The Dawn automatic interplanetary station sent the best pictures of the dwarf planet Cerer, located in the asteroid belt in the solar system. In a photo made 46 thousand kilometers from the surface of the celestial body, two mysterious light points are visible. Light spots are located inside one crater, but their nature is unknown. Presumably, they can have a volcanic origin, but NASA refrains from conclusions to receiving pictures in higher resolution.

Both Russian clubs remaining in the Europa League - Zenit and Dynamo - reached the 1/8 finals of the tournament. This became clear after the return matches in the 1/16 finals, in which the St. Petersburg team beat PSV 3-0, and the Moscow team beat Anderlecht 3-1. The broadcast of the match "Zenith" - PSV was conducted by the NTV channel, "Dynamo" - "Anderlecht" - "NTV plus football". Goals in the match between Zenit and PSV were scored by Rondon (first and third), as well as Hulk.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established the principle of “net neutrality”. Three FCC members voted in support of the document prohibiting the provider from giving preference to one or another traffic or one or another site, and two votes were cast against. The Federal Communications Commission's decision makes it impossible for Internet service providers to charge extra for “heavy content,” such as access to the YouTube video service.

The St. Petersburg branch of the A Just Russia party will be headed by State Duma deputy Oleg Nilov instead of Oksana Dmitrieva. The corresponding decision was made at a meeting of the presidium of the Central Council of the party. At the meeting, questions about candidates for the posts of chairmen of councils and secretaries of the bureau of councils of regional branches of the party were considered. In addition to St.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow placed under house arrest a new defendant in the Bolotnaya case, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who is suspected of attacking policemen. At a court hearing, Nepomnyashchikh noted that over the past three years he "was not seen in illegal actions, led a law-abiding life." The suspect also complained about his health - he was diagnosed with scoliosis and gallbladder disease.

Data on the debts of the ex-head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the former head of MENATEP, Platon Lebedev, ceased to appear in the Bank of Enforcement Proceedings of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSPP). Searching for information on debtors on the FSSP website, in response to a request for the names of the specified businessmen, the answer is: "No results were found for your request." The database also lacks information previously posted on the resource on a number of “billionaire debtors”.

Caution: in subtitles, the video published in the material contains offensive expressions and obscene vocabulary. "Medusa" may not share the point of view voiced in rollers. It is better for the faint of heart and children to see how Luntik beats a bully . In February, a lot of parodies appeared on the Russian Internet in an interview with a laughing man.

Minister of Education and Youth Policy of the Stavropol Territory Vasily Lyamin was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe. According to the investigation, Lyamin, knowing that the Kislovodsk State Multidisciplinary Technical School was being given subsidies in the amount of more than 19 million rubles under the federal target program "Development of Education for 2011-2015", demanded a bribe of 4 million rubles from the director of the educational institution.

The prosecutor's office began checking the St. Petersburg LGBT club Infinity, one of the leaders of which, together with her friend, arranged an “anti-homophobic” photo shoot on the plane, which was flying the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov. Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Agora Association, said that about 100 complaints from St. Petersburg residents about the club were the basis for the check.

A nurse who worked in a hospital in the German city of Delmenhorst was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two patients and the attempted murder of two more. The name of the 38-year-old nurse was not disclosed, he appears in court documents as Niels X (Niels H). The nurse, during a psychiatric examination, confessed to the murder of 30 patients of the clinic in Delmenhorst. The confession was made in court by a psychiatrist who examined the nurse.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been cleared of charges of obstructing an investigation into a terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994. This was reported on February 26 by local media. Accusations against de Kirchner were made by prosecutor Alberto Nisman. On January 19, Nisman was found dead at his home in Buenos Aires.

The cease-fire in Donetsk. A photo series by Max Avdeev Photo: Max Avdeev / Meduza A fragile truce is now holding in eastern Ukraine. Both sides acknowledge a sharp decline in fighting, and the withdrawal of heavy artillery is finally getting under way. Meduza sent photographer Max Avdeev to Donetsk to observe the clearing of debris and mines near the airport, which was once the epicenter of the war. The local graveyard, Avdeev says, is full of mines, too.

Photos of Max Avdeev for "Medusa" Photo: Max Avdeev / "Medusa" The shaky truce in the east of Ukraine nevertheless came: on both sides of the front they admit that there are much less shootings, heavy weapons are not used. The photographer Max Avdeev, at the request of Medusa, went to one of the main “hot spots” of the confrontation - the Donetsk airport (it is controlled by separatists) - and removed how the dismissal of blockages and clearance of the terrain is going on.

The Islamic State released a video of the destruction of ancient monuments in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The footage shows Islamists smashing statues with sledgehammers and throwing them off plinths at the museum. At the end of the video, using a drill and a sledgehammer, militants destroy the Assyrian statue of a winged bull with a human head, which dates back to the 7th century BC.

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