In Russia, a new principle of obtaining citizenship based on the "soil law" can be introduced. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Nationalities of the State Duma Ruslan Balbek. He noted that this approach provides for a bill proposed by Konstantin Zatulin and Natalia Poklonskaya. The Committee on Nationalities has already given its positive conclusion, the deputy emphasized.

The Russian skater Denis Yuskov took second place in the overall standings of the World Cup at a distance of 1,500 meters. On Sunday, in the final race at this distance as part of the World Cup finals in the Norwegian Stavanger, he showed the fourth time - 1 minute 46.63 seconds. The Dutchman Kjeld Noys (1.45.00) reached the finish, the second was the Dutchman Patrick Rust (+1,28), the third was the Norwegian Sverre Lunde Pedersen (1.61).

The US federal prosecutors abandoned the right to present their objections to the petition of the defense of a citizen of the Russian Federation Viktor Buta, who is serving a sentence in an American prison, on the abolition of a verdict submitted earlier in his case. This is evidenced by the materials of the court, which was familiarized with the TASS correspondent. However, such a decision of the prosecutor's office does not mean that the Supreme Court will take the case for consideration.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Great Britain (NCSC) proposed expert assistance to the leading political parties in the country to strengthen their network security and protect against cyber attacks and the actions of foreign hackers, reports The Sunday Times . This was the head of the Kiaran Martin center in a letter sent to the leadership of the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Georgy Mgebrischvili, promised a strict punishment for all participants and organizers of the riots in Batumi, which occurred last night, Interfax reports. In the framework of the case of clashes with the police, 40 people were detained, administrative proceedings are being carried out against them and they will be faced with court. According to the minister, now the situation in Batumi is under full control.

Forward of the Japanese club of Japanese "Kadzuesi Miura" scored a ball at the age of 50 and 14 days. Forward in the match of the second largest championship of the country struck the gates of Kusatsu and brought his team victory with a score of 1: 0. Miura, who turned 50 on February 26, is the oldest football player in the world . Kadzuesi Miura has been playing for the Jokoham club since 2005. In 231 matches, he already scored 25 goals.

The number of victims of the double terrorist attack in the capital of Syria Damascus, which occurred on March 11, increased to 74. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Syrian Council for Human Rights (Sohr). According to the press, among the dead - eight children, 11 women and about 20 military personnel and security forces. Most of the killed and wounded are Iraqi pilgrims. Earlier, 45 dead were reported.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) prepared an attempt on the head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of State Security of the self -proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), which provides a fragment of a video recording of the interrogation of the detained Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Ivanchuk.

The police blocked the entrances and exits to the Netherlands Embassy in Ankara and the Consulate General in Istanbul "for security reasons", RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. This decision was made against the backdrop of a scandal arising from the Netherlands authorities banned the boarding of the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry of Mevlut Chavushoglu in Rotterdam.

The democrats, which are part of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, announced their readiness to refuse to participate in the investigation of the alleged intervention of Russia in the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported. Members of the Democratic Party clarified that they would refuse to further participate in the investigation of the committee, the majority in which the Republicans make up if they calculate its results biased.

The bus drove on Sunday, March 12, into a crowd of street musicians in the north of Haiti during a carnival. According to the Air Force, at least 34 people were killed. Dozens of people were injured. The incident occurred in the city of Gonaiv, 150 km north of the capital of the republic, the city of Porta-Prens.

St. Petersburg Zenit almost always loses points in the Russian football championship when his matches serve arbitrators from Moscow. The head coach of the St. Petersburg team Mirce Lucescu stated this about this after the meeting in the Perm meeting . “I don’t want to repeat, but we’ll have to - we almost always lost glasses when we were judged by arbitrators from Moscow,” the official website of the St. Petersburg club quotes Lucescu.

In Batumi on Saturday evening and on the night of Sunday, March 12, riots occurred. About 40 people are detained. About this, according to Interfax , said Georgy Mgebrischi, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia to reporters. According to him, at present, the situation in Batumi is completely under the control of the police.

The US authorities suspect that the programmers who performed work for the department could stand behind the transfer of the Central Intelligence Directorate (CIA) to the WikiLeaks organization, reports The Wall Street Journal . The sources of the publication said that some programmers have been questioned, but so far no charges have been brought against them.

Forward of the Madrid Real Madrid and the Portuguese national football team Cristiano Ronaldo will again become a father: the four-time owner of the Golden Ball will give birth to twin boys from a surrogate mother, reports The Sun with reference to a player’s family. According to the publication, the surrogate mother living in the United States is in the late gestation and should soon give birth.