American-Ukrainian handshake: Barack Obama and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the White House. March 12 The anniversary of the Civil War in Syria, the rejection of Crimea from Ukraine and American foreign policy. On the anniversary of the Syrian War, which coincided with the violent split of Ukraine, we discuss the issue of whether in the current situation from the United States a more decisive foreign policy.

Kharkov. Luxembourg Rosa occupied by the Nazis, November 11, 1941 Artists who survived the Second World War talk about the Ukrainian theater during the years of German occupation (1941-1944) Some cultural historians tend to believe that these years - against the background of the previous Stalinist terror - were almost a period of the heyday of the National Theater of Ukraine. Is it so? Was it really a feast during a brown plague? About this - first -hand.

In Iraq, 16 people became victims of acts of violence on Friday, including 10 police officers. 29 people were injured. Most attacks occurred in the Sunni regions of the north and west of the country. The village of Sarkha was captured in the northern province of Salaheddin. During a coordinated operation, the suicide bomber blew up a mined truck, and groups of armed militants attacked a military base and police checkpoints. The battle lasted several hours.

Gas pressure counter on the Ukrainian underground storage near Kyiv After the accession of Crimea to Russia, a discount on gas for Ukraine for the basing of the Black Sea Fleet no longer exists, said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov to the newspaper Vedomosti.

The ruble has fallen in price since the beginning of January by more than 10%. Pure outflow of capital from Russia for the first quarter, according to forecasts, will exceed its volumes for the entire last year Negative factors for the Russian economy were manifested in the outflow of capital. Crimea only accelerated it The international reaction to the accession of Crimea to Russia sharply accelerated the outflow of capital from the country.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of another accused in the case of abuse of authority in the anti -corruption units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the investigation, Evgeny Shermanov - deputy chief of one of the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the fight against theft in the budget sphere - exerted pressure on the witness.

About 15 years ago, that is, long before all the conversations, as now, came down to the Crimea, a Russian writer was visiting me. One of my loved ones, he even knew how to give Soviet everyday life with metaphysical meaning and write stories that, imperceptibly for the reader, turned into parables. In addition to the literary gift, the writer possessed others.

In the southern part of the Indian Ocean, 2300 kilometers from the west coast of Australia, the search for the Boeing-777 Malaysian aircraft missing on March 8, on board of which there were 239 people, were expanded. Additional search teams on sea vessels and aircraft are sent to the region. A few days ago, two large objects were found in the pictures taken from space, one of which had a length of up to 24 meters. Experts suggested that these could be fragments of a fallen aircraft.

Mikhail Dmitriev The supervisor of the Center for Strategic Development Mikhail Dmitriev was beaten by train near Moscow and ended up in a hospital. This was announced in his blog by his deputy Sergei Belanovsky. Dmitriev was attacked on the evening of March 19. The attackers took his briefcase from him in which the computer was located. They did not take the money, wrote Belanovsky. Now Dmitriev is in the hospital with a concussion and multiple bruises.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, March 21, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws on the accession of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation. Thus, the fact of the Russian annexation of the regions that make up Ukraine is finally enshrined. Putin also appointed his plenipotentiary in the newly educated Crimean Federal District.

In the picture: Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that the average amount of a bribe in the country has increased in a year and now is 145 thousand rubles - about 4 thousand dollars. He stated this at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Friday.

Housing and communal services activists in the next issue of the program "Russia in Movement"

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. Thus, the fact of the Russian annexation of Crimea is finally enshrined, according to all international norms of the law that is part of Ukraine. Earlier, the law on the entry of Crimea into Russia was approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council.

The organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) decided that about 500 civilian observers would be deployed in Ukraine within six months. The OSCE member countries, including Russia, agreed on this at a meeting in Vienna, held on Friday evening. Earlier, Russia blocked the efforts of the OSCE to send observers to Ukraine.

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