Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia for Gosizmen, was possibly poisoned by an unknown poison in the English city of Salisbury, reports the BBC. The 66-year-old Skripal was taken to the hospital on Sunday after he became ill in a shopping center. Together with him, a woman was hospitalized twice as younger than him with similar symptoms.

Patriarch Kirill (archive photo) It is difficult to surprise with thieves in the description of the actions of Russian state and public figures, but this time this time was succeeded in Komsomolskaya Pravda: this time: The Patriarch "ran into" the president of Bulgaria: Russia was liberated by Russia! Not Poland and not Lithuania!

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump in Washington March 5, 2018 US President Donald Trump said that he was considering plans to visit Israel in connection with the upcoming opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem in May. On Monday, March 5, during a meeting in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump assured him that he would try to come to Jerusalem.

The image of a tyrant needs both Putin and the Communists? They are discussed by Vladimir Voinovich, Boris Ilizarov, Alexei Levinson, Boris Vishnevsky.

Sergey Udaltsov (Archive FOO) Activists of the "Left Front" submitted an application to the Moscow City Hall to hold a rally on the evening of March 19 - the day after the election of the President of Russia. This was written on Twitter by the leader of the movement Sergei Udaltsov. At the rally, the results of voting in the presidential election on March 18 will be summed up, an assessment of honesty and the legality of the elections and the counting of voters.

Mass demonstration on Vaclav Square in Prague, March 5, 2018 Thousands of citizens throughout the Czech Republic came out on the evening of March 5 at the demonstration against the appointment of a deputy from the Communist Party of Zdenek Ondrachek to the post of head of the Parliamentary Commission for the Control of the General Inspection of Security Forces.

Sergey Skripal in the Moscow District Military Court, August 10, 2006 Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia for Gosizmen, was possibly poisoned by an unknown poison in the English city of Salisbury. According to the main version, the substance that caused poisoning contained a fentalist. Radio Freedom found out that in Salisbury Skripal lived at least since 2011.

The South Korean delegation, visiting North Korea, met with the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong -un on March 5. This was announced by the representative of the President of South Korea. The delegation of 10 people, led by the head of the National Security Office of South Korea, Jung Yona arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang earlier on the same day, and then spent dinner with Kim, a representative of the press service said.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Alexey Navalny The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) adopted a complaint to the opposite of Alexei Navalny against the decision of the Lublin District Court of Moscow on the payment of 500 thousand rubles in the lawsuit of the ex-head of the internal policy of the President Konstantin Kostin. This is written today by "Vedomosti" with reference to the statement of the lawyer of the International Prospective Group "Agora" Damir Gainutdinov.

The American aircraft carrier "Karl Vincon" arrived at the Vietnamese port of Danang on March 5 with the first visit of this kind from the end of the war in Vietnam in 1975. The aircraft carrier with a crew of 6,000 people will spend five days in the Danang port and the team will take part in the celebrations that provide for sports, cultural and professional exchanges with Vietnamese owners.

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Luigi di Mao In Italy, the movement "Five Stars", which gained the majority of the votes in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, is ready to form the government. This was stated at a press conference in Rome on Monday the leader of the Luigi Di Mayo movement. He clarified that the right -centric coalition, although it leads the sum of votes, is not gaining enough places to form a cabinet of ministers.

Ksenia Sobchak The chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Alexei Shaposhnikov, apologized to the TV presenter and presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak for the attack of the trainee of the Moscow City Duma. He wrote about this on Facebook.

The evacuation of visitors to the shopping center in Tomsk (archive photo) In Rostov-on-Don, all schools in the city were evacuated due to mining reports. It is reported by TASS. Local authorities clarified that they let all schoolchildren go home, since it is not known which educational institution was laminated. According to the publication 161.ru, on the morning of March 5, the police received a message about the mining of three Rostov schools. The caller demanded to cook money.