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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (National Security and Defense Council) instructed the Ministry of Defense to relocate military units in the Crimea , the acting president of the country, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Turchinov, said on Monday. According to him, the National Security and Defense Council instructed the government to organize the evacuation of family families.

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.

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.

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.

Freedom quotes 24 March 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 20:33 24.3.2014 Drama of dissidents. How do we arrange a slurry The problem of the transformation of the dissident and the political prisoner in the Putin guard today is investigated in an interview with Grigory Kolyutsky with Valery Senterov - it is published on Russian.ru.

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Opponents of the stress of the refineries next to the natural reserve Business is borrounding in the Kremlin to defend their interests by organizing a “popular will” in favor of harmful production A mass rally of supporters and opponents of the construction of the refinery in the Vostok Gulf region was held in the find. This is the second mass meeting of residents in a month, organized at the initiative of local ecologists.

Defendants on the process of the murder of Vagen Avatyan In Yerevan, six people were sentenced to a long time for imprisonment on charges of beating to the death of a military doctor in 2012. Six guards and other employees of the Arsnakar restaurant were accused of attacking Wagen Avatyan and his friends on June 17, 2012. Avetyan died in a hospital from severe head injuries two weeks later. This was reported by the Armenian service of our radio station.