The ex-coach of Milan and the Italian team Arrigo Sakki said that there are too many black players in Italian football, RIA Novosti reports. The specialist made a similar statement after attending the awarding ceremony of participants in the youth football tournament in the city of Viaredgio. “Italy has no dignity and pride. Of course, I’m not a racist, and this is proved by my career, for example, working with Frank Raidard, but look at the tournament in Viasaredo.

On the eve of the beginning of the next, fifth, season of the most rating television series Game of Thrones, which starts on April 12, some leading actors spoke out on the abundance of scenes with naked women in the series.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, who spoke on Tuesday in Moscow at a meeting of the Supreme Church Council, expressed the hope that the agreements reached the other day in Minsk will lead to the final end of the war in Ukraine. “We especially welcome the steps that have been outlined, and we hope that the blood will cease to spill,” the interfax -religion portal quotes the words of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Chinese National Meteorological Center (NMC) made a warning about the possible deterioration of the quality of its weather forecasts in connection with problems in the Russian economy and, in particular, with the fall of the ruble. "Our weather forecasts can be less accurate due to the recent fall of the ruble," the center said in the NMC page on the Weibo social network (Chinese Analogue Twitter).

The Muslim theologian from Saudi Arabia Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari "denied" the doctrine that the Earth rotates around the Sun. The earth, according to him, is motionless, and the sun rotates around it. He stated this in an interview with Saudi students, answering the question of one of the students. A video with a record of his reasoning, which was published on the Al Arabia News portal, caused a lot of comments on social networks.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree "On the timing of the next calls of citizens of Ukraine for military service and dismissal to the reserve of military personnel in 2015." This is stated on the website of the head of state. The next two calls of Ukrainians for military service will be held in April-May and October-November.

The French government forced the adoption of a package of liberal economic bills, the so -called "Macron Law". In response to this, the Opposition Party "Union for the People's Movement" (UMP) put forward a vote of no confidence in the government. The consideration of the "Macron Law" has been suspended, RFI reports with reference to AFP.

The Russians recently began to prefer cheap air travel: without the possibility of returning a ticket, without food and with joints, but cheaper. More than half of the air tickets, travelers buy up to 10 thousand rubles in a low price segment, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The author of the article analyzes changes in the cost of tickets and the demand for them over the past year on online booking services.

Princeton University (New Jersey) announced on Monday about receiving the most expensive gift in his history - a collection of rare books and manuscripts with a total valuation value of almost $ 300 million, TASS reports. This offer, as stated, was made a graduate of this educational institution, who graduated from it in 1936, William Shade. In November last year, he died of the age of 100 years, bequeathing his book collection to the university.

On February 16, on the eve of the arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hungary, a protest was held in Budapest against this visit, DW reports. According to the AFP agency, about 2,000 people took part in the demonstration organized by the Human-Platform protest movement. The action took place under the slogan: “Putin - no, Europe - yes,” some of its participants held Ukrainian flags in their hands.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich took part in the Posner program on Channel One. In an interview, he spoke about the reasons influencing oil prices, about the fair oil value, about the "negative growth" of salaries, as well as the increase in prices for goods within Russia.

A lot of videos appeared in the Chinese blogosphere, in which people dance under the famous song "Papa Si and Mom Pan", which became extremely popular in China. It describes the greatness of the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping, as well as his warm relations with his wife Pan Luian. In February 2015, dances were also added to the laudatory song - several videos of the Chinese dancing under the song appeared on the Internet.

The salary arrears in the Russian Federation according to the data on February 1, 2015 amounted to 2 billion 507 million rubles, increasing from January 1, 2015 by 457 million rubles, or by 22.8%. This, as Interfax reports, says the materials of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Expensible wage arrears due to the lack of own funds from organizations on February 1, 2015 amounted to 2 billion 470 million rubles, or 98.5% of the total amount of overdue debt.

On Monday, the Kaliningrad Regional Court sentenced a resident of the regional capital, who was found guilty of rape and murder of a young woman. The crime was committed in the park, which the townspeople dubbed a "bloody triangle." By a court decision, the accused Ruslan Kozubaev will spend 20 years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony, the official website of the regional prosecutor's office reports.

Air strikes inflicted on the air forces of Egypt on Monday, according to the positions of the militants of the Islamic State group in Libya in revenge for execution of 21 kopts, were not part of the efforts of the US Coalition headed by the militants. This was announced by ABC News by a senior representative of the US Department of Defense.