Several explosions were heard on the border of the Green Zone in Baghdad, where the Summit of the League of the Arab states began. The territory was fired by mortars, reports Reuters . This was announced to the agency by a source of the Summit Security Service, to which 10 Arab leaders gathered. He noted that the explosions occurred a few minutes after the start of the event. The destruction and victims are not reported.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill admitted that he owns the Swiss watch Breguet , however, according to the Primate, he never wore them. About this on the air " Vesti FM ", according to journalist Vladimir Solovyov, said the patriarch. According to Solovyov, the Patriarch wears “our Russian clock, inexpensive hours with the coat of arms are small, neat watches”, which was presented to him by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The exam for bachelors will allow you to control the quality of education in Russian universities. This position was expressed by representatives of higher educational institutions, which RBC asked to comment on the initiative of the Ministry of Education. The rector of the Financial Academy under the government, Mikhail Eskindarov, said that the idea of ​​introducing an analogue of the exam for bachelors has been discussed in the Russian educational environment for a long time.

According to information on March 28, 2012, 58 Russian regions out of 80 passed the procedure for licensing activities to extinguish forest fires. Thus, 72% of the country's regions are ready for the fire hazard season, the press service of the Federal Forestry Agency reports. From January 1, 2012, the activity of extinguishing forest fires is subject to licensing.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko again advocated the placement of images of light smokers on packs of cigarettes. It is reported by Interfax . Placing natural photos of the internal organs of smokers on the packs of cigarettes, according to Onishchenko, will become one of the brightest days in his life, adding that he dreams of this, he "dreams of this at night." Onishchenko also advocates a ban on smoking in public places and fines for this offense, which should “bite”.

The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said that if the rumors about his participation in the fight were true, he would have resigned, Interfax reported . He added that everything written about this is “nonsense.” “I am a general in the Russian army and have walked a very difficult and difficult path along these steps. I have my conscience: the next day I would write a report about leaving this post,” Popovkin explained.

Amendments to the Law on Political Parties marry the advance of a new stage in the development of the Russian political system, writes the First Deputy Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia Sergey Zheleznyak in the article “Testing and the Possibilities of Political Spring”, published today in the “Independent Newspaper”. "This important ideological Step , logical concomitant liberal Reform V politics ", writes Unicorn .

The 17-year-old American Sean Tyson was sentenced to Wednesday, March 28, to a life imprisonment for the murder of two British tourists, reports The Telegraph . After the court hearings that lasted 8 days, the court found the teenager guilty of murder of the first degree. Tyson could not be sentenced to death for this crime, as a minor. Two 25-year-old tourists from the UK, James Cooper (James Cooper) and Thomas Kouzaris, last year arrived at the popular resort of Sarassot, located in Florida.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania issued European orders to arrest the defendants about the actions of the Soviet security forces in 1991. As Lithuanian television clarifies , the arrest of former commanders of Vilnius riot police Boleslav Makutinovich and Vladimir Razdodov, who have Russian citizenship, was authorized. The investigation charges both crimes against humanity. This type of crime does not apply to the statute of limitations.

We publish fragments of a lecture of the director of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies, a doctor of art history, professor, author of numerous books and articles on modern culture issues published in Russia and abroad, Kirill Razlogov on the topic "French" New Wave ", read on March 3, 2012 at the Zavtra club (ex -pies on Srevenka). The lecture is organized by the film school. McGaffin in the framework of the project “ Public Lectures Polit.ru ”.

On Thursday, March 29, Echo of Moscow shareholders prematurely terminated the powers of the radio station’s board of directors. about this on Twitter . writes Deputy editor-in-chief of the radio station Vladimir Varfolomeev “We are no longer on the board with Venediktov (Alexey Venediktov, editor-in-chief - Polit.ru) and Yasin and Makovsky (Evgeny Yasin and Alexander Makovsky, independent directors - Polit.ru).

We publish fragments of a lecture of the director of the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies, a doctor of art history, professor, author of numerous books and articles on modern culture issues published in Russia and abroad, Kirill Razlogov on the topic "French" New Wave ", read on March 3, 2012 at the Zavtra club (ex -pies on Srevenka). The lecture is organized by the film school. McGaffin in the framework of the project “ Public Lectures Polit.ru ”.

The Russian Investigative Committee will soon appear in the investigation of criminal cases against police officers, said the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.

The Moscow City Hall agreed to hold an opposition rally on April 7 on Pushkinskaya Square. This was reported by Interfax from the words of the leader of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov. According to the opposition, up to 500 people are announced in the rally of the People’s Committee. Udaltsov also recalled that on Saturday, March 31, on Pushkinskaya Square, a rally of opposition citizens will be held in the “meeting with the deputy”, which does not require coordination with the authorities.

The amendment, completely meaningless, is on any reform. So the political reform proposed by the authorities at the end of last year is being revised by a variety of interested groups of citizens. Moreover, the adoption of laws, but its real implementation of it will be difficult. Any reform is usually followed by a counter -reform. The reform by definition violates the more or less system, therefore is doomed to run into the resistance of conservative groups of interests.