On March 18, 2015, the demobilization of military personnel drafted into the army began in Ukraine on March 17, 2014 as part of a partial mobilization. In the appendix to the decree signed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on January 14 , the need was separately discussed from March 18 to May 1, dismissal to the reserve of citizens who served a year.

Investigators released from the guards of the Coid member of the Coid tanker, Sergey Minakov, who served on the Feodosia Division of the Courts in the Black Sea, on charges of spying. It has been contained in Lefortovo since the end of January 2015. His lawyer Ivan Pavlov wrote on the social network : "Tomorrow they had to meet in a pre -trial detention center, which the investigator was warned yesterday.

“A year ago, a paradigm was adopted: for 23 years nothing was done in Sevastopol, nothing was invested, etc. In principle, the idea is correct, if you start investing heavily in infrastructure and say, look how everything has changed. However, something went wrong. Previously, we scolded patch repairs, but there was no money - we had to be content with little.

In Chelyabinsk, the prosecutor’s office and representatives of the authorities became interested in the drunkenness in one of the local kindergartens, in which the employee of the institution and his friends participated. As it turned out, the watchman, who was probably the initiator of the feast, has long been dismissed. But he and the leadership of the kindergarten can now threaten the punishment. Perhaps his sister is still working in the institution.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia published its report on compliance with human rights in the new Republic. According to the report, many critics of the regime were stolen and tortured, and the new authorities did not conduct public investigations of such cases, quoted the publication of DW . The independent press is forced to be silent, and the dissatisfied has a choice: to be silent or leave the peninsula.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg approved in the first reading the initiative of the Georgian deputy Vitaly Milonov about the tightening of the punishment for the manufacture of drugs. If the law is sent to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and there they will accept, then the manufacturers of the potion are facing a lifelong imprisonment, according to Fontanka.ru .

Estonian historians were unable to determine the purpose of the intermediary structure with a pipe next to the former Krenholm barracks on Khayla Street in Narva, reports Err.ee. In the register of monuments of antiquity, the building is listed as a stove. It was built at the end of the 19th century from red brick.

Negotiations on reducing prices for Russian gas for Turkey, the success of which was announced in early February, came to a standstill, the Kommersant newspaper reports with reference to Turkish sources. According to the experts with whom the publication spoke, Ankara uses the gas pipeline factor to facilitate the position of local importers suffering from the weakening of the lyre.

On the afternoon of March 18, a number of Russian media have distributed information about the fee of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak for participating in the play "Marriage" based on the play by Gogol on the stage of the Theater of Nations. According to the terms of the contract, for seven months, Sobchak will receive approximately 310 thousand rubles. Some publications called this amount quite high, which caused surprise among the artistic director of the theater Yevgeny Mironov.

“During our lives, Boris Nemtsov and I were not close friends, we professed different political views, although in recent years we often found ourselves on the same side of the barricade and treated each other with respect. But on the last day of winter, he was meanly, treacherously, shot in the back. Those who did this, thus silenced him, because neither threats and repression, nor bribery and slander could force him to change his views.

The midfielder of the Spanish “Villarreal” and the Russian national football team Denis Cheryshev left for three weeks due to an injury to the top of the tin, the Spanish edition of Marca reports.

In the Omsk region, the court sentenced the resonant criminal case, initiated against Yan Lebedov, who was called the son of criminal authority of gypsy nationality in the press. The man was found guilty of shooting near the nightclub, as a result of which the boxer with the championship title Ivan Klimov was seriously injured. After some time, the athlete was stabbed, and this crime remains unsolved.

On Wednesday, March 18, hundreds of left activists staged a protest against the European Central Bank policy near the new ECB building, the opening ceremony of which should be held today, Der Tagesspiegel reports. The protesters broke through the police cordon and set fire to several cars. During the riots, 88 police officers were injured. The police detained about 350 protests. Activists talk about the victims in their ranks from tear gas.

The French comedian of Cameruns from Dyedonne Mbal Mbal, who allowed on his Facebook an ambiguous statement about the flash mob "I - Charlie" ("Je Suis Charlie"), received a prison term - though conditional. According to Le Monde , the comedian was given two months. According to France24 , this is a conditional term. The accusation demanded that Dedonne fined 30 thousand euros, but the judges in this case did not consider this necessary.

The ABC news helicopter filmed the dramatic pursuit of the young violator of the rules of the road, which ended incredibly successfully for him, given that the machine has turned into a pile of scrap metal. The pursuit began when the police tried to stop the Nissan SUV for speeding in the California city of Vakaville. But the driver chose to accelerate at 150 km/h.