Aeroflot - Russian Airlines celebrates its anniversary on March 17. It was on this day 90 years ago that the Russian Joint -Stock Company of the Voluntary Air Fleet was established - Dobrolet, which became the ancestor of Aeroflot, ITAR -TASS reports. In the country that survived the revolution and the civil war, to the new type of movement - aviation, they were enthusiastic.

Five people suspected of group rape of a Swiss tourist on Friday were guilty, Interfax reports with reference to the British TV channel Sky News . “We detained five people, and they admitted that they rape a woman and an attack on her husband,” the police said, adding that the search for the sixth criminal was continuing. “They passed by, noticed a pair that installed the tent, and decided to attack them,” the police said.

The government of President Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis lacks just one vote in parliament to adopt a law on the introduction of tax on bank deposits that shocked Cypriots . His right -centric party DISI and Democratic wildly have 28 seats, and 29 votes need to make a decision, RIA Novosti notes. However, there is still time to resolve the issue. According to the Air Force, the Cyprus parliament postponed an emergency meeting on Monday.

The Russian dance duet of Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyova won the bronze medal at the World Cup in the Canadian city of London, scoring in the sum of a short and arbitrary programs of 169.19 points. The champions of the planet were the Americans Mril Davis and Charlie White (189.56), "silver" at the owners of the ice of Canadians Tesa Virchu and Scott Moira (185.04).

The Syrian opposition claims that the army general of Bashar al -Assad passed to its side. According to various sources, his title may be Major General or British General. Representatives of the opposition say that his name is Mohammed Nur Ezz al-Din Haluf. His son, the captain of the Syrian army, fled with him, who says that he commanded a reconnaissance detachment, as well as a wife and two more children. The video of the general’s statement showed the Arab television channel Al-Arabiya.

The current world champion German Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull won the qualification of the first stage of the Australian Grand Prix season. “I was able to two good attempts: one on intermediate tires, the second on slugs, and both passed without problems. The car was balanced in about the same way as on Friday, so I was ready to attack. In such conditions, it is difficult to find the limit of the capabilities of the car, but in general I am pleased with my circle,” told Vettel to reporters.

Russian Citizen Samir S. admitted in the family in Gdansk, which was completely murdered in Gdansk last week, Interfax reports with reference to the Polish newspaper "Gazeta Vy We". The suspect was detained in the Polish city of Elblong on Friday. It is expected that in the near future a decision will be made on his arrest. "The detained Russian already packed things and was ready to leave Poland.

The famous criminal murderer Albetan Alcetan Rhytai, when a failed attempt to escape from prison in Greece, captured and continues to hold six guards from the night, including several guards. Albanian claims that he has a grenade and he will blow her up if he is not allowed to leave. Ritai is running from a Greek prison for the third time. The police special forces took up positions around the Malenino prison in Central Greece.

In Buryatia, eight people who went through Baikal by cars from one settlement to another are looking for eight people. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. "Eight people left on two cars from the village of Ust -Barguzin to the city of Severobaikalsk and were supposed to follow the water area of ​​Lake Baikal," the agency’s interlocutor said. However, people did not arrive at the destination. Their relatives turned to the police and rescuers.

The Government of the Russian Federation does not support the bill allowing the retail sale of alcohol products through auto -stores, introduced by the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region. Legislators were prevented to correct article 16 of the Federal Law "On State Regulation of the Production and Turnover of Ethyl Alcohol and Alcohol Products".

At the final stage of the World Cup, which ended in Khanty-Mansiysk, our biathlonists failed to get into the winners. In women, the race from a general start of 12.5 km in Khanty-Mansiysk won Gabriela Soucalova from the Czech Republic, the second was finished by the Frenchwoman Marie Doren Aber, and the winner of the winners was closed by the Finnish Kaisa Myakyanyen. Russian woman Olga Vilukhina (two misses) became the fourth, lagging behind the winner for 26 seconds.

French President Francois Hollande, speaking on Sunday at a panachid in memory of the victims of the Toulouse Strelka , promised the families of the dead that the investigation would shed light on all circumstances of the crime committed in March last year. An attack on a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse occurred on March 19, 2012. The criminal on a scooter drove up to the building and opened shooting at a group of students, parents and teachers.

Moscow meteorologists, after a record snowfall, summed up the results of winter in the metropolitan region: precipitation fell almost twice as much as the norm. According to meteorological studies of several metropolitan observatories, the growth of snow in the capital during the winter season of 2012/2013 was 279 cm, the Interfax reported on Sunday in the Hydrometeorological Department of Moscow and the Moscow Region.

Another French soldier died during the battles with Islamic extremists in the north of Mali, Francois Holland President Francois Olland in an official communique said on Sunday. Details of a lethal incident are not given. The President expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased 24-year-old corporal. The French Ministry of Defense also reported that three more French soldiers were injured, two of them were seriously injured, Interfax reports.

Former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, now protecting the colors of the Italian Milan, said that many stories about his stormy life were invented by journalists who have very stormy fantasy. In January, the “Citizens” decided to sell the 22-year-old striker , who ugly spent the first half of the season, having regular problems with discipline.