On March 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated women on International Women's Day, noting their role in "saving the true values that have been and will remain an inspiring moral guideline at all times." Radio Liberty recalls Russian women who met this spring day not at large-including because of the values that they tried to save contrary to the attempts of the state to prevent this.

Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel Israel from March 8 against the backdrop of the Pandemia of Coronavirus opened the entrance for a number of foreigners. The restrictions weakened, in particular, for professional athletes heading for competitions, spouses or parents of Israeli citizens and for those whose activities are important in foreign policy and national security of the country. 24 hours before departure, foreigners must submit an application via the Internet.

Everything you need to know early in the morning of March 8 Good morning! The Leningrad Rock Club turned 40 years old: here are 40 unexpected facts from his story, but a conversation with one of his presidents, Nikolai Mikhailov. And the news is: A foreign student detained in Kazan is sent from Russia during the rally in support of Navalny. On the Sibur underwater pipeline, a fire occurred under the Owl River. The Chechen human rights activist Hed Saratov died.

The singer Manizha will represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest, which should be held in May in the Netherlands. She became the winner of the voting of the audience, which organized the first channel by ahead of the group "2mashi" and Therr Maitz. At the contest, Manizha will perform with the song "Russian Woman" ("Russian Woman").

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There are only 16 percent of women in the lower house of the Russian parliament. However, the contribution of some of them to lawmaking is difficult to overestimate. Check yourself how much you are oriented in Russian politics

Joan Laporta The winner of the election of the Barcelona football club was Joan Laprata . He scored more than half of the votes, ahead of the main competitors - Victor Founty and Tony Freish. Joan Lapate was the president of Barcelona from 2003 to 2010. During this time, the team won the Championship of Spain four times and won the Champions League Cup twice. After his election on Sunday, March 7, Lipta promised to do everything so that the Argentine forward Lionel Messi remains in the club.

Unrestrained optimism, which reigned in world financial markets in February , gradually comes to naught. Faith in the rapid restoration of the global economy, thanks to the successes of vaccination and the final removal of all restrictions, is increasingly overshadowed by signs of acceleration of inflation. About this in the new issue of the program "Money at Free" with economic publicist Maxim Blanc .

Turkmen activist addresses Vladimir Putin to hide from the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov regime (in the photo - from left to right) The Turkmen activist, whose Russian border guards have not accepted a shelter on March 2, recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 27-year-old Rozgeldy Choliyev asks to register his family as a asylum supplicant and prevent his deportation. The appeal was published in Yetube by the Turkmen Helsinki Fund.

The Turkmen activist, whose Russian border guards have not accepted a shelter on March 2, recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 27-year-old Rozgeldy Choliyev asks to register his family as a asylum supplicant and prevent his deportation. The appeal was published in Yetube by the Turkmen Helsinki Fund. The video is called “The Turning of Turkmen Snowden”, the author stuck at the Sheremetyevo airport in the video says that the expulsion will threaten his life.

Promotion in support of Alexei Navalny in Kazan, January 23, 2021 A student of Kazan Medical University, a citizen of Uzbekistan Andrei Lagunin, was sent from Russia, since he was detained for shares in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. At the same time, Lagunin himself claims that he was among the detainees by accident - he was not going to participate in the action, but simply walked along the street when the police began to grab and take everyone in the carries.

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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia is trying to actually prohibit "forest farm": legal commercial use of forests that have grown on agricultural lands. The government allowed the "forest farm" only in September 2020. Environmentalists demand to leave last year’s resolution unchanged. "The best that can happen to Russia" - I would buy a 50–100 hectare in the near future and planted a forest.

The Military Commissariat of the Leningrad Region invited women as a gift for March 8 to share the contacts of their former lovers with draft points. The video with the appeal was published on the Instagram of the administration of the region. “Now a small gift. Leave your former accounts in the comments, and we will meet them with open arms. And remember, a real man must have a military ID,” said Yuri Khromov, head of the Leningrad Region Military Commissariat of the Military Commissariat.

In the Saratov region, Oleg Nepin organized the community in his district center Balashov and immediately received a fine - he refused to provide the prosecutor's office with information about the participants. Now the Balashovets is afraid of criminal prosecution for extremism. In the case, among other things, there were explanations of the prosecutor's office that the goals and objectives of the community have signs of extremist activity.