Zaur Dadaev, one of the two defendants in the Boris Nemtsov case, told human rights activists about his detention. According to Dadaev, he confessed to save his subordinate. “At the time of my arrest, I was with a friend, with my former subordinate Ruslan Yusupov. And they said that if I confess, they will let him go. I agreed. I thought I would save him, and they would take me to Moscow alive. Otherwise, the same thing would have happened to me as to Shavanov, ”said Dadaev.

The Polygon publication found in early March the book “Heir to the Jedi” (“Heir to the Jedi”) Kevin Hearne, which presumably describes the device of a light sword with three rays. Weapons with two additional small rays that appear next to the handle and are directed perpendicular to the main ray, were first demonstrated in the trailer for the seventh part of the film “Star Wars”. The book describes an episode in which Luke Skywalker analyzes a light sword, trying to understand his device.

The BBC has suspended Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson from the air. The reason was his quarrel with the producer. The Russian BBC service reports that this is not a quarrel, but a fight. The BBC said in a statement that Top Gear will not air this coming Sunday. Clarkson suspended from work "for the duration of the investigation." What exactly will be the subject of this investigation is unknown.

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that 400-500 Russian servicemen were killed in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. She presented such an assessment at the hearings in the Senate, citing intelligence data. Nuland also said that "in the past few days, Russia has supplied new tanks, armored personnel carriers, heavy artillery and rocket launchers to the separatists, moving weapons across the Russian-Ukrainian border." Hearings titled "U.S.

In the village of Khoroshevo, Rzhevsky district, Tver region, a house-museum of Joseph Stalin will be opened. The district administration approved the corresponding proposal received from the Russian Military Historical Society, which is headed by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. According to the Tver branch of the Memorial society, the museum will be created in the house of the collective farmer Kondratyeva, where Stalin stayed in August 1943.

Zaur Dadaev, a suspect in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, was fired from the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia the day after the crime. Igor Grudnov, Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Regional Command of the Internal Troops, spoke about this. According to Grudnov, Dadaev was on vacation from January 27 to February 28. Upon returning from vacation, he was fired - he filed a resignation letter himself. Grudnov said that Dadaev was on a 30-day vacation.

Screengrab: YouTube Video of a soccer coach in Russia kicking the legs out from under a small boy is causing a small sensation online. Trying to jump out of the way of the blow, the child flies into the air and lands on his back. Evgeny Fyodorov "This is the kind of person who works with children in Russia." The coach in the video, a man named Valentin Pavlov, says he was trying to teach Ilya, the eight-year-old boy he kicked, how to defend against someone trying to take the ball from him.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan acquitted 34-year-old resident of Naberezhnye Chelny Alexei Semenov, who was previously sentenced to a fine of 40,000 rubles for posting torrent files. The decision of the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court was canceled, the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti. “Aleksey Semyonov was acquitted for lack of corpus delicti and has the right to rehabilitation,” said Natalya Loseva, spokeswoman for the Supreme Court of Tatarstan.

What is known about the alleged killers of Nemtsov. Short Photo: Maxim Blinov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix On the ninth day after the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov, the court arrested five defendants in the case - two accused and three suspects. The main accused is Zaur Dadaev, who served in the Chechen battalion "North"; The rest are his relatives and acquaintances.

The Russian and Western media extends a short video, which shows a conflict between a football coach and a young player. In the video, the man hut with his foot, after which the child flies into the air and falls on his back. Evgeny Fyodorov "This is the kind of persona works with Children in Russia." The publication "Soviet Sport" was able to establish a person captured in the video. It turned out to be the former coach of the Maximum Bratevo team Valentin Pavlov.

As the head of Chechnya praised the president of Russia - and vice versa Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Komsomolskaya Pravda / Photoxpress On March 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov by the Order of Honor. And although many on the Internet suggested that Kadyrov could be offended by such an insignificant Order, the head of the republic thanked the President of Russia with a lengthy and praising speech.

Ural-Invest, which sold Bashneft shares to AFK Sistema, has filed a bankruptcy petition with the Bashkiria Arbitration Court. On February 16, the Moscow Arbitration Court recovered from Ural-Invest in favor of AFK Sistema 70.7 billion rubles. The company's accounts were arrested to secure the claim of AFK Sistema. On March 2, the court refused to unblock part of the company's funds needed to pay salaries and taxes, as well as settlements with counterparties.

Where do Russian military planes and ships notice? Infographics In 2014, world publications began to write much more often about the activity of the Russian armed forces on borders and even in the air or water space of other states. In Russia, this information was invariably refuted. Medusa studied which countries most often reported the activity of the Russian military and were forced to take extraordinary measures in this regard - for example, urgently lifting fighter into the air.

Sales of motor vehicles and light commercial trucks in Russia dropped 37.9 percent in February 2015 to just 128,298 cars, according to new data from the Association of European Businesses (AEB). AEB Chairman Joerg Schreiber says the drop in sales “hasn’t yet bottomed out.” The next few months, he says, will be “very tough” for Russia’s car industry.

The creator and administrator of the online encyclopedia "Lurkomorye" Dmitry Khomak called the statement of Roskomnadzor about the beginning of the blocking of its resource "blackmail" and "arm-twisting". Thus, Khomak commented on the message published on March 10 in the official account of Roskomnadzor on the VKontakte social network.