In the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, Barcelona beat Manchester City 1-0 at home and advanced to the next stage of the tournament. Ivan Rakitic scored the only goal in the 31st minute. The first match between the teams ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of Barcelona. Thus, of the three English teams that made it to the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, none could go further.

In Moscow, the anniversary of the annexation of the peninsula was celebrated. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Philip Kireev In Moscow, on the first anniversary of the accession of Crimea and Sevastopol, a rally concert was held to the Russian Federation on the Vasilievsky descent. According to the police, at the height of the working day, 110 thousand people came to the Kremlin.

Moldova declared persona non grata the head of the Rossiya Segodnya agency, Dmitry Kiselev, and the journalist of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Andrey Kondrashov, the author of the film Crimea. Way home." This information was confirmed by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova. The Novosti-Moldova agency, a division of Rossiya Segodnya, planned to hold a presentation of the film Crimea. Way home" in Chisinau.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will conduct an audit of the financial and economic activities of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater “due to the large number of requests for funding for the production of the Tannhäuser opera, the fees of the director and actors.” This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Culture following the results of public hearings held due to the conflict around the production.

In a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, police are looking for a gunman who shot and killed one man and wounded five others. First, the offender opened fire in a hotel room, and then stole a car parked at a nearby restaurant. In doing so, he fired at a student at the local technological university, wounding him in the shoulder. On a stolen car, the wanted man got to another area of ​​the city, where he wounded two more people.

In Moscow, the anniversary of the annexation of the peninsula was celebrated. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Philip Kireev In Moscow, on the first anniversary of the accession of Crimea and Sevastopol, a rally concert was held to the Russian Federation on the Vasilievsky descent. According to the police, at the height of the working day, 110 thousand people came to the Kremlin.

Frame: ruptlytv / youtube The Ruptly agency removed a short plot about the Australian Wombat Patrick. It weighs about 36 kilograms (as its caretaker says, in the best years it was 40 kilograms) and, apparently, is the largest and oldest vombat living in captivity. In the video, Patrick rides in a cart with the inscription "Sherlock", sits on his knees, takes stroking and simply enjoys life. Recently he turned 29 years old.

On March 17, half of the world celebrated St. Patrick's Day - the holiday of the whole Irish, which could only come to mind (usually Ginnes and green clothes). We decided not to collect photos from colorful events and processions - to be honest, they always look the same. Instead, we chose the most non -obvious events dedicated to Patrick. Here, for example, Barack Obama. A whole report on how the US President celebrated St. Patrick's Day came out on the White House blog.

Paul McCartney will induct Ringo Starr into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18 in Cleveland. It is assumed that the former members of The Beatles will perform together, but it is not yet clear what kind of musicians they will play with and what songs they will perform. “I told Paul that I would not start a band. If he collects it, I will play With A Little Help From My Friends,” said Ringo Starr.

Public voting has concluded on the mascot selection for the 2016 Ice Hockey World Championship, which will take place in Russia. The winner, with more than 750,000 votes, is a little character named Clappy (“Khlopik”). According to the drawing’s author, theater artist Olga Mikhailova, Clappy is “something between the Pillsbury dough-boy and a snowman; it’s a modern trend, being round.” Image: Olga Mikhailova Clappy.

French comedian Dieudonné Mʼbala Mʼbala has been given a two-month suspended prison sentence for justifying terrorism. After a terrorist attack on the employees of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the comedian published a post on Facebook in which he opposed mass actions of solidarity with the editors and called himself Charlie Coulibaly - after the terrorist Amedee Coulibaly, who seized a kosher grocery store in Paris. The post was subsequently removed.

Scientists have found how the police and the UK hide the real statistics of crimes Photo: Vladimir Velengurin / Komsomolskaya Pravda / Photoxpress The “Committee of Civil Initiatives” by Alexei Kudrin on Wednesday, March 18, presented the report “Criminal Statistics. Through openness to controllability. " This study of the St.

Microsoft will give users who now have pirated copies of previous versions of the operating system (Windows 7 and 8) installed the new Windows 10. This was announced at a conference in China by Terry Myerson, who leads the development of the OS. A Microsoft representative confirmed to Mashable that not only Chinese users will be able to upgrade for free. “Any user with a suitable computer will be able to upgrade to Windows 10, including those with a pirated operating system.

Just a few days ago, the world wondered if Vladimir Putin had died or fallen in a secret coup. Today, at an outdoor concert to celebrate the first year since Russia annexed Crimea, the Russian President delivered a fiery speech.

Photo: Vlad Kondratiev / VKontakte On the evening of March 17, people across central Russia (including those in Moscow) were treated to a spectacular display of the Northern Lights. Many of the photographs posted to social media by eyewitnesses failed to capture the spectacle, but some of the images were truly amazing. Meduza presents the best from the Web on a night the sky over Russia lit up. The aurora borealis right now in Ulyanovsk :) Don’t miss it! :) The Northern Lights in Mamontovo.