The main thing is what you need to know about doping tests of the best Russian tennis player Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP / Scanpix The tennis player Maria Sharapova announced that the doping test she passed on the Australian Open-2016 was positive. The Russian woman confessed to the use of the forbidden drug and took all the blame on herself. Sharapova is temporarily suspended from the competition, sports officials will decide her future fate.

Unknown persons in Crimea have vandalized a memorial plaque dedicated to Joseph Stalin, spray painting over his face and writing the words “executioner” beside the sign. The local branch of Russia's Communist Party, which had the plaque installed on May 8, 2015, is furious. A communist member of Simferopol's city council has appeal to federal police and Crimea's attorney general, demanding that the vandals be hunted down and punished.

A banned drug was found in Maria Sharapova's doping test. The tennis player announced this at a special press conference on March 7. According to Sharapova, the International Tennis Federation sent her a letter stating that a banned drug had been found in a sample given to her in January during the Australian Open. Sharapova said she had been taking a prescription drug for the past ten years that was on the banned list in 2016.

A look at the mass arrests and torture of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk Photo: Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant In the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, persecutions of civilians have carried on unabated since autumn 2015. Several thousand people have found themselves behind bars or, as they say locally, “in the cellar.” A person may be detained for various reasons: settling political scores, redistributing property, or sometimes they're simply arrested at random.

A look at the mass arrests and torture of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk Photo: Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant In the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, persecutions of civilians have carried on unabated since autumn 2015. Several thousand people have found themselves behind bars or, as they say locally, “in the cellar.” A person may be detained for various reasons: settling political scores, redistributing property, or sometimes they're simply arrested at random.

The American television program Saturday Night Live has released a parody election video in support of US presidential candidate Donald Trump. In it, ordinary Americans - a worker, housewife, lumberjack - explain why Trump seems to them a strong leader and a good president. True, at the end it is found that they are all united not only by love for Trump. What? We will not spoil, see for ourselves. Saturday Night Live Voters for Trump Ad - SNL

The cost of Brent crude oil at auction on the London ICE exchange on the evening of March 7 exceeded $40 per barrel. At 18:40 Moscow time, the May futures price reached $40.07. The last time a barrel of Brent hit $40 was December 10, 2015. The price of Brent oil is used to calculate the price of Russian Urals oil. In late 2015 and early 2016, oil prices accelerated their decline, dropping below $30 per barrel in January.

Interview by Zak Ibrahim, author of the book "Son of the terrorist" Photo: Ryan Lash / Ted Conference / Flickr (CC by-NC 2.0) In February, the book “ The Son of the Terrorist ”, written by Zaku Ibrahim, was published at Corpus. His father is the Islamic extremist El Said Nussar, who moved from Egypt to the United States and in 1990 shot the rabbi Meira Kahana in New York.

A woman in St. Petersburg working as a driver for the local police force was hospitalized today, reportedly after a brutal confrontation with her supervisor. According to the news agency Fontanka.ru , the woman suffered injuries to her jaw, spine, hips, kidneys, and chest. The beating allegedly occurred yesterday, March 6, when the woman got into an argument with an acting deputy chief of police at a station in St. Petersburg's Frunze district.

British artist Simon Beck has trampled the coat of arms of House Stark from Game of Thrones in the French Alps. The snow painting depicts the head of a dire wolf and the motto - "Winter is coming." Game of Thrones NewsMan creates massive Game of Thrones direwolf art in the snow Beck worked on the painting for 13 hours. During this time, he walked a total of 32.5 kilometers. The resulting drawing turned out to be larger in size than the area of ​​two football fields.

Consul General of Ukraine Vitaly Moskalenko in Rostov-on-Don visited Nadezhda Savchenko in the Russian pre-trial detention center, who has been on a dry hunger strike since March 3. According to him, Savchenko has signs of the consequences of a hunger strike: dry skin, shiny eyes, convulsions, cold sweat, tachycardia. According to Moskalenko, Savchenko refused to stop the protest action.

An Italian pilot texted his wife threatening to crash a passenger plane if she left him. The incident occurred in January 2015, but the press became aware of it only now. According to The Local, on the day the message was sent, the pilot was supposed to fly a plane flying from Tokyo to Rome. However, the wife, having received a text message with a threat, turned to the police, and the pilot was not allowed into the cockpit.

In St. Petersburg, died 18-year-old roofer Maxim Kuznetsov, who fell from the roof of the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria. This was reported on the Deaf.net website (the teenager was deaf). On March 5, Kuznetsov fell off a roof, presumably while trying to take a selfie. The next day he died in the hospital. The doctors fought for the life of the roofer, but to no avail - on Sunday, Maxim died from his injuries.

In St. Petersburg, a woman working as a police driver was hospitalized after a conflict with her boss. Doctors found she had a hematoma of the lower jaw, as well as bruises of the lumbar spine, hip joint, kidney and chest. The driver works in the fifth department of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg.

The American lawyer found a fragment of the missing Boeing Photo: Joshua Paul / AP / Scanpix American lawyer Blain Alan Gibson alone did something that three states failed. Gibson discovered a piece of fiberglass, which was probably belonging to the Boeing-777 "Malaysian Airlines", which disappeared in March 2014. The New York Times tells how a Sittle lawyer from Seattle was able to find a fragment of the missing aircraft.