The Tushinsky Court of Moscow issued a verdict in the case in which Ivan Agafonov, who died in a fight near the Garage club, was a defendant. agency reported this on March 15 The Interfax . Agafonov's friends Artem Rubin and Batyr Taganov were found guilty of robbery. Rubin received four and a half years in prison, and Taganov - three years. The criminal prosecution of Agafonov was terminated due to his death.

Police officers near the body of one of the murdered bar patrons. Photo: Stringer/Reuters In the suburbs of the Mexican resort city of Cancun, two men opened fire on patrons of a bar, killing seven people. reported this on March 14, citing data from local authorities The Associated Press . Four more people were injured. Most of those injured and killed belonged to the local taxi drivers' union. The police took security over the hospital where the wounded were taken.

On July 1, perhaps the most popular service for reading RSS feeds, Google Reader, will be closed. The corporation's decision to abandon further work on the product turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for its active users. Many did not limit themselves to sighs and curses on Twitter, but began to actively sign petitions demanding to leave their favorite service alone. But Google, most likely, will not hear their calls: the “reader” has three and a half months to live.

A possible motive that prompted the 25-year-old man to take hostages at the Volga-Caspian Fishery College in Astrakhan on March 14 could be his relationship with one of the students. reports this Interfax with reference to an unnamed source in law enforcement agencies in the region. According to the agency’s interlocutor, in this way the man wanted to “prove his love” to the girl who had previously refused to leave Astrakhan with him.

The San Antonio Spurs have secured a spot in the NBA playoffs. The official website of the association reports this. On the night of March 15, Moscow time, the leader of the Western Conference beat the Dallas Mavericks with a score of 92:91 (22:17, 28:24, 23:25, 19:25). The most productive player of the meeting was Spurs forward Tim Duncan, who made a double-double (28 points and 19 rebounds). For Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki scored 21 points and also grabbed 11 rebounds.

A Mi-8 military helicopter crashed during takeoff in Khabarovsk, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to RIA Novosti , there were no deaths or destruction on the ground. The helicopter crashed at 16:00 local time on March 14 at the Khabarovsk-Tsentralny airfield. The car suddenly tilted and touched the ground with its rotor blades. The blades were damaged, in addition, the tail boom was torn off and the tail rotor was destroyed.

Chinese paleontologists have found that the hind legs of ancient birds could have served as an additional pair of wings. The journal Nature provides an overview of the research, which a team of scientists published in Science . Researchers led by Xu Xing from the Institute of Geology and Paleontology in Shandong Province found evidence of feathering on the hind limbs of 11 different individuals of ancient birds.

Builders of social housing in Troeshchyna (a residential area in Kyiv) on the morning of March 15 went on a hunger strike in the city administration building. This was reported by Kyiv Comments. Seven people are participating in the event. They put on “I'm Hungry” ribbons and occupied the building's lobby. The builders are demanding payment of their wage arrears, which allegedly amount to about 400 thousand hryvnia.

Concern Monarch, one of the oldest developers in Moscow, announced the implementation of its first project on the European market. According to a Lenta.Ru-Real Estate correspondent, company representatives announced this at the international exhibition MIPIM in Cannes. The group intends to build a business-class residential complex on Bernauer Strasse, next to the former Berlin Wall. "Monarch" purchased the building plot about a year ago.

The Civil Society Development Foundation proposed increasing government funding for non-profit organizations. In its report, the foundation also proposes strengthening control over the distribution of grants, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported on March 15. The head of the fund, Konstantin Kostin, said in an interview with the newspaper that the non-profit sector is underfunded.

The Military-Industrial Commission under the Russian government has suspended the disposal of antique weapons in the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense and began to carry out an inventory of them. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, after the inventory, it is planned to begin selling ancient weapons ─ rifles, pistols, machine guns, checkers and sabers ─ to museums and collectors.

Moby Dick Studios will reveal details about the Phantom Pain project at the end of March. The head of the company, Joakim Morgen, said this in an interview with journalist Geoff Keighley. Morgen said the company plans to unveil the second Phantom Pain trailer at GDC (which runs from March 25 to 29). He also said he couldn't share details about the game at this time, but promised that the video would "answer all questions" about the project.

The renewal of weapons and military equipment should take on a permanent nature, and not be carried out “in leaps and bounds”, as is happening now. This as reported by RIA Novosti was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, . “Just as smartphones on the market and the model range are updated, the same should happen with the update of special and military equipment,” he said, without specifying how this process should be ensured.

The expert council of the “Financial Elite of Russia” award announced the list of companies nominated for the award in 2013. As stated in the official press release of the Financial Elite organizing committee, dozens of companies were shortlisted, in particular, Promsvyazbank, VTB 24, Aton, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Svyaznoy Bank and many others.

The Moscow Metro has declared unsuccessful the trial installation of cameras at stations that recognize potential terrorists among passengers by facial expressions and gestures. reported this on Friday, March 15, Interfax with reference to the head of the metro security service, Vladimir Muratov. According to him, cameras that recognize the psycho-emotional state of passengers were not effective enough during rush hours.