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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On March 8, 1944, Sergey Nikitin, composer and author-performer was born Personal business Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin (72 years) was born in Moscow in the family of military Yakov Grigoryevich Nikitin. In 1962 he graduated from secondary school No. 587 of Moscow. Then he began to write songs to verses of Russian and foreign poets. The first was “on the road” (“Night, and snow, and the path is far ...”) to the poems of Joseph Utkin, composed in December 1962.

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Stephen Paifer, said that this week, Kyiv will appoint the current Prime Minister of the country of the current Minister of Finance of Ukraine Natalya Yaresko. The diplomat wrote about this on his Twitter . “More and more information from Kyiv that Minister Yaresko will be appointed new Prime Minister of the country, possibly this week,” Paifer said.

Latvian professor Ivars Kalvins, the creator of the drug meldonium, because of which Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova failed a doping test, refuses to consider his brainchild doping. The scientist made a corresponding statement in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, describing in detail the pharmacological action of meldonium.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, expressed doubt that the statement with the call to free the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, published on behalf of the head of the State Department John Kerry, was made to them. Meanwhile, Zakharova notes on his Facebook page, US Secretary of State could simply not make a statement about the connection between the court of Savchenko and the implementation of the Minsk agreements by Russia.

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.

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.

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.