Day: April 3, 2017

Fighter-interceptors during the exercise held dogfights in the sky over the seashore

Army

© Donat Sorokin/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, April 3. /Offset. TASS Natalia Nikulina/. The crews of fighter-interceptors MiG-31 and MiG-31BM held air fights over Peter the Great Bay in Primorye in the framework of the flight tactical exercises in which participated the pilots of the Kamchatka air base of naval aviation Pacific fleet (PF), reported TASS head of information support a press-services VVO on Pacific fleet the captain of the second rank Vladimir Matveev. “Pilots learned to detect, intercept and engage in combat with aircraft of the conditional opponent. The flights took place in the framework of the flight tactical exercises with the participation of the crews of fighter – interceptors MiG-31 Kamchatka air base of naval aviation of the Pacific fleet. To conduct joint training flights Kamchatka pilots flew more than 2 thousand kilometers to the airfield of the aviation formations of the army, air force and air defense in Primorye”, –

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The formations and units TSB began a large-scale test

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© Yuri Smityuk/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, April 3. /Offset. TASS Natalia Nikulina/. Large-scale reference check for winter training with the conduct of supervision sessions commenced in connections and military units of the Eastern military district (TSB). The working groups will check the preparation and status of both equipment and military personnel that, in particular, have to pass the standards for special and physical training, told TASS the head of press service TSB Colonel Alexander Gordeev. “In the military district, was formed more than ten ad hoc working groups, headed by the commanders of associations, chiefs of arms, services and departments of the County. During control sessions, they will check the status of the alerting and operational training, weapons and military equipment, the state of the logistical, moral and psychological state of personnel”, – said Gordeev. Military personnel will conduct instructional firing from small arms and weapons military equipment, to pass the standards

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Concerts in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation will be held in the framework of the Easter festival

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Concerts in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation will be held in the framework of the Easter festival Moscow. On 2 April. INTERFAX.RU — 16-th Moscow Easter festival, artistic Director of which is Valeri Maestro Gergiev, will be held from 16 April to 9 may and will be dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. According to the organizers, the festival provides symphonic, choral, chamber and bell-ringing programs and charity concerts. The Grand opening will take place in Day of Light Easter, April 16, at the Great hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky theatre under Valery Gergiev and pianist Denis Matsuev will perform works by I. Stravinsky, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Rachmaninov and M. Glinka. In just three weeks of the festival, the musicians of the Symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky theatre will perform in more than

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Haruki Murakami compared writing a novel with the prosecution of the rabbit

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Haruki Murakami compared writing a novel with the prosecution of the rabbit TOKYO, April 2. /Offset. TASS Alex Sarachev/. Popular Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, usually avoiding contact with the press, gave interviews to several Japanese Newspapers. It has published editions of the Yomiuri and Mainichi Shimbun. In it, he talked about his new novel “Canidate goroshi” (“Murder of the commander”. — Approx. TASS), that is the power of “good stories” and shared his impressions, which he feels, when he begins to write. Back to basics In many Murakami novels narrated in the first person, but lately he often wrote from the third. For example, thus, constructed the book “1Q84” (in Russian translation Dmitry Kovalenin — “nevesta Thousand eighty-four. — Approx. TASS), where there are just three main characters, whose stories eventually intertwine into one. In the new novel, the author again returns to its original style, and the main hero

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Son of Mr. Yevtushenko and a friend of the family told about the last hours of the poet’s life

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Son of Mr. Yevtushenko and a friend of the family told about the last hours of the poet’s life The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died of cancer. This was reported by RIA Novosti, the family friend Michael Morgulis. According to him, the poet had cancer in an irreversible form. “After studying the tests doctors gave him three months to live, but he lived less than a month,” said Morgulis. 13фотографий13фотографий13фотографий “Last night I talked to him. He asked me to tell him something important. I told him that he lived a great life, which has done a lot for the people of God, celebrating the victory of the spirit. And he said to me: “I would like to make between America and Russia was at peace that we were friends and everyone in these countries were happy”,” — said the Agency interlocutor. He added: “We talked about good and evil.” “Evgeny

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Putin will discuss with Lukashenko key bilateral issues

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© Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in St. Petersburg with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who will be in Russia on a working visit. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin. “During the summit talks it is planned to discuss a number of key issues on the bilateral agenda, prospects of further promotion of integration processes in the Eurasian space, as well as some topical international and regional problems”, – stated in the message. As stated by the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the two leaders will certainly discuss those “differences that occur in terms of different nuances in the process of Eurasian integration, and economic differences in terms of bilateral relations.”

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RNF announced on the forum a competition for the most succinct question to the President of the Russian Federation

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RNF announced on the forum a competition for the most succinct question to the President of the Russian Federation SAINT PETERSBURG, April 2. /TASS/. Competition for the best short question to the President of Russia announced at the fourth forum of the Russian popular front (onf) “Truth and justice”, held in Saint-Petersburg. About topics that caused the greatest interest among journalists, representatives of the popular front is planning to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the leader of the popular front. Near the entrance to the hall, where the presentation of the projects of the popular front, a transparent cube with the inscription “the Most concise question to the President,” next to him lay the sheets of paper and pens. “Received from journalists’ questions will be analyzed by the experts of the popular front to identify the most critical issues of concern to the community and ordinary citizens. Topics

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ROC called late in a quarter century, the decision on the burial of Lenin

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ROC called late in a quarter century, the decision on the burial of Lenin Moscow. On 2 April. INTERFAX.RU — Lenin’s Body had to be buried immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, now need to wait for consensus in society on the issue, believes the head of the Synodal Department for external Church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. The names of the executioners, it is impossible to name the streets and squares. The names of the terrorists and revolutionaries should not perpetuate in our cities. The monuments of these people don’t have to stand on our squares. The mummified bodies of these people should not lie and put on public display.Olarinmoye Volokolamsk At the same time, he stressed that no one is interested now is to “reopen old wounds, to shake up our society, to provoke a schism.” “I would say that these decisions were late for a

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Roskomnadzor said the decline in the number of violations in the media

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Roskomnadzor said the decline in the number of violations in the media Moscow. On 2 April. INTERFAX.RU — Among the major systemic violations of media in Russia Roskomnadzor calls mention extremist organizations without specifying their status as banned in the country, a description of methods of suicide and swearing. As reported by the Deputy head of Roskomnadzor Vadim Subbotin in the course of the onf media forum of independent regional and local media “Truth and justice” in St. Petersburg on Sunday, in recent years, the Department is seriously reduced the amount of fines the media for formal violations. He noted that Roskomnadzor pays more attention to substantive violations of the law on mass media. Among the “leaders” to systemic violations of the media — the mention of extremist organizations, banned in Russia, without specifying their status. “But there is a mishap: there is a list of extremist organizations, the Ministry

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Leaders of the national Bank of Ukraine suspected of embezzlement

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The building of the national Bank of Ukraine in Kiev Leaders of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) check for possible involvement in the embezzlement of funds that were earmarked to refinance a number of commercial banks. On Sunday, 2 April, said the head of the National anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnik, the TV channel “1+1”, reports TASS. “We’re not talking about specific officials. We are talking about the fact that such large flows can not do without the participation of the leadership of the national Bank. The involvement in these activities will be checked virtually the entire leadership of the NBU,” — said Sytnik. According to him, “most of the funds that were issued as refinancing, transferred or offshore or in foreign banks”. He said that the amount of damages may amount to billions of hryvnia. On 29 March, the NEB conducted searches and seizure of documents

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