Against the background of reports on the introduction of the visa -free regime of the EU with Moldova and the Western concern about the possible attempt of Moscow to join the Transnistria of the authorities of the unrecognized republic in the near future, will announce the complete rupture of all kinds of contacts with Chisinau.

Along with the news of the closure of the Prokhorovsky project of the hybrid “Yo-Mobil”, it became known that the project of the first Russian supercar, apparently, also ended. One of the forum users on Cardesign.ru reported on Saturday that Marussia Motors fired employees without paying salaries over the past two months.

Brazilian striker of the Krasnodar football club Vanderon said that he was not averse to accepting Russian citizenship and protecting the colors of the national team of the Russian Federation. “I must say right away that if I were offered to accept Russian citizenship, I would agree. I would have played with great pleasure for the Russian team,” Vanderon said in an interview with ITAR -TASS .

The ex-prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko arrived in Donetsk, where the rally of the pro-Russian residents of the region, who seized the building of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, after which the independent Donetsk republic was held on the eve.

Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in an article on the policy of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, "the war is nearing: why it is impossible to appease the crazy king of Russia" in the publication Foreign Policy with regrets, in connection with the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation, that the West is still incorrectly interpreting Putin's aggression or seeking her an excuse.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill drawn a parallel between the recent riots in Kyiv and the events of the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. "Most of us can even imagine what a revolution is.

Canada announced her desire in the coming years to export liquefied gas (LNG) to Europe in order to diversify the export of hydrocarbons. This is reported by the Kommersant newspaper with reference to Fox News, said Canadian Foreign Minister John Bard. "Of course, in the coming years we would like to export natural gas from our Atlantic coast, and the European market market is very attractive in this regard," Bard said in an interview with the American television channel.

The entry of Crimea into Russia is a geopolitical fact, de jure or de facto recognized by the majority of countries, says Vitaly Churkin’s permanent representative to the UN. He stated this the day before on the NTV channel. “This is a new geopolitical fact: Crimea has become part of Russia.

The Russian stock market in the middle of the day on Monday after three weeks of increased underwent a new mass sale, Interfax reports. Analysts believe that the new wave of the fall of the Russian stock market is caused by incoming news from Ukraine, primarily from the southeastern regions of this country, where mass rallies against the current Ukrainian authorities, which ended with the seizure of a number of administrative buildings, passed on the weekend.

In Odessa, at a peaceful rally, in support of Ukraine, activists of the local Antimaydan were detained - the movements of pro -Russian Ukrainians who got up in a tent camp on Kulikovo Square. Three armed young people with imperial symbols were stopped by self -defense forces and transferred to the police. Meanwhile, Odessa "Anti -Maidan" threatens to strengthen its camp. A rally organized by supporters of the new Ukrainian authorities was held at the Dyuk monument in Odessa.

Czech President Milos Zeman said that in the event of an invasion of Russia to the east of Ukraine, NATO should be placed his troops in Ukrainian territory. "If Russia decides to expand the territorial expansion to Eastern Ukraine , then it will be finished with jokes.

The FSB officers and police detained an arms enterprise employee in the Kirov region, who stole one and a half hundred parts of combat firearms during the year. The attacker attacked components for the manufacture of Tokarev pistols to his body using adhesive tape. In the embezzlement of trunks from TT pistols, the master of one of their workshops of the Vyatskopolyansky Machine -Building Plant "Molot" is suspected, the official website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

The head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vasiliev, sued a million rubles from publicist Viktor Schenderovich for incorrect statements to the parliamentarian in one of the journalist's publications. The blog entry, which became the occasion for the judicial lawsuit, was associated with the previous material of the writer about the parallels between the games of 1936 in Germany and the Olympics in Sochi, around which a whole scandal erupted.

The South African paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius apologized at a court meeting for the relatives of his girlfriend Riva Sting, whose murder he is accused. On Monday, in the high court of Praetory, the trial of the athlete resumed. Earlier, the court was postponed for a week due to the illness of one of the trial, ITAR-TASS reports. “There was not a minute since the tragedy, so that I did not think about the Riva family,” the runner turned to the relatives of Stempamp during the hearing.

Fans to verify the strength smartphones subjected a number of tests to new flagship models of Samsung ( Galaxy S5 ) and HTC ( One M8 ). The third participant in the test was the iPhone 5s. During the "crash test", smartphones were first thrown on the asphalt from a height of one meter. All three participants without consequences withstood this fall: the damage was limited only to small scratches.