The Italian Opera Diva of Chechilia Bartoli, the famous Metzzo-Soprano of the world, gave a concert in return for the canceled performance in October, presenting the Sacrificum program ("sacrifice" in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Opera Singing Center Galina Vishnevskaya, organizing Moscow tour of the singers.

The Belarusian opposition entered the procession on the "Volya Day" - the anniversary of the founding of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918. The audience demanded that the authorities free the convicted politicians. Up to 1.5 thousand people participated in the procession, the assessments of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate are twice more modest. The rally was authorized and without detention. It rains in Minsk.

The printing body of the European Union announced the names of 12 Belarusian citizens and the names of 29 companies, whose entry into the EU is prohibited and whose assets in the countries of the Union should be frozen, Interfax reports with reference to the Belarusian media.

Former American Vice President Dick Cheney underwent a heart transplant operation. Currently, it is restored after the operation, reports CNN . According to its representatives, the operation was carried out on Saturday at the Inova Fairfax Hospital clinic in Virginia. Dick Cheney was on a sheet of transplantation for more than 20 months.

One of the main financiers of the ruling conservative party in the UK, Peter Kruddas resigned after the journalists accused him of trying to access the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance of the country for 250 thousand pounds - about 400 thousand dollars. Sunday newspaper Sunday Times published video frames, which shows how Cruadas discusses the organization of a meeting with the first persons of the British government in exchange for significant donations for conservatives.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the UN specialist and Lag Kofi Annana discussed the situation in Syria today in Moscow. The meeting was held in the Foreign Ministry mansion on Spiridonovka in a closed format, ITAR-TASS reports. In the coming hours, Kofi Annan will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The Russian foreign policy emphasizes the importance of contacts with a special bearer.

Voting in the presidential election in South Ossetia is calm, the turnout is higher than in the November elections, Stanislav Vavilov, deputy head of the CEC of Russia, told reporters on Sunday. "The elections of the President of South Ossetia are held calmly and organized with higher activity of voters compared to the campaign in November 2011. The level of election organization is high.

The head of the administration of the Balezinsky district of Udmurtia, Sergei Nagovitsyn, resigned in connection with the illegal drainage of waste in the bituminous storage of an abandoned asphalt concrete plant two kilometers from the village of Balezino, the head of the district of Rishat Mukhgalima told RIA Novosti on Sunday. “Last night (March 24), I signed a resolution on the dismissal of Nagovicin from his position,” Mukhgalimov said.

Three corpses were discovered in the house in the village of Dubna of the Tula region on Saturday. Three pensioners were the victims of the criminals, the Tula News Service reported with reference to the Office of the SU UK in the Tula region. As it managed to install, on March 22 a house burned in Dubna. Rescuers put out the fire, but did not find any of the hosts. However, the day before, three corpses were discovered in the basement of the house.

Repeated elections of the President of South Ossetia ended without serious violations, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Bella Plieva told Interfax . Polling stations closed at 20:00 in Moscow, "election commissions began to count the votes," said Plieva. According to preliminary data, more than 66% of voters took part in the vote - this means that the elections took place.

Members of the Afghans families, who are supposed to be killed and wounded by American sergeant Robert Bales, received financial compensation. Afghan officials and elders reported that for every person who was killed on March 11 in the Panjvy region of the province of Kandahar, 46 thousand dollars were paid, and for each wounded - 10 thousand dollars, reports the Air Force .

The Russian telecommunication satellite Express-AM4, which was brought in August last year into an unaccountable orbit, is expected to fall in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean on March 25-26, Interfax reports with reference to the source in the air-space industry. "To conduct an operation to control the Express -Am4 satellite from orbit for two hours for shipping and flights of aircraft on March 25 and 26, the area in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean will be closed," the source said.

In the east of Moscow, police officers detained a sergeant of a private security guard, who, in a quarrel due to parking, wounded an ambulance with a knife, ITAR-TASS reports. A message about a fight between two men near house 5 on Sniper Street entered the police on Saturday at about 23:00 in Moscow.

The Ferrari pilot Fernando Alonso became the winner of the second stage of the Formula-1 championship-the Grand Prix of Malaysia, protecting the first position from the attacks of the Zauber Pershot Perezi at the last circles. Alonso, who started the eighth, played his position in the race, the beginning of which he confused heavy rain. Perez persecuted two-time formula-1 champion for many circles, but remained the second. The third finished the McLarena pilot Lewis Hamilton.

The Proton-M launch vehicle launched from the Russian Cosmodrome Baikonur (Kazakhstan), was withdrawn by the Breeze-M Acupressure and the American telecommunication satellite of IntelSat 22 on the Suborbital flight trajectory. “The third stage of the Proton-M launch vehicle from the acceleration unit and the spacecraft was recorded.