The Federation Council will support the decision of the Crimean parliament to join Russia in the event of a positive result of the referendum, which will take place on March 16. reports that Interfax Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko stated this at a meeting with the Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.

Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's account on the P2P Foundation forum has been updated for the first time since January 2011. “I am not Dorian Nakamoto,” wrote the “father” of cryptocurrency. Users on the Bitcointalk.org forum suggested that the account may have been hacked because the message was not signed with the cryptographic key used by Nakamoto. Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese American living in Temple City, California.

In Lvov, nationalists from the Right Sector and Afghan veterans disrupted the presentation of the new regional prosecutor, Vladimir Gural. reports this UNIAN . The event was to take place at the Railwaymen's Palace. By the time it started, several hundred people had gathered in front of the building. They held Ukrainian flags and placed several Molotov cocktails on the stairs.

California resident Satoshi Nakamoto, whom Newsweek magazine called the “father of bitcoin,” said he had nothing to do with the creation of the cryptocurrency, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, March 6. In an interview with AP, 64-year-old Satoshi Nakamoto, whose full name is Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, said that he first heard about the existence of bitcoins only three weeks ago, after a Newsweek journalist spoke with his son.

The mayor of the Crimean city of Belogorsk, Albert Kangiev, refused to support a referendum on the possibility of the region joining Russia. This was reported by Crimea News . “In my opinion, this action has nothing in common, except for the name, with the referendum,” the official said.

The Japanese government has announced the need to introduce a tax on some transactions with bitcoins, reports BBC News. If transactions generate any income, the Treasury Department should consider taxing those actions, Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. To do this, the Japanese government intends to first estimate the total circulation of bitcoins around the world.

Just six months ago they were saying the same thing about the Ukrainian media market that they have been saying about the Russian market for a long time: tightening the screws. Yanukovych began to prepare the media space for the 2015 elections according to a scheme well known in Russia : “cleaning up” opposition channels, denigrating the reputation of news agencies, purchasing the largest holdings by pro-government oligarchs.

The TSN (Television News Service) information program of the 1+1 TV channel launched an online referendum on the future of the country. Viewers are asked to answer questions about whether Ukraine should join the EU and NATO, and whether Russian should be considered the official language in the country. The online referendum is held at referendum.tsn.ua . Only Internet users located in Ukraine will be able to take part in the online survey. Each person will only be able to vote once.

French director Sylvain Chomet, who directed such films as “The Illusionist” and “Trio from Belleville”, as well as one of the episodes of the anthology “Paris, I Love You”, shot his version of the intro for the animated series “The Simpsons”. Slash Film reports.

On Thursday, March 6, the Supreme Council of Crimea, with 78 votes in favor (there are 100 deputies in the legislative assembly of the autonomous republic), decided to submit two issues to a nationwide referendum, and not one, as previously planned.

Ukraine's non-payments for gas are fraught with the cessation of fuel supplies by Gazprom. This was stated by the chairman of the board of the gas monopoly, Alexey Miller, Interfax reports . “Either Ukraine pays off its debt, or there is a risk of returning to the situation in 2009,” noted the head of Gazprom.

On March 6, the second episode of “Nymphomaniac” by Lars von Trier was released in Russia. The total duration of the Danish filmmaker's latest work to date is five hours. To give viewers a chance to reach the final credits, the producers decided not only to release the film in two parts, but also to cut each of them by 30 minutes. Von Trier himself did not seem to argue with this decision, but did not take part in the final editing of the film .

In May 2014, Soulfly and Korn will go on a joint tour around Russia. The bands will present their latest work to listeners: Soulfly released the album “Savages” in October 2013, and Korn released “The Paradigm Shift” in the same month. The last time Soulfly were in Russia was in 2006. On the occasion of their arrival, Lenta.ru spoke with the founder and leader of the team, the living legend of modern heavy music, Max Cavalera.

The British company Blocks presented a project of the same name “smart watch”. A special feature of the device is its modular design - it consists of blocks, each of which adds one or another functionality to the watch, TechCrunch reports. From the video published by Blocks on YouTube, it follows that the watch may include blocks with a camera, battery, microphone, GPS, SIM card, headphone jack. According to the authors’ plans, different companies can release “blocks”.

The social network Facebook has begun updating the appearance of its News Feed. A message about this appeared on the official Facebook for Business blog on March 7. The changes will affect the size of photos displayed in the feed (they will become larger in the new version) and the font used on the page.