Vaclav Gavel was a politician and a man with a capital letter In Moscow, the festival "Vaclav Havel these days" is held. In the metropolitan Youth, an evening was held on the memory of the last Czechoslovak and first Czech president, the famous writer and dissident.

Supreme EU representative for foreign policy Katherine Ashton In Brussels, the foreign ministers of the European Union have approved new sanctions against Belarus and Syria. This is reported today by news agencies with reference to diplomatic sources. The official statement is expected later. We are talking about expanding the 12 surnames of the list of Belarusian citizens who will be prohibited from entering the EU , and their assets in the countries of the European Union are frozen.

Michelle Jarro The first decade of the current century was the warmest from the beginning of systematic meteorological observations in the 19th century. This is stated in the current report of the World Meteorological Organization - UN Office to observe the weather. The report also notes excessive rains and snowfalls that caused floods around the world and abnormal droughts in Africa and North America.

Sergey Udaltsov with his supporters In Moscow, a picket organized by the Opposition Initiative Group "Civil Action" will be held in Moscow. The main theme of the picket is the further plans of the participants in the campaign for honest elections, ”said Sergey Udaltsov, one of the organizers of the picket, the coordinator of the Left Front. According to Udaltsov, the event will be held in the “open press conference” format, to which opposition leaders are invited.

RTVI TV channel no longer belongs to Vladimir Gusinsky. Who will experience the consequences of the sale - Gusinsky or The transaction for the sale of the RTVI television channel ended. The disgraced oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky sold it to the former General Director of the Zvezda channel Ruslan Sokolov. Sokolov told Kommersant about the completion of the transaction.

Basketball. Euroleague. ¼ finals CSKA - "Bilbao" 79:60 Account in the series 2: 0

The Ukrainian authorities prevented the youth protest on the Maidan. How serious is the potential of youth protest? The program is involved in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lesya Orobets.

Kirill Kobrin: Radio Radio Radio Time and Peace will continue the topic extremely relevant in recent years. We will talk about those who “from the inside of the system” signal the society about its vices, whether we are talking about the state system, financial, any other. In English, such people are called Whistleblowers, in Russian there is no such word-either “outrageous peace”, or “exposure”.

March 26 at 11 pm in the program of Alexander Genis - River in Moma; Mexican sabotage; Left music; American Nietzsche; Rabbi Boaz Marmon. For the first time I ran into Mexican muralists thirty years ago, having come to visit Leo Losev, a wonderful poet and professor of the no less outstanding Dartmut College. Losev began examinations of the sights of the university town with the library. A terrible surprise was hidden inside her: the frescoes are orcoo.

The Belarusian oppositionist Sergei Kovalenko, whose health is undermined by a long hunger strike, will be transferred to a psychiatric clinic in Vitebsk next week. The representative of the authorities announced this to his oppositionist’s wife today. In February, the court in Vitebsk sentenced 37-year-old Kovalenko to two years and one month of the colony of general regime for non-compliance with the regime of serving conditional sentence.

Skating. World Championship at separate distances. Herenven, Holland Men. 1000 m 1. Stefan Grothus (Holland) 2. Kyeld Nyuis (Holland) 3. Shani Davis (USA) Women. 1500 m 1. Kristin Nesbitt (Canada) 2. Irene Vyust (Holland) 3. Linda de Fris (Holland) Men. 5000 m 1. Sven Kramer (Holland) 2. Bob de Jong (Holland) 3. Jonathan Cook (USA)

In London, the police are investigating the attempt on the Russian banker Herman Gorbuntsov. The shooter disappeared, the banker is in critical condition. The attempt occurred on Tuesday, but the authorities reported it only on Friday. According to Radio Liberty, Natalya Golitsyna, Gorbuntsov was shot at Hermann Gorbuntsov when he entered the entrance of the house on Bayng Street in East London. According to witnesses, the killer shot from the machine gun.

Cycling. The multi -day race "Volta Catalonia". Spain Stage 5. ASCO - Manzre 1. Julien Simon (France) 2. Rigoberto Uranus (Colombia) 3. Sylvester Shmyd (Poland) In the overall standings, Michael Albazini leads

In France - after an attack on a Jewish school and the liquidation of the terrorist Mohammed Mer - a discussion of Islamic radicalism and politics in relation to national minorities unfolded. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, new mass shares of civil opposition are held. In Kyiv, the results of the next unsuccessful stage of negotiations on prices for Russian natural gas are summed up. The main topic for discussion in the program: How to deal with the arbitrariness of the Russian police?