The new term of Putin immediately began with disasters, scandals, protests. Then it will only be worse Photo: Pixabay / Jackmac34 This time, Putin’s new term begins quite ominously, and even a person far from mysticism becomes anxious from the question - what will happen next?

On Saturday, six dozen Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, and their families left Washington and New York. Farewell to the exiles was watched by The New Times correspondent Photo: rt.ru On a spring, a sunny and warm day on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Washington sounded, perhaps, the main Russian march. “Farewell to the Slavs” here escorted diplomats , whom on Monday the US administration announced by persons of non grata, as well as their families.

Yury Dmitriev, the head of Memorial's Karelian branch, will be sentenced on April 5, told Novaya Gazeta . Viktor Anufriev, the historian's lawyer, “The case is complicated, the positions of the defense and the prosecution are sharply opposed, the court took more time,” the lawyer said. Earlier it was assumed that the verdict will be announced on Tuesday, April 3.

Valeria Novodvorskaya - about the mass "molting" of the intelligentsia “Two -legged creatures are millions, we all look at the Napoleons,” Pushkin said. The poet thought too well about humanity. Napoleon is a symbol of good luck, but also great risk. Nowadays, the eyes turn in a completely different direction. With the beginning of the Putin era, many journalists, “rejection” and non -conformists began Link. Democrats, liberals, Westerners fed to statesmen, conservatives and traditionalists.

This is the name of a quite mediocre film with the beautiful Gary Oldman in the role of Churchill. But I'm not talking about cinema, I'm talking about life Winston Churchill, British state and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain In 1940-1945 and 1951-1955, photo: Pixabay / mikesphotos Several dozens of spectators in the dark hall sincerely emphasized Churchill - and despised his disgusting opponents from the "party of the world with Hitler" ...

A passionate week begins - the last before Easter, the so -called post of passionate week. He completes the longest and strict great post in the Orthodox Church Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko, STF The post was not invented by Christians - it existed in the Gentiles and the Jews since ancient times. And his essence was not in abstinence from certain food, but in the complete rejection of food and drinking. The post lasted a full day either from dawn to sunset.

The new deterrence schemes proposed by the Russian General Staff do not reduce the threat of war, but strengthen it Meeting of the Academy of Military Sciences March 24, 2018 photo: vegu.ru Report as a warning A meeting of the Academy of Military Sciences (the next one last week, in the midst of the Kemerovo tragedy ) always attracts the attention of both domestic and foreign experts.

The resolution of the situation with the mutual expulsion of diplomats does not depend on Russia, Western countries should stop, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Earlier in childhood, we used to say: whoever started first should stop. We do not want to be like children's games, but so far our partners are doing exactly that, ” TASS quotes Lavrov .

On the defense Square in Yekaterinburg, residents of the city at the rally demanded to maintain direct elections of the mayor. The audience also demanded the resignation of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev, who initiated the bill on the abolition of direct elections of the head of the city.

After the ceremonial launch in Ulan-Ude, a drone crashed, which was supposed to deliver a parcel from Russian Post to a neighboring village. The drone first gained altitude, and then abruptly began to decline and crashed into a three-story apartment building. The drone is not subject to restoration, Arig Us online reports . The launch ceremony was attended by the Head of Buryatia, Alexei Tsydenov, and the General Director of Russian Post, Nikolai Podguzov.

A week has passed from a fire that claimed 64 lives, but there are still no answers to many important questions, and the information is contradictory: participants and eyewitnesses are guilty of each other The hospital has victims of a fire in a shopping center photo: TV Center Were the doors locked and by whom? In total, on the fourth floor of the “Winter Cherry” there were 3 cinemas with 540 places: small halls 1 and 2 (“Blue” and “Red”), as well as a large hall 3 (“Yellow”).

The remnants of China's Tiangong-1 space station have passed Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean, Interfax reports . The station was almost completely destroyed and burned down while passing through the dense layers of the earth's atmosphere. Earlier, China had already informed the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that the remaining debris would not pose a danger to air traffic and life on Earth. The station has worked in space for more than six years.

Deputies from United Russia submitted to the State Duma a draft law on blocking websites containing information recognized by a court as discrediting the honor, dignity or business reputation of a citizen or the business reputation of a legal entity. According to the authors of the amendments, first the court must recognize the information posted on the Internet as defamatory, after which the owner of the site must delete it.

Artyom Lyubimov, one of the organizers of the protests against the Yadrovo landfill in the Volokolamsky district, was arrested for 15 days. Another activist, who was detained during the rally, was arrested for 14 days. This was announced by lawyer Denis Kunaev. Lyubimov was found guilty of disobeying the demand of a police officer - the police officer drew up a protocol on the basis that the activist refused to provide a passport.

The artistic director of Theatre.doc, Mikhail Ugarov, has died at the age of 63. This was reported on the theater's official Facebook page. Mikhail Ugarov was born in 1956 in Arkhangelsk. In addition to the Theater founded by him in 2002 with his wife. Doc", where Ugarov worked in the genre of "documentary theater", he staged performances at the Center for Drama and Directing, at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, ET CETERA, theaters "School of the modern play" and "Practice".