The Buryats mourn about the birch baked, which grew at the top of the sacred rock of the turtle on Lake Baikal near the village of Turk. Vandals were not found, but they were already cursed by a local shaman. According to legend, many thousands of years ago, a large turtle lived in the depths of Lake Baikal, which was a symbol of peace, goodness and love, and also kept a white pearl, protecting Baikal from dark forces and from a black shaman.

A 36-year-old journalist, a resident of the Ivanovo region Andrei Sidnev , was released from the correctional colony of the FSIN. He was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security colony for the murder of a girl that he did not commit. The journalist had an iron alibi, but for the court the false testimony of these killers who blamed Sidnev was more important for the court. Even after the real killer performed on television with self -disclosure, Andrei Sidnev continued to serve his term.

In Tomsk, with a suspicion of a heart attack, a history teacher and OBZh Russian classical gymnasium N2 Vitaly Khovansky was hospitalized. This week, the teacher was in the center of the scandal after, at an emergency lecture on countering extremism for schoolchildren, he began to equalize liberalism with fascism and tell the students that oppositionist Alexei Navalny would lead the country to a coup like Ukrainian Maidan.

The bilateral relations between Russia and the United States are currently at an even lower level than during the Cold War. Such an opinion on Monday on the air of the American television channel ABC was expressed by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. The day before, Vladimir Putin himself admitted that the relations of the two countries are almost at zero .

The Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor), based on the results of inspections, banned the acceptance of students in three state universities. This was reported on the website of the department. The message lists the Irkutsk State Agrarian University named after A. A. Ezhevsky, St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television (SPbGIKIT) and ORLOV State Agrarian University named after N.V. Parakhina.

Magnitogorsk Metallurg won a convincing victory over the Kazan Ak Bars in the semifinal series of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) and reached the Gagarin Cup drawing. In the fourth match of the series, held in Kazan, the Urals won with a score of 4: 1. As part of the winners of the washers, Jan Kovarzh, Victor Antipin, Sergey Mozyakin and Denis Platonov were thrown. The owners distinguished himself with Irji Sekach.

In Chelyabinsk, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the anti -Semitic statements of Vladislav Vikhorev, a participant in the primaries of United Russia, which has been held in the spring of 2016, URA.RU reports with reference to the Investigative Committee in the Soviet District of the city. The case was started under Art. 282 (excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity), but the accusations have not yet been brought to anyone.

Egor Sedov “If a person uses arguments like “I am older and have a higher status,” in general, he is already saying everything about himself. For such creatures, Fazil Iskander had a special term - “starmud” (old and wise, but does anyone still thinking?). But the lecture on fascism, liberalism and “slaves of the Anglo-Saxons” from the Tomsk life safety teacher is still worth carefully studying,” the publicist writes on Facebook .

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) banned the entry into the country's territory by Russian designer Artemy Lebedev because of a visit to the territory of Donbass and Crimea in the territory of Donbass and Crimea in 2016, the Ukrainian website of the Apostrophe reports. Confirmation from the SBU came in response to a request from the publication sent on March 25.

The soloist of the American rock band System of a Down, Serge Tankyan, became an official observer of the parliamentary elections in Armenia, listening to a special course in Yerevan, the Canadian actress Arsina Hanjiana said on her Facebook page. “Today, we, members of the“ Justice in Armenia ”initiative, took part in the courses“ Citizen Observer ”and are already official observers,” the singer wrote (quote for RIA Novosti ). The photo also contains Hanjiang's husband - an atom of Egoyan.

The recently appointed acting governor of the Novogorodsk region Andrei Nikitin told the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev that he would primarily deal with the eradication of rudeness in the medical care, TASS reports. When Medvedev asked Nikitin what priorities would be the main ones in his work in a new position, the head of the region said that he would focus primarily on medicine, roads and education.

The police of the Nizhny Novgorod region are looking for a criminal who attacked on Friday the carrier of money at the entrance to the bank on Ilyinskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod. According to preliminary data, the crime was committed at about 11:00. The attacker took away the money from the collector and disappeared, reports Time N. The stolen belonged to one of the Nizhny Novgorod enterprises. Money had to go to the bank.

A mysterious racer from the popular Top Gear TV show named Stig, traditionally hiding his face under an impenetrable helmet, set a world speed record on a bumper car, which is usually used in fair attractions. According to the results of two races on the runway of the Bentwooters airfield in the British saffolka, the test-pilot dispersed the modified toy machine to an average speed of 100.366 miles per hour (164.475 km/h).

Some units of the army of South Ossetia became part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The corresponding agreement on March 31 in Moscow was signed by the Ministers of Defense of the Russian Federation and South Ossetia, Army General Sergei Shoigu and Lieutenant General Ibrahim Gasseev. On Friday, an agreement was also signed on the activities of Feldyger services through the Ministry of Defense.

The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota Motor, which announced the back of the world about 3 million cars due to potential problems with Takata’s safety pillows, said that 6401 cars fall under the operation of this service campaign.