About five dozen athletes included in the national teams of Russia were poisoned during the training camp at the Lake Krugloye base near Moscow, TASS said with reference to one of the collection participants. Among the victims are fencers, gymnasts, fighters, participants in synchronous swimming competitions. “It all started on Wednesday. In the evening we went to dinner, and in the morning it began - the guys began to“ mow ”one after another.

The American Ministry of Defense announced the presence of Russian troops "on Earth" in Libya. This was announced by the US Marine Corps General Thomas Waldhauser, the head of the African command of the US Armed Forces. He did not specify the number of the Russian contingent. According to him, there is "irrefutable" evidence that Russia in Libya supports the Field Marshal of the Caliphs of Haftar, Reuters reports.

CSKA basketball players won with a score of 85:74 on Kazan Parquet UNICS in the match of the 28th round of the Euroleague regular championship. The most productive player in CSKA was the Frenchman Nando de Kol, who scored 22 points. “We played two matches for almost a row, and this was our fourth meeting with UNICS, a good, high -quality team.

The Iraq army on Saturday announced the suspension of a large -scale operation to liberate the western half of the city of Mosul from the Islamic State terrorists*. This happened due to large casualties among the civilian population shortly after the UN expressed serious concern about incoming messages.

On Saturday, a list of instructions appeared on the government’s website based on the results of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with truckers, as well as comments by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich: he promised to reduce the bureaucratic load, automatically provide deductions from transport tax. This happens on the eve of the All -Russian strike stated on March 27 against Plato - a system for charging a fee for travel of heavy trucks along federal highways.

The first echelon with military equipment for the French contingent of the International NATO battalion arrived on Saturday on Saturday, reported the main headquarters of the republic’s defense forces. According to Interfax , more than 30 units of military equipment were delivered to the Tapa railway station. Four more Leclerc tanks will be delivered on March 29. In total, the French unit will also be 13 BMP VBCI, as well as dozens of VAB armored personnel carriers and VBL armored vehicles.

In the city of Asbest, the Sverdlovsk region on Saturday, a large -scale rally of citizens was held against the construction of a factory for the processing of antimony concentrates in the municipality. According to protesters on social networks, about 2,000 people came with the city’s population about 65 thousand. According to Znak.com , the Surma processing plant in the vicinity of the city wants to build a national antimony company affiliated with Igor Rotenberg.

In Minsk, on Saturday, mass detention of participants in the "march of the angry Belarusians" - an unauthorized action on "Volya Day" took place. Hundreds of people were taken into the autozaks, many on the approaches to the venue. The live broadcast from the scene is the Belarusian "Radio Liberty" . When the demonstrators managed to form a column of about 500 people on Independence Avenue, OMON employees blocked it in front and behind, the detention continued.

In the Syrian province of Idlib, a local prison was subjected to an airline: at least 16 people were killed. Not everyone became victims of the explosion: the guards shot prisoners selected from ruins, claims DW with reference to the data of the Syrian Center for Human Rights (SOHR). The Idlib province is controlled by groups of the Syrian opposition, including the jihadists from the Jebhat-Ash-Sham group (the former "An-Nusra Front", the group is prohibited in the Russian Federation).

The Russian national team defeated the Swedish team in the semifinal match of the World Cup, which takes place in Beijing, and first in history reached the final. The meeting, held on Saturday, ended with the victory of the Russian team with a score of 9: 3. Anna Sidorova (SKIP), Margarita Fomina, Alexander Raeva and Alina Kovaleva played for the Russian national team. “I still can’t believe it,” Sidorov told reporters. “I am very proud that we will now represent Russia in the final.

The widow of the ex-deputy of the State Duma, Denis Voronenkov, who was killed in Kyiv, Maria Maksakova gave the first comment: she does not yet know, “how and why do something further” and does not want to think about who committed and ordered the murder. Maksakova’s monologue publishes Medusa . “In principle, if I could be there, I wouldn’t think about it. Life is further without him - this is worse. I, of course, is a bronette. I, of course, is strong.

Former striker of the Netherlands national football team Patrick Klyuvert became a victim of blackmail due to debt on bets, Volkskrant.nl reports. In 2011-2012, Klyuvert relied on large sums for football matches and as a result owed a certain criminal syndicate more than a million euros, so a group of criminals for several years blackmail the keiiver due to debts. Patrick partially repaid the debt.

The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square on Saturday evening extinguished decorative lighting, plunging into darkness as part of the international environmental campaign "Hour of the Earth". This was first done in 2013, now the Kremlin’s participation in the action has already become a tradition. This year, it takes place as part of the ecology year announced in the Russian Federation, recalls Interfax . In Moscow, "Hour of the Earth", as in the previous two years, started at 20:30.

The leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union signed a declaration of the EU future after Brexit - the release of Great Britain. The declaration is the main result of the summit in Rome dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Roman Treaty (1957), which laid the foundations of the European Union. The summit was held in the Capitol Palace of Conservatives in Rome - in the same place where the 1957 declaration was signed.

The British racer of the Mercedes team Lewis Hamilton won the qualifications of the first stage of Formula 1 in the new season-the Grand Prix of Australia, which takes place in Melbourne. “While the weekend is going out remarkably,” the three -fold world champion Sky Sports quotes. “I am proud of our team. The change of rules was significant and became a big challenge for everyone, and the team worked a lot to make a car the same as it was today.