Former Minister of Sports of the Chelyabinsk Region Yuri Serebrennikov was found guilty of receiving bribes on an especially large scale. The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced him to five years in prison in a maximum security colony and a fine of 150 million rubles, the first regional reports.

The election of Ella Pamfilova, who previously held the post of authorized human rights under the President of Russia, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, became logical, since it is not only the status figure of the new CEC, but is also capable of conducting dialogue with both the opposition and with the authorities.

The withdrawal of the Russian Direct Investments from Vnesheconombank is a reasonable and logical measure, since the bank is now objectively too many functions. This was in an interview with Polit.ru was stated by the chief economist of the Rus-Rating agency, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Anton Tabakh, commenting on the publication of the media about the possible exit of the RPFI from VEB and further financing of the bank itself. “There is now too much in Vebe.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin has no data on the visit of the CIA director John Brennan to Moscow in early March. His words are given by Interfax . “I can't say anything about this. There were no contacts in the Kremlin. Therefore, it is better to turn to Mr. Brennan’s possible visas in our bureaucratic system, ”Peskov said. Earlier it was reported that Brennan in Moscow visited the FSB and other organizations.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed the commander of the ground forces of the head of the anti -terrorist operation (ATO) in the Donbass Sergey Popko. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian president. On March 28, Poroshenko is on a working visit to the part of the Donetsk region controlled by the authorities.

Vietnam authorities intend to intensify the country's advance in the Russian tourism market. One of the options under consideration to increase tourist flow may be military tourism, said the deputy chairman of the National Tourism Committee of Vietnam Nguyen Kuok Hang Portalu by the Russian Union of Train industry RATA-NEWS . In 1964-1975, when the war was in Vietnam, the Soviet Union provided significant support for one of the warring parties.

The Ukrainian authorities are ready to restore the country's sovereignty in the Donbass, and President Petro Poroshenko wrote on his Twitter social network page. The corresponding entry was posted on Poroshenko’s page during his visit to the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. The President noted that the Ukrainian people want the restoration of sovereignty. “We are ready to hold honest elections and cooperate with the choice that will be made by the Ukrainian Donbass,” he also wrote.

The news of the day The First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Chelyabinsk Region, Pavel Ryzhya, resigned after at one of the meetings of the Committee on the Industry of the Regional Parliament criticized the regional concept of long-term socio-economic development "Strategy-2020", calling it "a sweet sleep that is not realized in life." The application has not yet been signed by Governor Boris Dubrovsky, but, according to his spokeswoman, the resignation will be adopted in the

In the report of the Russian television channel, Zvezda from the Khmeimim air base in Syria accidentally lit up the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system. We are talking about the plot, which was dedicated to the withdrawal of Russian aviation from Syrian territory.

On the website of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , a new caricature dedicated to events in Brussels was published. The figure shows Belgian police officers who drink beer from the barrel. One of them says to the other: "We must make sure that there are no bombs in beer." The subtitle reads: "Belgium takes measures." The editorial column relating to the caricature says that the police missed Belgium a terrorist who was extracted from Turkey.

A billionaire, US presidential candidate Donald Trump for the eighth time became a grandfather. The daughter of a policy of politician Ivanka Trump reported on her son’s birth. “Jared and I feel incredibly happy and announce the birth of Theodore James,” the report said. Baby Theodore. My Heart is Full. XX, IVANKA #GRATEFUL Pic.twitter.com/aoux7nm3bu - Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) March 28 , 2016 Theodore James became the third child of Ivanka.

This week in the journal Science published an article by the geneticist team under the leadership of Craig Venter, who created the microorganism of SYN 3.0 with a record short genome. There are only 473 gene. Earlier, based on the genetic material of the Bacteria Mycoplasma MyCoides, scientists have created an artificial strain, the genome of which was almost no different from the bacteria genome.

President V. Putin Government of the Russian Federation Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the 10 most important news per day. Today, the Kremlin spoke about the preparation of an information attack on Putin, Pamfilova headed the CEC, and it also became known about multi -billion dollar contracts with Russia for the supply of equipment after a special operation in Syria.

On March 29, Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who will participate there in a nuclear security summit, should come to Washington. Wall Street Journal wrote on this occasion that the Turkish side is very interested in Erdogan during this visit to meet with US President Barack Obama. The American side has not yet expressed much enthusiasm about the organization of such a meeting.

Italian singer and composer Eros Ramazzotti decided to cancel previously planned concerts in the Russian Federation, Estonia and Armenia, which were to take place as part of his world tour called Perfetto. reports this TASS with reference to a statement from the tour producers - Trident Music Srl. The statement expresses the producers' deep regrets about the change in the tour program, which occurred after Ramazzotti's performance in Minsk on March 26.