Experts of the Valdai club called the main foreign policy threats for Russia in 2016. All of them are somehow connected with the southern neighbors of Russia, even Washington poses a threat not directly, but through China. The Valdai discussion club was created in 2004 and united Russian and Western experts on foreign policy, since 2006, Vladimir Putin has traditionally meets with its members annually.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to introduce special chips for fur products in Russia, the press service of the Russian government reports. As an experiment, the RFID tags will begin to cake into certain types of light industry products in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union ( EAEU- Russia, Belarusian, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) from April 1 to December 31, 2016.

The UN Commission on the borders of the continental shelf decided to increase the sea territory of Argentina by 1.7 million square kilometers, reports The Guardian . In accordance with this decision, the Falkland Islands, in fact who are the overseas territory of Great Britain, ended up within the marine borders of Argentina. The Argentina government, for its part, called the decision of the UN Commission historical.

The opportunity to pre-order the new iPhone SE, which Apple positions as a budget model, disappeared for Russians on the same day it appeared.

The collection from the owners of apartments for the overhaul of houses is an excellent example of how democracy even in our, not too democratic state works. After the cessation of economic growth, after which the drop in oil prices followed, it was clear that the government, in the broad sense of the word, would redistribute rental income. In its naturally, benefit. Therefore, it turned out “suddenly” that citizens should pay for overhaul, truckers - for the maintenance of roads, etc.

Egyptian Ibrahim Samah, the alleged hijacker of the Airbus A320 airline Egypt Air, is a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Alexandria, reports Reuters with reference to a list of employees of the educational institution. A person named Ibrahim Abdel Tavab Samah leads the University Faculty of Faculty (or Department) of Food Security, follows from these data.

Professor-consultants Yuri Mann, Nina Pavlova, Vadim Gaevsky, Nikolai Fedorov, Vladimir Dybo were dismissed from the Russian State Humanitarian University (RSUSU). On March 29 , the associate professor of the Department of Theoretical and Historical Poetics of the Institute of Philology and the History of the Russian State University Vsevolod Lazutin reported this on March 29.

The Egypt Air passenger plane was captured in Egypt, reports Reuters. The plane flew from Alexandria to Cairo. According to Cyprus broadcasting corporation, there are 55 passengers and 7 crew members on board the aircraft. It is noted that the plane has already landed in Cyprus. One of the hijackers is considered armed. According to AP, the stolen plane sat in the Cyprus city of Larnak, and a bomb can be laid in it. According to one of the Cypriot officials, several attackers can be on board.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin commented on a petition to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko "to levy a fee for the flight over the territory of Ukraine of the Russian orbital spacecraft." “Bandera decided to shoot down the satellites. Presumably, the whole National Guard will participate in the tension of the slingshot, ”wrote Dmitry Rogozin in his Twitter .

On the morning of March 29, the Airbus 320 passenger aircraft Egyptar was captured in the sky over Egypt. The liner made an internal flight from Alexandria to Cairo, there were 81 passengers and seven crew members on board. One of the passengers with an object similar to a suicide bother’s belt penetrated the cockpit of the pilots and announced the capture of the flight. He demanded to change the route and land the plane in Cyprus.

The chairman of the Ukrainian Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko, said that the parliamentary factions “Blok Petro Poroshenko” (BPP), “People’s Front” and “Fatherland” agreed on the formation of a new coalition, the 112 Ukraine television channel reports. Lyashko emphasized that all the parties mentioned by him agreed to cast their votes for the chairman of the upper Rada of Vladimir Groysman as a candidate for the post of head of the country's government.

The case is described when the freshwater tropical fish from the family ( Cichlidae ) turned out to be for her descendants as a mother and father. Biologist Ula Svensson (OLA Svensson) from the University of Gotheborg and his colleagues crossed female cichlid species Pundamilia Pundamilia with males of the neoochromis omnicaeruleus . Hybridization between these related species is possible and sometimes even spontaneously occurs in nature.

The course effect of the sale of the Rosneft currency in 2015 amounted to about 9 rubles, which contributed to a “noticeably weaker reduction in the ruble in the fall of oil prices”. This conclusion was reached by Raiffeisenbank analysts on the basis of an application for the sale by the company through the Central Bank system of about $ 45 billion.

On Monday, late in the evening, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in the Verkhovna Rada announced the nomination of the speaker of the parliament Vladimir Groysman for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. At the same time, the BPP left the ruling coalition before the election of the new government. The candidates of ministers are only being discussed, the Ukrainian press publishes various options for the “chess”, the distribution of posts in the government.

Egyptian Ibrahim Samakh, who is considered the hijacker of the Airbus A320 airline Egypt Air, was initially going to send the liner to Turkey, but the fuel in the tanks of the aircraft would not be enough for such a flight. Only for this reason, the hijacker ordered the crew to land in Larnac, Agency France-Presse reports. However, this diverges with other data on the personal background of the case of the hijacker.