In Russian cities last Saturday, March 18, festive rallies were held dedicated to the third anniversary of the signing of the contract "On the adoption of Crimea to the Russian Federation." They were not as massive as in past years - according to one version, the Kremlin decided to "save" the patriotic fuse until next year, when the presidential election may take place in Russia on the same day with the annexation of the peninsula.

Alexander Genis: In the 20th and in the 21st century, Kafka was the most mysterious author of all Western literature. Perhaps because he created the canon agnostic, on which I myself will grow my doubts from the fifth grade. I perfectly remember the day when my father returned with prey - a chubby black volume with stories and a “process”. In 1965, it was more difficult to get Kafka than a ticket abroad.

Eva Merkacheva, Valery Borschev - about the death of Vladimir Evdokimov In the investigation of death in the Moscow investigative isolator of the former Executive Director of Roscosmos Vladimir Evdokimov, a version of the custom murder will be especially carefully worked out. It is reported on Monday by the newspaper "Kommersant". According to representatives of the Investigative Committee, the murder may be associated with the intentions of Evdokimov to cooperate with the investigation.

The investigation includes an understanding of the nature of relations between persons related to the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

One of the authors of the Crimea. Realii project, journalist Nikolai Semen, who is judged in the case of "calls for violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation," told representatives of the media that he did not admit guilt. The case of Semyon on Monday begins to consider the Railway Court of Simferopol in the Crimea annexed by Russia. According to the prosecution, the journalist violated Russian legislation in an article on the blockade of Crimea from the Ukrainian side.

The Committee for Intelligence of the House of Representatives of the US Congress today will host the first public hearings on the issue of the possible intervention of Russia in last year's presidential elections in the United States. During the hearings, the congressmen will first have the opportunity to ask direct questions on this topic as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations to James Komi and the head of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers.

Passport "DPR" Russia refused to provide a simplified procedure for staying in the country to the owners of passports of the so -called "people's republics" - individual regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, which control the pro -Russian separatists. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source in the State Duma and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. For the owners of passports "DPR" and "LPR" the same migration rules are in force as for citizens of Ukraine.

The unconditional heroes of Runet in the last days are Bryansk schoolboy Maxim Losev and his classmates. Maxim was taken to the police right in the lesson after he copied the opposition rally announcement on his page. One Bryansk schoolboy ran to the side of the gallery in the size of 1/7 of the earth's land, and she staggered - Nos Buratino (@nosburatino) March 19, 2017 News marked lightning ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️ A search is held in the foam of the Bryansk schoolboy.

Alexander Genis: Today Ach will open a new issue of the “theater review”, which is the critic Irina Simakovskaya. Irina Simakovskaya: Broadway recently began to grow up in the theater sense, began to acquire some more or less theatrical forms. Previously, it was mainly commercial products that were interesting to tourists, but not real theatrical people. But in the last two years, the Broadway atmosphere has transformed.

In France, a new trial began over Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, better known by his nickname Carlos Shakal. One of the most famous terrorists of the 20th century threatens the third life -long period for the murder of two citizens of France in 1974. The first two jackal was also sentenced to France and also for murders-in 1997 and in 2011.

Rally in St. Petersburg, archive photo Three assistants to the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg will be checked for compliance with the Federal Law on Public Service due to participation in the city protection rally on March 18. According to the Fontanka publication, we are talking about the subordinates of Boris Vishnevsky, Oksana Dmitrieva and Maxim Reznik.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia in April, "if circumstances allow." This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Fumio Kisida at the end of Russian-Japanese negotiations in the format "Two plus two" in Tokyo. In the negotiations - the first in such a format since November 2013 - the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the two countries took part.

In connection with dancing in Sevastopol, they looked: where else do children go on stage with modern weapons? The list was extremely short. Look and you:

Is it true that the authorities want to be pushed by its president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and therefore the elections were canceled? Discuss: Sergey Dobrynin, Andrey Tsaturyan, Askold Ivanchik, Anna Dybo