On the night of March 18, the official NTV website resumed operation after a failure that occurred on the evening of March 17. In total, the portal was unavailable for several hours. There have been no comments from representatives of the TV channel regarding the reasons for stopping the site at the moment. Over the past few days, the NTV website has gone offline several times.

In the Leningrad region, five people died as a result of a collision between two cars and two buses. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The accident occurred around 10 am in the Vyborg region. In addition to the five deaths, four people were injured as a result of the accident. The circumstances of the incident and information about the victims are being clarified.

The head of the synodal department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations between the Church and society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin , said that the Pussy Riot group , along with a performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, held a similar event at the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhov. reported this on March 17 RIA Novosti . According to Chaplin, the Pussy Riot performance at the Epiphany Cathedral took place on February 19.

Kazan "Ak Bars" won a strong-willed victory in the third match of the quarterfinal series of the Gagarin Cup against Chelyabinsk "Traktor" - 2:1 (0:0, 1:1, 0:0, 1:0). During the meeting, the Leopards, playing on their own ice, lost 0:1. However, they managed to quickly come back, and in overtime, Niko Kapanen's goal brought Ak Bars victory. Before this match, Kazan was losing the series 0-2, and the defeat put them on the brink of elimination from the Gagarin Cup.

German human rights activist and former Lutheran pastor Joachim Gauck was elected president of Germany, Agence France-Presse reports, citing the speaker of the German parliament Norbert Lammert. Gauck, 72, received the support of 991 of the 1,232 members of the Federal Assembly, which includes members of the Bundestag and representatives of the federal states. His candidacy was nominated by several parties, including the ruling coalition and the Greens.

The former chairman of the Moscow region branch of the Right Cause party, Boris Nadezhdin, filed a lawsuit against the NTV television company for the protection of honor and dignity in connection with the film Anatomy of a Protest. this on March 17 The politician himself announced in a blog on the Echo of Moscow website.

An action “Against the blatant lies of the NTV channel”, which was not coordinated with the authorities, started at the Ostankino television center. This was reported by a Lenta.ru correspondent from the scene. The meeting, according to Interfax , began with three single pickets. People continue to arrive at the television center; according to the Lenta.ru correspondent, by 15:00 more than 100 action participants and quite a lot of journalists had already gathered at the site.

A private party in the suburbs of New York on the night of March 18 resulted in partial destruction of the building in which it was held. reports Associated Press . In a three-story home in Far Rockaway, the floor on the third floor collapsed, collapsing onto the second. The reasons for the incident are being clarified. As a result of the incident, 12 people were injured, two of them were sent to hospital, the rest refused hospitalization.

An unauthorized rally against police brutality took place in Kazan, about 10 participants of which were detained. reports this Interfax . Among the speakers at the rally was 20-year-old Aliya Sadykova, based on whose complaint one of the criminal cases was opened against employees of the Dalniy department. “Any person could have been in my place—your brothers, sisters. It’s very hard to remember all this, but if we don’t talk about it, this chaos will never end,” the girl said.

12 activists of the Solidarity movement were detained on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. reports this Interfax with reference to Solidarity member Nadezhda Mityushkina. “We first walked around Red Square with balloons and white ribbons, and then went to Manezhnaya and decided to launch balloons. Here we were all arrested, without explaining what it was connected with,” said Mityushkina. According to the activist, the detainees were placed in a paddy wagon and taken to the Basmannoe police station.

The death sentence to Dmitry Konovalov, found guilty of committing a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro, has been carried out. Information about this, as reported by ITAR-TASS , was broadcast by Belarusian television on the evening of March 17. Information about the execution, with reference to an unnamed source, was also previously provided by the Internet portal TUT.by. There have been no official comments about the execution of the sentence from the Belarusian authorities at the moment.

Irish stand-up comedian Dylan Moran will perform in St. Petersburg as part of the “Yeah, Yeah” world tour. His concerts will be held at Chaplin Hall on April 12 and 14, according to the venue’s website. The cost of tickets, notes “Standup Wednesday,” is from two thousand rubles. Moran will present an hour and a half program (two 40-minute segments with a 20-minute intermission) in English.

South Wales Police have arrested a local man who is suspected of tweeting racist remarks towards Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba after he collapsed during a match. As reported on Sunday, March 18, Sky News, the 21-year-old suspect was taken to a police station in Swansea. The racist comments were posted by user liamstacey9. The account has now been deleted. Fabrice Muamba, as follows from a message on the Bolton club website, remains in intensive care.

Geckos that will be sent into orbit on the Russian Bion-M spacecraft will be fed live mealworms in space. was informed about this Interfax at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In order for the worms to remain alive, they will be given a separate habitat with their own food and sources of moisture and calcium. The worms will retain enough nutrients to keep the geckos well during the flight.

A group on the social network VKontakte dedicated to the rally “against the blatant lies of the NTV channel” became unavailable on the morning of March 18. at the group's address A standard notice was posted : "The group is temporarily blocked and is being checked by administrators, as some users believe that it does not comply with the site rules." A similar community on Facebook continues to operate as normal.