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In Dagestan, a large -scale operation to verify local authorities continues , within the framework of which the former heads of the government of the republic were arrested yesterday. According to unofficial data, searches were held in the republican ministries today, and officials were banned from traveling abroad. At the posts of traffic police, local police officers were replaced by employees from other regions.

Yandex and Uberclosed the deal to combine taxi order services in Russia and several neighboring countries. The United Company was headed by the head of Yandex.Taxi Tigran Khudardyan, its cost is estimated at $ 3.8 billion. Users, as promise in services, will continue to use both applications.

The business ombudsman Boris Titov called the names of businessmen who are hiding from criminal prosecution abroad, but want to return to Russia . The other day, Titov met with them in London, and then handed the list with their names to President Vladimir Putin. These are not very famous people - and we briefly talk about each of them.

In Syktyvkar, human rights activists sued the Ministry of Culture due to the abolition of the rental of Stalin's Death. In their opinion, the decision of the department violates the right to access the cultural values ​​that the constitution guarantees. “Here in every family there are ancestors who suffered in the era of repression, and I want to believe that the court is able to see the objective picture of what is happening and make the right decision,” said one of the plaintiffs.

Forbes for the first time compiled a rating of crypto milliarders - entrepreneurs who made a fortune on cryptocurrencies. The first place was taken by the co -founder of the Ripple platform Chris Larsen. The magazine estimated his fortune at 7.5–8 billion dollars.

How SpaceX launched a new rocket

Yesterday late in the evening, SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy missile. More than 2.3 million people watched the broadcast of this event on YouTube. The launch was not without overlays: in particular, one of the three accelerators could not be planted back, and the cherry “Tesla” Ilona Mask did not reach the trajectory between the Earth and Mars, but headed for the asteroid belt. You can read the details about the launch here , watch the video - here , and look at the first memes with Tesla in space - here .

"First Briton" turned out to be blue -eyed and black

Scientists deciphered the DNA of the “man from the Cheeddar” - a man who lived more than nine thousand years ago and could be a descendant of the first immigrants to the British islands after the end of the glacial era. It was believed that the “man from Cheeddar” was fair -skinned and fair -haired, but the DNA test showed that he had very dark skin, dark hair - and blue eyes. Scientists believe that about 10% of the current white inhabitants of Great Britain are the descendants of the people who belonged to the "person from Cheeddar."

What else

• Go through the test “10 beats or 20 steps” about the programs of candidates for president of Russia. For some reason, all of them are very similar.
• Look at the excerpt from the new cartoon of Wes Anderson, “Dog Island” , which will be released in Russian rental in May. According to the plot in Japan, all dogs were settled on the same island because of the “dog flu”; One boy goes there to find his dog. Animation is very similar to the "incomparable Mr. Fox"!
• Play the game "in the snowdrifts" , which is dedicated to the Moscow snowfall of the last days. It is necessary to lay the tracks in the snow between the metro stations and houses.

Victor Davydov