Activists decided to celebrate the anniversary of the election of President Vladimir Putin for the third term. On Monday, three oppositionists held an inconsistent action on the Red Square of the capital and were detained. Unknown also in the morning hung a huge poster dedicated to the elections on the roof of the house in the center of Moscow. The provocative image was removed, it was not possible to detain its authors.

In Kenya on Monday, universal presidential and parliamentary elections are held. Eight people are fighting for the post of head of state. Five years ago, the vote ended with mass clashes in which more than a thousand people were killed. Out of fear of repetition of those events on the eve of the new elections, the authorities strengthened security measures, directing to monitor the vote of 100 thousand police officers. However, this did not prevent new bloodshed.

The police of the Krasnoyarsk Territory conducts a large -scale search operation in connection with the disappearance of a senior prosecutor’s office. The 25-year-old assistant to the prosecutor of the Taseevsky district went to visit relatives and disappeared, and his car was found burned. Currently, in search of an assistant prosecutor, more than 150 police officers have been involved.

Residents of the Swiss canton Graubunden at a referendum on Sunday spoke out against the Winter Olympic Games of 2022 in one of the cities of the region - St. Saint Moritz or Davos. Only the inhabitants of the Saint-Moritsa and Davos voted. At the referendum, the residents of Canton were invited to answer the question whether they agree that 300 million Swiss francs ($ 320 million) from the financial reserve of Canton will be spent on organizing the Olympic Games.

American listeners met on Sunday with young stars of the International Festival "Musical Olympus", which has been held annually in St. Petersburg since 1996. Russia at the famous New York Carnegie Hall presented Russia at the concert-presentation, the 14-year-old pianist Daniil Kharitonov, ITAR-TASS reports. He brilliantly performed the “thought” of Peter Tchaikovsky, “Hungarian Rapsody N12” and “Transcendental Studge N10” of Ferenc Liszt, as well as the “prelude” by Sergey Rakhmaninov.

Employees of the metropolitan administration of the Federal Drug Control Service neutralized the gang of amphetamine distributors. At the same time, more than a tons of this narcotic drug was seized, as well as eight people were detained, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow Department of the FSKN. To date, the defendants of the criminal case have already been read out the sentence.

The Fokker brand plane crashed today in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He fell on the residential quarters of the city of Goma during a strong rain. The victims of the fall could become from 30 to 50 people. The exact data is not yet available, ITAR-TASS reports. “We do not yet know the exact number of victims, but, according to our estimates, from 30 to 50 people died,” the governor of the province of Northern Kiva Julien Palak told reporters.

The representative of the Paddy Power bookmaker, who posted in the cities of England posters calling for football players to find a second profession, explained the reasons for this action. According to him, no one insulted athletes, and the company is not going to apologize to them. Recall that the victim of this advertising campaign was the former captain of the Russian national football team Andrei Arshavin, who was frankly ridiculed on a Billboard near the club store of the London Arsenal.

In the British city of Bradford in the county of West Yorkshire, an unknown man played the role of a superhero, delivering to the police station the suspect. At the same time, the voluntary assistant to law enforcement officers was dressed in the costume of the main character of comics and films - Batman, writes The Guardian newspaper. The hero preferred to remain unknown and disappeared, without calling the dumbfounded policeman his name.

On March 4, the upper house of the Czech parliament accused President Vaclav Claus of treason. This decision of the Senate is rather a symbolic act that reflects only a strong distrust of the Czech leader, since after three days the term of presidential powers is coming to an end, Reuters reports.

Elena Nedbaylova “Vlad Basistov works at the art agency “Feriya”, which organizes holidays. According to him, the trip was organized by the so-called “Youth Link of the Russian Veterans Party.” A combination of words that simply breaks logic does not bother Vlad. But the curator of our bus, Katya Igonina, said that many of the guys are former supporters of the defunct Nashi movement. However, they became supporters approximately once every six months - during similar trips.

The press sums up the results of two processions that have been held in Moscow last Saturday. Observers believe that both the action "in the defense of children" in the Novopushkinsky square and the opposition "social march" were left indifferent Muscovites. According to the police, up to 12 thousand people took part in the Prochrevsky rally. The number who came to the action "For the rights of Muscovites" in law enforcement agencies is estimated at about a thousand people.

The official slogan of the Winter Olympiad in Sochi 2014 is “hot. Winter. Your”, which in September last year became a source of inspiration for numerous Russian wit due to its ambiguity, again attracted attention. Judging by the banners on the network, now he undergoes changes - and in some places it sounds in a new way.

The famous Russian sambist Alexander Emelianenko was fined 700 rubles for a drunken brawl on board the Moscow -Barnaul aircraft, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Barnaul transport prosecutor's office. The incident with Emelianenko occurred in December 2012 aboard Aeroflot aircraft flying to Barnaul, where a number of events were planned for the athlete. It is found guilty of petty hooliganism and fined 700 rubles.

The Moscow Basmanny Court refused to oblige the investigation to return the money that was withdrawn from him during the searches, having heard about their possible "Georgian" origin. The investigation “has reason to believe” that these funds could enter the search for Georgian politician Givi Targamadze and be intended to organize mass riots in the Russian Federation, investigator Dmitry Pleshivtsev said in court during the consideration of Yashin’s petition for a refund.