The Moscow City Court postponed on March 29 the consideration of a complaint about the sentence of five convicted in the case of riots on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in December 2010. The judicial board considered that she needed extra time to get acquainted with the case file. In addition, the defense today demanded that convicts personally attend meetings and stated the discharge of the board of judges. These petitions were rejected.

In northern Japan, the authorities announced the danger of tsunami - after strong underground shocks that occurred in the evening. The epicenter of an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 was in the ocean about 250 kilometers south of the city of Kushiro on the island of Hokkaido. The tremors occurred at a depth of about 26 kilometers.

In Washington, a ceremony of the meeting of the Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron, who arrived on a state visit, took place. Speaking at the ceremony, US President Barack Obama called the Union of two countries one of the most important in world history. Both leaders will discuss a wide range of problems, including the crisis in Syria, the confrontation with Iran in the nuclear sphere and the situation in Afghanistan.

Switzerland, Canton Vale: on the site of a car accident In Switzerland today, the day of mourning has been announced in connection with a car accident in the canton of Val, in which 28 people were killed, including 22 children. Both drivers of the bus were also killed. Of the 24 wounded - three children are in a coma, the condition of several more victims is evaluated by doctors as critical. This was reported on Wednesday by the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium Lorett Onkelinx.

In Poland, the highest court removed charges from three Polish troops who were charged with the murder of civilians. At the same time, the court ruled that the materials of the court investigation in the same case in respect of four other soldiers will be again considered in court. Seven soldiers earlier appeared in connection with the murder of several inhabitants in one of the Afghan villages, including women and children.

Alexey Levinson Stormy political events in Moscow and some other cities of the country concentrated public attention on the part of the population that can be called “protesters”, and “disagreed” and even “opposition”. Journalists, experts, politicians devoted a lot of time and effort, trying to determine who exactly goes to demonstrations and rallies , who demands the departure of Vladimir Putin and the change of political course.

Football. Champions League. 1/8 finals. Responsial matches "Chelsea" - "Napoli" 4: 1 (in overtime). First match 1: 3

The authorities of St. Petersburg allowed representatives of the opposition to arrange a protest on March 24 and 25 against the results of the elections of the President of Russia. According to Olga Kournosova, the head of the city department of the United Civil Front, the application for a rally on March 25 on the stable area was agreed without reservations and additional conditions. The organizers of this action expect to collect up to 10 thousand people.

One of the accused of beating a 15 -year -old teenager - police lieutenant Denis Ivanov - in the building of the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg (January 24, 2012) In St. Petersburg, a criminal investigation against police officers who beat 15-year-old Nikita Leontyev continues to investigate the criminal case. At the same time, no one has yet removed from him the accusation of robbery, which was most likely inspired by his killers - for his own justification.

In the center of Moscow in Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Lane, civil activists are trying to prevent the export of fragments of a demolished house, on the site of which it is planned to build a seven -story building with underground parking. Several people were detained by the police. As the leader of the movement in defense of the Khimkinsky forest Evgeny Chirikova writes on Twitter, she, TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva and several more people do not miss trucks to the construction site.

Deputies of the European Parliament at today's meeting plan to approve the resolution on the presidential election in Russia. The draft document reports that the European Parliament “takes note” of the election on March 4 - taking into account the conclusions made by observers of the Bureau of Democratic Institutes of the OSCE. They stated violations of the principle of competitiveness during the election campaign and a number of other deficiencies in the electoral process.

Evgeny Kisin The pianist Evgeny Kisin is one of the most famous musicians in the world - after the presidential election in Russia, he published a letter in Novaya Gazeta in which he said that he did not consider them honest. Here is a fragment of this letter: "Of course, I did not hope that these elections would be honest. But at least I hope that the people would not leave this.

In the canton of Vala, in the southwest of Switzerland, 28 people were killed in a car accident today, including 22 children. Another 24 children were injured. The bus, on which Belgian schoolchildren returned home after skating in the mountains, crashed into the tunnel wall at night. Both drivers died. In total, there were 52 people in the bus, almost everything - the inhabitants of two villages in Flanders. The wounded were delivered to the hospitals of Bern and Lausanne.

In Kazan, the district court today authorized the arrest of four former police officers accused of mockery of the detained local resident Sergey Nazarov. They are charged with intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, which resulted in death, and abuse of authority with the use of violence. In the case, another ex-employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whom the court concluded under house arrest yesterday, is also held.

On March 14, the Belarusian border guards removed the chief editor of the newspaper Our NIVA from the Minsk-Vilnius train Andrei Dinko. Thus, an independent journalist replenished the list of disadvantaged politicians, who previously also refused to leave the country.