US President Barack Obama signed a decree extending for one year the sanctions imposed in 2014 against individuals whom Washington considers involved in destabilizing the situation in Ukraine and violating its territorial integrity.

Deputy head of the criminal investigation department of Nizhny Novgorod Dmitry Postnikov told reporters on March 2 that last year his subordinates solved the case of a “tank theft” in World of Tanks. “It turned out that the 24-year-old applicant purchased an account in the online game World of Tanks for 70 thousand rubles, which was stolen from him. That is, the tanks, of course, are virtual, but the money paid for them is quite real,” NewsNN.ru quotes the policeman as saying.

The Russian government has approved new rules for issuing film distribution certificates, which allow the Ministry of Culture to change the release dates of films intended for one audience. According to the new rules, in the application for the issuance of a rental certificate, copyright holders must indicate the planned start date of shows (there is no such clause in the application form posted on the Ministry of Culture website).

The son of Gulchekhra Bobokulova, who is suspected of killing a girl in Moscow, has been arrested in Uzbekistan. The father of the suspect, Bahretdin Turaev, told Gazeta.Ru about this. It is reported that the eldest son of Bobokulova, 19-year-old Rakhmatillo (his last name is not indicated in the article), was arrested. Until November 2015, he lived with his mother in Moscow, where he worked in the market.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation denied information about the links of Gulchekhra Bobokulova suspected of killing a child with extremists. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the department Vladimir Markin. “The information posted in a number of media outlets that some contacts of extremists were found on the woman’s phone is not true,” Markin said.

V magazine made Britney Spears the main heroine of its anniversary, hundredth issue - and released three covers with the singer at once. Just like in childhood! And Spears is very beautiful on them. Inside the magazine there are a few more photos (the author is a famous fashion photographer Mario Testino), as well as an interview with the singer.

In Brazil, a court has freed Diego Zodana, Facebook vice president for Latin America, who was arrested on March 1 for failing to release WhatsApp messages (owned by Facebook) to the police. A higher court judge called Zodan's arrest an "extreme measure" and "unlawful coercion," BBC reports.

An interview with psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya Photo: Svetlana Kholyavchuk / TASS Lyudmila Petranovskaya is an expert in historical and political psychology. Her recent public speeches have addressed social depression, learned helplessness, the post-soviet generation's trauma, and the psychology of poverty.

The Verge has prepared a very useful video tutorial on how to fold earplugs so they don't get tangled. In short, it is enough to wind them around three fingers and form two loops. But you better watch the video. How to stop headphone tangles Wrap your headphones so they never tangle with this simple trick. Posted by The Verge on Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The police found in the electronic devices of Gulchekhra Bobokulova the contacts of two men associated with extremist groups. This was reported by Interfax, citing an informed source. “The operatives identified two subscribers who were walking along the orientations associated with one of the international extremist groups,” the agency’s interlocutor said. Bobokulova added the phone numbers of these people to her contact list this year when she was in Uzbekistan, an Interfax source said.

After the murder of a child in Moscow, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposed to complicate the receipt of work visas for residents of the CIS (except for Belarus and Kazakhstan). their initiative on the party's website The Communists illustrated with a picture of a woman wearing a niqab and holding her head in her hands. State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Vadim Solovyov said that he had not seen the picture, but stated the need to strengthen control over migrants.

Makarevich - accompanies, Kudrin - holds the microphone Photo: Tatyana Felgenhauer Mikhail Gorbachev celebrates the 85th anniversary on March 2. At the celebration of his own birthday, the only president of the USSR performed the songs “Old Letters” and “Stands the High Mount” (the second in Ukrainian). He was accompanied by Andrei Makarevich on the guitar, and the former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin kept the microphone to the musician.

Eric Paré 360 ° Bullet-Time Light-Painting at Adobemax 2015 Canadian artist Eric Pare told how he built a 360-degree photo booth for the Adobe Max conference, held in late October and early November 2015 in Los Angeles. In the photo tank, they placed 32 camera in a circle, which were shot at the same time - thanks to this it turned out to capture people at the same time from all sides. For three days, about a thousand people passed through the photo booth, who were photographed 4000 times.

The prosecutor's office of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg received a complaint about the doctoral dissertation of the historian Kirill Alexandrov about the officers of the Russian Liberation Army Andrei Vlasov, who fought on the side of Germany in the Great Patriotic War. The complaint was sent by the head of the People's Cathedral movement, assistant to deputy Milonov Anatoly Artyukh.

Interview of the Russian Ambassador in Latvia Alexander Veshnyakov Photo: Dmitry Korobeinikov / Sputnik / Scanpix Alexander Veshnyakov, who headed the Central Election Commission from 1999 to 2007, has been working as an ambassador of Russia in Latvia for eight years. In an interview with a special correspondent of Medusa, Katerina Gordeeva Veshnyakov told how he came to politics, opposed Boris Yeltsin and built the Russian electoral system.