The five countries of the group account for almost a half of the world’s population and around 30% of the global gross domestic product

The extended talks on the Iranian nuclear issue may wrap up on Wednesday, Iran’s negotiators said. But Tehran insists the lifting of international sanctions was the first step in the deal currently being bargained in Switzerland.

A group of Russian MPs say there are often deliberate obstructions for Ukrainians who want to change their citizenship to Russian, and suggest getting round this problem by cutting the number of required documents.

Roundup of Novorossia for March 31-April 1, 2015
1. Representatives of Ukrainian self-defense detachment beat a civilian at a checkpoint in Kiev.
2. More than half of conscripts in Ukraine suffer from mental illnesses.
3. "Right sector" corps will become part of the National Guard.
4. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatsenyuk offered another version of developments during the Second World War.

The situation on the fronts of DPR and LPR for March 31.

Border guards of the unrecognized Republic of Transnistria opened fire on the border with Ukraine. As Interfax agency reported with the reference to a a source in the Ukrainian law enforcement bodies, the incident occurred in the evening of March 31 in the Razdelnaya district of the Odessa region.

Poroshenko was dishonorably stretched on the street-traffic sign on the Deribasovskaya Street next to the monument to Iosif Deribasov in honor of the 1st April.

Kiev, March 31 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Head of the Kiev branch of the Institute of the Commonwealths of Independent States political analyst Denis Denisov was forced to leave the Ukrainian capital after his apartment was visited by a group of “athletes”, and the next day — by armed men in camouflage uniforms.

Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko said in her interview to Bloomberg that the IMF may call off the second tranche of aid To Ukraine if Kiev does not succeed in restructuring of its external debt, according to “Ukrainian News”.

The Prosecutor General’s Office said that Mikhail Saakashvili’s extradition would be in violation of human rights and fundamental freedom. Saakashvili is currently the chairman of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s International Advisory Council on Reforms.

Russian gas deliveries at preferential rates to Ukraine are extended into June 30.