In the United States, a court sentenced 62-year-old Alexander Posobilov to 11 years and three months in prison, who was found guilty in 2015 in a case of illegal export of technology to Russia and money laundering. Earlier, Alexander Fishenko was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the same case. According to the prosecutor's office, together with accomplices, they, bypassing US law, exported high-tech equipment for use in the field of military technologies in the Russian Federation.

Zoya Svetova - about a ten -hour search in his apartment Photo: Vasily Maximov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On February 28, the FSB officers searched the human rights activist and journalist of Open Russia Zoe Light.

Investigators have completed a search of the apartment of journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetova. It lasted more than ten hours - the investigators came to Svetova at 11 am. The completion of the event was announced by lawyer Anna Stavitskaya, who was present in the apartment. Approximately two hours before that, she wrote that the reconciliation of the search protocol with the seized media had begun.

Amazon cloud service crashed. As a result, large sites that use it began to work intermittently, or not open at all. Trello task manager won't open, Quora question service won't work, videos won't open on the Coursera platform. reported access problems Other sites have also . Among others, the Is It Down Right Now site , which shows whether a particular site is available, was affected. Amazon reports that the failure occurred in its Amazon S3 hosting service.

In western France, a police sniper accidentally opened fire at the opening ceremony of the Tours-Bordeaux high-speed rail line, at which President Francois Hollande spoke. As a result, two people - a waiter and an employee of the railway company - were slightly injured in the leg. The incident occurred during Hollande's speech - at the moment when the sniper changed position on the roof at a distance of about a hundred meters from Hollande, .

All about the employee PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who made the main mistake in the history of Oscar Photo: Christopher Polk / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Brian Kallinen (right) on Oscar, February 26, 2017 On the evening of February 26, in Los Angeles, due to the fault of the employee of the audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers, envelopes with the name of the best film of the year according to the American film academy were confused.

In the Moscow district of Khamovniki, a fire broke out in a house of the beginning of the 19th century, located at Dashkov lane, 7. The message about the fire was received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations at 18:28. Approximately an hour later the fire was localized . There is no information about the victims. TASS writes with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations that the fire occurred "on the first and second floors, as well as in the attic" of the building.

Human rights activist Elena Abdullayeva, coordinator of the Gulagu.Net project and former member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission, was searched. This was announced on Facebook by the founder of Gulagu.Net Vladimir Osechkin. “This is the second search in a row in a day, in the morning the special services officers searched the apartment of another ex-member of the PMC Msk, Zoya Svetova,” Osechkin wrote.

Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On February 28, the chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev spoke out for the abolition of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, which involves punishment for repeated violations at rallies. It was condemned by civil activist Ildar Dadin; After 14 months spent in the colony, it was fully justified.

The Moscow Mayor's Office has announced a competition for the improvement of the Garden Ring in 2017. The total cost of the work is estimated at 11.58 billion rubles. The most expensive, according to the materials posted on the public procurement website, is the estimated improvement of the Garden Ring section from Dolgorukovskaya Street to Tsvetnoy Boulevard - 1.63 billion rubles .

The Russian Orthodox Church is trying to evict the research institute in the center of Moscow to build a church in its place: "New Gazeta" Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" building of the UNDO (left) and the Alekseevskaya church. The Russian Orthodox Church is trying to obtain the building of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (NIRO), located at the Krasnoselskaya metro station in the center of Moscow.

Photo: Alexander Kryttsev / Vn.ru In December 2016, Moscow Komsomolets published the history of the German family Martens - Eugene (Oygen) and Louise Martens, along with ten children, moved to Russia, fleeing the obligatory school lessons in sexual education.

The Moscow City Hall is going to carry out the reconstruction and improvement of the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge during 2017, follows from the public procurement schedule of the Gormost State Budgetary Institution. On February 27, 2015, Boris Nemtsov was killed on this bridge. The tender for construction works is planned to be announced in March. The initial price is almost 3.3 billion rubles.

Australian Campbell Jones was cycling around Rottnest Island and met a quokka. Jones, 21, took a picture with the animal and was returning to his bike when the quokka chased him. The young man took a photo of the moment the quokka jumped at him. However, Jones did not understand whether she wanted to hug him or bite him. Quokkas always seem to be very happy, so it's impossible to tell when they're aggressive or unhappy about something.

In Berlin, the prosecutor's office charged a 23-year-old man with sexual assault, who in the fall of 2015 had sexual relations with 13-year-old Lisa, a girl of Russian origin, who was abducted and raped in January 2016 by the Russian media. The prosecutor's office believes that sex was consensual, but in Germany, sexual intercourse with a person under 14 is regarded as sexual abuse. The man is also accused of producing child pornography, as he filmed sexual intercourse with a girl.