Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic drew attention to the worsening situation in the region. This was reported on the Kremlin website Monday, March 27. “I would really like to discuss with you the situation in the region, because, we believe, by some external signs we see some even worsening. I would like you all to talk”, — Putin said. He expressed the hope that relations between the two countries will develop positively regardless of what happens on “the political situation”. The upcoming presidential elections in Serbia will be held at the highest level, I am sure the Russian leader. “We wish success to the current government”, — said Putin. Earlier on Monday, according to RIA Novosti, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow’s intervention in the election campaign in the Republic impossible. So he answered
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“Resurrected” Irkutsk Governor would complain to the police despite the rumors of his death
Sergey Levchenko The press service of the Governor of Irkutsk region Sergey Levchenko refuted local media reports the death of the head of the region. About it reports TASS. “Sergey Georgievich is alive and well. Tomorrow morning upon arrival in Irkutsk he will appeal to law enforcement to find out who started the rumor about his death, and deliberately misinformed the population”, — said the Agency head of the press service of the Governor of Irina Aleshkevich. According to her, the source of information about the death of 63-year-old Levchenko in one of the Moscow clinics has become Irkutsk Internet resource. “This news, after it sold, they are removed from the site, but we managed to make screenshots. They will also be referred to law enforcement,” said, Alashkevich. She recalled that the Governor is on a working visit in Moscow. “Today he had a number of meetings. We have already
Berlin Bode Museum stole a gold coin weighing 100 kg
Berlin Bode Museum stole a gold coin weighing 100 kg Moscow. March 27. INTERFAX.RU — Stokilogrammovye gold coin with a nominal value of $1 million and weighing 100 kg was taken from the Bode Museum in Berlin, said on Monday the newspaper Die Welt, citing the police. According to the newspaper, the coin’s diameter is 53 cm, thickness — 3 cm On the obverse of the coin features the profile of Queen Elizabeth ll. The cost of gold which the coin is made, is around 3.7 million euros. This coin was on loan to the Bode Museum with the guidance of another Museum. According to police, the robbers were several. The robbers broke into the Museum through a window with a ladder, which was later found nearby. Art Bode Museum is part of the ensemble of the Museum island, located in Berlin. Its name was named after a figure of
In the Pacific ocean off Alaska, an earthquake of magnitude of 6.1
In the Pacific ocean off Alaska, an earthquake of magnitude of 6.1 MOSCOW, 27 Mar — RIA Novosti. The earthquake of a magnitude of 6.1 occurred in the district of Alaska from the Nearer Islands, Aleutian chain, according to the USGS. Tremors were recorded at 10.50 in UTC time (13.50 GMT), 66 kilometres West of the location of Attu station in the Eastern part of the island of Attu. The earthquake was located at a depth of 10 kilometers. Information on victims and destructions did not arrive yet. EarthquakeRegion:Near Islands, Aleutian IslandsTime:2017-03-27 10:50:19.8 UTCMagnitude:6.2(Mw)Epicenter:172.21°E 52.76°NDepth:10 km pic.twitter.com/OcXK359rmk — O sexto selo (@JaimeNelsonW) 27 Mar 2017
Alexei Navalny was arrested for 15 days for resisting police during the arrest
Alexei Navalny was arrested for 15 days for resisting police during the arrest MOSCOW, 27 Mar — RAPSI, Oleg Sivozhelezov. The Tver district court of Moscow found the founder of the Fund of struggle against corruption Alexei Navalny guilty of resisting the police during the arrest at an unsanctioned rally in the capital and appointed him administrative punishment in the form of 15 days of arrest, reports on Monday, RAPSI correspondent from the courtroom. Thus, the opposition was prosecuted under part 1 of article 19.3 of the code of administrative offences (Cao) of the Russian Federation “disobedience to lawful order or demand of a police officer”. The meeting according to the materials of the administrative case of disobeying a police officer came as a surprise to Navalny and his lawyer Olga Mikhailova. The opposition leader noted that he learned about the existence of the Protocol on article 19.3 of the
In 2016, the Russian universities opened five military departments
