Yatsenyuk announced the refusal of Kyiv to recognize the Crimean referendum. The authorities of Ukraine, like the government of many other countries , consider the referendum illegitimate, reports Interfax . "Crimea is the territory of the Ukrainian state. Our citizens are located there. There is no recognition of the so -called referendum and will not be.

Russian followers of the Christian movement "Fokolyar" celebrated its 70th anniversary on the eve of Moscow. The festive meeting in the Russian-German house was timed to the day of memory of the founder of Fokolyar Chiara Lyubich . The movement arose during the Second World War in the Italian city of Trento, in the bosom of the Catholic Church. The movement unites both priests and laity.

“Today the Paralympics are closing in Sochi. On the one hand, it was a sporting event: it’s always a pleasure to cheer for our athletes, and this time the Russian team was ahead of everyone else by a wide margin. On the other hand, this is certainly a cultural event. The event is an occasion to think and feel something unusual towards disabled people. Not sympathy or pity, no.

The first and only president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev expressed the opinion that threats to Russia's sanctions for the referendum in Crimea are unlawful. “There should be very serious reasons for the announcement of sanctions,” he said. At the same time, according to Gorbachev, the will of the people of Crimea, which ended with the “success that meets the aspirations of the Crimeans,” is not such a basis.

Harvard-Smithsonovsky Center for Astrophysics held on Monday, March 17, a press conference at which a “big discovery” was announced. American astrophysicists, having studied the data collected in the Bicep2 Antarctic Observatory, were first able to find a direct and unexpectedly “bright” evidence that gravitational waves generated by a large explosion exist. Astrophysics working at the American station in Antarctica, near the South Pole of the Earth, shared their successes, Reuters reports.

The metropolitan police detained three members of a criminal group who hunted street robberies. He leded by Borsterniki, who are natives of Georgia, the 31-year-old criminal authority Georgy Merabovich Mukbaniani, nicknamed Gishasho. It was established that the gang of Gishasho committed crimes on the territory of the Western, North-West, Trinity and Novomoskovsky districts of the capital, the official website of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

In the National Museum of Arts. Bogdan and Barbara Khanenko, under the control of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, returned 10 artwork, the total estimated value of which exceeded 28 million hryvnias (about $ 3 million), reports Newsru.ua . According to the press service of the Ministry of Culture on Monday, March 17, since 2013, artistic canvases of world painters have been in representative premises on the street. Bankova, 10 ("House with chimeras").

Vaishnavas, followers of one of the most numerous Hindu traditions, are noted today by Gaurapurnim, or the appearance of Sri Caitanya, who is considered the merciful embodiment of Sri Krishna. Gaurapurnima is also sometimes called the "Bengal New Year", since it is Bengal (the historical part of India) that is more closely associated with the name Chatanya, the most outstanding religious figure of the Indian Middle Ages. Vaishnavas themselves are better known in the Western world as Krishnas.

The new Ukrainian authorities accused Russia of gross violation of the agreement on the basing of the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine. The statement from Kiev was made against the backdrop of the decision of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to modernize and strengthen the southern naval borders of the country.

The Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IPPO) intends to open a branch of the organization in Sevastopol. This was announced on Monday at a press conference in Moscow by the deputy head of the IPPO Elena Agapova. "The history of Ippo is inextricably linked with the Crimea as part of the Russian Empire, where the Tauride department of the IPPO has been operating since 1900. We want to revive this tradition," the AGAPOVA word portal quoted.

A resident of Shanghai, apparently, committed suicide after parting with a young man, publishing each of her step on Instagram. The tragedy occurred on the eve of March 8. True, there is still some hope that this is just a cruel rally, but quite a lot of time has passed, and there is no confirmation of a saving guess.

Japanese automaker Honda is recalling nearly 900,000 minivans in the United States. The Honda Odyssey is believed to have a defective fuel pump. This could lead to a fire, BFM reports, citing AFP. Honda sent a notice to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The company stressed that there have been no reports of injuries or fires that could have been caused by a crack in the fuel pump filter cap. Cracks form due to the damaging effects of acidic chemicals and high temperature.

If Russia accepts Crimea in its composition, this will be the first accession of the territory of another state in modern Russian history. Moscow recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia by independent states, but refused to accept them as new regions. But the peninsula has a chance to become the 22nd Republic as part of the Russian Federation, experts of Kommersant believe.

The United States, which withdrawn troops from Iraq, continue to supply weapons to this country. This is evidenced by the message published on the website of the US Embassy in Baghdad. So, recently, the United States put in Iraq the next batch of weapons and ammunition, including about a hundred high-precision missiles of the Hellfire Air-Earth to combat a terrorist threat.

One of the leaders of forest management in the Khabarovsk Territory was detained on suspicion of organizing organized crime groups. Investigators in Khabarovsk opened a criminal case on the organization of organized crime groups, which was engaged in illegal logging in the territory of the Nanai district of the Khabarovsk Territory, the leader of the community was arrested. “The leader of the group is one of the leaders of the forests of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory.