The court upheld the sentence to Ildar Dadin. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Mark Halperin On Thursday, March 31, the Moscow City Court reduced by six months - up to two and a half years - the term of the opposition activist Ildar Dadin. This is the first (and so far the only) Russian citizen convicted of “repeated violation of the rules of public event” under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Five activists of the StopHam organization were detained on Petrovka Street in Moscow, who tried to stick a sticker on the OMON bus. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “Several young people approached the service bus, in which there were special forces officers, and tried to stick a sticker on the side of the bus with the inscription “I don’t care about everyone – I park as I want,” the agency’s source said.

Volleyball club "Galatasaray" from Istanbul accused the volleyball player of the Krasnodar "Dynamo" Tatiana Kosheleva of libel, who said that Turkish fans threw garbage at her team. According to the press service of the club, Kosheleva launched a “slander campaign” on social networks, which was later supported by the Russian media. “All this was done because of the fear of losing in the fight for the trophy. At the same time, political goals are also pursued.

Sergei Ivanov, a member of the Russian State Duma, submitted new draft legislation earlier today, proposing fines for broadcasting inaccurate weather forecasts. If the forecast's error is more than 5º Celsius away from the actual temperature, Ivanov wants penalties to range from 1,000 rubles to 10,000 rubles ($15 to $150). For forecasts that get the weather wrong by 10ºC, fines would rise to 15,000 rubles ($225). Forecasts off by 11ºC or more would be punishable by up to 20,000 rubles ($300).

Radio station "Silver Rain" filed a lawsuit against Yandex for damages for using its brand in the "Yandex.Radio" service. The amount of the claim is 564 thousand rubles, Vedomosti reports. According to the radio station's representative Elena Fedulova, the damage was initially estimated at a "much smaller" amount, but Yandex refused the pre-trial settlement options proposed by Silver Rain.

The most famous buildings of the legendary architect: photo gallery Photo: Ramil Sitdikov / RIA Novosti / Leta Business Center Dominion Tower, Moscow, 2015 In Miami, on March 30, at the age of 65, the British architect of Iraqi origin, Zakha Hadid, was the first female holder of the Pritzker Prize (2004), laureate of the prestigious British Steirling Prize.

Public safety officials in the Sverdlovsk oblast have refused to allow journalists from the Yekaterinburg-based website 66.ru to stage a demonstration demanding the resignations of President Vladimir Putin and his regional envoy, Igor Kholmanskikh. Authorities also banned a picket in support of US foreign policy and American President Barack Obama.

Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, called the Airways Monitoring Group's report on the deaths of more than a thousand civilians as a result of Russian airstrikes in Syria based on "the speculation of British" human rights "flyers." “We are witnessing the appearance of a new signboard by the same British “whistleblowers” ​​from the already retired offices like the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights and the like,” RIA Novosti quoted Konashenkov as saying.

Microsoft has released a platform for creating sociable assistants Photo: Beck Diefenbach / Reuters / Scanpix Microsoft on March 30 presented new development tools; The company made the main bet on the bots. The head of Microsoft, Satia Valel believes that the future is for them, and not for the applications that we use now. That is why the technological giant wants to attract as many bots to their platform as possible. “Our area does not honor traditions.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko promised that the German press would soon write about Russia's purchase of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. According to him, “information stuffing in the German press” is expected on April 7-8. It has already been discussed in the press that Russia and Qatar could have obtained the right to host the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 through corruption.

The Medusa reader posted Quantum Chess, quantum chess on the App Store. In a letter to the editorial office, he said that he gathered the idea from the Medusa cards “ How to play quantum chess? ". Quantum chess was invented by a student at the University of Southern California Chris Kantwell. In the game, everything is arranged almost in the same way as in ordinary chess, but there are new rules - they are based on the principles of quantum mechanics: superposition and quantum confusion.

Five-year-old girl Eliza Adamson-Hopper from Durham (UK) wrote a letter to the local police department asking them to introduce service cats into their work. In the letter, Elsa made a strong case for using pets in the fight against crime: they have good hearing, they are good climbers and will come in handy when searching for lost people. The idea with police cats came to the girl after a conversation with her father, who told her about police dogs.

A Belgian court has ordered the extradition to France of Salah Abdesalam, a suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks. According to Le Figaro, he intends to cooperate with the French authorities. Salah Abdesalam is believed to be the only survivor of the attack on Paris on November 13, 2015. Then, as a result of a series of terrorist attacks, 130 people were killed. After the attacks, Abdesalam returned to Belgium, where he hid from the police for more than four months.

Russia's two most famous pranksters explain themselves Photo: Aleksandr Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix For several years, the pranksters Vovan and Lexus have been making prank calls to pop stars, public figures, and even presidents, transforming the prank call into an aspect of political life. And, for some reason, their spoofs always seem to serve the interests of Russia's authorities.

The main shareholders of Vimpelcom Ltd. (brand "Beeline") are negotiating the sale of 89.2% of the company's common shares. This is stated in the prospectus sent by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to Vedomosti, shareholders (LetterOne and Telenor) are considering the possibility of selling a stake in the operator to the Hong Kong holding Hutchison.