On March 25, a relay race of Olympic fire began in the Japanese Prefecture of Fukushima on March 25. The broadcast of the ceremony was led on the website of the Tokyo-2020 Organizing Committee. The flame of the torch of the relay races was lit from the lamp, in which the Olympic fire brought from Greece. The first runner was the 34-year-old football player Adzus Ivasimizu, who played for the Japanese national team from 2006 to 2016.

Passenger air travel from Russia abroad from April 1 will resume from April 1 another 13 airports, writes TASS with reference to the operastble. Flights will be resumed from Barnaul, Belgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Nalchik, Orenburg, Saratov, Sochi, Tyumen and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Since March 2020, Russia canceled regular and charter flights to all other countries due to the pandemic of coronavirus. Air Communications gradually began to be restored from August 1, 2020.

Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia demanded that the Russian authorities provide assistance to the opposition to Alexei Navalny, who was serving a term in the colony. Messages appeared on Twitter Edgar Rinkevich , Gabrielus Landsbergis and Eva Maria Liimets . “An alarming messages come about the state of health of Alexei Navalny. Access to medical care is the basic right even for political prisoners.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of France has banned from gathering outside the premises in groups of more than six people, reports Franceinfo with reference to the department. This rule has previously been introduced, but no one controlled its compliance. The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Gerald Darmanen on March 23 sent a telegram to police prefects, in which he demanded to strictly monitor compliance with the ban.

The authorities plan to hold the procession of the Immortal Regiment on May 9 in a normal format, by this time the Moscow City Hall will remove restrictions on mass events, writes RBC with reference to sources close to the presidential administration. “So far, we proceed from the fact that [the procession] will take place as usual, but the final decisions will be made closer to the case based on the epidemiological situation,” one of the sources said.

An open letter demanding to remove the status of a “prone to escape” from Navalny and allowed more than 150 journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and scientists to the policy of lawyers. They are worried about the state of health of Navalny, the full text of the letter publishes “MBH Media”. The letter is addressed to the director of the FSIN Kalashnikov, Russian Prosecutor General Krasnov and the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Moskalkova.

The head of the international payment system Visa in Russia, Mikhail Berner, predicted that plastic bank cards will disappear after 2030, reports . RIA Novosti “Probably, ‘plastic’ will definitely remain somewhere in people’s memories,” said a company representative. According to him, plastic cards are already much less significant than before. In some large banks, up to 30% of new clients do not receive a plastic card.

US President Joe Biden gave his first press conference in this status. He takes the presidency of only 68 days, but has already stated that he would run for a second term, CNN reports . At the same press conference, Baiden doubled his original purpose in vaccination and from 100 to 200 million vaccinations. According to the US president, already 100 million inhabitants of this country have already been vaccinated.

On Wednesday, March 24, on the main scene of the Central Theater of the Russian Army, a awarding ceremony of laureates of the Prize of the Ministry of Defense in the field of culture and art was held.

Civil activist Mark Halperin, convicted in 2018 in the case of calls for extremism, was released from a colony-settlement No. 2 in Zelenograd. He published a photo on his Facebook page. “I'm free. He wrote . Everything is fine. We are going on. " Mark Halperin is a participant in protest events, one of the leaders of the new opposition movement. He was repeatedly detained and placed under administrative arrest.

The Rospotrebnadzor said that the Epivakcorone vaccine, developed by the Vector scientific center, is an immunogenic and safe drug for the prevention of Covid-19. This conclusion in the department came after analyzing the results of clinical studies of the Vector. They were published in the journal "Infection and Immunity". The drug was studied among volunteers aged 18-60. The study was carried out in two stages.

Facebook is working on The Re-Entry App (“Return Appendix”), which will be intended for people who have left prison, writes Bloomberg. Advertising about the new application was published on March 24 at the top of the Instagram tape of some users. The notification proposed to test a new service that will help people in “preparation for life after the prison”.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny underwent examination by doctors in the colony, and they recognized his condition satisfactory, writes Interfax with reference to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Vladimir Region. “On March 24, medical examinations were conducted in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Vladimir Region, including the convicted Navalny.

Promotion "Freedom to Navalny!" In two days, she gained more than 250 thousand potential participants, the politician team published information about this. The rally team did not appoint a policy of the rally. According to the plan, it should take place when 500 thousand people who expressed a firm decision to take to the streets are registered on the website of the site. The campaign of Navalny's campaign announced on March 23. “We are not appointing a specific date now.

The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the book of Michel Shion "Sound. Listen, hear, observe ”(translation of Inna Kushnareva). The book opens the series "History of Sound." This work can rightfully be called the introduction into the methodology of sound research. Michelle Shion is a theorist of cinema and sound, a follower of the composer Pierre Sheffer, one of the first researchers of the sound texture in the cinema.