Famous socialite Kim Kardashian , whose divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries continues longer than the marriage itself, was the victim of an attack by a white powder thrower. On Thursday evening, Kim arrived at one of the Hollywood hotels, where the presentation of her new line of perfumes took place. The beauty was walking along the red carpet when suddenly one of the spectators threw white powder at her, which landed on her back and hair.

Farewell to the famous Italian playwright, writer, poet Tonino Guerra , who died on March 21 at the age of 92, will take place over several days. Funeral ceremonies will begin Friday evening in the playwright's hometown of Santarcangelo, where two days of mourning have been declared. The funeral will take place on Sunday, March 25, in the garden of the Guerra house in Pennabilli, and the funeral service will take place in the cathedral in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.

The Russian Christian Social and Political Union has created the “Don’t Steal” portal, which, along with Alexei Navalny’s well-known “Rospil” project, will fight corruption in the country, Interfax reports , citing the union’s press service. “The project identifies facts of abuse by officials, makes them public, monitors the progress and results of inspections, provides legal assistance to entrepreneurs, and involves State Duma deputies elected by the people ,” the press service said.

Head of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev , TV presenter and member of the board of trustees of the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nikolai Drozdov and WWF Russia director Igor Chestin will swim in an ice hole on March 27 to draw attention to the problem of protecting the Arctic seas from pollution, RIA Novosti reports. .

Slovak and Spanish scientists have created an “invisibility cloak” from cylindrical layers of a superconductor and a ferromagnet, the combination of which makes it possible to hide an arbitrary object from a magnetic field, RIA Novosti reports , citing a publication in the journal Science . Over the past decade, physicists have developed several devices that make it possible to hide a particular object from electromagnetic radiation in a narrow frequency range.

Filming on the third installment of the Hangover franchise will begin in September 2012, Collider reports . Warner Bros has also set a release date for the film - it will be released on May 24 next year.

At the end of next week, private cars will be allowed to travel in dedicated lanes for public transport on weekends in Moscow, Interfax reports . “We talked about the fact that on weekends and holidays it is necessary to give private vehicles the opportunity to enter designated lanes,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin recalled at an operational meeting of the Moscow government on Friday.

Users from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine can download Madonna’s new album “MDNA” for free and legally from March 23. This is three days earlier than the start of official sales of the singer’s twelfth studio album, which will begin on March 26. The singer’s fans received a three-day head start thanks to the cooperation of the Russian branch of Universal Music and the specialized music service Yandex.Music.

March 23, 2012, 18:04 Society Schools are being closed by competition 82 Moscow schools were unable to enroll a single first class: they will be transferred to more successful ones Natalia Ziganshina close 100% 82 Moscow schools failed to enroll a single first grade student ITAR-TASS 82 Moscow schools were unable to enroll a single first class, while in 30 schools the enrollment amounted to up to one hundred people.

March 23, 2012, 19:19 Society Gays were strangled for phones In Moscow, Dagestanis killed and robbed gays, luring them to meetings under the guise of providing intimate services. Zhanna Ulyanova close 100% Two natives of Dagestan were caught in Moscow, suspected of three murders and 30 attacks on representatives of sexual minorities. Criminals found victims on dating sites and offered them intimate services.

French Education Minister Luc Chatel ordered the immediate dismissal of an English teacher at the Rouen Lyceum, who imposed a minute of silence on the students in the class for the “Toulouse shooter” Mohammed Mera, Interfax reports . Chatel “unconditionally condemns this behavior, which cannot be assessed,” and asks the rector of Rouen to “initiate a disciplinary procedure,” the department said in a statement.

— 23.03.2012 16:47 — The Louvre Museum in Paris became the most visited museum in 2011, reports Art Newspaper . The number of visitors increased by approximately 400 thousand compared to 2010 and amounted to 8.9 million people. Another Parisian museum, the Pompidou Center, also showed growth: 500 thousand more people came to it than a year earlier (3.6 million).

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the fund he intends to create will cooperate with Prokhorov's party , he wrote about this on his Internet blog. “I met with Mikhail Prokhorov today. The fund that I will create will be ready to cooperate with Prokhorov’s party on specific problems,” he wrote https://twitter.com/#!/Aleksei_Kudrin Earlier, Kudrin said that he would contribute to the emergence of a new liberal party in Russia.

A Moscow policeman is accused of killing a driver who accidentally hit him while parking, the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Friday. The conflict between the men occurred on March 17, 2012 at about 10 p.m. in the area of ​​house 15 on Pyatnitskoye Highway. “Both were with their spouses. After a rough verbal altercation, the pedestrian pulled out a gun and shot the driver in the chest.

The British singer has overtaken the Dire Straits group in terms of the number of records sold in England, reports NME . She is now in sixth place thanks to the success of her album “21,” which sold 4.15 million units, which is only 12 thousand more than Mark Knopfler ’s “Brothers In Arms . ” This result, achieved in just a couple of years, means that one in six people in the UK have a copy of 21 at home.