Deputies of the European Parliament called for sanctions against the founder of the Troika Dialogue Ruben Vardanyan, the former owner of the Lithuanian Ukio Bankas bank, Vladimir Romanov and other people mentioned in the investigation of the laundering scheme through the offshore network. This is stated in the appeal of deputies to the chairman of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker.

The excavator rammed a checkpoint of eco -activists protesting against the construction of a garbage training ground near the Shies railway station in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported by the local publication 29.ru. As a result of the incident, one person suffered. According to protesters, on the night of March 15, a column of trucks, led by an excavator, tried to break through to the place of work, the road to which was blocked by activists.

The Lenin Court of Yekaterinburg did not arrest the State Duma deputy from Fair Russia Vadim Belousov, accused of receiving a bribe of 3.5 billion rubles. It is reported by TASS. “The court decided to refuse to satisfy the petition of the investigator,” said the judge Nadezhda Khankevich. Belousov was detained on March 15 in Yekaterinburg on charges of corruption. He was summoned for interrogation, and then he was taken to court. The deputy himself denies his guilt.

The court suspended the construction of a plant for the production of drinking water in the village of Kultuk on the shores of Lake Baikal. This was reported by the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region on Friday. “The construction of a plant for the production of drinking water in the village of Kultuk of the Slyudyansky district has been suspended from March 15 until the violations identified during inspections were eliminated.

The New Zealand police detained four people suspected of involvement in shooting in two mosques in the city of Krastsherch and its suburb of Linwood. “Four detained. Three men and one woman, ”said Mike Bush, police commissioner of New Zealand. According to him, there were several reports of homemade explosive devices attached to vehicles that the police managed to neutralize. There are no official data on the victims of the tragedy yet. Local media reports that from nine to 27 people died.

Entrepreneur Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit against the Washington federal court against the US Treasury and his head Stevens Mnuchin demanding the abolition of personal sanctions, Bloomberg reports. Deripaska believes that he has become a victim of a political struggle due to Russia's alleged intervention in the US presidential election. During the sanctions, Deripaska estimated his losses at $ 7.5 billion.

Today in Paris, the criminal process in the claim for slander groups of citizens towards Professor Slavicism Cecil All, the author of the book “The Kremlin’s Network in France” is ending. A similar process is being prepared about the book of journalist Nicolas Enin “Russian France”. In both cases, the plaintiffs are represented by the lawyer of the Russia Today television channel in France.

The US Treasury expanded sanctions against Russia, imposed in connection with the policy of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. As they say on the department’s website, six people and eight enterprises were included in the list.

As a result of the attack on the mosque in the New Zealand Kraksterche, 49 people were killed, the police said. Earlier it was reported to shoot in the mosque in the city center of Kraistcherch and in the Linwood suburbs. The shooter introduced himself as Brenton Tarrant. For 17 minutes he shot on the video how he shot people in a mosque. The city’s police said she was working to remove footage from social networks.

After a request from the ROC, the Union of Museums of Russia on the transfer of the Obaso-Andronikov monastery drew attention to the problems of the fulfillment of the law on the transfer of property to religious organizations and announced the need to improve it. “We propose to create a commission, how we created in Suzdal and Ferapontovo, to change the legislation, and so on,” said Mikhail Piotrovsky, chairman of the Union of Museums of Russia.

The 2020 Olympics organizing committee in Tokyo introduced Toyota Robots, who will help visitors to the event, including fans with disabilities. It is reported by AP. In total, 16 two types of robots will operate at the Olympics: Human Support Robot Robot and Delivery Support Robot. Robots will help guests find their places, tell you the right information, bring drinks and food. In addition to robots, Panasonic exoskeletons will be used at the 2020 Olympics.

The state prosecution asked to be sentenced to five years in the colony of Viktor Zakharchenko, the father of the ex-employee of the anti-corruption head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, in the embezzlement case of about 4.5 million rubles. Bank "Moscow Mortgage Agency", Interfax reports.

The Canadian government has expanded the sanctions list against Russian companies and citizens of Russia. In particular, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, the head of VTB Andrei Kostin, and the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, fell into him.

The police detained the suspect in the organization of the theft of assets of a commercial bank worth about one billion rubles. This was reported by RBC with reference to the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received by the Agency. The suspect is the former beneficiary of the bank. He carried out illegal operations in 2016. The withdrawal of funds passed through the issuance of irrevocable credit loans to third parties, later the money was withdrawn through controlled firms.

In Russia in 2018, the volume of money transfers from the card to the card amounted to 27.4 trillion rubles. According to RBC with reference to the statistics of the Bank of Russia, the indicator for the first time exceeded the volume of cash withdrawal operations (26.6 trillion rubles). In 2018, 27.4 trillion rubles were transferred from the card to the card, 19 trillion was transferred in 2017. The average money transfer compared to 2017 decreased from 6.96 thousand rubles.