About the unassembled book of verses by Anna Sad Shah Anechka and I (for some reason called her everything, she herself was surprised) for many years they were going to make a poetic book for two. Such a lyrical dialogue consisting of poems or devoted to each other, or written about each other. There should have been there works created jointly - mainly ironic (well, the poetic libretto of the Doctor Zhivago, also written in four hands).

How all the world attract attention to the problems of people with Down syndrome March 21 - International Day of Man with Down syndrome. On this day, users of social networks conduct Lots of Socks flash mob. Participants are photographed in bright unpaired socks to express solidarity with people with Down syndrome.

CONTINUATION Ex-president of France & Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of "passive corruption, illegal financing of the election campaign and harboring funds stolen from the (Libyan) budget," according to France 2. He is ordered to be under judicial control. It is clarified that judicial control & - restriction on & movement and & the obligation to regularly (usually & once a week) “report” to the police. Earlier, investigators completed the interrogation of Sarkozy and released him from custody.

The editors of Kommersant decided to refuse to work with the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky and the State Duma Commission on Ethics as newsmakers. The decision was made after the commission recognized the correct behavior of the deputy, who was accused of harassment. This was reported in a newspaper statement.

Members of the State Duma Commission on ethics explain why they did not punish Slutsky Leonid Slutsky. Photo: RIA Novosti The Duma Ethics Commission on Wednesday, March 21, examined the complaints of the rain producer Daria Zhuk and the BBC correspondent Farida Rustamova, who accused the deputy Leonid Slutsky of sexual harassment, and did not find violations in his behavior. Today, the State Duma has been pickets demanding to investigate the accusations of Slutsky's sexual harassment.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the words of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who compared the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in the summer of 2018, with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, are unworthy and unacceptable. about it She wrote on her Facebook.

Telegram Messenger filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the decision of the Meshchansky Court, which fined it in October for refusing to provide the FSB with encryption keys for user messages. to Vedomosti This was reported by the lawyer of the international human rights group Agora, Damir Gainutdinov, who represents the interests of the company.

The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-08 manned spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Roskosmos reports. The rocket went to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft includes members of the long-term expedition ISS-55/56 - Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold.

In the parliament of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, representatives of the opposition party "Self-Determination" sprayed tear gas. Thus, they tried to prevent the approval of the agreement on the recognition of the state border line with Montenegro in 2015. It is reported in the Associated Press. The gas was sprayed before the start of voting on an agreement with Montenegro on the demarcation of the state border.

The roof of an administrative building collapsed on Trubnaya Street in Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source. As the source of the agency clarifies, the building was under reconstruction, the area of ​​collapse was 80 square meters. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there were no reports of casualties.

RBC decided to recall all its journalists from the State Duma because the ethics commission recognized the correct behavior of the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, who was accused of harassment, the newspaper reports . “With this decision, the ethics commission, in fact, recognized the possibility of sexual harassment of journalists by newsmakers as the norm.

About the failure of the "voters' strike", which was inevitable. Invitation to discussion “Now the authorities will be able to do everything,” supporters of the “voter strike” lament online, seeing the overwhelming superiority of the Kremlin in the presidential election. I would like to answer them: didn’t you help the authorities in this by staying at home?

The Investigative Committee launched an investigation in connection with media reports of the poisoning of children, presumably due to the release of hydrogen sulfide at the Yadrovo training ground in Volokolamsk. This was reported on the website of the department near Moscow. “In order to establish the presence or absence of signs of a crime under Part 1 of Art.

The winner of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova became the second in the short program in the singles competition at the World Championships in Milan, reports . Interfax The athlete showed a result of 79.51 points, losing to the Italian Carolina Kostner 76 hundredths of a point (80.27). Third place was taken by Japanese Satoko Miyahara (74.36).

The results of voting in the presidential elections in Russia, held on March 18, were canceled at 13 polling stations in nine regions of the country, as well as at one foreign polling station, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Nikolai Bulaev, deputy head of the Russian Central Election Commission. “Voting results have been canceled at 14 polling stations.