President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, before appealing to the nation with a resignation announcement with Russian colleague Vladimir Putin. As TASS reports, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated this. “In the afternoon, there was a telephone conversation of President Putin with President Nazarbayev, but we do not have information about the content of this conversation,” Peskov said. On Tuesday, Nazarbayev resigned the powers of the head of state.

The Far Eastern District Military Court sentenced to ten years the colony of a resident of Elizovo in Kamchatka for an attempt to join the Islamic State terrorist group prohibited in Russia. This was reported in the press service of the regional department of the FSB. The convict was detained in April 2017 while trying to leave Russia. According to investigators, he went to Syria to join IS, and in 2016-2017 he persuaded his acquaintance to join IS and go to the Middle East.

The Russia Today channel obliges employees to sign the “non -disclosure of confidential information”, which operates during work and within 20 years after dismissal, Znak.com reports. The penalty for violation of the rules is 5 million rubles. The publication refers to the document signed by the general director of the company's management RT, an autonomous non-profit organization TV-News.

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika called for minimizing the number of transactions of the accused with justice, such criminal cases are considered by the courts in a special order. Chaika said this at an expanded meeting of the board of the Prosecutor General. “I am convinced that the share of cases considered in a special order should be significantly reduced,” said Chaika.

Five paintings by Soviet artists and the camera are stolen from the gallery on the Prechistenka in the center of Moscow. This was told in the press service of the capital's head of the police. “On March 18, the police department in the Khamovniki district in Moscow received a message from a woman that from the gallery at ul. The Prechistenka 30/2 stole a camera and five paintings written in the 1920s and 1970s by Soviet artists-Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky and Mikhail Sokolov, ”the press service said.

Director Marlene Khutsiev died in a Botkin hospital in Moscow at the 94th year of his life. This was reported in the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. The date and place of farewell will become known later. Khutsiev was born in 1925 in Tiflis (Tbilisi). In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Faculty of VGIK, worked as a director at the Odessa film studio, since 1959 - at the Gorky film studio, since 1965 - at Mosfilm.

The La Scala Opera Theater will abandon the sponsorship contract with Saudi Arabia and return the already listed € 3 million. The President of the theater and mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala announced the refusal of agreements, reports Associated Press. Under the contract, the theater would have received € 15 million for five years in exchange for the inclusion of the directors of the Saudi Minister of Culture to the board of directors.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Japan approved the amendments to the law on cruelty with children who are banning the physical punishment of minors. About this writes Japan Times. Any kind of physical punishment of children as a means of maintaining discipline will be prohibited, including native and foster parents, educators, nannies and all other social workers.

The RT channel website reports an recently released report by the AVAAZ international non -governmental organization about lighting yellow vests in social networks. The authors of the article are written by Alexander Bovdunov and Elizabeth Komarov about this: “The AVAAZ International Non -Profit Organization conducted a study on the impact of misinformation on the protests of“ yellow vests ”in France, which lasted since the fall of last year.

The journalist of Kommersant Maria Karpenko was fired due to the discontent of the presidential administration and the St. Petersburg authorities with her materials about the election campaign of the acting governor Alexander Beglov. The journalist herself called this reason on her Facebook page. “I was fired, the reason was the discontent of the Kremlin and Smolny in that I am writing here and how“ Kommersant ”illuminates the election campaign of Alexander Beglov,” the journalist wrote.

Non of you come out The other day, the House of Representatives ... approved a bill prohibiting the States to recognize Crimea Russian. And after all, if Congress in 2019 has to specially prohibit the recognition of Crimea by the Russian one, this means that, firstly, they no longer consider such a probability hypothetical and, secondly, they are aware that Crimea can be considered Ukrainian only in such meaningless acts.

The RT channel strengthened the safety measures of its Paris editorial office and turned to the police due to the threats received by its employees. This was announced by the editor -in -chief of the Canal Margarita Simonyan. According to Simonyan, the head of the French Channel RT Ksenia Fedorova received a letter with threats to life and insults to journalists. According to her, earlier another unknown wrote two letters to the addresses of RT France, he called the reception several times.

The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed calculating the economic losses of Crimea due to the stay in Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. The Insider, in turn, decided to calculate the economic losses of Ukraine after the Russian annexation of the peninsula. The assessment of the losses of Ukraine from the annexation of Crimea is not only technical, but also ethical. The capture of the peninsula was not limited to the transfer of material values.

The American company Boeing takes measures to ensure the safety of using 737 Max aircraft. This is stated in the statement of the executive director of Corporation Dennis Mullenberg. The company is preparing updated aircraft software and is going to conduct “appropriate pilots for 737 Max”, which will eliminate the problems discovered after the airline in Indonesia. A group of Boeing specialists is at the place of disaster in Ethiopia and helps in investigating the causes of the disaster.

In the blood of the 34-year-old model Iman Fadil, who died on March 1, a high concentration of cadmium and antimony was discovered. This was reported by ANSA agency with reference to the prosecutor Milan Francesco Greco. The concentration of cadmium in the blood exceeded the norm by seven times, and antimony three times, Greco said. Preliminary tests also showed the presence of radioactive elements in the body.