The Ulyanovsk participants in the All -Russian campaign “The Total Dictation” wrote under dictation not the text of Dina Rubina , like all Russians, but Vasily Peskov - by decision of the local governor Sergey Morozov, who does not like the eminent writer for “non -normative vocabulary” in her books, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian women's hockey team in the quarter -final match of the World Cup won the Switzerland team with a score of 2: 1 (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 1) and entered the semi -finals of the competition. In the 13th minute of the meeting, Tatyana Burina brought our team forward, but in the second period the rival was able to restore equality. However, the last word remained for the Russians: Ekaterina Smolentseva in the 49th minute of the game inflicted a decisive throw.

The Pentagon decided to postpone the planned test launch of the Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile, so as not to strengthen the tension on the Korean peninsula in the light of recent provocative actions and statements from the DPRK. This was announced on the basis of anonymity by a representative of the US defense department on Saturday.

In the north-east of Moscow, a foreign car shot down three people at a pedestrian crossing. As ITAR -TASS reported in the press service of the metropolitan police, one of the victims - a pregnant woman - died on the spot. The incident occurred at about 18:00 Moscow time. Near the house 36 in the passage of Shokalsky. The Ford Focus car shot down three people at an unregulated pedestrian crossing.

More than 100 British military personnel of the famous Koldstream Guards Regiment of Her Majesty got sick with scabies, the Air Force said. The corporation clarifies that "the boss of the regiment - Elizabeth II - did not suffer." There are no struck by the scabies among members of the royal family, ITAR-TASS reports. The carrier carrier is a tick.

The famous bike lover Lance Armstrong, life -disqualified for the use of doping, appealed to the Texas court with a request to refuse the SCA Promotions to a lawsuit against him. The company from Dallas in court requires an exercise bike to more than $ 12 million prizes paid to him for victory in Tour de France. SCA Promotions insists that the athlete made fraud, hiding the fact of doping.

In Alma-Ata, March 31 , Mirzaev returned to a large sport after an almost two-year break . The Dagestan, a unanimous decision of the judges defeated the local fighter Yerzhan Esktanov. “Now his speeches will be held in mixed martial arts and sambo combat,” athlete Kamil Gadzhiev said to Championat.com . “In the last three years, Rasul has achieved the greatest successes in sambo.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on Sunday, on the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will make a solemn service in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and, according to the current tradition, will release into the sky above the Cathedral Square of white pigeons, RIA Novosti reports. Annunciation is one of the 12 main church holidays.

The head of the US State Department, John Kerry, arrived in Turkey on Sunday for negotiations with the country's leadership. It is expected that the Secretary of State will hold negotiations with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country's foreign minister Akhmet Davutoglu, Interfax reports. The main topics of the discussion will be the situation in Syria and the process of peaceful settlement in the Middle East.

In the apartment in the north of Moscow, the owner of the apartment found the body of the tenant with gunshot wounds in the chest and head. According to the results of the examination, the death of a woman occurred about a week ago, reports M24 . According to the source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, on Saturday night a man turned to the police who said that he discovered the corpse of the tenant in the house of the apartment 8 on the Aviation Lane.

Dutchman Richard de Vit admitted to the murder of a tourist from the UK in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph . It is reported that he inflicted 45 blows with a knife. As reported, the 24-year-old citizen of Great Britain, the fitness instructor Sarah Elizabeth Gruvz, was discovered by a murdered in a pool of blood in his floating house on the lake, gave in the vicinity of the city of Srinar (Jamma and Kashmir).

Mikhail Lashkov “Of course, the figures announced by Vladimir Vladimirovich, to put it mildly, raise doubts.

In the mountains of Khakassia, a tourist who fell under the snow avalanche was discovered by the dead, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. "At 08:30 Moscow time, the search and rescue work was completed. The body of the deceased was extracted," the department informed. As ITAR-TASS recalls, an accident occurred the night before in the Askiz district of Khakassia, where four inhabitants of the Kemerovo region rested, rushing on snowmobiles.

President Putin, starting on Saturday, his two-day blitz-visits in Europe , is preparing to meet the protesters. If in Germany the President of Russia, as expected, will meet the protesters against the pressing of NPOs, then the law on the prohibition of homosexual propaganda should be the main topic of protest in the Netherlands.

The temporarily acting President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, threatened the ancient curses for those voters who would not vote for him in extraordinary presidential elections scheduled for April 14. He compared his main enemy, a candidate for the post of head of state from opposition Enrique Caprileus with the Spanish conquistadors, who in the XV-XVI centuries won the territories of Central and South America. Earlier, the successor of Hugo Chavez compared opponents with Hitler's heirs .