In Moscow, negotiations of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry began, Interfax reports. The Russian minister said at the meeting that he intends to discuss a number of important issues with the American colleague. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called Syria the main topic of the visit of the Secretary of State to the Russian capital.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has at its disposal documents confirming the cooperation of the Turkish authorities with militants of the Islamic State ( Daish ) terrorist organization banned in Russia.

The skull of the famous English playwright William Shakespeare was probably stolen from his grave hunters for valuable trophies. Experts came to this conclusion, scanning the burial, reports Sky News . The geo-radar scanning of Shakespeare's grave in the Church of the Holy Trinity in the British city of Stratford-on-Evonu (County Warokshire) showed a strange violation in the person’s head buried in it.

The initiators of the judicial claim for the transfer of the Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) sent on Thursday the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, in which the city authorities are asked to publish the financial statements of the State Museum of the St. Isaac Cathedral. A similar request, as TASS reported in the organization "The Holy League of St. George", was sent to the director of the museum Nikolai Burov.

Investigators of the Moscow region are investigating the murder of a man who is suspected of the ex -wife of the deceased. For reprisals, the woman used artisanal firearms, RIA Novosti reports. The crime was committed in the village of Ilyinsky, Ramensky district, where on Tuesday evening the body of a man killed by a shot in the head was discovered. “On this fact, the District Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of murder,” said a source in law enforcement agencies.

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov said that Russia does not plan military invasion of the Baltic states, Bulgaria and Hungary. In his opinion, such "tricks" and "horror stories" are used by the leadership of these countries in order to get from the government to increase defense costs and get financial support from Europe.

Australia authorities stated that the wreckage previously discovered in Mozambique "with a high degree of probability" belong to the Malaysia Airlines missing two years ago, Reuters reports. The Kanberra laboratory is currently undergoing an examination of two objects found off the coast of mosambic.

The All -Russian Political Party "The right business" will be renamed. This was announced on the air of the "Russian News Service" by the Presidential Presidential Rights, the party leader Boris Titov. "Just business" is not our name. That is, this is an old name, I once came up with it when I first came to the party. The fact is that too much was connected with this name. Such a story is more negative than positive. Therefore, we still decided to change it, ”Titov said.

Russian Elena Karnaukhova won a Mercedes-Benz GLC 250 car in the United Arab Emirates, which was raffled off as part of the HSBC Golf Championship held in Abu Dhabi in January 2016. 27-year-old Elena attended this annual sporting event in the capital of the UAE for the first time this year. Since one of the sponsors - Emirates Motor Company (EMC), the official dealer of Mercedes-Benz - held a lottery among all guests of the event, Elena also decided to take part in it.

The October Court of Belgorod on Thursday, March 24, sentenced to the former doctor of the N2 city hospital Ilya Zelendinov, from whose beatings the patient died in December last year. The surgeon on the death of a local resident Evgeny Vakhtin was found guilty of two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 111 ("Causing grievous bodily harm that entailed by negligence of the death of the victim") and 116 ("Causing beatings from hooligan motives").

Sergey Ivanov , the youngest son of the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov, who is now the chairman of the board of the insurance company Sogaz, will become the vice president of Sberbank. This was reported by TASS, referring to "a source familiar with the situation." According to the agency, the son of Ivanov will oversee the insurance business. The date of appointment is not specified.

The Ministry of Emergencies of Russia sent to the Donbass "Yubileinaya", the 50th convoy with humanitarian aid, the press service of the department said. Food, essential items and educational literature for schoolchildren and students will be delivered to two regions. Among food - canned food, flour, sugar and cereals. Humanitarian goods were gathered by public organizations and trade union associations in different Russian regions.

The authorities of Ukraine can declare Persona non grata another Russian cultural figure. A petition appeared on the website of the President of the country of Petro Poroshenko, calling for a ban on entering the country for the Russian singer Zemfira. A recent incident that occurred with the singer in Vilnius (Lithuania) is indicated as the reason for the possible ban.

On Thursday, March 31, one of the Yandex services - Yandex. Sliding will cease its work. The company’s blog says that the functionality will be transmitted to the Yandex.P. As reminded of Yandex, the history of the service began with the Yandex.lingvo and Yandex. Encyclopedia projects. In the first, a collection of ABBYY dictionaries was presented, and the second search for information in electronic reference books and encyclopedias. "Yandex. Slovaria" appeared as a result of their unification.

Investigators have officially charged the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Grigory Pirumov, who was arrested in resonant case of multimillion -dollar theft in the department. Earlier, last week, the Lefortovo court of the capital authorized the arrest of an official until May 10. “Pirumov is charged with organizing especially large fraud by a group of persons. He is currently interrogated as the accused,” TASS, a source close to the investigation explained to the TASS agency.