Oppositionists Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvoszhaev (on the screen) In the Moscow City Court today, the listening of the cases of opposition to Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvoszhaev will continue, accused of organizing unrest in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012 and preparing similar actions in other cities of Russia. The accused does not admit guilt.

Armed people in uniforms without shoulder straps and chevrons block vital objects on the Crimean Peninsula. Where are they from? Everyone says that these are Russian units.

Trading on the US stock exchanges ended on Monday by a noticeable fall of the main indices. On the New York Exchange, the Dow Jones index, covering the 30 largest US corporations, decreased by 153 points, that is, a little less than one percent. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes experienced a similar decrease. As the Bloomberg news agency notes, the fall of markets is associated with the tension that arose due to the confrontation between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in the Crimea.

In the Russian stock market - a landslide drop in prices against the background of the escalation of political tension in Ukraine, threatening to develop into a military confrontation. The RTS and MICEX indices for an hour of trading collapsed by 10 percent, Interfax reports. The dollar exchange rate in the first minutes of trading on the Moscow Exchange grew by 86 kopecks to 36 rubles 75 kopecks, exceeding the historical maximum.

Victoria Nuland is a press conference in the OSCE dedicated to the situation in Ukraine on March 3, 2014 “OSCE advanced groups will begin to arrive at Ukraine on Monday late in the evening, but Russian objections in this pan -European organization do not give the opportunity to expand a full -scale mission. This was stated by US Secretary of State on Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland in Vienna on the sidelines of the special meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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The leader of the "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the leader of the Ukrainian Movement "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh, the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin said today. According to the investigation, in his statements, Yarosh publicly calls for anti -Russian forces to extremist actions and terror in Russia.

In the stock and foreign exchange markets of Russia - a collapse. Investors are afraid of the economic consequences of the decision of the Federation Council, which allowed Russian troops on March 1 to the territory of Ukraine. Promotions of raw materials and banks are rapidly falling. Gazprom’s securities fell by more than 11 percent, VTB - 12 and a half percent, Sberbank 0 by 8 percent, Uralkali - 11 percent.

German Obukhov I am ashamed that in my country almost all the main television channels are brazenly and cynically lied and continue to lie to their people about what is happening in Ukraine. I am ashamed that the main legislative body of the state-the State Duma-composes wild laws and provokes the 3rd world war. I am ashamed that in Russia there are such "politicians" as V. Zhirinovsky, and such "writers" as A. Prokhanov.

Auguste Leloar, Homer (1841) American publishers are more and more audiobooks every year. Much more. If the sale of paper and electronic publications fell by one percent, then the demand for oral books has grown by 20 percent. Stanford anthropologist Professor Larmann explains this trend in the fact that literature was initially oriented towards a voice, not a letter. Reading with his eyes, silently, to themselves finally got used to only in the 19th century.

In Ukraine, in Donetsk, the participants in the Prossei rally went on a storm of the regional state administration today, Ukrainian Pravda reports citing the Donbass News Newspaper. According to these data, about 20 journalists and deputies of the regional council who held a meeting were blocked in the administration building. It is also reported that the buildings are turned off the elevators, inside of which people remain.

Armed soldier at the military base in Simferopol In Kyiv, they talk about the large -scale information war of the Russian media against Ukraine and are preparing to repel Russian aggression in Crimea The leaders of the Ukrainian media groups, such as Inter and 1+1, turned to the General Directors of the Russian television and radio companies Channel One Konstantin Ernst, VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev and NTV Vladimir Kulistikova.

On Monday, during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, convened at the request of Russia, the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin read a letter dated March 1, which was sent to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. In this letter, Yanukovych asks the Russian president to use armed force to protect the population in Ukraine, where, according to him, people are persecuted on political and linguistic characteristics.

The 36th separate coast guard team (V.Ch. A2320) in the village of Perevalny under Simferopol was blocked by the military without identification marks

Since the beginning of this year, six people have died out of the beginning of this year as a result of attacks on the basis of xenophobia and national intolerance. This was reported to "Interfax" on Monday at the Human Rights Center "OVA", referring to the results of the monitoring. According to human rights activists, at least eight people have suffered from xenophobia in Russia from the beginning of January. The attacks were registered in six regions.