The actions of the police during the detention of Gulchekhra Bobokulova, who appeared on February 29 at the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station with a child’s head in her hands, were aimed primarily at evacuating people and ensuring public safety. Valery Kruchenkov, deputy chief of police for operational work in the North-West Administrative District of Moscow, told Novaya Gazeta.

The bank card of the father of the girl killed on February 29 in Moscow received 640 thousand rubles in a few hours. This was announced on the evening of March 1 by the former lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Andrey Mishchenkov, who had previously organized a fundraiser for the family of the deceased. “As of half an hour ago, 640,000 rubles were collected. Money continues to come in, from 10 rubles to 10,000 rubles, so this is clearly not all, ”Mishchenkov wrote on his Facebook.

Facebook Vice President for South America Diego Dzodan has been arrested in Brazil following a court order that is considering the Brazilian police's request to the WhatsApp messenger (owned by Facebook) to disclose the contents of messages in a drug trafficking case. As The Guardian reports, a Brazilian court more than a month ago ordered WhatsApp to disclose to the police messages from WhatsApp users related to drug trafficking.

Negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Syria will begin on March 9, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters. Previously, the date was March 7th. The start of the talks was postponed due to "logistical and technical reasons", as well as for the sake of a more complete entry into force of the ceasefire, de Mistura said. According to him, more negotiations will not be postponed.

Uzbek citizen Gulchekhra Bobokulova, who is suspected of killing a girl in Moscow, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1999. This was reported to the investigation by the law enforcement agencies of Uzbekistan, Interfax reports citing an informed source. In Uzbekistan, Bobokulova "repeatedly underwent treatment in a hospital," the agency said. After she was diagnosed, her husband divorced her.

As a result of the shelling of a group of journalists in Syria on March 1, a reporter from Russia was injured. This was stated by the head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Sergei Kuralenko. In total, according to Kuralenko, four journalists were injured - from Russia, China, Canada and Bulgaria. Their health condition is “satisfactory”. Who fired the shelling, Kuralenko did not specify.

A new explosion occurred at the emergency mine "Severnaya" in Vorkuta, reports the EMERCOM of Russia on the evening of March 1. At that moment there was no one in the mine. The explosion was recorded by sensors and robotics of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the ministry said. “According to updated data, this is already the sixth explosion in the mine since the accident,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

Scientists seem to be able to "load" knowledge into the brain - almost like in the "matrix" Shot: HRL Laboratories, LLC / YouTube The American research center HRL Laboratories spoke about a successful experiment to “load” knowledge into the brain of people - as in the “ matrix ”, when ne in a few seconds taught all types of martial arts. In life, everything does not work so impressive, but in the future this technology can become the basis for accelerated learning programs.

Idris Elba will star in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels . He will be a shooter who is trying to track down the Dark Tower, the center of all worlds, and restore order to the world. This was confirmed by Stephen King himself. On Facebook, he wrote: “I don’t care what color the shooter’s skin is.

Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin said that half a million people in Russia are under threat of dismissal. 300 thousand of them work part-time. More than half of these 300,000 are auto industry workers. According to Topilin , half a million people lost their jobs in 2015, which is 2.5 percent of the total number of employed. Topilin said the Labor Department does not expect a spike in unemployment in 2016.

How geography defines the foreign policy strategy of Russia: Forbes Photo: Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Scanpix To understand the foreign policy strategy of Russia, just look at its map. In an article for American Forbes, political scientist George Friedman, the founder of the private intelligence and analytical organization Stratfor, shows how the geography of Russia allows us to judge its political, military and economic structure.

Near the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in Moscow, a rally was held in memory of a girl killed by a nanny on February 29. Dozens of people gathered near the subway. According to a correspondent for the Govorit Moskva radio station, people are discussing the actions of the police during the arrest of the killer and the policy of federal television channels that do not talk about this crime.

Photo: Bill Ingalls / NASA The American astronaut Scott Kelly in the morning of March 2 will return from the orbit of the Earth, where he spent almost a year - 340 days; This is a record for Americans. The Russian record holder Valery Polyakov in 1994-1995 was at Mir station for almost 438 days. Now, together with Kelly, for almost a year in orbit was spent by Russian astronaut Mikhail Kornienko.

The head of Rostekhnadzor, Alexei Aleshin, said that the cause of the accident at the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta could be "some kind of anomaly in the mined-out rocks." “Most likely, a large layer hung over, it did not collapse, although it should have collapsed, but sank down and squeezed out the remaining gas,” Aleshin said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sevastopol (located in Crimea) is now home to several elevators that don't carry passengers, but they do play Russia's national anthem on an endless loop. The elevators aren't working because they're awaiting an official inspection, after the discovery of maintenance violations. IA Sevas-Inform The elevators in Sevastopol don't work, but they do play Russia's national anthem.