The Foreign Minister of the NATO participating countries confirmed that the alliance has stopped practical military and civil cooperation with Russia. This is stated in the NATO statement . The corresponding decision was made in protest against the Kremlin policy against Ukraine, in particular, Crimea.

Law enforcement agencies searched in the apartment of the head of the Union of Orthodox citizens of Ukraine Valery Kaurov in Odessa in his absence. It is reported by Interfax . According to Kaurov, at seven in the morning in Ukrainian time to the apartment where he lives with his son, the SBU employees broke and searched. According to him, they seized his working computer, as well as some documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to work out the issue of rehabilitation of Crimean Tatars repressed in Stalin's times. It is reported by Interfax . During the meeting of Putin with the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, the head of the republic called for the shortest possible time to resolve the issue of rehabilitation.

Ilya Karpyuk Photo: Mayer-auto.ru Since April 1, the Russian State Board of Authority began issuing a new -sample driver’s licenses. In new rights, additional categories and subcategories have appeared - now there are 16 of them. The essence of the changes mainly comes down to the "crushing" of existing categories. For example, category A1 is added - motorcycles with an engine volume of up to 125 cubic meters fall into it.

The founder of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov said he was leaving the company. He reported this on his page on the social network. “Following my brother, who left the post of technical director in the middle of last year, I take off the duties of the general director of VKontakte,” Durov wrote.

The condition of 19 leading Russian businessmen for March decreased by more than $ 10 billion, Bloomberg reports. At the moment, the richest Russians are monitoring assets worth $ 216 billion. At the same time, since the beginning of this year, this amount decreased by $ 27.8 billion. The most significant losses were the main owner of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Lisin - they amounted to $ 4.2 billion. And the state of Alisher Usmanov decreased by $ 2.5 billion.

The Investigative Committee charged Konstantin Tishkin, suspected of killing a 10-year-old girl in Golitsyno near Moscow. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

The plane flying from Novosibirsk to Moscow landed in Tyumen to provide medical care to the passenger, says the Ural Investigation Department on the Transport of the IC of Russia. The department explained that a 28-year-old man worsened his health, so it was decided to sit at the Tyumen Roshchino airport. Earlier, the media reported that the aircraft landing occurred due to a passenger-deboshir, who was supposedly intoxicated.

On April 3, the Ukrainian delegation will arrive in Moscow for negotiations to pay off the debt for the consumed gas to Gazprom, said the Minister of Energy of the country Yuri Prodan, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, Sold reported on the upcoming meeting of the new head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Andrei Kobolev with the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller and noted that the price of the imported gas, as well as the amount of the transfer of Russian gas to Europe, would be discussed.

On April 1, 1879, Ilya Shatrov, a military musician and composer, the author of the waltz “ on the hills of Manchuria ” was born. Personal business Ilya Shatrov Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (1879-1952) has served in the Russian army since 1900, after the October Revolution he was a capmerist in the Red Army. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as the Division capter, after the war he led the garrison orchestra of the Kirovabad garrison in the Transcaucasian military district for a long time.

The Federation Council at an extraordinary meeting unanimously approved the law on the termination of the Russian-Ukrainian agreements on the Black Sea Fleet, Interfax reports. Now the law “On the termination of the agreements regarding the stay of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Ukraine” will be signed for the president. With the abolition of agreements on the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Moscow refuses to pay for the lease of Crimean military bases.

The aircraft of the American airline Jetblue Airways made an emergency landing at the Yamaiki airport, the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reports. The reason for the decision on the emergency landing was the smell of smoke, which the captain of the airliner felt in the cockpit of the pilots 15 minutes after departure. The plane returned to Kingston Airport, where all passengers were emergency evacuated. Four people were injured during the evacuation, they provided medical care.

The Russian representative office at the UN refused to take part in an informal meeting of the Security Council dedicated to the observance of human rights and freedom in the Crimea, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the organization. The Russian delegation considered that the meeting was not associated with the UN Security Council, and therefore decided to ignore it.

Ilya Karpyuk Restaurant "Mafia" on Khreshchatyk photo: A. Petrov/world.lib.ru On Monday night, an incident occurred in the center of Kyiv, which can sufficiently affect the future alignment of political forces in the country. The shooting in the restaurant ended with the fact that the Right Sector left the Dnipro hotel, and the Verkhovna Rada obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU to disarm illegal armed groups.

The German airline Lufthansa, due to the strike of pilots from 2 to 4 April, canceled 102 flights to Russia, according to the carrier’s website . The 64 flights to Moscow and back, 34 flights to St. Petersburg and from it, as well as 4 flights of Nizhny Novgorod-Frankfurt and vice versa were canceled. Passengers can transfer a departure to another date, or return tickets without penalties. The largest strike of pilots in Germany is organized by the Vereinigung Cockpit trade union.