The cousin of Syrian President Bashar al -Assad was killed during a clash with radical Islamists near the border with Turkey. According to the Syrian human rights activists based in the UK, Khilyal Assad and seven more fighters of the pro-government formation he led on Sunday in a shootout with militants from the Ang Nusra front and a number of other Islamic groups. Information about the death of a relative of the head of state was confirmed by Syrian state television.

A series of single pickets on Nevsky Prospekt was held on the eve of consideration of the appeal for the sentence to the defendant of the “swamp case” Mikhail Kosenko, who will be considered in the Moscow City Court on March 25. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya. Within the framework of the so -called “swamp business”, Mikhail Kosenko was accused under Article 318, part 2 - “The use of violence that is dangerous for life or health.

Andrey Zagdansky Films with Andrei Zadansky Alexander Genis: The more frightening political news becomes, the more we need to cover them. The arts of escapism, first of all - cinema, is a psychological necessity in the most alarming days of history. So in the First World War - the star of Charlie Chaplin and other idols of silent filmmeds ascended. The second world is the time of lyrical and romantic Hollywood.

Pope Francis is as Superman. Graffiti in Rome The Pope called on the Italian mafiosi to abandon criminal activity. This is not just a rhetoric This tradition is already 20 years old. Since 1995, relatives and friends of the victims at the Roman Church of Gregory VII gathered once a year, as well as those who suffered from it. More than a thousand people came to the service of March 21 of this year.

The number of the missing flight on the banner with the words of support at the Kuala-Lumpur airport In the area of searches in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, the disappeared aircraft of the Malaysian Airlines “suspicious objects” are seen, which may be associated with this passenger lightner.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny The Moscow City Court today recognized the homemade arrest of Alexei Navalny legal. Thus, a complaint of the defense of the opposition was rejected. In the court, Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova asked to cancel the decision of the Basmanny Court to change Navalny's preventive measure from a non -house arrest no left -place to leave.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are discussing possible exchanges of land plots to solve a long border dispute. The head of the village of Kok-Tash, Razia, Osovorov, told the Kyrgyz service of our radio station on Monday that the Kyrgyz residents living along the border can be moved to the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan, if the land on which they live will be exchanged with Tajikistan for other disputed territories.

Political scientist Andrei Okara: Is there still a chance to find a common language with Ukraine? Having joined the Crimea, Russia not only lost Ukraine and quarreled with the West, but also undermined the trust of our closest partners in the post -Soviet space - so many experts believe. But are there any chances of restoring relationships? Or a gap - seriously and for a long time?

For the first time in two decades, the club of the most influential countries in the political world is sitting without Russia's participation. The summit in the Hague, according to the unkind irony of fate, is formally devoted to nuclear security, and such and such security is just impossible without constructive participation of Russia. But the events of the last month showed how destructive to other people's safety are the actions of Moscow.

The funeral of the murdered journalist in An-Naafe. March 23 The murder in Baghdad of the journalist of the Radio Svobodny Iraq: "There is no other journalism in Iraq now, except for political" Iraq law enforcement agencies are investigating the murder of the chief of the Baghdad bureau of the Free Iraqi radio station , units of the Radio Liberty Corporation/Free Europe. Mohammed Bdaivi Ovid al-Shammari was shot dead on March 22 in the center of Baghdad as an officer of presidential security.

Ukrainian marine infantrymen in Feodosia In Feodosia, the commander of the Marine Corps battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Deleatitsky and his deputy Rostislav Lomtev, were captured and taken out in an unknown direction on the Russian helicopter, the head of the press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in Crimea Vladislav Seleznev wrote on Facebook. This morning, Russian special forces stormed the Ukrainian part of the marine corps.

The sky above Belgrade on the night of April 30, 1999 - with the tracks of anti -aircraft shells What was the NATO operation against Yugoslavia for the Balkans and all of Europe? Fifteen years ago, NATO operation began against the then Yugoslavia. It lasted two and a half months - from March 24 to June 10, 1999. The bombing began after the diplomatic efforts to settle the crisis in Kosovo turned out to fail.

The second in scale in the country, inferior only to the "gold mask" of the festival, Novo-Siberian transit offers a worthy attention to the post: 18 performances will be shown from May 20 to 28. The forum, created on the initiative of Alexander Kulyabin and with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, is held every even year, starting from 2010, and this time about 300 participants will accept.

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