“Putin, to put it bluntly, publicly admits that Russia considers itself to have the right, in certain circumstances, to carry out armed intervention in the affairs of other states - because nothing more than an act of armed intervention in the affairs of another state, a military special operation to save the former President Yanukovych cannot be named.

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced the spiritual mentor of the Islamist Association “Muslim Brothers” by Muhammad Badia and another 13 of its leaders prohibited in Egypt, Reuters reports with reference to their sources. They were found guilty of creating the so -called operational headquarters in August 2013 during the dispersal of Islamist rallies in Cairo, organized after the removal of Islamists from power in the country and their protege, President Muhammad Mursi.

The Stockholm International Institute for Research of Peace Problems (Sipri) on Monday, March 16, published another report on the state of world trade in weapons. According to him, the total volume of transactions in 2010-2014 increased by 16% compared to the previous period-2005-2009. In the study, the five largest exporters in this area in the world are named: the USA, Russia, China, Germany and France.

The new head of the Moscow Culture Department Alexander Kibovsky held the first meeting in a new position. The meeting was devoted to the problems of the Department, in particular, the issues that the auditors arose for the previous period of the work of the department when they were led by Sergey Kapkov . Kibovsky said that he would have to report to the capital’s control committee about where 4.3 billion rubles were spent by the department entrusted to him.

Removing from the air of the BBC television program about Top Gear cars due to the scandal with the participation of the leading Jeremy Clarkson catastrophically brought the ratings of the British broadcasting corporation, reports The Telegraph . It is worth noting that the leadership of the media giant decided not only to remove Clarkson from filming, but also to prohibit the display of ready -made program issues.

The supply of gas from Hungary to Ukraine reached a record level, RIA Novosti reports. At six in the morning of March 16, the volume of gas supplies from Hungary to the Ukrainian GTS amounted to 7.4 million cubic meters per day, Ukrtransgaz said on its website. Until March 12, blue fuel to Ukraine received 0.72 million cubic meters. m per day.

Tour operators who specialized in foreign tourism, in the new summer season, gave preference to domestic tourism. Now they are actively buying rooms in hotels and are going to attract customers all inclusive packages, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Many players of the domestic Tur -Machine will try to work with Russian hotels according to the same scheme, according to which they work with Turkish and Egyptian.

State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon, after a tragic incident in Chita, where stray dogs were biting a nine -year -old child, spoke out for the ruthless destruction of homeless animals, so that this would not happen again. “Attention to this problem it was necessary to pay earlier and not to wait for this, but since this happened, it is necessary to take cardinal measures, dogs need to be caught and destroyed,” Kobzon said at a meeting with reporters on March 16, commenting on the Chita tragedy.

“At the moment I am writing this, Putin has not yet appeared and discussing versions of his disappearance is absolutely pointless. There is no information, and the versions themselves reflect only the extent of the imagination of their authors, the degree of their assimilation of detective literature and the desire to demonstrate that they know something, what no one knows. However, regardless of how and when it all ends, some very important conclusions can be drawn now. First and foremost.

The World Boxing Association (WBA) world champion 35-year-old Russian Denis Lebedev (28-2-0, 15 KOs) will hold his next fight on April 10 in Moscow, the official website of the Boxing Mir promotion company reports. His rival will be the 26-year-old Frenchman of Congolese descent Jouri Kalenga (21-1-0, 14 KOs), who is the temporary champion according to the version of the World Boxing Association (WBA) in the same weight.

The National Armed Forces of Latvia noticed on March 16 near the Latvian exclusive economic zone two Russian submarines of the Kili class, as well as a hydrographic ship, are indicated by the records on the Twitter of the department ( 1 , 2 ). The first Russian submarine was identified at a distance of 27 sea miles from the boundary of territorial waters, and the second - at a distance of 30 miles.

Residents of the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk Region, which is under the control of the Kyiv authorities, rebelled after the eight -year -old girl died under the caterpillars of the landing vehicle of the landing (BMD) on March 16. The spontaneously gathered people lit tires near the hostel, in which Ukrainian security forces are stationed (according to other sources - the hostel was thrown with bottles with incendiary mixture), the Vesti correspondent reports.

The second airborne helicopter -bearer type Mistral called "Sevastopol" on March 16 went on running tests. They will last until March 21, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an anonymous source. There are no representatives of the Russian side on board. According to Marinetraffic , at 15:13 the ship began movement. In February, the ship’s on -board equipment began to transmit a signal for the international automatic identification system (Automatic Identification System, AIS).

The Government of the Russian Federation, as part of the anti -crisis plan, will allocate 20 billion rubles of subsidies to system -forming industrial enterprises in 2015 to reimburse part of the costs of loans. The corresponding resolution was posted on Monday on the Cabinet's website, TASS reports. "Financing will be ensured from the funds of the anti -crisis fund provided for by the federal budget for 2015," the report said.

A criminal case has been instituted in the capital against two workers from Moldova, who stole the copper details of the thermonuclear attitude of the NIC Institute of the Kurchatov Institute. As investigators suggest, daring thieves carried away metal in tons. So far, two foreign workers appear in the investigation materials. But they had unidentified accomplices, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.