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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

On March 9, three rallies took place in Dnepropetrovsk: two "for United Ukraine" and one action for the accession of Crimea to Russia

The leading researcher at the Institute of World Economics and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Kuzannes and the mayor of Feodosia Dmitry Shchepetkov - about the legal grounds for holding the Crimean referendum on the issue of joining Russia, whether the inconsistent residents of Crimea should boycott it, and what consequences he will be in if his results are hopeful to get the initiators of the event.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov The United States expects practical steps from Russia on the expression of the situation around Ukraine and Crimea. This is stated in a written communique, sent to journalists on behalf of the press secretary of the State Department Jen Psaki.

Delivery of the UN Party of Humanitarian Assistance to Yarmuk in February 2014 In Syria, at least 128 people died from hunger in Damascus besieged by government forces for refugees. Such data are given in the new report of the human rights organization of Amnesty International, which notes that the authorities are intentionally sealed people in blocked military quarters, using the situation as a weapon in the fight against rebels.

Members of the so -called "Crimean self -defense units" beat a pro -Ukrainian activist by bits Journalists and activists of the Maidan are abducted in Crimea and Ukrainian television channels are disconnected From Crimea, on the eve of March 16, a referendum on the status of autonomy reports on the abductions of journalists and activists of the Maidan and the assault on Ukrainian military units. The new authorities of Crimea also turned off the broadcasting of all Ukrainian television channels.

Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency, who received a refuge in Russia, first turned to the American audience directly using a video link. Snowden’s video trip was organized as part of the South By Southwest festival, held in the Texas city of Austin.

NATO aircraft equipped with an early warning system Avax NATO special aircraft equipped with Avax's early warning and observations will patrol the airspace of Poland and Romania to obtain data on the situation in Ukraine. This was reported by the British BBC with reference to an unnamed NATO representative.