The upcoming weekend in Moscow promise to be rich in political emotions. The city will take place at once several mass shares agreed with the authorities dedicated to the events in the Crimea, and, in particular, the upcoming referendum on the status of the region. In this regard, additional security measures will be taken in the center of the capital. Dozens of metal detectors will be installed on the streets.

The political disagreements between Moscow and London, caused by the crisis in Ukraine, will not interfere with the cross -country culture of Russia and Great Britain, whether Gibson, the executive director of the Cultural Festival program from the British Council, is considered. She took part in on Thursday evening in the premises of the Kalvert 22 London Cultural Foundation Presentation of the Russia Visualized project (“depicted Russia”).

In 2013, the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) received 15.9 million applications for the transfer of pension savings to non -state pension funds and management companies, Prime reported with reference to the deputy chairman of the board of the Russian Pension Fund Nikolai Kozlov. At the same time, according to him, at the beginning of 2014, the number of applications for the transfer of savings decreased sharply.

Residents of the United States believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently a stronger leader in the country than their own head of state Barack Obama, testify to a survey conducted by the British company YouGov together with The Economist magazine. The survey was held on March 8-10, 2014 and was dedicated to the situation in Ukraine - 1000 US citizens answered questions from sociologists.

The draft resolution on the situation in Ukraine, which was represented by representatives of the United States at a meeting of the UN Security Council, the Russian authorities criticized for isolation from the "existing realities." The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs especially condemned the resolution, according to which the results of the referendum in the Crimea should not be recognized as members of the Security Council.

So far, in the UN Security Council, recent attempts to prevent the Crimean referendum are making, large -scale “combat” actions have already unfolded in cyberspace. Two days before the popular vote, the website of the President of Russia and the Central Bank were subjected to attacks. The conditional opponent also carries losses - the work of a number of Internet media is disturbed. “There is a powerful attack on the site .

The headquarters of the Livejournal service, in accordance with the order of Roskomnadzor, decided to restrict the access to the blog under house arrest of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, ITAR-TASS PR-director of the joint company "Poster -rambler-Sup" Sofia Ivanova.

On Thursday, the Italian police detained Fumicino at Rome at the 31-year-old former assistant to the head of government Silvio Berlusconi. In the luggage of the ex-model Federic Galardi, tens of kilograms of drugs were discovered, La Repubblica writes. A spectacular woman who, according to rumors, was in a love affair with her boss Berlusconi, brought a smuggled load from Karakas (the capital of Venezuela).

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation prepared a package of documents aimed at protecting schoolchildren from dangerous information that is posted on the Internet, said the head of the department Dmitry Livanov.

The Paralympic team of Ukraine intends to arrange protests during the awarding ceremony of the winners of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, the Sports.ru portal found out. This was stated by the Minister of Youth and Sports of the country Dmitry Bulatov. "He talked with the president of the National Sports Committee of the disabled Ukraine Valery Sushkevich, who is now in Sochi, together with our Paralympic team.

On Friday, the website of the Russian Newspaper appeared an article by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, from which it follows that Russia plans to pay close attention to the development of the Arctic and the development of mineral extraction technologies. In the article, under the heading “look into the abyss”, Deputy Prime Minister talks about the prospects for expanding the Russian presence in the Arctic and further development of the shelf.

A criminal case was opened against the head of the Yakut village of Tiksi Sergey Ligiev on charges of negligence, due to which a nine-year-old girl died as a result of an attack by stray dogs, he was detained, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Yakutia reports. "At the request of the investigator, the Bulunsky district court against the head of the village, a preventive measure was elected in the form of house arrest," the report said.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was outraged by the fact that some passengers of Russian flights were not allowed into the territory of Ukraine. For the past ten days, 49 people were gaining. The Russian Foreign Ministry sent a note of protest to the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow, calling the actions of the border services of Ukraine "provocative".

On Friday, a delegation of the capital of Yakutia arrived in an official visit to the United States. With the blessing of the head of the Yakut and Lensky diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Roman Roman, the delegation was part of the diocese, Jerodyacon Simeon (Berezkin). The official visit has a visit to a number of cities and territories related to the history of spiritual and cultural relations between Russia and the USA.

As of March 1, 685 credit organizations out of 910, or 75.3%were profitable in Russia. In February, the number of profitable credit organizations was reduced by 18, reports the Finmarket IA with reference to the data of the Bank of Russia. The total donalog profit received by profitable banks amounted to 184.305 billion rubles on March 1, 2014 - 7.5% more than on March 1, 2013. The total donalog loss was reduced by 28.1% to 14.453 billion rubles from 20.113 billion as of March 1, 2013.