Everything you need to know early in the morning of March 8 Good morning!

Following Maria Sharapova, several more Russian athletes are convicted of the forbidden drug Meldonium A series of loud doping scandals in Russian sports continued on March 8. In the use of forbidden drugs, the champion and record holder of the world in speed skating Pavel Kulizhnikov, Short Trexist, the champion of the Olympiad in Sochi Semen Elistratov and the Russian national volleyball player Alexander Markin were convicted.

About 300 people went to the Marse field with a wide variety of slogans - starting from stretching: "All people are sisters," - before the inscription on the forehead of one of the participants: "Savchenko Freedom." The organizer of the action on March 8 was the united female platform of the left and social movements of St. Petersburg

In Moscow, participants in an unauthorized action were detained in support of the Ukrainian military and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko. About 35 people were delivered to police sections, two civilian activists were given ten days, the rest were released, some were issued fines.

Russia is like a drug for a European. The idea on which this program was built appeared a couple of years ago by one Austrian television agent. The film was never shot for various reasons.

Promotion in support of the Ukrainian soldier of Nadezhda Savchenko in Kharkov On March 3, Nadezhda Savchenko announced a dry hunger strike. Earlier, the state prosecution demanded that she be sentenced to 23 years in prison on charges of involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko created the headquarters to coordinate actions to save the military personnel of Nadezhda Savchenko.

"Chief financier Ayatall", who believed that Allah has favored his business, is now waiting for an execution in a Tehran prison In Iran, in the near future, a 41-year-old billionaire Babak Zanjani, who was arrested in 2013 and was then considered the richest man in the country , found guilty in the “spread of corruption on Earth” may be executed. His fortune was estimated at about 13-14 billion dollars.

Nancy Reagan and Barack Obama (photo of 2009) The first lady of the United States Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of Nancy Reagan, the widow of President Ronald Reagan, who will take place on Friday. This was announced by the representative of the White House. Nancy Reagan will be buried next to her husband, on the territory of his presidential library in California. On Wednesday and Thursday, the coffin with the body of Nancy Reagan will be in the presidential library of Ronald Reagan.

March 8 in Russia today is Nadezhda Savchenko. Maybe forever. This is determined not by whether she will die today (which is quite possible, unfortunately), but to whether her Russian feats will understand. March 8 in Russia is a military holiday that constitutes the same inextricable unity since February 23 as the barrel with a bullet. The day of the mother of the defender of the empire, his wife, roommate, daughter.

Promotion in support of Nadezhda Savchenko March 9 in the Rostov region is a new court hearing in the case of Nadezhda Savchenko, who has been holding a dry hunger strike for about a week. On the Radio Liberty website on our channel on YouTube is a direct video broadcast from Russian Donetsk, where they are judged by a Ukrainian soldier: On March 3, the judge unexpectedly announced a break in the process, not allowing Savchenko to speak with the last word.

News Radio Liberty: Final release

Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko The Ministry of Sports of Russia does not intend to comment on the identification of doping reception until the end of the investigation Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said on Tuesday to reporters that cases of using Russian athletes for banned from January 1, 2016, Meldonia, in the use of which Maria Sharapova admitted, will still be identified, and each of them is planned to be considered separately.

Petersburg activists and artists in the evening of March 8 congratulated Peter Pavlensky on his birthday. They lined up near the place, where Pavlenky arranged the Freedom performance. Now, the actor-acting artist passes in the case of vandalism for the “Threat” campaign, during which he set fire to the FSB building on Lubyanka

as well as against 28 people involved in illegal actions against Nadezhda Savchenko Deputies of the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose personal sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and 28 more people involved in illegal actions against Nadezhda Savchenko - citizens of Ukraine, military pilot and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. 57 deputies sent an appropriate appeal to the Supreme EU for foreign policy Federica Mogherini.