The Russian Ministry of Defense officially commented on the report of the journalistic group Bellingcat, dedicated to the participation of the Russian military in the delivery of Buk complexes to Donbass. According to one version, the Boeing 777 Malaysian liner was shot down from a similar system. The Report called the distorting objective facts and noted that it has an anti -Russian orientation.

On Sunday evening, the Monte Toledo tanker with a million barrels of Iranian oil arrived in Europe. This is the first tanker with oil from Iran since the removal of European sanctions from Tehran, which lasted four years, the Bloomberg agency notes. The arrival of MONTE TOLEDO to Europe means the return of Iran to the European oil market. Currently, the tanker is located in the Spanish port of Alkheisiras in southern Spain.

Rumors about the departure from the post of president of the largest Russian manufacturer of AvtoVAZ cars Bu Andersson were confirmed: the manager will leave the company, one of the shareholders of the Auto Concert - Renault said, TASS reports. "Today, the company Alliance Rostec Auto BV (AvtoVAZ management company includes the shares of Renault -Nissan and Rostec Group of Companies. - Notesru.com approaches that Bu Inge Andersson will leave the post of head of AvtoVAZ OJSC, Renault said.

The doping industry of the Russian figure skater Ekaterina Bobrova, taken at the European Championship at the end of January 2016 in Slovak Bratislava, gave a positive result. The athlete is temporarily suspended from speeches, Interfax reports. We are talking about a substance called Meldonium, which is part of the drug Milronate, prohibited for use from January 1, 2016. The World Anti -Doping Agency refers to Mildronate to the S4 category - hormones and metabolism modulators.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on March 7 discussed by telephone the issues of restoration of aviation communication and the fight against terrorism. In addition, the heads of state talked about the settlement of the Syrian issue. This was reported on the Kremlin website . "The current issues of Russian-Egyptian relations were discussed.

The Republic of Korea and the United States on Monday, March 7, begin large -scale joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, which will last until April 30. This year, more than 300 thousand South Korean and 15 thousand American military personnel will take part in them.

Russia continues to violate anti -doping rules, despite the removal of Russian athletes from participating in international athletics competitions. This statement was made by the German television channel ARD . On Sunday evening, on the air of the channel, the third film was shown from the series “Secret: Doping” called “Russian Distracting Maneen”, which presents data indicating that Russia continues to violate the anti -doping rules.

North Korea threatened the United States and South Korea with a “preventive nuclear blow” in response to the starting American-Switching military exercises. This is stated in the statement of the State Defense Committee of the DPRK, which was published by the Central Telegraph Agency of the DPRK (CAC). In the Committee’s statement, starting exercises are called “obvious training of nuclear war”, which threaten the sovereignty of the country.

Soon after the chairman of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, said that the Turkish capture of the country's chief opposition publication - Zaman newspaper will be discussed at the Summit joint with the European Union, other European politicians also criticized Ankara's actions in relation to journalists. In particular, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ero in an interview with the France Inter radio station noted that such behavior of Turkey is unacceptable and is contrary to European values.

The Kaluga-Riga line of the Moscow Metro "New Cheryomushki", previously closed due to a malfunction of the relay on Monday, again opened for passengers. As the official representatives of the information center of the Moscow Transport Department, as a result of the emergency , did not arise, there was no threat of passenger safety, and no one was injured.

More than 150 militants were killed when the American drone hit the camp of the Ash Shabab terrorist group in Khromali, Reuters reports with reference to the Pentagon representative of Jeff Davis. “It was a successful blow,” Davis emphasized. He noted that, according to American intelligence, the group was preparing for a "large -scale attack" and posed a threat to the United States and the forces of the African Union in Somalia.

The United States and Türkiye strengthen cooperation in Syria, say the media. The Americans have almost completed the construction of one air base in the north of the country - in the territory controlled by the Kurds, and began construction of the second, reports Reuters with reference to the Kurdish website of Basnews. In addition, the US Central Intelligence Department (CIA) and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (NRO) created a secret coordination center on the border with Syria.

On the evening of Monday, the ruble accelerated the strengthening in the conditions of the continuing increase in oil prices on the Moscow Exchange, updating the maximums of 2016, Interfax reports. The dollar and the euro are declining. The American currency cost 71.68 rubles as of 18:42 in Moscow, this is 29 kopecks below the level of closing of previous bidding. The course of a single European currency was at this point 78.66 rubles, having lost 54 kopecks.

The President of Ukraine made a letter to the United States and the EU countries with a request to increase pressure on Russia in order to liberate the Ukrainian pilot, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko. According to Interfax , Petro Poroshenko wrote about this on Monday on his Twitter. Poroshenko’s appeal is timed to the summit of the leaders of the European Union, which takes place in Brussels.

Two -thirds of Russians (62%) evaluate their financial situation as an average, less than a third (28%) - as a bad one and only 9%call their well -being good. These are the results of the survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) at the end of February, Interfax reports.