In Tver, the minibus driver deliberately knocked down a passenger at the stop, the Tver News Service reports with reference to the traffic police. The driver drove a stop at which the man asked him to stop, because he spoke on the phone. On this, the passenger made him a remark. When he nevertheless went a little further in the direction of his movement, the driver drove to the sidewalk and knocked down the passenger. The victim received serious injuries.

Photo: GP Tongo / Facebook In January, in the Pacific Ocean, not far from the state of Tonga, a new island began to form. He appeared thanks to the activity of the underwater volcano. Two months later, Gianpiero Orbassano, the owner of a local hotel, together with his son, first stepped on a new island. He published photos from a trip on his Facebook. Publishing GP Tonga . Publishing GP Tonga . Publishing GP Tonga . Publishing GP Tonga . Publishing GP Tonga . Publishing GP Tonga .

Medusa found out from mathematicians why they study the number of pi March 14 (3/14 in the traditional way to record the date for many countries) all over the world is celebrated the day of the number of pi , the most famous mathematical constant, the decimal recording of which begins with numbers 3.14. On 2015, Pi (π) is a special holiday: the first number of the number of records of the number of the number-3.1415 coincide with the date.

RELATED: 4chan founder sells website to his masterminds founder 4chan Christopher Pool has decided to sell the site, writes The Rolling Stone. The buyer has not yet been found, but this idea has already caused alarm in one of the community moderators. “I hope he makes a smart decision about who to sell the site to,” the moderator said, speaking on condition of anonymity. As for Poole, the boy who grew up on the internet doesn't know what to do yet. “Maybe I’ll become a welder’s assistant?

In the case of a fire in the Kazan shopping center "Admiral", Nikolai Kayekin, deputy director of Zarya LLC (tenant of "Admiral"), was detained. Kaekin, who was in charge of safety, does not admit his guilt. In the near future, the court will consider the investigator's petition to order a measure of restraint in respect of him in the form of detention.

In Novosibirsk, in front of the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater, they staged a picket against the production of the opera Tanniger. The audience lined up at the entrance to the theater, so the audience who went to the performance were forced to pass by the participants in the picket.

Ukrainian doctors came to Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko, who is being held in a Moscow pre-trial detention center. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, the arrested woman is being examined by a gastroenterologist-nutritionist, a neurologist and an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. On March 13, the doctors could not get into the pre-trial detention center because they did not have documents issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Cuban authorities have allowed the opening of the first public Wi-Fi point with free access. The director of the cultural center in Havana, a contemporary artist known under the pseudonym Kcho, decided to distribute the Internet. As a password for connecting to the Web, he chose the phrase of Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque - "No one surrenders here." The director of the center distributes the Internet, connected on his initiative.

Writer Valentin Rasputin hospitalized in serious condition. He is in a coma. According to Gennady Ivanov, secretary of the Writers' Union, Rasputin has recently been in the hospital, and only recently has he been discharged. Valentin Rasputin turns 78 on March 15. “He now generally lives in Moscow permanently, not in Irkutsk, a woman takes care of him in an apartment,” Ivanov said. TASS Valentin Rasputin is considered a representative of rural prose.

Free software advocate Richard Stallman listed on his website the reasons why, in his opinion, you should not use the social network Facebook. The second reason on the list (after the requirement to use real names) is censorship. As an example of censorship, Stallman cited the blocking of a campaign page in support of Alexei Navalny. “Facebook obeyed the order of the Russian authorities and blocked the page with the announcement of the protest action in Russia. The law says protests are illegal.

Microsoft will release the Cortana voice assistant as apps for iOS and Android devices. First, the new version of Cortana will appear in Windows 10, which will be released in the fall of 2015, and then it will be released on competitor platforms. As expected, the new version of Cortana will be able not only to respond to certain requests, but also to analyze user behavior by tracking their locations, checking their mail, and so on.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has become much more critical of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, two advisers to the Russian president told Bloomberg. According to one of Bloomberg's sources, Putin was initially displeased with Rosneft's $55 billion purchase of TNK-BP in 2013. Putin said the deal was not as profitable as expected, the source said.