The widow of Mikhail Lesin called insinuations the assumption that her husband crossed the US border after the official announcement of his death. Valentina Lesina told Gazeta.ru that “she considers commenting on all sorts of insinuations below her dignity and unworthy of the memory of her husband.” Gazeta.ru also published a photograph of Mikhail Lesin's passport, which was shown to the publication by his widow.

Spain has put Vladislav Reznik, State Duma deputy from United Russia, on the international wanted list. RBC reports this with reference to an unnamed source close to Reznik. The deputy's lawyer Alexander Gofshtein confirmed this information to RBC. There is no notice of Reznik's search in the database on the Interpol website. The Rosbalt agency previously reported that Spain transferred materials for the international search for Reznik to the Interpol secretariat.

Activist Natalya Ivanova was detained on Manezhnaya Square in the center of Moscow, who went out on a solo picket in support of Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, who is on trial in Russia on charges of killing employees of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in Donbass. The police said that she was not standing alone - therefore, she violated the rules for holding public events. Ivanova was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station.

In Moscow, a passenger car drove into the transition of the Profsoyuznaya metro station. There was no driver behind the wheel. The Moscow Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies Agency “Moscow” reported that the car rolled into the transition spontaneously. Moscow Live Car drove into an underground transition at the Profsoyuznaya metro station As a result of the incident, no one was injured. Employees of operational services pulled the car back to the street.

About 600 people were injured in a chemical attack by Islamic State militants (an organization recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned) in northern Iraq. The small town of Taza, near Kirkuk, came under rocket fire with chemicals. As a result of the shelling, a three-year-old girl was killed. The local hospital said that the victims received chemical burns, they suffer from suffocation and dehydration. Eight people were transported to Baghdad for treatment.

A new criminal case has been initiated in Ingushetia in connection with the attack on journalists and human rights activists. It was instituted under the article "attack for the purpose of stealing someone else's property, committed by a group of persons with the use of weapons." It provides for a heavier punishment compared to the articles on hooliganism and deliberate destruction of property, under which the case was initially initiated.

Alexei Navalny published a document from the US Customs and Border Protection Service, from which it follows that Mikhail Lesin left the United States on December 15, 2015. At the same time, Lesin, according to official information, died 40 days earlier - on November 5, 2015. Navalny published a scan of a foreign passport, which, according to him, belonged to Lesin, as well as a full certificate of passing border control.

Fragment of the book of the journalist The Guardian Luke Harding about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko Photo: Rex / Vida Press Police near the house of Alexander Litvinenko in the London district of Masvil-Hill The British newspaper The Guardian published a fragment of the book “Very expensive poison” Luke Harding, who for a long time worked as a Moscow correspondent of the publication. The book is devoted to the investigation of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov denied reports that Russia and Western countries are discussing a plan for the federalization of Syria as one of the ways to resolve the conflict in this country. “This is complete nonsense. We do not voice such ideas, such ideas should be voiced by the Syrians themselves, it is they who should discuss and agree among themselves,” Bogdanov said.

The minibus, in which journalists and human rights activists drove, burned after the attack Photo: Denis Sinyakov / "Mediazona" on the evening of March 9 on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya an attack on journalists and human rights activists. They were beaten with shouts “You protect the terrorists! You have nothing to do in Chechnya! ” The attackers stole things from journalists , and burned the car.

Astronaut Scott Kelly, the longest-serving American in space, has announced his retirement. On April 1, he will stop working at NASA. At the same time, Kelly will continue to participate in medical research, the purpose of which is to study the effect of prolonged stay in space on the human body. "Scott's contributions to NASA cannot be overstated," said Brian Kelly, director of the mission program at NASA's Space Center in Houston.

Sharapova tells how she was actually “warned” about the prohibition of Meldonia Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP / Scanpix Five days have passed since the moment when the most famous Russian athlete Maria Sharapova said that she had failed a doping test. As it turned out, she took the drug for 10 years, which they decided to ban from the beginning of 2016. The press appeared that the tennis player was warned five times about the ban on the drug, and she could not notice these warnings.

BBC broadcasting corporation published a panoramic video from a large adron collader-an accelerator of charged particles in Cern (European Nuclear Research Center). On the record you can see the collider tunnel with a pipe along which charged particles move, as well as consider the device of a compact muon solenoid - one of the main detectors of elementary particles in an accelerator.

The cause of death of British keyboardist Keith Emerson, a member of the prog-rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was suicide. This was reported by the police of the Californian city of Santa Monica, where the musician lived. Emerson shot himself in the head. The musician was 71 years old. A police spokesman said Emerson's body was discovered early Friday morning by his girlfriend Mari Kawaguchi at their apartment.

Computer program AlphaGo, developed by Google Deepmind, beat multiple go champion Lee Sedol for the third time. The score in a series of five matches was 3:0 in favor of the computer. Despite an early victory in the series, the remaining two matches will be played. They will take place on March 13 and 15. Korean Lee Sedol is a professional go player, one of the best in the world. During his career, he has won 800 matches and over 40 titles.