The Union of the skaters of Russia ( TFR ) decided not to renew contracts with the head coach of the Short Treku team Frenchman Sebastian Cros and coach Ursula Kaminskaya. Andrei Maksimov was appointed acting head coach. “It's time to work for our coaches. This, one might say, is a kind of import substitution, plus the language factor is also important,” explained the President of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the R -Sport agency.

A series of terrorist attacks on March 22 in Brussels, the responsibility for which the Islamic State terrorist group ( Daish , is prohibited in the Russian Federation), gave rise to assumptions about the further plans of the terrorists. According to one version, IS is going to continue to sow chaos in Europe, undermining the faith of the population into the possibility of protection by the government and filling out a formed vacuum.

Boris Grebenshchikov and the Aquarium group, having arrived on March 22 to Samara, staged a short street concert on the October Embankment of the Volga at the foot of the stele "Rook", performing the song "Dog Waltz". It was a traditional promotion before a big concert, which, according to the Samara News website, will take place today, March 23, in the Samara District House of Officers (ODO). Tickets for a performance in ODO cost from 1000 to 3800 rubles, the portal "Regionsamara.ru" notes.

“Today in Krasnodar there is a trial of Daria Polyudova, a Kuban activist who opposes the crimes of the Putin regime. Daria is being tried for courage and disobedience, despite six months spent in an FSB detention center, Daria did not admit her guilt and did not testify against her comrades.

The municipal police officer Riga, who made insulting comments on the victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don, decided to quit after a conversation with the authorities. The mayor of the Latvian capital, Neil Ushakov, reported this on his Facebook .

The American Association of Soundwriting Companies stated: for the first time in the history of distribution on the Internet of musical content, listening to music via the Internet began to bring more profits than downloading. According to Vulture , in the American musical industry, the gap in profitability was almost 35%. According to the publication, the Association report confirmed what Kanye West said: listeners prefer to listen to music online.

The Kremlin does not know about the agreements on Nadezhda Savchenko, which was announced the day before by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The Ukrainian leader invited the Russian authorities to exchange a pilot who, on Tuesday in the Russian Federation, was sentenced to 22 years in prison, at the “GRU officers” of Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev, detained in Ukraine.

An angry reaction in the camp of the Duma United Russia was caused by the statements of the former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin that increasing the retirement age in Russia is inevitable, but it will be necessary to announce this only after the September elections to the State Duma.

In Orel, the opening of the International Orthodox Exhibition "From repentance to the resurrection of Russia" was opened on the eve. The project dedicated to the millennium of Russian monasticism on the Holy Mount Athos united under one roof the largest temples, monasteries, the farmsteads of the Russian Orthodox Church from Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Greece, and Belarus.

In the United States, the public and previously unknown details of the politicians of the 37th American President Richard Nixon, whose name among the majority, is associated with the election Watergate scandal , as a result of which the head of state was forced to voluntarily resign. This time, the true motivation of Nixon, which declared the war of drug addiction, became known to reporters.

Surveillance cameras in the Chinese province of Anhui captured how a woman pedestrian, confidently crossing the road along a zebra crossing, was suddenly hit from behind by a minivan, which for some reason did not slow down at the intersection. As a result, the car not only ran over its victim, but also dragged it underneath it. A passerby from the opposite side of the street immediately rushed to help, and was soon joined by a dozen more people.

The Russian side, in which the former shareholders of the Yukos, according to the court decision in the Hague, did not sue $ 50 billion, said that she received evidence of the illegal purchase of shares of the oil company with top managers.

The State Duma on the eve adopted in the second, mainly and third, final reading a bill, which transfers for almost a year - on January 1, 2017 - moving the costs of a common house in a multi -apartment building in the article "Housing Expenses" and its calculation according to regional standards instead of counters, RIA Novosti reports.

On March 23, 2016, the American library of the Congress in Washington included in the national register of records of great cultural and historical importance for the United States, 25 new records, including the Master of Puppets album, recorded in 1986 by the Metallica group. As Time notes, the oldest record of added to the registry this year is the 1911 single of the 1911 Let Me Call You Sweetheart Peerless Quartet group, the most new Master of Puppets, Metallica, released in 1986.

The Turkish dry load collided with the supports of the working bridge under construction in the Kerch Strait. However, the progress of the construction of the bridge to Crimea was not affected. This was reported to TASS by a source in the Crimean bridge infocrix. The incident occurred on March 19, but it became known only now.