The issue in russia it is the main day for the president ial elections; at polling stations in belarus , voting for russian citizens started in the morning. They burned fires and tore up the nato flag. The french do not want to submit to the alliance and took to the streets of paris calling for peace. The longawaited event is getting closer. The time for the start of the space flight of the crew with the belarusian on board has been announced. To start with a clean one the soul of great lent, forgiveness sunday ends maslenitsa week and farewell to winter. The last day of maslenitsa is today on the church calendar, forgiven sunday, in order to begin lent with a pure soul. Weve been making pancakes all week, and today were spending the winter burning effigy. In strochitsy, the holiday takes place in the open air near the museum of folk architecture and life. The Program Includes speeches. House of representatives, as well as in the museum of the history of the great patriotic war. This year the project is dedicated to a number of significant anniversary dates, the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the countrys fundamental law and the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of belarus. Symbolically, everyone received a gift set, a state flag, copies of the constitution and a unique letter from our people. Heroes of the war, when i received a passport, i began to feel more responsibility, after all, i became more of a patriotic country, and this. In russia, the main day of voting in the president ial elections, more than half of russians had already made their choice in the two previous days, on the election day the ballot arrived. Representatives several parliamentary factions, vladimir putin, the main favorite, became a selfnominated candidate. In belarus, russians can cast their votes at six polling stations, in all regional centers, as well as in minsk. They work from 8 00 am to 8 00 pm. The first results will be known after 21 00. And for the first time , residents of donbass are participating in a political campaign. For everyone, this is more than just voting, it is choosing their future. And the future of their children. Most voted early, including for security reasons. Our correspondent, Ksenia Lebedeva in the donetsk peoples republic. A report on how a new region of russia votes. Now we are on lenin avenue, former peace avenue in the city of mariupol. Just 2 years ago, at the same time, there were fierce battles for the city on the sea of azov. Neonazis from military formations, retreating, covered themselves. We returned in august, so we returned with our son, but why are you talking about the trunks . And because there were no places, people were just taking their families out, we already asked, because it was impossible with a small child sitting as a child without food, without water, without any means of subsistence, well, in the basement, so sick, her legs hurt, well, she left, of course, we must vote, not only families, but work collectives go to vote, we did. The chairman of one of the precinct election commissions of mariupol, after the shooting of people who came out to celebrate may 9 by nazbatami in 2014, could not remain silent about her attitude towards the ukrainian authorities, for this she and her family were persecuted by the sbu, threatened with death, she left her native mariupol for 8 years , russia has come, she returned. Have you received any threats now, perhaps there was a call from an unknown number, some american number. Ae and they said that some changes had been made to russian legislation and that one could not take part in these elections. Well, that was the call. Have your colleagues received such calls . Yes, they did to other chairmen of the commission, also to members of the commission. People make their choice consciously, no one , as they say, always drives anyone to the polling stations under the weight of pistols and machine guns, people come on their own. Yesterday there was, we had a situation on. A granny came, who , who is thirtysix years old, she came, we say, granny, well, why did you go yourself, we could come to you so that you can vote at home, since age is already old. And she says no, you dont understand, coming to the polling station is a big holiday. Avdeevka, the fighting here recently subsided, the armed forces of ukraine were defeated in disgrace, the tricolor was just raised over the city, and the people who remained here, waiting for the arrival of the russian army, are already coming choose your president. Hello, hello, i installed it somewhere. You got, yeah, Ksenia Lebedeva, oleg dolgopolov, alexander kulikov, Tv News Agency, russia, dpr. For peace, against military support for ukraine for frances withdrawal from nato, residents of the fifth republic. There is a demonstration of thousands in paris. Activists gathered at the louvre, burned fires and chanted slogans demanding withdrawal from the north atlantic alliance, with posters reading calls for peace. according to media reports, the crack caused by the eruption stretched for 3. 5 km, authorities declared a state of emergency. In the year of quality, we continue to check the countrys enterprises for quality. The focus is on the orsha flax mill. The only one. Belarus is the largest producer of linen fabrics in the cis and europe. The entire industry is always under the close attention of our president , im glad to be. The head of state repeated this slogan more than once. Currently , about 18 million linear meters of fabric and more than 3 million piece products are produced annually. In addition, the processing of short fiber increased by a third. This too directed by alexander lukashenko. Threads of arshanskys fate. All the contrasts of the arshan flax mill, when the threads of fate were woven together, that workshop didnt exist at all yet, before we had only one preparatory one, now we have two, every year we need highquality long fiber, its very noisy here, you re already used to it, yes of course, but earplugs save us from the noise, lets expand the product range and find out whats on top for the consumer, the whole belarusian. Products, what you like and whether you like them, and the quality, you can hear me, is good, we will answer for quality this sunday on the main broadcast. Belarus and russia successfully complement each other in business, this helps to resist sanctions pressure, this was stated at the womens business dialogue forum. We believe that it is necessary to develop the Manufacturing Sector in the republic of belarus, and russians are increasingly looking towards production sites on the territory of the republic of belarus; in this regard , we are talking about the investment potential in order to maximally show the positive experiences that have already been achieved today day are implemented by investors on the sites of our free economic zones, some other business entities that provide preferences for investors, and the most important thing is that we. Relationships, we constantly communicate, a huge number of agreements are concluded, and indeed this is another one given an opportunity for expanding trade turnover, for production and for some new forms of cooperation. Women exchange experiences in charity and social responsibility of business at a meeting business circles, we are also talking about the development of tourism in the union state. Longawaited space news, the time of the start of the space flight of the belarusian crew on board has become known. Marina vasilevskaya with roscosmos cosmonaut and also our oleg navitsky nasa astronaut tracy dyson will leave for the iss on march 21 at 16 21 and 19 seconds minsk time. The day before , the main and backup crew had a meeting with another belarusian anastasia lenkova. Press day. Journalists observed classes in manual mode, ship control and onboard documentation. And also vestibular training and general physical training classes. We have our own routine, we work according to a schedule, that is, we even wake up and go off according to a schedule. Every day we do deboxetic training, orthostol, vestibular apparatus, we train. The first round of the belarusian football championship today will continue with three matches, the game program of the confrontation between arsenal and zhodensky torpedo will open at 13 00, at 15 00 sluzsk will host gomel, at 17 00 the miner will fight with vitebsk, just after the game against gornyaki watch our squad of the north live on tv channel belarus 5. And the gantball super series between the National Teams of belarus and russia will continue today in chekhov, on an away tour. Things are going well for yuri shevtsovs team, they have one win and one defeat, the series can be called successful if our guys beat the russians again today, whether it will work out, well find out from the live broadcast on belarus 5, starting at 14 15. And these are the main news of the Tv News Agency project, available on social networks in the mobile application qr code on the screen. About development we will tell you about the events at noon on a successful day. 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