Press secretary of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov Alvi Karimov “absurd” the words of the representative of the organization “Reporters Without Borders” Johann Bier that the attack on human rights activists in Ingushetia became possible, among other things, because of “loud statements of the head of Chechnya against his critics.” “Bir’s statements indicate that he does not control the situation and does not have reliable information, therefore he says absurd things in a harsh and

Lawyer Yuriy Grabovsky, who is defending Alexander Alexandrov, a Russian accused of terrorism, has left Ukraine. He wrote about this on his Facebook. Sorry for letting you down my friends!!! I had to leave Ukraine, not of my own free will! But I'm safe! I don’t know when I’ll be back, if possible, I’ll answer you. I really want to go back to my homeland.

The international rating agency Moodyʼs during 2016 will withdraw all national scale ratings assigned in the Russian Federation. After that, the Moody's Interfax subsidiary, which assigned these ratings, will be closed, Interfax reports. The decision was made due to restrictions contained in the law “On the Activities of Credit Rating Agencies” adopted in 2015.

In Ingushetia, armed men in camouflage and masks attacked the headquarters of the Combined Mobile Group of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. Dmitry Utukin, the lawyer of the organization, announced this on his Twitter. According to him, the attackers arrived at the house where the office is located in five cars. Three people climbed inside through the window, the rest are trying to get into the apartment through the entrance.

Petersburg "Zenith" flew out of the Champions League. In the second match of the 1/8 finals, the Russian club lost to Benfica at home with a score of 1:2. Zenit lost the first match in Portugal with a score of 1:0. Another Russian club - CSKA - did not even leave the group in the Champions League. There are also no Russian clubs left in the Europa League. Krasnodar, Rubin, and Lokomotiv were eliminated from the draw.

In 2011, 71-year-old Brazilian Zhuan Pereira de Souza from Rio de Janeiro discovered on the coast of the sea of ​​dying Magellanov Penguin. The exhausted bird could not move, and its feathers were stained with oil. The Brazilian took the penguin home, washed it and went out. After the bird - it was called Dimdin - returned to normal, Pereira de Souza wanted to let her go back, but she spent another 11 months with the Savior.

Russian businessman Arkady Rotenberg is going to buy a quarter of Aeroflot - half of the state stake. The Financial Times newspaper writes about this, citing its sources. According to one of the publication’s interlocutors, Russian President Vladimir Putin approves of increasing Rotenberg’s influence in the aviation sector. Rotenberg's representative denied information about the acquisition of shares. Aeroflot declined to comment.

Wired magazine in an article dedicated to Donald Trump accidentally replaced the billionaire’s name with the phrase “someone with small handles”. In the first version of the material, this phrase is found eight times, and by the name of Trump is called only in the title and signatures to the photograph. Later, the material was fixed.

The court banned visits to Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko by Ukrainian doctors because of her “defiant behavior” and “offensive statements addressed to the court.” This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavel Klimkin, the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

In France, between 224,000 and 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against government plans to change the labor code. The minimum score is based on police data; maximum - according to trade unions. Nearly 30,000 people took to the streets in Paris. The nationwide protest coincided with a railroad strike. Because of it, individual commuter trains in Paris were canceled throughout the day, as well as some long-distance trains.

Interview with the top manager of Grindex, which produces Mildronate (Meldonium) Photo: Donat Sorokin / TASS / Scanpix The tennis player Maria Sharapova admitted that she used Milronate (active substance - Meldonium), which has been banned by the World Anti -Doping Agency since January 1, 2016. Mildronate was also found in analyzes of other Russian athletes: this began one of the most serious doping scandals of recent years.

Interview of Academician Ivar Kalvins, creator of Mildronate (Meldonia) Photo: Ieva čīka / leta The drug Mildronate (active substance - Meldonium) caused one of the most serious doping scandals of recent years. This tool that helps athletes recover after heavy loads fell into the list of prohibited in January 2016, and already in March it turned out that several Russian athletes, including tennis player Maria Sharapova, passed positive doping tests to Milronate.

Earlier today, roughly two dozen masked men attacked a car carrying Russian and Scandinavian journalists and human rights activists from the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture,” en route from Ingushetia into Grozny. According to a correspondent from the news agency Mediazona , who was in the car, the assailants forced the passengers from the vehicle, beating some with sticks, and then set fire to the car.

MSQRD application in ten videos with stars Photo: Snoopdogg / Instagram On March 9, it became known that the Facebook social network was bought by the Belarusian startup MSQRD. The application for a smartphone allows you to apply funny masks on the video and photo of a person - and they “stick” well to face and adjust to facial expressions. MSQRD in recent months is very popular among Russian and Western stars. "Medusa" chose 10 examples of how celebrities used the application.

Buckingham Palace has filed a complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organization about The Sun's article about Queen Elizabeth II. Dissatisfaction was caused by the publication of a tabloid that the Queen allegedly supports the UK's exit from the European Union. According to the publication, Elizabeth II in 2011, during a lunch with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of Brussels.