On March 7, actor Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov died in Moscow after a long illness. He was 83 years old. The list of television and film films with Kuznetsov’s participation includes more than a hundred titles, but among his many acting works there is one that is certainly the main one. This is the role of the Red Army soldier Sukhov in Vladimir Motyl’s film “White Sun of the Desert.” Anatoly Borisovich was born into a creative family, but at first he did not think about an acting career.

Pre-sale of tickets for trains heading to Crimea was suspended due to “failures in the automated system for selling travel documents.” This was reported on the website of the transport company Ukrzaliznytsia. The sale of tickets to Crimea is planned to be restored in the near future, the company’s press release says. At the time of writing, it was impossible to order a ticket to Crimea from the Ukrainian Railways website.

US fruit retailer Chiquita will merge with Irish rival Fyffes. This is stated in a Chiquita message released on March 10 . The combined company will be called ChiquitaFyffes. Its cumulative sales could exceed 160 million boxes of bananas, more than any competitor. Chiquita forecasts joint sales with Fyffes to reach $4.6 billion annually. The merger of the two companies will be organized through an exchange of shares.

Online car and dealer selection site Cars.com is set to go up for sale for $3 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported this on March 9, citing anonymous sources. The seller will be the current owner, Classified Ventures. Its shares belong to the publishers of leading American newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Dallas Morning Star. Among the potential buyers, the WSJ names private investment companies and strategic investors, without citing specific names.

On March 7, actor Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov died in Moscow after a long illness. He was 83 years old. The list of television and film films with Kuznetsov’s participation includes more than a hundred titles, but among his many acting works there is one that is certainly the main one. This is the role of the Red Army soldier Sukhov in Vladimir Motyl’s film “White Sun of the Desert.” Anatoly Borisovich was born into a creative family, but at first he did not think about an acting career.

The authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea intend to nationalize the fleet of the Ukrainian Navy stationed in Sevastopol, as well as the ships of Chernomorneftegaz. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov in an interview with the ITAR-TASS agency on Monday, March 10. “The Ukrainian fleet in Sevastopol will be nationalized in full. We are not going to release their ships anywhere.

The former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, giving a lecture at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, said that Crimea should remain part of Ukraine, receiving “the broadest autonomy.” A recording of the performance is available on the Hromadske TV channel on YouTube. Crimea, according to Khodorkovsky, could exist as part of Ukraine, like Scotland within Great Britain.

Sony and Panasonic have announced optical discs of the Archival Disc standard. The capacity of the drives, which are designed for long-term data storage, can reach up to a terabyte, according to a Sony press release. Three variants of disks will be released: 300 gigabytes, 500 gigabytes and one terabyte. The first to be released is a 300GB drive, in the summer of 2015. Sony and Panasonic have not yet specified how much the drive will cost.

Official Beijing appealed to the Malaysian authorities with a demand to intensify the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing, as well as to promptly and fully provide all information about the progress of the investigation into the incident. This is stated in a message on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. China has formed a working group that will travel to Kuala Lumpur to work locally with representatives of the Malaysian side.

On Sunday, March 9, a service manager of the Transit Center (this is the official name of the US airbase located in Kyrgyzstan), who has US citizenship, was detained in Bishkek. This was reported by AKIpress with reference to the capital’s police department. The man is accused of hooliganism. A young woman named Zhamilya filed a complaint against him with the police.

In Moscow, a rally was held in Novopushkinsky Square in support of the Russian-speaking population of Crimea, reports Ekho Moskvy. About 500 people gathered for the event. As Echo correspondent Alexey Naryshkin writes on Twitter, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Bessonov, spoke from the stage and called for “dealing with the fifth column” and dissolving the current government of the Russian Federation headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Apple on Monday, March 10, released iOS 7.1, a major update for the iOS 7 operating system, which powers iPhone smartphones, iPad tablets and iPod touch players. The update is distributed free of charge. The operating system has added support for CarPlay, the “car” interface that Apple announced a week earlier. Events entered by the user into the Calendar are now displayed on the Month screen.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea, Sergei Abisov, recently appointed by the local parliament, was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies. This was reported on March 9 on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Also, the head of the Sevastopol police, Alexander Poddubov, was dismissed from the police.

Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, who underwent spinal surgery on March 3 in Israel, has been discharged from the hospital. “I was discharged and I’m on the mend! I’m returning to Moscow today!” — Plushenko wrote on Twitter on March 10. Three days ago the athlete was allowed to walk. Plushenko thanked the management and staff of the Israeli hospital, as well as surgeon Ilya Pekarsky, who operated on the skater for the second time.

The organizers of the “Peace March” agreed to the proposal of the mayor’s office and moved the procession to the Boulevard Ring. about this on his Twitter wrote Pyotr Tsarkov, who negotiated with the authorities, dedicated to the march says that the gathering of participants will begin at 13:00 on March 15 on Pushkinskaya Square. group . A Facebook The procession starts an hour later. Participants will walk along the Boulevard Ring to Turgenevskaya and turn onto Sakharov Avenue.