In 2012, Russia extradited 1,138 defendants in criminal cases to other countries, and other countries extradited 262 defendants to Russia. this in an interview with RIA Novosti on March 4. The head of the department of execution of sentences and special accounting of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Sergei Esipov, stated Thus, the number of suspects and accused exported from the Russian Federation was 4.3 times higher than the number imported.

The High Command of the Russian Air Force has approved the project of a promising long-range aviation complex (PAK DA), which in the future will replace the strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS and Tu-160 in the military. As the Izvestia newspaper writes, citing a source in the Air Force, the project of the Tupolev Design Bureau won the competition. The military's choice fell on a subsonic aircraft with extensive use of stealth technologies.

Irish actor Liam Neeson will voice the evil raccoon in the animated film “Squirrel 3D” (The Nut Job). The Hollywood Reporter writes about the action hero's return to voice acting for children's cartoons. According to the plot of the film, a squirrel, driven out of New York's Central Park, decides to rob a nut store, the owners of which are plotting to rob a bank.

A lawsuit brought by more than 10,000 victims of the country's deadliest bushfires in history, which occurred in 2009, has begun a trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria. The plaintiffs claim that the fire was caused by the energy company SPI Electricity and are demanding compensation. Sky News reported this on March 4. According to the plaintiffs, the energy company should have known about problems on one of the power lines, which had been in operation for 43 years.

The coaches of the Russian biathlon national teams have named the composition of the men's and women's teams for the eighth stage of the World Cup, which will be held in Sochi from March 7 to 10. 19 Russians will perform at the stage in Sochi: nine athletes are included in the women's team, and 10 people are included in the men's team. This was reported by the official website of the Russian Biathlon Union (RUB).

A former inmate was arrested after breaking into a New York jail and spending several hours there. Associated Press reported this. A man named Matthew Matarango presented guards with a false identification as a corrections investigator and used the access to give cigarettes to inmates. He also stole one of the guards' radios. In total, Matarango spent more than seven hours in prison.

New Yorker Ramell Pettaway staged his own kidnapping to avoid his lover's wrath for not showing up for two weeks. This became known to The New York Post. The 36-year-old admitted to police that he had fabricated the story; he was charged with transmitting a false report to law enforcement. It is unknown where Pettaway was for two weeks. He only told the police that he had not been home in Brooklyn all this time.

A mass brawl involving 400 prisoners took place in a prison in the American city of Tucson. reports Associated Press . According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, the fight involved about three hundred whites and Hispanics on one side and one hundred African Americans on the other. The cause of the incident is not yet known. It is also not specified what methods the guards used to stop the fight.

Scientists from the University of Paris Diderot have traced the movement of the arms of the Milky Way galaxy using massive X-ray binary stars. The European Space Agency website provides an overview of a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal . Astrophysicists examined the motion of 13 binary star systems, which was triggered by supernova explosions. Four systems that contain a supergiant star have traveled 325 light years in 45 million years.

On March 2, 2013, the “March for Children” action took place in Moscow: its participants opposed the adoption of Russian orphans by foreigners. According to official data, about 12 thousand people took part in the march - from United Russia, the LDPR and a number of public organizations. The video contains profanity.

Dutch police have arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman on suspicion of involvement in the robbery of the Kunsthal Museum, AFP reports . Allegedly, it was to her apartment that the stolen paintings were delivered immediately after the crime; There they were taken out of their frames in order to then be transported abroad. The arrest took place in the same city as the robbery - Rotterdam. It is known that the girl is a friend of one of the three suspects previously arrested in Romania.

The Ministry of Labor has come up with a new pension formula in which the pension rights of Russians will be assessed in conventional units, or points, and not in rubles, as now. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated March 4 The Vedomosti , with reference to the document. A maximum of one point will be awarded for paying insurance premiums of 22 percent on a salary that is 2.3 times the national average. Citizens receiving an average salary will receive only 0.4 points.

The socio-political stability of Russian regions is declining, states the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, which completed its latest study in early March. The main topics of the protests at the beginning of 2013 were the sharp increase in utility tariffs and increased taxes for small entrepreneurs. The first topic has already required the Kremlin’s intervention; the second requires a reaction from the Russian government. The St.

In 2015, construction of the third phase of the Shkipersky Mall shopping and entertainment center (SEC) will be completed on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. This is stated in a statement by SA Ricci, which is the developer of the shopping center concept and the broker of the project. The third phase of the project is the largest phase of the shopping complex, which is the largest shopping center on Vasilievsky Island.

Lenta.ru presents a March film review. In the first month of spring, children's films "Oz the Great and Powerful" and "The Croods" are released in Russian theaters, as well as several comedies for adults, for example, "Catch the Fat Lady If You Can" and "Spring Breakers." In addition, at the end of the month you will be able to watch on the big screen the Coen brothers' film "The Big Lebowski", which premiered 15 years ago.