In Kazakhstan, on Sunday, elections are held in the lower house of parliament - Mazhilis. The voting president of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev reported on the site about future changes to the country's constitution - for a new balance of power.

In the match of the 21st round of the Russian football championship, which took place at the Start stadium in Saransk, the St. Petersburg Zenit with a score of 2: 0 won the Samara Club of the Wings of the Soviets. Both goals were scored in the first half: first, striker Artem Dziuba (20 ') distinguished himself, and then the Brazilian striker Hulk (26') realized the 11-meter blow.

The Russians Aleksandrov and Erofeev are convicted in Ukraine for terrorism, new lawyers are given, New Gazeta reports. Two claims to represent Sergeant Alexandrov instead of the mysteriously disappeared Yuri Grabovsky. According to the publication, the lawyer Valentin Rybin, as well as Viktor Chevguz, has documents for representing Alexandrov in court. Rybin is the lawyer of the Russian Oleg Khlyupin, also accused by the prosecutor's office of Ukraine of working on Russian GRU.

Forward of St. Petersburg SKA Ilya Kovalchuk, who missed several matches of the Gagarin Cup by decision of the coaching staff of the St. Petersburg club, together with the team is preparing for the final of the Western conference against CSKA. Kovalchuk watched the last three matches against Moscow Dynamo from the rostrum. These three meetings were won by the capital's club with a common difference of the goals 10: 1.

The Central Club "Houston Rockets" Dwight Howard used in the NBA match against Atlanta Hawks. In the game of the regular championship, the forward of the hosts Parquet Paul Millsep, performing penalties, drew the attention of the arbitrators to the fact that the ball was stained with a sticky substance. Judge Monty Makathen immediately headed for the benches of reserve to remind the teams that Stickum is prohibited in the NBA.

In Latvia, a policeman who left a commentary on the victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don can be fired in Latvia: his statement that there was "nothing to terrible" due to the death of Russian citizens in it caused a wide resonance. On Sunday, the Russian -speaking mayor of Riga Neil Ushakov on the Facebook page wrote that the police would decide on this subject. A sharp comment was left on his Facebook page by an employee of the municipal police Riga Janis Brushevits.

The on-board recorders from the Boeing-737 crashed in Rostov-on-Don were delivered to Moscow with a special side by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, TASS told the press service of the department. "The Ministry of Emergencies delivered two" black boxes "to Moscow. They were sent from the airport to the MAC ( Interstate Aviation Committee, approx. Ed. )," The agency’s interlocutor said. Sources note that on -board recorders were sealed at the crash site and in this form will go to the poppy.

A group of foreign experts arrived at Rostov-on-Don Airport to examine the crash site of the Boeing-737-800 aircraft. Interfax clarifies that 14 representatives of Flydubai, which belonged to the airliner, arrived at the airport. In the morning, the head of the Ministry of Transport Maxim Sokolov announced the completion of the search operation . The procedures began to identify the remains of the dead, which would take up to two weeks.

The UTAIR passenger 737-800 passenger Boeing 737-800, which, due to technical problems in the engine, decided to return to Moscow, safely made an emergency landing at the capital's airport. Earlier it was reported that Vnukovo was preparing for an emergency landing of the passenger aircraft of the UTAIR airline. TASS reported that Boeing 737-800 flew from Moscow to Surgut, but then the commander decided to return to the capital's airport.

The Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria in a traditional daily report on the Ministry of Defense warned about the likely preparation of terrorists in the province of Hama. “The terrorists do not leave attempts to disrupt the peace process in Syria.

The search operation at the crash site of the passenger aircraft Boeing 737-800 in Rostov-on-Don was completed, said the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov. In the evening, recovery work on the runway will begin, and on Monday morning, the airport should open to receive aircraft. "Now a meeting of the right to committee with the participation of federal and regional departments has been held.

The authorities of Turkey identified a suicide bomber who committed the onset of a terrorist attack on the main tourist street in Istanbul. He was a suspect in relations with the Islamic State group (IG, prohibited in the Russian Federation) Mehmet Oztyurk, Anadolu reports. Safety measures on Sunday were strengthened throughout Turkey, and a commandant hour was introduced in a number of regions of the country.

On Sunday, after completing work at the Boeing crash site, assumptions appeared at the Rostov-on-Don airport that explain the data on the behavior of the aircraft in the last minutes. A source of Interfax in the operational headquarters said that the plane fell into a corkscrew during a height. Perhaps the steering wheel was jammed. At the same time, TASS sources emphasized that there is no single understanding, and these are only assumptions.

The head of the TFR, Alexander Bastrykin, flew to Rostov-on-Don to coordinate the investigation of the Boeing’s crash, the Interfax and TASS source in the operational headquarters at the scene of the event told. Bastrykin will visit the Boeing’s crash site at the airport and will personally coordinate the course of the investigation of the plane crash. It is planned that he will hold a meeting where he hears reports on the progress of the investigation.

As a result of the explosion , who was arranged on Saturday by a suicide bomber in the center of Istanbul, also killed two citizens of the United States of America, Reuters reports with reference to the White House statement. “We are in contact with the Turkish authorities and confirm our readiness to conquer evil, which is terrorism,” said the press secretary of the US National Security Council, Nead Price, together with Turkey.