the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Tamara Pletneva On Wednesday, March 7, on the air of Ekho Moskvy, stood up for LDPR deputy Leonid Slutsky, accused of sexual harassment of journalists. Pletneva said that she had known Slutsky for many years and could not believe that he was capable of offending a woman.

reports on Wednesday, March 7 The Ministry of Energy has prepared a new draft doctrine of Russia's energy security, in which it named the main threats to the country in this area, Vedomosti . The main foreign policy threat in the document is the "discriminatory policy" on the part of the United States and its allies.

Major General, 26 officers, ensigns and contractors died in the crash of the An-26 aircraft in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. “As a result of the tragedy, 27 officers died, one of them with the rank of major general, as well as ensigns and contract servicemen. There was not a single civilian on board the An-26, ” TASS quoted the agency as saying. According to RBC , Major General of the Armed Forces Vladimir Yeremeev was on board the An-26.

The British police established what the double agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned. This is a rare substance of neuro-paralytic action, it is made only in a few laboratories Photo: Twitter / Jim Pickard The formula is installed Former Colonel of the GRU of Russia, double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were poisoned by a substance of neuro-paralytic action, said the head of the counter-terrorist unit of Scotland-Jard Rowley in the English city of Salisbury on Wednesday evening.

"Well, what's the nonsense then, dear Vladimir Plotkin?" Lord, what are the cowards around. How are the authorities are afraid and how they want to curry up in front of him. Here is our video yesterday about the forbidden palace and a house without windows. It impressed people - already 2.2 million views. It is clear why, the situation is obvious: the officials are so insolent that the technical conditions for the construction of neighboring houses are already issued simply wild ones.

US President Donald Trump spoke about the fight against Russian hackers with paper in the upcoming midterm elections. This was stated by the leader of the United States at a press conference after talks with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Americans have learned a lesson from past interventions, the president said. According to Trump, many states are going to duplicate the electronic results of the vote count using paper.

The helicopter of the military unit carried out a planned flight. When entering the landing site, located in a mountainous area, the Mi-8 collided with the ground, reported . the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation On the fact of the helicopter crash, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of flight rules that entailed grave consequences). The helicopter crashed on the afternoon of March 7.

The Jaysh al-Islam * group claimed responsibility for the crash of the An-26 in Syria, reports on Wednesday, March 7, the Lebanese edition of Ad-Diyar . The plane was allegedly shot down 100 meters from the ground, while landing. The group said in a statement that they "responded by shooting at a plane with 30 Russian officers working to kill Syrians in Syria." An-26 crashed on March 6 .

What is the price of political protest? How do you punish popular and famous? Why did Sobchak go into politics and what are her and Navalny? This was talked by the editor-in-chief of The New Times, Evgeny Albats and a well-known TV presenter, who once created Tatyana Lazareva , an active participant in the protests on Bolotnaya, together with her husband Mikhail Shaceta. They said on Skype: Albats - from Moscow, Lazarev - from Spain Tatyana Lazareva : What will we drink?

The Central Election Commission refused to accredit observers from two media outlets for the presidential elections: Lightning and Leviathan. On Wednesday, March 7, Aleksey Navalny wrote on Telegram , and Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of Golos, also said. “Lightning is the media from which organizations like Golos put up observers. All past times it was from the "Lightning" that there were the most observers. And Leviathan is our media.

Of the people involved in the process of insulting their own people, you can make up a city It’s hard to stop laughing when a ponderous political scientist from TV (you don’t even have to remember the last names, they all became the same, even the intonations are the same for everyone, and the thought is completely the same for everyone) suddenly announces: “The election campaign has entered a decisive phase!” And then they say, for example, that the candidate Maxim Suraikin called for the

Almost 330 complaints about the abuse of administrative resources during the presidential election campaign were received by the Central Election Commission of Russia. “There were appeals related to the use of the so-called administrative resource. Now there are 328 of them,” said Ella Pamfilova, chairman of the CEC, specifying that since March 1 alone, 63 such complaints have been received, TASS reports .

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the film "World Order 2018", which host Vladimir Solovyov published on Wednesday, March 7 on his VKontakte page , admitted that he was lying to Melania Trump. Putin said that when he spoke during the G20 summit with the first lady of the United States and with the wife of Italian Prime Minister Emanuela Mauro, he spoke about fishing in Siberia. “But, of course, as in such cases, he lied a little. When you talk about fishing, how can you not lie?

Officials and oilmen are trying to agree on measures to stimulate oil refining, which has to be helped due to the tightening of the customs regime and an unplanned increase in excise taxes amid the crisis, Kommersant writes . The publication notes that Rosneft was the most radical: on February 8, the head of the state-owned company, Igor Sechin, asked Vladimir Putin for tax incentives immediately for 145 billion rubles. in year.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia clarified the charges against the defendants in the criminal case on the supply of cocaine from Argentina to Russia, Vladimir Kalmykov, Ishtimir Khudzhamov and Ali Abyanov. According to TASS , a qualifying sign of a crime "as part of an organized criminal group" has been added to the charge. Initially, they were charged with smuggling and illegal production, sale and shipment of drugs.