The head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov, is leaving his post. This is reported by Afisha-City, citing a source in the Moscow mayor's office. Kapkov himself did not confirm or deny this information to the publication. Journalist Ksenia Sobchak was the first to speak about the dismissal of the official on her Twitter.

Photo: Page "Yulmart" "VKontakte" The Electronics store "Yulmart" printed booklets for March 8 with the ideas of gifts "For her". In the catalog, in addition to typically female goods, was a “trimmer for a beard and a mustache”. The press service of Yulmart confirmed Medusa that the Booklet is real and the company really offered to buy a trimmer on March 8: “This was done with the calculation of those people who, making a gift to their second half, intend to use it in the future.

A Delta MD-88 passenger plane skidded off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence. There were 125 passengers and five crew members on board. All of them managed to safely leave the plane on the rescue slides. Six people received minor injuries as a result of the incident. The landing took place in conditions of poor visibility - it was snowing at the airport. Four minutes after landing, LaGuardia Airport was closed. CNN

The Association of Air Transport Operators (AEVT), which includes the largest Russian airlines, has warned of the threat of suspension of ticket sales and passenger air travel. This is stated in a statement written in the name of Boris Titov, authorized under the President of the Russian Federation for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs. AEVT warns that airlines will not be able to meet the requirements of the new law on the storage of personal data on Russian servers on time.

Rescuers removed the bodies of all those killed in the explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk. The victims of the accident were 33 people. “The last of the 32 blocked miners was found without signs of life. His body is raised to the surface. Thus, the total number of deaths as a result of the accident amounted to 33 people," Alexei Kostrubitsky, head of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations, told reporters on Thursday evening.

Boris Nemtsov's assistant Olga Shorina showed Reuters a note that the politician gave her on the eve of the assassination. According to Shorina, they discussed the preparation of a report on the participation of the Russian army in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Fearing that he was being tapped, Nemtsov wrote on a piece of paper: “I was contacted by paratroopers from Ivanovo. 17 killed.

NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said that "large numbers of Russian soldiers are fighting and dying in eastern Ukraine." According to Vershbow, the Russian leadership is "less and less able to hide this fact." Russia categorically denied the presence of its troops in eastern Ukraine (English). Yahoo News U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on March 4 that Russia was sending "thousands and thousands" of soldiers to eastern Ukraine.

Anti-Maidan activists in Perm are releasing a line of “Voodoo Maidan” dolls that come bundled with five needles and a series of stickers depicting the faces of US officials Barack Obama, John McCain, John Kerry, and Victoria Nuland, and Ukrainian officials Petro Poroshenko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and Alexander Turchinov. The “voodoo dolls” are the work of Alina Lvova, the chief editor of local television station Ural-Inform TV , along with several Perm Anti-Maidan activists.

All violations of the so-called bloggers law registered since its entry into force have gone unpunished. According to the press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky, none of the offenders was brought to justice by law enforcement agencies. At the same time, according to the law on bloggers, Roskomnadzor itself does not have the authority to punish violators. In total, Roskomnadzor revealed 67 violations of the law in 53 blogs.

The authorities of St. Petersburg will propose to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation to change the system of medical care for drunk patients. According to Olga Kazanskaya, vice-governor of the city, the department will be asked to either return sobering-up stations or oblige patients to pay for medical services. The St. Petersburg authorities made such a decision after it became known that the ambulance team behaved rudely with a drunk patient.

Antimaydan made a statement about the murder of Boris Nemtsov Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant In Moscow on Thursday, March 5, the leaders of the Anti -Maidan movement spoke about their versions of the murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. “Nemtsov is the first victim of the Maidan,” writer Nikolai Starikov announced reporters. The organizers of Antimaydan believe that a crime is the work of American special services.

Screengrab: ChannelAbout / YouTube On March 5, 2015, Internet users posted a video of a man being sucked into a snowmobile during a failed skiing attempt. The video, titled Russian Candidate for the Darwin Award , contains strong language (in Russian), so please hide your mother and children, before watching. Not only was the man unharmed during the mishap, but he didn’t even remove the lit cigarette from his mouth.

Photo: Pablo Jones-Sler / Esquire.ru After the 25-year-old son of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin Ivan received the medal of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland of the II degree, Esquire interviewed several more people with a similar reward. They told why they received their medals and how they were handed to them. So, the milkmaid Valentina Sabrovskaya from the Novosibirsk region (experience - 25 years) awarded the state award for milk yield of five thousand liters of milk for a year.

Opposition parties and movements are going to hold a protest action in Moscow on April 19. This was announced by a member of the bureau of the movement "Solidarity" Alexander Ryklin. According to him, the exact place and format of the action have not yet been determined. The co-chairman of the Moscow branch of Solidarity Pyotr Tsarkov promised, in accordance with the law, to submit a notification to the Moscow mayor's office.

The leader of A Just Russia proposed lifting the moratorium on the use of the death penalty against terrorists. He said this on November 20 on the eve of a joint meeting of the State Duma and the Federation Council dedicated to measures to counter terrorism. This is not the first proposal to return the death penalty in recent times. No, not completely. The current Criminal Code contains an article that allows the death penalty to be used as an exceptional measure of punishment.