Actor Robert Dauni Jr. gave a prosthesis to a seven-year-old boy Alex, who was born without a part of his right hand. The prosthesis was decorated as part of the costume of the Iron Man. At a meeting with Alex Dauni Jr., he showed two “hands” from a suit: one for a boy and one for himself. However, later it turned out that the actor got a “hand” with a defect - the light bulb was constantly extinguished in it.

Lithuania has sentenced former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas, who was found guilty of participating in the operation to detain the commander of the "forest brothers" Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in 1956. The 84-year-old defendant received five years in prison under the genocide article. The prosecutor's office demanded that Drelingas be sentenced to seven years in prison.

Photo: Lenovo / Twitter Lenovo tried to make fun of the thickness of the new MacBook on its twitter. The computer presented by Apple on the night of March 10 was only 13.1 millimeters thick - and the company pointed to this as one of the advantages of the new item. Lenovo, in turn, published a picture with a comparison of her laptop and MacBook: Yoga 3 Pro 2014 turned out to be thinner - only 12.8 millimeters.

Residents of the village of Chervony Zhovten in the Donetsk region told Reuters that they saw a rocket that shot down a passenger Boeing on July 17, 2014. Pyotr Fedotov, 58, said he was with his mother in the garden during the Boeing crash. He heard a roar, from which he sat down on the ground, then he saw a rocket in the sky, and then a plane falling apart in the air. According to Reuters, Fedotov said on camera that the rocket was launched from territory controlled by the Ukrainian military.

Eva Merkacheva, a journalist for the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper and a member of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC), was interrogated as a witness in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. After the interrogation, Merkacheva said, she signed a non-disclosure agreement from the materials of the criminal case on the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Earlier, employees of the Investigative Committee interrogated another member of the PMC, human rights activist Andrei Babushkin.

The release of the paper version of Novaya Gazeta may be suspended in May 2015 after the celebration of Victory Day. This was stated by the editor-in-chief of the publication Dmitry Muratov. Whether the newspaper's website will continue to function, he did not specify. According to Muratov, Novaya Gazeta does not have the strength to compete with the media, which are given money by the state, moreover, in the conditions when they are constantly trying to ruin its main shareholder.

The website 66.ru has published photographs and video from a farewell ceremony in Yekaterinburg for roughly 50 men leaving to fight in eastern Ukraine. In the video, friends and relatives see them off at the local train station. Bogan Kulchitsky Ural volunteers performing a war dance Photo: Evgeny Lobanov / 66.ru Most of the men serving in Yekaterinburg’s volunteer unit are military veterans, and many have combat experience.

Photo: Official Russian Post page on Facebook The blogger Rustem Adagamov found out that the “Russian Post” intends to place a drawing on an envelope for the 70th anniversary of the victory, which shows a “fake” veteran. He turned out to be one of the winners in the competition organized by the enterprise.

What we know about the health of the President Photo: Alexei Druzhinin / Russian presidential press service / TASS / Vida Press Rumors are swirling in Russia this week that Vladimir Putin is ill, and possibly on his last leg. In an interview with Echo of Moscow on March 12, Dmitry Peskov, the President’s spokesman, dismissed this speculation as ludicrous, which of course has only given new life to “#PutinIsDead,” a macabre meme currently burning up the Russian Internet.

Photo: Google Maps The Google Maps cartographic service was replenished with panoramic photographs of Khumbu-the area in the northeast of the Gimalaev, located in the immediate vicinity of Everest. Filming took place within 10 days in March 2014. Google in the filming was helped by APA Sherpa - a person who made a record 21 climbing Everest.

The English writer Terry Pratchett died on March 12 at the age of 66. Since 2007, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Information about the death of the writer was confirmed by its publisher. Photo: Tom Pilston / The Independent / Rex / Vida Press He died at home surrounded by his family (Eng. Yaz.). BBC News Among the most famous works of Pratchet is the satirical cycle “Flat World”, which includes 40 novels; The first of them was released in 1983.

On the territory of Kazan, after a major fire that occurred in the shopping center "Admiral", a state of emergency was introduced, First Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan Alexei Pesoshin said. Representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations also reported that there were many violations in the shopping complex, in particular, there was no fire extinguishing system. In addition, the center's employees called rescuers too late and at first tried to put out the fire on their own.

The arrest of the fifth defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, Shadid Gubashev, has been appealed. Gubashev's lawyer said that he insists on the non-involvement of his client in the crime and asks the court to change the measure of restraint to one not related to deprivation of liberty.

Director Timofey Kulyabin, who staged Wagner's opera Tannhäuser at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, was invited to work at the Bolshoi Theatre. This was told by the General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin. Kulyabin will stage the play next theatrical season. What kind of work it will be will be known in May 2015. “The Bolshoi Theater really plans to invite Timofey Kulyabin for the next season to stage the play.

The site 66.ru published photos and video recording of wires from about 50 people from Yekaterinburg to war in the Donbass. Relatives and friends escorted them at the railway station. The sending of fighters to the east of Ukraine is engaged in the Fund of Veterans of Special Forces. Bogan Kulchitsky Ural Volunteers Performing a War Dance Photo: Evgeny Lobanov / 66.ru As part of the Yekaterinburg Volunteer Unit, mainly people who have undergone military service. Many have combat experience.