The Latvian actress Gun Zarina refused to play the main role in the play "Medea" in the Moscow Gogol Center in protest "against the commissioning of Russian troops into the territory of Ukraine and interventions into the internal affairs of the sovereign country," Lenta.ru reports with reference to the theater website. "Muse are silent. See you before the war!" - wrote Zarin in a letter to the leadership of the theater.

The Government of Ukraine does not consider the issue of the possible attachment of the country to NATO. This was stated by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Deshchitsa. According to him, while this question is not on the agenda. To date, the government is not developing any projects and programs to join Ukraine to NATO, the kid said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban announced their intention to disrupt the presidential election scheduled on April 5. They called on their supporters on the eve of voting to attack polling stations and make attacks on representatives of security forces. This is stated in the statement received on Monday by e-mail of the agency France-Presse.

Anti -war picket in the center of Moscow In the center of Moscow today there will be an anti -war picket against Russia's destabilization of the situation in Ukraine. The action was agreed with the Moscow Mayor. The application for the picket was submitted by human rights activists: the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseev and Lev Ponomarev - the head of the movement for human rights, whose activities were recently suspended by the authorities.

“Prince Igor” in the metro. Chamber "Onegin" Alexander Genis: Solomon, today I propose to start the March release of our Almanach, with a conversation, probably the most interesting premiere of the season - the opera Prince Igor in the Metro. She was not there for a hundred years. Solomon Volkov: Yes, there was no hundred years. And this production, I think, will be historical in one very important sense.

Naive man President Obama! He discusses some Putin lawyers! The American president, apparently, simply does not understand that the right, the law has nothing to do with Putin's actions; Putin spat on the law when it became possible to pull off the Crimea under the noise! This is a purely Russian definition of actions - according to concepts. Having asked himself the question of what Obama or leaders of the European Union could really do, Putin decided that nothing threatens him.

59 percent of Americans support the idea of applying economic sanctions against Russia in connection with its shares in Crimea. This is evidenced by the results of a public opinion poll conducted jointly by the CNN television company and the consulting company ORC International. At the same time, 48 percent of the respondents gave a high assessment of the actions of US President Obama to resolve the crisis situation around Ukraine, 43 percent estimated them negatively.

Ilya Lukash page on Facebook The famous Kyrgyz human rights activist Ilya Lukash left the country in connection with the increasing threats to him. He announced this today by the Kyrgyz service of our radio station. The activist did not announce where he is currently. Lukash urged the Kyrgyz authorities to observe the rights of representatives of non -traditional sexual orientation and opposed the tradition of abduction of brides that was widespread in Kyrgyzstan.

8% of all electricity of the European Union can already be produced today on wind generators. In the EU, its share has grown in eight years almost one and a half times The total share of alternative energy in the total volume of energy consumption in the countries of the European Union (EU) amounted to 14.1% in 2012 - after 13% a year earlier and 8.3% in 2004. Such data was presented on Monday to the Eurostat agency.

Martin Van Creleg Guest Ach - Military Historian Martin Van Creld Alexander Genis: The reprisal with the Independent Channel “Rain”, which deprived Russian viewers of objective information about Ukrainian events, because it occurred on the eve of the Crimean adventure, also touched me because not so long ago, shortly before the New Year, I performed in their studio - a rebuilt confectionery factory, which greatly resembled the most fashionable achievements of the statements of Soho and Brooklyn.

Marina Efimova Book Review of Marina Efimova Alexander Genis: The book that Marina Efimova will present to our listeners is unusual because she talks about how America was discovered - for herself and others - not men, but women. Marina Efimova: The name of Sarah Wieler became known 15 years ago after the book “Terra Incognitus”, in which she described her journey to Antarctica. She called the new book “O my America! The second act is in the fate of six women in the New World.

Will lustration will help Ukraine to cleanse the heirs of the overthrown system? We are talking about this with human rights activist Andrei Buzin, politician Oleg Lyashko and political scientist Julius Nisnevich.

Situational room in the White House. The situation in Ukraine is discussed US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation in the evening of March 9 with the chairman of China Xi Jinping, with whom he discussed the situation in Ukraine. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the White House.

The Chiquita brand was registered in 1947, while Fyffes fruit brand, the oldest in the world, appeared almost 20 years earlier. The new company will control 14% of the world market The American Corporation Chiquita Brands International and the Irish Fyffes Group, two of the leading world manufacturers and suppliers of bananas, announced a merger on Monday.