Three books about fashion. Review from Galina Yuzefovich Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks to Medusa weekly about the most interesting book novelties published in Russia. In a new review, all books about fashion - “Chanel. Private Life ”Isabelle Fimer,“ Fashion Anatomy: Manner to dress from the Renaissance to the present day ”Susan J. Vincent and“ Gazy through clothes ”by Ann Hollander.

Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden said he would like to return to Switzerland, where he visited during his work for the CIA. According to Snowden, this country could be a “great political solution” for him, given its history of neutrality. Thus, he answered the question whether he was going to apply for political asylum in Switzerland. Snowden noted that after the US canceled his passport, he applied for political asylum to 21 states, mainly in Central and Western Europe.

Photo: BiddyThehedgehog / Instagram The sixth of March, the owners of the Hedgehog Biddy, popular on Instagram, reported the death of the animal. Biddy's death occurred on March 1. Presumably, the cause of the death of a hedgehog was cancer. “Biddy was an important part of our family and we will really miss him,” his owners told in a farewell record. The Biddy account has more than 600 thousand subscribers.

Boris Grebenshchikov said that if the trial on the production of the opera Tannhäuser at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater ends in favor of the Russian Orthodox Church, this will be "a triumph of medieval obscurantism and the beginning of the era of the New Inquisition." According to Grebenshchikov, religious censorship "logically will lead to the burning of books in the squares and the destruction of paintings and statues of the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery." If our country allows

Switzerland, following the European Union, has expanded restrictive measures against Russia, adding 19 individuals and 9 legal entities to the sanctions list. In particular, the list includes State Duma deputy Iosif Kobzon, as well as deputy defense ministers of the Russian Federation Arkady Bakhin and Anatoly Antonov. Persons on the list are prohibited from doing business with financial institutions in Switzerland.

For the first time ever, female sailors in Russia will be able to serve aboard naval vessels, says the country's high military command. The reform is expected to take place sometime within the next three years. By 2018, the Russian fleet will introduce new ships equipped to provide “appropriate living conditions” for female sailors. The reforms will affect the Navy’s helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ships, its advanced combat units, and auxiliary vessels.

In the Indian city of Dimapur, Nagaland state, a mob lynched a prisoner who was detained on suspicion of rape. Local residents broke into the prison, seized the prisoner, led him through the streets and beat him to death, after which they hung him on the city clock. The arrested man, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was detained on February 24 on charges that he repeatedly raped a 19-year-old woman.

The exchange rate of the European currency at auction on the Moscow Exchange on the evening of March 6 fell below the mark of 65 rubles. As of 17:20 Moscow time, 64.93 rubles were given for the euro, which is 2 rubles 13 kopecks less than the closing level of the previous trading session. The dollar on the Moscow Exchange, as of 17:20 Moscow time, was trading at 59.76 rubles. Compared to the close of trading on March 5, the US currency fell by 1.05 rubles.

The Dawn automatic interplanetary station (Dawn) reached the orbit of the dwarf planet Cerer, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. For the first time in history, the artificial apparatus was delivered to the orbit of the dwarf planet. The path to the planet took about eight years. The station was launched in 2007. By 2011, she flew to the asteroid West. In 2012, the station continued the path to Ceres.

Deputies of the city council of the city of Vatutyno in the Zvenigorod district of the Cherkasy region in Ukraine approved a proposal to rename Lenin Square to Nadezhda Savchenko Square. A decision was also made to rename Lenin Street into the Street of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. At the initiative of the deputy of the Vatutinskiy City Council, Lenin Street in the city of Vatutino was renamed the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred Street, and the square named after. Lenin - in the square.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow opened a criminal case in connection with the fall of a block of ice on a woman with a child. The case was opened under the article “Negligence, negligently entailing the infliction of grievous bodily harm.” It provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to five years.

What they work in the semi -secret laboratory of Google X: Esquire Photo: Dmitry Lukyanov / 3D Mode / Esquire studio Google X is a semi -secret laboratory, which is known for the creation of Google Glass points, a self -governing car and a project to launch stratostats for the distribution of the Internet in hard -to -reach places. Egor Mostovshchikov from Esquire became the first Russian journalist who managed to get there and talk with the head of Google X Astro Taleler.

Women sailors will be able to start ship service in the next three years, said a source in the General Staff of the Russian Navy. According to him, by 2018, new ships will appear in the Russian fleet, on which "acceptable living conditions will be provided" for female sailors. We are talking about the military service of women on landing helicopter-carrying docks, promising combat units and auxiliary ships of the Navy.

The European Union has decided to exclude from the sanctions list four Ukrainian citizens from the inner circle of the country's former President Viktor Yanukovych. Excluded from the list are Yanukovych advisers Alexey Azarov, Andrey Portnov and Igor Kalinin, as well as former head of the Security Service of Ukraine Alexander Yakimenko, whom Kyiv considers the main suspect in the case of the murders of protesters on the Maidan in February 2014.

An unexploded mine was found at the site of the explosion of the car of the commander of the special police battalion "Slobozhanshchina" Andrei Yangolenko in Kharkov. This was reported by the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kharkiv region. The commander of the Kharkiv-1 battalion, Sergei Yangolenko, brother of the injured Andrey Yangolenko, said that a magnetic mine exploded under the car.