of items in it from 71 to 13. This was stated by the agency's representative Alexei Bezzubov during a round table in the State Duma. The new list includes 12 breeds , with crossbreeds listed as a separate item. The updated list, according to Bezzubov, is based on proposals from the executive branch and the Russian Cynological Federation.

The October Court of Belgorod has satisfied the claim for the protection of honor and dignity that State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch filed against a number of media outlets because of articles about his connection with the Shakro Molodoy cases and about corruption in the Investigative Committee . "The court granted the claim in full, recognized the published... information as defamatory and collected one ruble from the defendants, as the plaintiff demanded," the court's press service told Interfax.

Shutterstock.com Facebook kept passwords of hundreds of millions of users on its open form , an expert on computer security Brian Krebs, citing an unnamed company employee. After the publication of Krebs, Facebook officially announced this, not naming the exact number of touched accounts. According to the preliminary results of the internal investigation, the source told Krebs, we are talking about passwords from 200 to 600 million users.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta "We take his word for him" On March 18, 2018, Pavel Grudinin took part in the elections of the President of Russia and lost, taking second place with a result of 11.77%. During the campaign, it turned out that Grudinin did not manage to close his bank accounts in Switzerland until the submission of documents in the CEC on December 28, 2017, as required by the law.

On March 21, Twitter turned 13 years old. On this occasion, the founder of the service Jack Dorsey and his colleagues eat a birthday cake, and Meduza recalls the most absurd, strange, stupid and touching tweets for which we love this social network. Dinner with an iguana "Dinner didn't go according to plan" 50 Cent and his formidable grandma “I can’t believe my grandma makes me take out the trash.

Marat Abulkhatin / State Duma Press Service / TASS / Vida Press Nikolai Gonchar at a State Duma plenary session on December 20, 2017 Next month, the State Duma will likely vote on a second reading of legislation drafted by Senator Andrey Klishas that would guard against and simultaneously facilitate the isolation of the Russian Internet.

Rospotrebnadzor will not fine Ivan Zaychenko, the owner of the Yekaterinburg store "Zhiznmart", for free distribution of products with expired shelf life. This was reported on the website of the Rospotrebnadzor Administration for the Sverdlovsk Region. The agency reports that during the inspection of the store , no instance of free distribution of expired products was recorded .

Former Brazilian President Michel Temer has been detained in a corruption case, Reuters reports citing a source. According to Globo, Temer is involved in several cases. Earlier it was reported that one of them concerns receiving bribes from port operators. Michel Temer became president of Brazil in 2016 after Dilma Rousseff was ousted from office after being accused of manipulating the federal budget. Her predecessor, Luis Lula da Silva, was convicted in 2017 on charges of money laundering.