Two members of the punk group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were charged with hooliganism on March 12, Interfax reports , citing their lawyer Nikolai Polozov. According to him, when investigators tried to interrogate the girls as defendants, they refused to testify.

Banks will be able to close the accounts of their clients unilaterally if transactions on them seem suspicious to the credit institution. This follows from the draft law of Rosfinmonitoring submitted to the government, writes the Vedomosti newspaper in its issue dated March 12. We will only talk about transactions on the accounts of individuals in the amount of over 600 thousand rubles.

The Palace of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich Romanov company, which owns the federal monument of the same name in St. Petersburg (also known as the Malo-Mikhailovsky Palace), has put the building up for auction. According to the Marker portal, the initial cost of the lot is 1.3 billion rubles. It is worth noting that the company has been the owner of the building for just over a year. In February 2011, she purchased it at an auction by the St.

A police lieutenant colonel was killed in her apartment in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region. A woman who worked at the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was stabbed numerous times, RIA Novosti reports . According to the agency's source, the body of the deceased was discovered about a month ago, but until now the incident has not been made public. According to Life News, the deceased's name was Lyubov Makarova.

University of California students may be asked to indicate their sexual orientation when applying to the university. This was reported by the Daily Bruin, the university's student newspaper. The innovation will likely affect first-year students, as well as students who are transferring from other universities. The academic council of the university recommended taking such a step in January.

As a result of the collision of two hovercraft "Khivus-10" on the Volga, six people were injured, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The collision occurred near the town of Bor on the afternoon of March 12. At the time of the collision, there were 20 people on both ships, 10 on each. All victims were hospitalized in the central district hospital of the city of Bor. Two are in serious condition.

In 2011, the Federal Antimonopoly Service fined companies for violating the advertising law in the total amount of 165.5 million rubles, Interfax reports , citing the agency’s statistical report on violations of advertising legislation. For comparison, in 2010 the amount of fines amounted to 122.7 million rubles, and in 2009 - 87.4 million. According to the report, the FAS issued more than 4.6 thousand decisions imposing fines in 2011.

"Literator" and "Evolution" Russian projects at MIPIM-2012 At the MIPIM-2012 exhibition held in Cannes, Russian development companies presented a large number of projects for the construction of housing, business centers, office complexes and social facilities in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Only 54 percent of Americans consider the United States to be the most militarily powerful country in the world. These are the findings of a survey conducted by Gallup. 45 percent of respondents believe that the United States is only one of several leading military powers. The belief in America's military superiority is strongest among the most educated Americans (67 percent of those in graduate school). Among those who did not graduate from university, this figure is 51 percent.

In Moscow, cash and valuables worth approximately 1 million rubles were stolen from a student’s apartment. agency reported this on March 12 The Interfax with reference to the press service of the city Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A student of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, born in 1987, contacted the police on March 11.

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum , who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, has called for a ban on politicians using teleprompters . According to CNN, he made this statement during a trip to Mississippi, where the primaries will be held on March 13 . "I've always thought that when you're running for president of the United States, using a teleprompter should be illegal," Santorum said during a meeting with voters at a Gulfport restaurant.

Warner Bros. invited Tom Cruise to play the leading male role in the film "A Star Is Born", which will be directed by Clint Eastwood. Variety reports this. Eastwood's film is supposed to be a remake of the 1976 film. The film from the mid-1970s was about a girl who dreamed of becoming a singer. According to the plot, the heroine begins a relationship with a successful performer, who as a result helps her build a career. The aspiring singer was played by Barbra Streisand in the 1976 film.

Latvian nationalist Uldis Freimanis successfully challenged in court the ban on holding demonstrations on Legionnaires' Day (March 16). Mixnews reports this. The ban was introduced by the Riga City Council, which rejected all applications received as of March 16. However, Freimanis, by appealing to the Administrative District Court, ensured that the ban against him was lifted.

The Ministry of Justice excluded from the register of non-profit organizations the largest foreign NGO in the Russian Federation, the Russian Legal Initiative, which provided assistance to citizens in conducting cases in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Kommersant writes about this on Monday, March 12. The Ministry of Justice made the decision to exclude the Russian Legal Initiative from the register of foreign non-profit organizations (INCO) in February 2011.

An international group of physicists, which includes Russian researchers, measured an important parameter of neutrino oscillations - the so-called theta 1-3, which turned out to be significantly higher than expected. A preprint of the article is available on arXiv.org. There are three types of neutrinos and antineutrinos - electron, muon and tau neutrinos, and changes in the type of particles are called neutrino oscillations.