The Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak, said that Russia and Belarus were not able to resolve the gas dispute following the negotiations of the prime ministers. It is reported by TASS . At the same time, according to Novak, the debt of Minsk for the delivered fuel exceeded $ 700 million. “The negotiations on the gas issue between the governments of the Russian Federation and Belarus have just ended.

The German personnel agency Optronic HR GmbH, which collaborates with the North Atlantic Alliance and the US Army, began to search for statists for the role of “Russians” for exercises. Information about this appeared on the official portal of Berlin. Actors who will play peaceful Russian residents are needed for exercises at the American Hoenfels training ground in Bavaria. A prerequisite for applicants is the knowledge of English and German.

Rocket carrier with proton-m engine Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, Vladimir Putin first commented on protests in Russian cities, it became known about the marriage in all engines of the second and third steps of Protons, the dollar renewed at least July 2015.

In the evening, on Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Finance announced that the high court decided: Ukraine should still pay with Russia for bonds issued a couple of months before Viktor Yanukovych’s flight from the country. In Kyiv, they say that everything is not so unambiguous.

A study conducted by scientists from the University of Technology of Georgia showed that particles of hydrocarbon dust forming dunes on the surface of the satellite of Saturn Titan are charged with static electricity . Dunes are found mainly in the equatorial region of Titan. They are extended under the influence of wind from west to east in parallel rows, sometimes hundreds of kilometers. Their height reaches 90 meters.

The President of Russia, the Supreme Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree on the draft for military service in the spring of 2017. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. In accordance with the Decree, 142 thousand people are subject to the call. The spring call will be held this year from April 1 to July 15.

The Central American Republic of Salvador became the world's first country to introduce a complete ban on ore mining, reports The Financial Times . It is noted that the ban was introduced for environmental considerations: in order to prevent the pollution and depletion of drinking water reserves. At the same time, according to the UN, with the highest level of environmental pollution among the countries of the region, the availability of drinking water in Salvador is the lowest.

In the United States, Congress continues to investigate the alleged intervention of Russia in the American presidential election in 2016. On Wednesday, the leaders of the relevant committee in the Senate made the first report on this topic. The essence of this speech, according to most authors, came to the conclusion that the Senate Committee is ready for the sake of investigation to overcome inter -party disagreements.

A team of paleontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University have discovered a huge cluster of dinosaur tracks on the north-west coast of Western Australia. At least 48 trails of tracks were found over a 25-kilometre stretch on the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region. “The tracks were concentrated in three main areas of the coast: Yaniarri in the north, Walmadani in the middle and Kardilakan-Jahal Buru in the south,” the paleontologists said.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian authorities to pay 50 thousand euros of compensation for the death of Murad Nugmetov at a rally in Dagestan, according to the court’s website . According to the court, the Russian authorities did not take the necessary measures to find the murderer of Nagmetov and establish all the circumstances of his death. The ECHR also recognized the use of Russian grenades against people with tear gas.

In the popular free Internet, Telegram, calls have appeared. This was reported in the project blog . Now users can communicate not only with ordinary and voice messages. Calls through the cross -platform messenger work both on iOS and Android. Meanwhile, only users in Western Europe can call at first, the rest of the regions will be added later.

On March 27, Mikhail Mikhailovich Sokolov, a lecture on “Cultural Capital and Social Revolution, professor in St. Petersburg named after I. S. Turgenev, a professor at the European University in St. Petersburg. Participation in the cultural life of St. Petersburg, 1991-2011. " The lecture was held as part of the joint cycle of the European University and the Public Lectures Polit.ru project.

In the United States, Congress continues to investigate the alleged intervention of Russia in the American presidential election in 2016. On Wednesday, the leaders of the relevant committee in the Senate made the first report on this topic. The essence of this speech, according to most authors, came to the conclusion that the Senate Committee is ready for the sake of investigation to overcome inter -party disagreements.

The dollar exchange rate in relation to the ruble has been updated from the middle of July 2015, according to the tenders of the Moscow Exchange . At 10:45 Moscow time, the US dollar exchange rate with a “tomorrow” settlement amounted to 56.33 rubles. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" amounted to 60.49 rubles. The ruble grows to the bivalyut basket against the background of expensive oil.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation made a proposal to legislatively consolidate the possibility of blocking pirate Internet sites that post Russian films without the consent of copyright holders, without the appropriate court decision, Kommersant writes. As the Ministry of Culture official told the publication, the basis of the copyright holder to the ministry may be the basis for such a blocking.