Russian biathletes were left without medals in the mass start at the World Cup in Holmenkollen. The race was broadcast live on the Rossiya 2 TV channel, and the race results were posted on the website of the International Biathlon Union. Czech Ondrej Moravec won the mass start. He made one mistake on the last firing line. Frenchman Martin Fourcade took second place, making three mistakes (one at the first turn and two at the last) and losing 13.7 seconds to the Czech.

Employees of the Federal Migration Service interrupted the theatrical “hearings” on the Pussy Riot case in the capital’s Sakharov Center. this on Facebook. reported Journalist Mikhail Kaluzhsky According to Kaluzhsky, FMS employees demanded documents from Swiss director Milo Rau. “He has a three-month work visa,” Kaluzhsky clarified. He added that FMS officers who arrived at the scene expressed their intention to check the documents of all foreigners in the Sakharov Center building.

The suicide of the deputy chairman of the military court of the Makhachkala garrison, Yuri Basalaev, is not related to his professional activities. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a statement by a representative of the North Caucasus District Military Court. According to him, a suicide note was found next to the body of the deceased. “The investigation prohibits the disclosure of its contents...

A two-day political strike began in Bangladesh on Sunday morning, the BBC News website reported. Activists are protesting against harsh sentences for leaders of the opposition Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. The last such verdict was passed by the tribunal against Delwar Hussain Sayeedi, who was sentenced to death. The strike was supported by both representatives of Jamaat-e-Islami and members of the Nationalist Party.

Ten alleged members of the radical Islamic group Nurcular, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia, were detained in St. Petersburg. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Among the detainees are five citizens of the Russian Federation, four citizens of Azerbaijan and one of Turkmenistan.

An explosion occurred in the predominantly Shiite area of ​​the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing 45 people and injuring 150 more, Agence France-Presse reported . As the agency notes, the bomb was planted in a car and was detonated by a suicide bomber. Karachi authorities said they feared a significant increase in the number of casualties, as about half of the wounded were in serious condition.

Lokomotiv Moscow forward Dmitry Sychev will move to Dynamo Minsk on loan. This was reported by Soviet Sport with reference to Sychev’s agent Pavel Andreev. “Dima wants to play. He doesn’t want to sit on the bench,” Andreev said, answering the question about whether Sychev really left Lokomotiv. Earlier on March 3, the former press attaché of the railway workers, Alexander Udaltsov, wrote on his Twitter: “Sychev was loaned to Minsk.

The mass start at the Biathlon World Cup in Holmenkollen was won by Norwegian Tora Berger. Thus, she strengthened her position in the overall standings, securing herself a victory in the World Cup - the first in her career. The race was broadcast live on the Rossiya 2 TV channel. Berger went through the first three shooting stages cleanly, but at the last stage she made two misses. After penalty laps, she had to overtake the representative of Slovakia, Anastasia Kuzmina.

Chadian troops operating in northern Mali killed Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. This was reported by Reuters with reference to an official representative of the Chadian armed forces. Belmokhtar was killed on Saturday during the liquidation of a terrorist base. According to the military, several other members of the Maghreb al-Qaeda were killed along with the leader.

The administration of the note-taking service Evernote announced a hacker attack and asked users to change their passwords. This is stated in a press release published on the company's website on Saturday. As it was established, hackers gained access to personal information about clients, in particular, to a database of email addresses and passwords. However, leakage of data stored on the service and payment details of paid accounts was avoided.

Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain was admitted to London's King Edward VII Hospital due to symptoms of gastroenteritis. This was reported by Agence France-Presse with reference to the press secretary of Buckingham Palace. The queen is expected to stay in hospital for several days, Sky News notes. She is in good spirits and, minus the gastroenteritis, she is doing well. Hospitalization, as the royal press secretary explained, is simply a precautionary measure.

In the battles for the police academy in the province of Aleppo - one of the last strongholds of supporters of Bashar al-Assad - in a week, according to observers, about 200 people were killed (both from government troops and from among the rebels). This was reported by Agence France-Presse with reference to the human rights organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Sunday, March 3 alone, the rebels killed 34 soldiers. In just a week of clashes, at least 120 soldiers were killed.

SpaceX's Dragon truck docked with the International Space Station at 5:56 p.m. Moscow time—about an hour earlier than planned. The live broadcast was conducted on the NASA website. In total, the docking process, which began at 14:31, took a little more than three hours. As noted on the NASA website, astronauts should begin unloading on Monday, March 4. The truck must stay at the station for 22 days: its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean is scheduled for March 25.

From March 1 to 3, the capital’s Sakharov Center hosted a series of documentary performances of the “Moscow Trials” project - a theatrical reconstruction of the high-profile court hearings of recent years. The event was interesting to a rather narrow circle of spectators, and, most likely, information about it would have remained outside the attention of the central media.

The St. Petersburg police stopped a flash mob whose participants were supposed to en masse perform the “Harlem Shake” dance, popular thanks to an Internet meme. reports this Rosbalt . The action was planned at 16:00 near the building of the Galereya shopping center on Ligovsky Prospekt. The organizers announced it mainly through social networks. “Invite your friends, prepare an extraordinary costume and rock it in the city center,” the announcement said .