© Dmitry Serebryakov/TASS MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Five military departments have been opened at Russian universities last year, said the Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. “In 2016, in accordance with the orders of the government of the Russian Federation was established five military departments, including the Crimean Federal University in Simferopol and Sevastopol state University,” the Minister said at the Board meeting. Shoigu said that the defense Ministry continues to improve the system of military training of students of higher educational institutions. “The emphasis is on training for the most demanding military occupational specialties, as well as to maintain the necessary mobilization of human resource,” he said. According to him, students have the opportunity to receive military specialty, not looking up from the main occupations. He stated that the war office constantly receives requests to access the military departments in civilian universities. “The military departments to greatly enhance the prestige,
In Russian schools may be a new thing
In Russian schools may be a new thing MOSCOW, 27 Mar — RIA Novosti. In Russian schools may be a new subject of “Modern Russia”, which will be studied by students in grade 11, said the Chairman of the Association of teachers of history and social studies, academician Alexander Chubaryan on Monday at the all-Russia conference “Strategy of teaching history in a secondary school.” “There is a project at all a new subject in the 11th grade, which will be called “Modern Russia”. It will be the end of the twentieth century on the history, and the elements of social science, which is, and which the subject of geography, which does not exist now in the 11th grade. In General, it’s still being discussed,” Chubaryan said. In 2013, President Vladimir Putin said that the need to develop unified textbooks of Russian history for school, which will be written in good
The Tasmanian wolf was spotted in Australia
The Tasmanian wolf was spotted in Australia Considered extinct marsupial mammal known as the Tasmanian wolf, caught in camera traps on the Australian Cape York. For the first time the Tasmanian wolf was described in the writings of naturalist-Amateur in 1808. The last representative of this species is believed to have died in a zoo in Tasmania in 1936. The marsupial wolf was the largest of the carnivorous marsupials, at length he reached 100-130 cm and the tail — up to 180 cm resembled a dog, the torso was elongated, the limbs palceholder. The skull of the Tasmanian wolf also looked like a dog and the size might exceed the skull of an adult Dingo. However, thick at the base and thin at the end of the tail and bent rear legs reminded marsupials the origin of this predator. Hair in marsupial wolf was short, dense and rough, with grey-yellow-brown
“Third hand” to help soldiers to shoot more accurately
“Third hand” to help soldiers to shoot more accurately A mechanical device will reduce the load on the hands of the fighters. Research laboratory of the U.S. Army began testing a “third hand” — a mechanical device that one end attaches to the belt of the soldier and the rifle. As the Defence Talk, such a device will allow soldiers to accurately aim, to increase the accuracy of fire or, if necessary, to free his hands. Military rifles have a relatively large mass. For example, the curb weight of the machine M4 used by the U.S. Army, is 3.4 kilograms. During combat operations the hands of soldiers quickly tire to hold the weight of such weapons. In addition, soldiers may need to defer the weapon to the side to, for example, to inspect any object. In the Research laboratory of the US Army believe that the “third hand” will greatly
Ethics commissions are allowed to straighten deputies
Photo: RIA Novosti The state Duma approved amendments to the regulations authorizing the Commission on questions of Deputy ethics to make comments on the parliamentarians. About it the correspondent “Tapes.ru” on Friday, March 24. The adoption of the corresponding resolution voted by 421 deputies, against — two. The head of the Committee Otari Arshba said that we are talking about the possibility to specify the choice on the inadmissibility of violation of ethics. MP from the Communist party Alexey Chicken questioned the need for such measures. “Threaten with a finger — it changes to the regulations are introduced?” he asked. Arshba said that the Commission received more than ten statements with respect to the MPs who did not formally violate the rules, but behave unethically. “In particular, one of your colleagues responded to the statement that he did not like it and that it stops communication in the epistolary and