More than half a million people around the world fell ill with Covid-19. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, about 80 percent of those infected with coronavirus have no complications and can be treated at home. The remaining approximately 20 percent requires treatment in the hospital, but not necessarily in the intensive care unit, where about 5 percent of infected patients are treated, according to the statistics available from the beginning of the pandemic.

"Nature of evil: raw materials and state." Conversation with the author of the book, cultural historian Alexander Etkind What is shale oil and why are it afraid of it in totalitarian oil states? Russia and the oil economy. Oprichnina and hemp, Vikings and tar. Empires of iron and potatoes, furs and diamonds. The paths of silk and cotton. How did natural resources dictate the political geography of the world to a person?

"У нас в больнице лежал пациент, у которого позже подтвердился коронавирус. Вместо того, чтобы немедленно взять анализы у контактировавшего с ней персонала, объявить карантин в отделении или выдать маски, нам сказали: "Если вы и заболели, то вина ваша", – рассказывает Радио Свобода сотрудница подмосковной больницы ГБУЗ МО "ЛОБ" Ирина (Люберецкая областная больница, имя изменено по просьбе heroine). The patient entered the hospital with pneumonia, his condition began to deteriorate sharply.

The main task of the Siberia Information and Analytical Site , the regional Radio Freedom Project, is an honest, balanced, unbiased, accurate story about the daily life of the most important territories of the Russian Federation, replenishing the shortage of information about Siberia, analysis of socio-economic processes that occur in this rich, seemingly unknown in the European part of the country of the region. The most interesting reports and comments Siberia. Real.

Yuri Dmitriev, 2014 Civil activists are asked to transfer the Karelian historian and the head of the regional branch of the "Memorial" Yuri Dmitrieva under house arrest. The petition addressed to the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic appeared on the website Change.org. The authors of the appeal are asked to release Dmitriev from the pre -trial detention center.

In Moscow, a Soviet writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Yuri Bondarev, died. He was 96 years old. This was reported by TASS with reference to the spouse of the writer. Bondarev became famous thanks to his works about the war and post -war life in the USSR. The story "Battalions ask for fire", the novels "Silence" and "Hot Snow" were filmed. He was one of the scriptwriters of the film epic "Liberation". Bondarev was born in 1924 in Orsk.

All participants in meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin are in advance for coronavirus. This was stated on Sunday by Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. In the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the Russia-1 television channel, Peskov also stated that the presidential administration employees who work directly with Putin are also handing over tests. Peskov did not say whether Putin himself passed the test for coronavirus.

In Moscow, by order of the mayor Sergei Sobyanin, from March 30 emergency measures are introduced - the “home regime of self -insulation” - for all residents of Moscow, regardless of age. This report was removed a few hours before the emergence of the mayor’s decree: not all Muscovites hastened to go home.

Bundeswehr removes part of his contingent from Iraq-in connection with the Covid-19 epidemic. The first military personnel were delivered by an airplane to Germany. Official sources emphasize that we are talking about soldiers whose presence in Iraq is not "absolutely compulsory." The number of soldiers who returned to Germany is not called. The German Tornado aircraft, located in Jordan, stop reconnaissance flights over Iraq from March 31.

The cousin of the Spanish king Philip VI, Princess Maria Teresa, died of coronavirus. She was 86 years old, and this is the first victim of the Covid-19 pandemic among representatives of the monarchy clans of Europe. The death of Maria Teresa was informed by her younger brother, Prince Sylement Heinrich Bourbon-Parm. The family of Parm Bourbon is the younger branch of the Spanish royal family.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril urged believers to refrain from visiting temples and praying at home. The call of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church reports RIA Novosti . He also called for all the requirements of the authorities associated with the spread of coronavirus infection. “I would never say this, if it were not for an amazing, holy example of the Monk Maria Egyptian,” the patriarch said during a sermon after the liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Russian Prime Minister Mishustin, President of the Russian Federation Putin and Moscow Mayor Sobyanin in the operational headquarters of Koronavirus, March 17, 2020 In Moscow, by order of the mayor Sergei Sobyanin, emergency measures are introduced - the "home regime of self -isolation" - for all residents of Moscow, regardless of age, RIA Novosti reports. Similar measures were taken in the Moscow region.

Picket participants in Omsk against amendments to the Constitution In Omsk, on Sunday, a coordinated picket was held against amendments to the Russian Constitution. The participants of the action came out with the posters "We are against amendments to the Constitution", "There is no reversed to the king", "There is no usurpation of power." This was reported by Siberia. Realities. The action was organized by participants in the Omsk metro. The police did not interfere with the picket.

Valentin Gorbunov The former head of the Moscow city election commission, Valentin Gorbunov, died. This was announced on Sunday on Twitter by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Today Valentina Gorbunov was gone. Since the mid-1990s, he led the Moscow City War and made a huge contribution to its formation and hold a large number of elections to all levels of power. In the last year, Valentin Pavlovich was seriously ill. My condolences are relatives and friends.