Ukraine plans to reduce the staff of its embassy in Russia, the director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Yevgeny Dubinis, said at a briefing on Thursday, at a briefing on Thursday. According to him, the reduction will occur in the near future. "This is a natural measure that reflects the fact that the level of bilateral cooperation with Russia has been significantly reduced," said Dubinis. According to him, Moscow previously significantly reduced the staff of its embassy in Kyiv.

The court in St. Petersburg, after repeated consideration of the death of the detainee after the interrogation, issued a conviction to six former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the press release of the Human Rights Association "Agora", the head of the department for the fight against property crimes, Ilya Galchuk and his subordinate Dmitry Sitnikov were convicted of 8 years in prison with a sentence in a maximum security colony.

Deputy of the Ulyanovsk City Duma Gennady Budarin In Ulyanovsk, the deputy of the Ulyanovsk City Duma Gennady Budarin is brutally beaten. On the evening of March 26, unknown people attacked him at the entrance of his house and inflicted at least ten beats with a hammer or other heavy object. With injuries of the skull and fractures of the hands of the hands of Budarin, he was taken to the ambulance hospital and operated on.

CSKA is playing football yet not at its stadium Residents of the Khoroshevsky and Sokol districts opposed the commissioning of the CSKA complex-a sports arena with 30 thousand places with an office-hotel tower with a height of 38 floors. Several dozens of cars with the slogans “Do not cover business for sports”, “Transport collapse and suffocation - our reckoning for Giner’s business interests” ( Eugene Giner - CSKA President ) and others participated in the promotions.

Meeting of the Presidential Council for the Rights of the Chister The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia are preparing to make the next amendments to its regulations, Kommersant writes today.

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The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The text of the document calls for the countries not to recognize the entry of Crimea into Russia on the basis of the results of the referendum on March 16. In support of the resolution, one hundred votes were filed, representatives of 11 countries spoke out against, 58 - abstained.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached agreements with the Ukrainian authorities on the opening of a two-year loan of $ 14-18 billion. This was reported in a press release from the Mission of the Fund, located in Ukraine on March 4–25. In total, the international community will provide Ukraine with $ 27 billion over the next two years, the press release said. For the entry into force of agreements, the approval of the governing bodies of the IMF will be required.

Yulia Tymoshenko (photo of 2010) Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko confirmed the intention to run for president of the country. Tymoshenko made an appropriate statement on Thursday at a press conference in Kyiv. According to the ex-Prime Minister, at the congress on March 29, she will ask the Fatherland party to officially nominate her as a candidate.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's changed the forecast of long -term credit ratings of Russian companies Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft, Transneft and Russian Railways with the Stable Negative. In addition, the forecast for the rating of the "daughter" of Russian Railways - "Federal Passenger Company" was worsened.

I.O. mayor of Novosibirsk Vladimir Znatkov The Novosibirsk Regional Court today canceled the decision of the district court to withdraw from the elections of the mayor of Novosibirsk a candidate from the party "United Russia", acting as mayor Vladimir Znatkov. A lawsuit in court with a request to remove the knowledge of the election was filed by another candidate for the mayors of Novosibirsk Ivan Starikov.

Why does Lithuania react so hard to the Crimean crisis? Philosopher Alexander Etkind about the place of Ukraine in the world. Catalan entrepreneurs are against separatism. The absence of Twitter will not stop the Turkish far -right.

Ukrainian tanks, "inherited" by the Russian army, are transported to the north of Crimea to strengthen the Russian military group on the border with mainland Ukraine The captured Ukrainian military was released and left Crimea. On the borders of Ukraine there is a regrouping of Russian troops In the middle of this week , several videos and photographs appeared on the Internet, indicating that Russia is pulling new armed units to the border with Ukraine.

Tanker for transporting liquefied natural gas "Arctic Voyager" in the port of Rotterdam. Europe is more likely to receive gas, intended for the markets of North America and Asia than the mined in the United States One of the main issues of the economic agenda of the EU -Ssha summit, which last Wednesday in Brussels, was the diversification of future supplies of energy in Europe - to reduce their dependence on Russia .