The deputy head of the Malaysian government Zahid Hamidi told reporters that the police prevented the militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (prohibited in the Russian Federation) to steal a number of senior politicians in the country. Among the objects of the abduction could be the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, writes The Star Online with reference to his deputy.

The Swiss manufacturer of prestigious wristwatches, chronometers, smartphones and glasses TAG Heuer intends to refuse to renew its sponsorship contract with Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova. This decision was made by the management of the company, a division of the world's largest luxury goods holding LVMH, after the athlete admitted using meldonium, a substance banned by the World Anti-Doping Association, TASS reports citing a statement from TAG Heuer.

The head of the diplomacy of the European Union Federica Mogherini noted that in Syria for the first time in five years there are no serious hostilities, RIA Novosti reports. “The ceasefire in Syria is largely preserved, although we observed several violations in different parts of Syria.

The last time we began to figure out why, in the first message to Kurbsky, Ivan the Terrible mentions the inhabitants of the ancient Troy Antenor and Aeneas, calling them traitors. Although Homer does not have a hint of the betrayal of these heroes, in later prose works: “Diary of the Trojan War” of the Crete's dictus and the “History of the Destruction of Troy” Daretia - Antenor and Aeneas are really shown as traitors who surrender the Greeks hometown.

US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of violating the Minsk agreements because of the trial of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. The relevant statement was published by the press service of the State Department of the United States. “I am deeply concerned about the state of health of the Ukrainian pilot and deputy Rada Nadia Savchenko, who has refused food and water from Friday in protest against her ongoing imprisonment,” the American diplomat said.

According to the director of the Primorsky Safari Park Dmitry Mezentsev, his old friend, Tiger Amur, has been leading the brides for the goat of Timur, the Russian News Service reports. “The first stage of the competition for the best goat for Timur was won by Amur. We released Timur directly to the park, he went to the Tiger, we took him from there. And then he went to the goats, ”Menzentsev said.

The American election race went through the so -called “super -hover” - on March 5, democratic primaries and coks took place in three states (Kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska), and republican in four (Kansas, Meng, Kentucky and Louisiana). The next day-March 6-republican primaries took place in Puerto Rico and a democratic cocus in Maine. The main result of the super -subsurbs - the struggle for the democratic and republican nomination continues.

Ilya Karpyuk Maria Sharapova. Frame of the press conference The new doping scandal shocked Russian sport. It turned out that domestic athletes, despite the ban on the beginning of 2016, massively used Meldonium-a metabolic agent that increases the endurance of the body, resistance to high physical and neuropsychic stress during training and competitions.

The authorities of the three Baltic republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia announced their intention to strengthen border control at their eastern lines of fears that after the closing of the “Balkan route” refugees would pour them from the Russian Federation and Belarus. It is planned to tighten the procedures for checking passports.

On Monday, March 7, while the country was resting, ordinary auction took place on the Moscow Exchange - both in the currency and stock markets. It was the stock market that set a peculiar record: for the first time since June 2008, the MICEX index exceeded 1900 points, the closure occurred at 1909.57. Rosseti, Polymetal, VTB, Gazprom and Surgetneftegaz became the growth leaders. The group “Cherkizovo”, “Rosneft”, “Akron”, “Pharmstandart” and “Interrao” came out to the minus.

Ilya Karpyuk MICEC LASTPHOTOS.RU On Monday, March 7, while the country was resting, ordinary auction took place on the Moscow Exchange - both in the currency and stock markets. It was the stock market that set a peculiar record: for the first time since June 2008, the MICEX index exceeded 1900 points, the closure occurred at 1909.57. Rosseti, Polymetal, VTB, Gazprom and Surgetneftegaz became the growth leaders.

We continue to publish the materials of the book “Putin's Russia: how it arose, how it exists and how it can end”, published in 2015 by the American Institute of Entrepreneurship (American Enterprise Institute). The authors of the publication are famous scientists and experts in various fields of social knowledge. Publication is carried out with the kind resolution of AEI (Washington, DC).

The new doping scandal shocked Russian sport. It turned out that domestic athletes, despite the ban on the beginning of 2016, massively used Meldonium-a metabolic agent that increases the endurance of the body, resistance to high physical and neuropsychic stress during training and competitions. It is Russian athletes who are “sitting” on Meldonia because it was synthesized in the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s and has been used in medicine since 1984.

The doping industry of the five-time world champion of the skater Pavel Kulizhnikov on Meldonius was positive, the R-Sport agency reports with reference to the informed source. According to him, after the discovery of the forbidden funds in the sample and Pavel Kulizhnikov was removed from the competition.

The price of Brent oil again dropped below the “psychological” mark of $ 40 per barrel. This was reported in the materials on the website of the ICE London Exchange. According to the data at 19:10 in Moscow, the cost of May Brent oil futures decreased and amounts to $ 39.89 per barrel. A day earlier, the cost of oil Brent has already overcome $ 40, and in the morning of March 8, the cost of May futures rose above $ 40 per barrel.