The heads of the European Union countries and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu entered into an agreement on March 18 establishing rules for the expulsion of illegal migrants who arrived in Greece by sea from Turkey. The agreement obliges Turkey to take back illegal migrants who arrived by sea in Greece from March 20. The European Union, in turn, will officially accept Syrian refugees in Turkey. Migrants will be allowed to apply for asylum before being deported to Turkey.

During the anti-terrorist operation in Brussels, five people were detained, including Salah Abdesalam, suspected of organizing terrorist attacks in Paris. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Belgian prosecutor. One of the detainees is also suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks. Three others are members of the family where Abdesalam was hiding. Earlier, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel announced the detention of two people in addition to Abdesalam.

After the explosion at a gas station in Kizlyar, 31 people turned to the central city hospital, Interfax reports. “The number of people who applied to the hospital was 31 people, mostly they all had burns and bruises, six people were hospitalized,” the hospital told the agency. A TASS source in emergency services reports 25 victims. As a result of the explosion, the power supply of one of the microdistricts of Kizlyar was disrupted. About 500 people were left without electricity.

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said the microblogging service will continue to have a 140-character limit for tweets. "He will stay. This is a good limiter for us and it creates the conditions for momentary brevity, ”Dorsey said on NBC. Earlier, Re/code reported that Twitter is developing a new product that will allow you to publish tweets longer than 140 characters. The company did not officially comment on this information.

The general director of the VEB-Leasing company, Vyacheslav Solovyov, has not been in touch for a week and does not show up for work. RBC reports this with reference to sources close to the company. According to the publication, Soloviev did not show up for work last Thursday, March 10. He did not apply for vacation or sick leave, and did not submit a letter of resignation. According to RBC's interlocutors, none of Solovyov's colleagues can reach him by phone.

Why is Google getting rid of Boston Dynamics: Mashable Photo: Boston Dynamics / YouTube In 2015, Alphabet holding appeared on the basis of Google. The restructuring of one of the most expensive companies in the world was explained, in particular, the desire to work on unusual, revolutionary things - and so that this does not interfere with Google itself, which became only an independent unit.

Moscow marked the second anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Evgeny Feldman / "New Gazeta" On March 18, about one hundred thousand people (police data) marked the second anniversary of the accession of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia on the Vasilievsky descent in Moscow. The weather was not lucky, so many people left the Vasilyevsky descent, without waiting for the start of the holiday.

Political scientist Jason Sorens - about the right of peoples to independence Photo: Free state project / wikimedia communes (CC by-SA 3.0) On March 23, Moscow will host a public lecture by American political scientist Jason Sorens about the ethics of separatism. The lecture is organized by the educational project inliberty with the support of Medusa and Di Telegraph as part of the Ethics Return project.

Salah Abdesalam, suspected of preparing the attacks in Paris in November 2015, has been detained in Brussels. This is reported by the Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure. According to her, during the police operation to detain Abdesalam, the suspect was wounded. Information about the arrest of Abdesalam was confirmed by the French police. On November 13, a series of terrorist attacks took place in Paris, the victims of which were 130 people.

The newspaper "Vedomosti" filed a lawsuit against the head of the agency "Social Networks" Denis Terekhov. A lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity was filed with the Golovinsky Court of Moscow. It concerns Terekhov's statement that he allegedly paid Vedomosti $100,000 for refusing to publish a certain article. As RBC notes , the journalist tried to get a comment from Denis Terekhov, but he did not listen to the question and answered inappropriately.

Interview Governor Sevastopol Sergey Avayyllo Photo: Yuri Mashkov / TASS / Scanpix The former head of the state -owned enterprise "Crimean Sea Ports" Sergey Avayyllo was one of the main participants in the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and in April 2014 he took the position of Governor of Sevastopol. In an interview with the special correspondent of Medusa, Ilya Azaro Chanylo said that his ideas about the events that took place in Ukraine in two years had not changed at all.

Vyacheslav Yegorov, editor-in-chief of the Regional News - Podmoskovye newspaper, was searched on suspicion of calling for the violation of Russia's territorial integrity. The journalist's phone and computer were confiscated. Yegorov said that the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to his house with a search at 7 o'clock in the morning.

Visual Science The Russian visualization studio in the field of Visual Science science has built a detailed 3D model of the Zika virus. The studio claims that this is the first scientifically reliable model in atomic resolution. Visual Science, 2016 Zika virus Visual Science, 2016 Zika virus Visual Science, 2016 Zika virus On the studio website, you can open the 3D model of the virus, unleash it and see information about structural elements.

Galina Yuzefovich - about two new books: “Seven lives” and “Kaleidoscope” A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting and important books published in Russia. In the current review - a collection of stories by Zakhar Prilepin “Seven Life” and a novel in the stories of Sergei Kuznetsov “Kaleidoscope”. Zakhar Prilepin. Seven lives. M.: AST: Editor Elena Shubina, 2016 In Russian literary realities, the story has a reputation as an official, training genre.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny promised to sue Channel One and “Russian television in general” over censorship. He stated this during a debate on the Dozhd TV channel with TV presenter Vladimir Pozner, who said that he was forbidden to invite Navalny to air his program. Navalny cited the Russian Constitution, according to which censorship is prohibited in the Russian Federation. Posner himself noted that he could invite Navalny, but the leadership would not allow him to do so.