The Pentagon representative Steve Warren announced the beginning of the military exercises of the American troops in Romania and Bulgaria, according to the US Department of Defense. The soldiers of the 173rd airborne brigade landed at the Smardan training ground, where joint training with the Romanian military will be held. At the same time, fighters of the 7th Army of the United States will staging a ground operation at the airport in Mikhail Kogelnichan.

The self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic will make social benefits both in rubles and in dollars. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Minister of Finance of the self -proclaimed Republic Evgeny Manuilov. “Today, in addition to hryvnia and ruble, there are the first tax revenues in dollars in the republic’s budget,” Manuilov explained. According to him, the share of salaries, pensions and benefits paid in dollars will not exceed 6%.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova helps to confirm the Ukrainian citizenship of director Oleg Sentsov, accused of preparing terrorist attacks in the Crimea. It is reported by Interfax . “It was my initiative, he insisted on Ukrainian citizenship. I said: write an appeal to me, I will solve this problem-to confirm Ukrainian citizenship, ”Pamfilova explained at an agency’s press conference on Wednesday.

On March 25, the leadership of the British television and radio corporation of the Air Force will announce the dismissal of the host of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, writes The Telegraph newspaper. In mid -March, the Air Force stated that the host was temporarily suspended from work before the end of the investigation of the incident that happened on the set. The company also suspended the show of his programs.

Member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Education and Sports, the President of the International Sambo Federation Vasily Shestakov proposed to include sambo elements in the program of the complex “Ready for work and defense” (TRP). It is reported by RIA Novosti . The parliamentarian believes that sambo should be trained by contractions, as well as entering military universities.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law approving the number of armed forces in the amount of 250 thousand of which 204 thousand - military personnel. This was reported on the website of the head of state. According to the document, in a special period, the number of aircraft “increases by the number of personnel called up for military service in the implementation of regulatory acts on mobilization”.

More and more often in Russia there are talk about modernization and import substitution. Polit.ru decided to find out the cost of the cost of the production of basic goods and services of Russia in comparison with analogues in the more stable economies of the United States, China, Germany and France.

Residents of the Moscow region should prepare for a repetition of the fire hazard situation of 2010, follows from the forecast of the hydrometeorological center. According to weather forecasters, spring this year came abnormally early, and the upcoming in the summer is expected to moisture. This is written by the newspaper " Kommersant ". In the Ministry of Emergencies, they are ready for the fact that forest fires can even spread to settlements.

The Moody's International rating agency has lowered the sovereign credit rating of Ukraine from CAA3 to CA, preserving the negative forecast, the agency’s press release says. The report notes that the key factor for lowering the rating was the likelihood of significant losses in the country's external private creditors as a result of the government plan to restructure the majority of Eurobligations issued.

The Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is interested in promoting integration processes in the Latin American region, including within the framework of Selak, Unasur, the Pacific Alliance, Merkasur. It is reported by RIA Novosti . “We welcome the active role of Colombia in the advancement of integration processes in the region, including within the framework of Selak, Unasur, the Pacific Alliance, Merkasur,” Lavrov noted.

On March 23, the next production of the Proscience Theater was held in the central house of the journalist. With the topic “How a person chooses. The view of the psychologist ”was the doctor of psychological sciences, the head of the international laboratory of positive psychology of personality and motivation to the Higher School of Economics, and professor of the faculty of psychology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosova Dmitry Leontyev.

Ilya Ponomarev, excluded from the Fair Russia party, said that the State Duma had received a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office to withdraw deputy inviolability, he wrote about this on his Facebook page. “According to unconfirmed data, the prosecutor's office turned to the Duma about the removal of deputy inviolability. In honor of what is unclear.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed the Governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin in connection with the loss of trust. This was reported on the Kremlin website . “To renounce Khoroshavina Alexander Vadimovich from the post of governor of the Sakhalin Region in connection with the loss of confidence in the President of the Russian Federation,” the text of the decree said.

From March 25, Raiffeisenbank stops issuing loans for the purchase of cars, as well as refinancing car loans. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the bank’s message. As noted in the message, such a decision is associated with negative trends in the domestic automobile market, indicating the extremely low potential for the development of this business in Russia in the medium term.

The Kremlin does not consider the resignation of Igor Kolomoisky from the post of governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region for comments. This was announced by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “I don’t think this is a topic for the Kremlin’s comments, I mean the appointment and dismissal of governors in Ukraine,” Peskov explained.