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March 2. "Hysteria in the West" and an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev

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In Ukraine, due to lack of gas, kindergartens, schools and universities are temporarily closed . Citizens were called to reduce the temperature in the premises by 1-2 degrees. The other day, Stockholm arbitration made a decision on the lawsuit of Gazprom and Naftogaz, which did not suit the Russian side; Gazprom returned Naftogaz an prepayment for deliveries in March and announced the termination of contracts with the Ukrainian company. Ukraine agreed on the purchase of gas from Poland.

In Germany, Andrei Kovalchuk, the alleged organizer of smuggling of cocaine through the Russian embassy in Argentina, was detained . He is called an employee of the Department of Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but Maria Zakharova claims that she rummaged through all the archives of the department and did not find mention of him. We have collected the main thing that is known about this person.

Alexei Navalny announced the disruption of the congress of the Party of Progress , which was supposed to take place on March 3 in Moscow: the congress was refused to provide the premises, despite the contract. Navalny tries to register his party for the seventh time; This time, a former employee of his headquarters, who recently filed an application for registration of the party with the same name, prevents him.

Der Spiegel has published an investigation about February in Syria, in which Russian mercenaries died. The magazine proposed his interpretation of the events of the night on February 8, when the United States inflicted air strikes in the group of pro -government forces - and according to this version, there were much less Russians there than they wrote earlier, and they fell under fire by chance. Note that Russian experts have claims to this version.

"Hysteria in the West" and nuclear installation

The message of Russian President Vladimir Putin, containing a story about the latest Russian weapons, was yesterday the main topic of discussion on Russian television. The presenters and guests of the programs talked about the “change of rules of the game”, “exits to new borders” and “hysteria in the West”.

But no hysteria is visible. US President Donald Trump and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel expressed concern because of Putin’s statements, they heard “unacceptable and counter-productive threats” in NATO, and the US State Department expressed disappointment that nuclear warheads were falling on Florida in the Sarmat rocket (by the way, it turned out that this animation was taken from this animation film Channel One ten years ago).

One of the types of weapons that Putin presented yesterday is a winged rocket equipped with a nuclear power plant. The president said that its flight range is almost unlimited, and the trajectory is unpredictable. What is this rocket? We asked for this question to the Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technologies of MIFU Georgy Tikhomirov:

The very idea of ​​putting such attitudes on moving objects, primarily a plane, has existed since the 1950s. As for the winged rocket [c nuclear energy installation] - this is a fresh solution, I have not heard of such things. But for me this is not very surprising - because the theoretical opportunity [create such a compact installation] exists. Progress is coming.

Mikhail Gorbachev's birthday

Today, the President of the USSR and the last Secretary General of the CPSU turned 87 years old. On this occasion, two material came out - a large interview with Gorbachev and the text of Ilya Zhegulev about the life of the former Secretary General after the collapse of the Soviet state:

A few years ago, the former president called the founder of the “new” [Dmitry Muratov] to his lecture at the journalism faculty of Moscow State University. Muratov was sitting in the back row and at some point received a note from the lecturer. Turning it around, the journalist was dumbfounded. “And we went to the girls,” was written by a familiar handwriting. According to Muratov, he even called his friend and found out “correct contacts”. Already sitting in the car, he specified at Gorbachev:

- Well, we are going to the girls?

- Yes. To Raisa Maksimovna.

“The cemetery stood for an hour,” recalls Muratov. - He talks quietly with her there, and I stand nearby. Then we went to a small restaurant in Gruzinsky opposite the cemetery. Remember. So the campaign for the girls ended. "

What else

• The British Museum spoke about the earliest famous art tattoos. They were found on mummies men and women who lived in Egypt about five thousand years ago. The man had a bull and a ram, and a woman had a line and a S-shaped pattern.
• Tomorrow in Luzhniki will be a rally in support of Vladimir Putin. Perhaps because of him in St. Petersburg for two months they moved the concert of the singer of the Christmas tree .
• Soon the film Greye Gerwig “Lady Berd”, which claims five “Oscars”, will be released. Anton Dolin talks about this picture: according to him, this is a “pure, honest, emotional and smart film”, similar to his heroine-a California schoolgirl, “dreaming of a worthy future and not very believing in its probability.”
• The scientist recorded the sound that makes a piece of ice when falling into a 90-meter well in the Antarctic glacier. Listen !

Victor Davydov