The United Nations suspended cooperation with tennis player Maria Sharapova as an ambassador of goodwill after the athlete confessed to the use of the forbidden drug Meldonium. It is reported by The Guardian. "The UN Development Program is grateful to Maria Sharapova for her support for our work, especially in correcting the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster," the organization said in a statement. Cooperation with Sharapova suspended before the end of the investigation in her case.

The effect of the main factor in the current slowdown of annual prices in Russia in a month or two will come to naught Economist Igor Nikolaev about the specifics of Russian inflation An annual inflation in Russia has slowed one and a half times since the beginning of the year . However, the effect of the main factor of such a sharp braking will soon come to naught.

Two steps from the residence of Novo-Ogars How the closest neighbors of the President of Russia live-the inhabitants of the village near Moscow at the Novo-Ogarse residence The official residence of the President of Russia is the estate of Novo-Ogravo, located near the village of Usovo. The village itself begins right behind the fence of the residence and is part of the rural settlement of Barvikhinskoye.

Memory of the artist Gleb Bogomolov In St. Petersburg, at the 84th year of his life, the non-conformist artist Gleb Bogomolov died. Without the figure of Gleb Bogomolov, it is difficult to imagine the landscape of the Leningrad art underground of the 60-80s.

Film director Valery Balayan - about how Crimea changed two years after his annexation by Russia Two years ago, on March 16, 2014, the so -called "referendum" on the status of the peninsula took place in the Crimea. According to official results, the majority of the region’s population voted for the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation. Just a few days later, the Russian State Duma adopted a package of laws on the accession of Crimea to Russia.

Boris Nemtsov appealed to law enforcement agencies of the Yaroslavl region with a request to institute criminal proceedings on threats, including physical reprisals, in the fall of 2014 Two months before the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the police refused to initiate a criminal case of the threats received against him. It is reported by Rosbalt with reference to the source.

Former Director Gosarchiv told Radio Liberty about his resignation Director of the State Archive of Russia Sergey Mironenko, who was released on Wednesday from his position , said Radio Liberty that the decision to leave his post was "collective." According to Mironenko, the story of criticism of his activities by the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky was not a decisive factor that led to his resignation.

Alexander Yesenina-Wolpin It was Yesenin-Wolpin who introduced the word "publicity" as a public requirement to the authorities to observe the law and make legal procedures transparent In the United States, in the 92nd year, one of the leaders of the Soviet human rights movement, a dissident, poet, philosopher and mathematician Alexander Yesenin-Volpin died. This was reported to "Interfax" by his friends. The son of two poets - Sergey Yesenin and Nadezhda Volpin - was born in Leningrad in 1924.

In Paris, a regime of increased danger is valid - after a series of terrorist attacks The Paris police arrested four suspects in the preparation of the attack, the French media reported. Three men and the woman were detained in the 18th district of Paris. The arrested were previously known to the special services. Since November last year, Paris has continued to operate the “terrorist threat” regime - after a series of jihadist attacks, whose victims became 130 people.

Sergey Khanzhenkov He was in the group of "saboteurs" who prepared the undermining of the Minsk TV TV, on which the "jammer" worked " The dissident and political prisoner of the times of the USSR Sergey Khanzhenkov died on the morning of March 16 in Minsk at the age of 74 as a result of a serious illness. Sergey Khanzhenkov was born in 1942 in a small village in the territory of the present Magadan region of Russia.

Oleg Sentsov (left) and Alexander Kolchenko Alexander Kolchenko was put on “preventive accounting” in the Kopeisk colony, where he is serving his sentence, as “a person prone to the spread of extremist ideology”. Information about this was distributed by members of the PMC of the Chelyabinsk region who visited the Ukrainian in the colony, Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumluk reports.

Igor Kalyapin after an attack in Grozny One of his associates reported about the attack on Kalyapin In Grozny, at the entrance to the Grozny-City Hotel, an attack was attacked on the head of the committee to prevent torture by Igor Kalyapin. In social networks, this was announced by one of Kalyapin's associates Dmitry Utukin. According to him, Kalyapin was beaten, threw eggs.

Convised to the DPRK student from USA Otto Wormbier He was accused of a crime against the state for stealing from a hotel of an object with a propaganda slogan The Supreme Court of North Korea sentenced a student from the United States to 15 years in hard labor on charges of a crime against the state. Otto Wormbier was detained in January by Pyongyang Airport after a 5-day trip around the country.

In Kyiv, on Wednesday, on Sofia Square, a silent flash mob was held, dedicated to the day of memory of the Crimean Tatar activist, Rolsat Ametov, the website "Crimea. Roals" reports. According to him , more than two dozen people came to the action. They held posters and symbolic figures of people with the names of those who supported the action, but could not be present on it. The audience stood silently in a semicircle for several minutes.