Russia and the United States should stop the nuclear weapons race - such an idea was expressed by the ex -president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in a column for the American magazine Time . He proposed to convene an emergency session of the UN General Assembly or a meeting of the Security Council at the level of heads of state to discuss the situation and the danger of a global disaster.

Initiative group of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov demanded the resignation of State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky , whom three journalists have already been publicly accused of sexual harassment, from the post of head of the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Political Science.

The head of the counterintelligence department "Bureau for the Protection of Satrisme" (BPS) of Latvia Janis Mayisitis said that the bureau is conducting "quiet deportations" from the country, mainly to Russia. It is reported by DELFI . "The main task of the bureau is intelligence and counterintelligence, but not always in this security service can we talk about the start of criminal prosecution.

In the Tlyaratinsky district of Dagestan, as a result of the gathering of a snow avalanche, a message was violated with a 51 settlement with a population of more than 15 thousand people. At the moment, there are no elements of elements among local residents, reports TASS.

The body of Major Vyacheslav Mikryukov, who died during the collapse of the Russian An-26 aircraft in Syria, on Friday morning, March 9, was taken to Kirov, RIA Novosti was told at the military enlistment office of the Kirov region. It also became known that on Friday in Novosibirsk, the funeral of the 27-year-old pilot Denis Safronov, a member of the An-26 crew, took place.

In Yakutia, an accident with the participation of an illegal minibus claimed the lives of four people, told Interfax on Friday, March 9, a source in the region of transport supervision of the region. "A minibus belonging to a private person who did not have a license for passenger transportation, but the KamAZ was collapsed on the highway near Yakutsk - four people were killed, five more were injured," the source said. In total, there were 11 people in the minibus.

The authorities of China will continue to contribute to the internationalization of the yuan, in particular, due to the further discovery of its financial market, the head of the People’s Bank of China Zhou Xiaochain said on Friday, March 9. "In the process of internationalization, the yuan took sufficient measures that now allow the use of Yuan in trade and investments. In addition, Yuan was included in the SDR currency basket. The main procedures have already been carried out ...

Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, who is considered involved in the Russian intervention in the US presidential election, published an article in the American publication The Daily Caller . In it, he calls the use of "Russian theme" in American politics as an example of dirty manipulation of public opinion.

The Center for the Reconciliation of the Watching Parties (CPVS) in Syria announced the successful return of the escort of international humanitarian organizations from Eastern Guta. As Major General Vladimir Zolotukhin explained, the column has already safely returned to the village of El Wafidin, TASS reports.

The detained head of the Center for the Liberation of the captured “Officer Corps” of Vladimir Ruban on Friday, March 9, was taken to Kiev to the court, who appointed him a preventive measure, Gromadske reports. The Shevchenkovsky court of the capital of Ukraine sent him under the arrest for 60 days without the right to release on bail, the 112 Ukraine television channel reports.

US President Donald Trump considers great progress reached with the DPRK an agreement on the start of work on denuclearization, but the sanctions will remain, TASS reports. “Kim Jong -un spoke of denuclearization with representatives of South Korea, and not just about freezing [nuclear program]. In addition, no missile tests North Korea throughout this period,” Trump wrote on his microblog on Twitter.

At the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater, a scandal occurred during the performance of the artists of the Moscow Contemporary Theater with the production of the play by Harold Pinter "Do not become strangers." Spectators who paid for tickets from 4 to 7 thousand rubles complained that Mikhail Efremov forgot the text and was drunk. According to the Moscow Komsomolets , the incident occurred in the past Wednesday, March 7.

NPO "High -precision complexes" prepares in Tula the launch of the ADS assault rifle (two -medium special machine), capable of shooting on land and under water and intended for special forces of the Armed Forces and Rosguard, RIA Novosti reports. “This sample was adopted, and we are preparing serial production.

The widow of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 from Polonium poisoning in London, called Great Britain an unsafe country for Russians seeking political asylum. Marina Litvinenko reported this in an interview with CNN . She pointed to the parallels between the death of her husband and the poisoning of ex-colonel of the GRU Sergei Skripal, in particular, the "similarity of the method of murder", but added that it was too early to draw any conclusions.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders called fake information about the loss of more than 10 billion euros from the frozen accounts of the surrounded leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. “Everything cleared up in less than 24 hours,” Rynders told Belga . The commentary followed after the treasury confirmed the freezing of 14 billion euros in Libyan accounts in the EuroClear bank, RTBF reports.