In the city of Biloxi in the US state of Mississippi, a train crashed into a bus with passengers at a railroad crossing. . media At least four people were killed, according to local The exact number of victims is still unknown. In total, there were about 50 passengers on the bus. After the collision, the locomotive continued moving and drove for about 300 feet (about 90 meters), pushing the bus along the tracks ahead of it, according to a city official.

Russian Post in 2017 will start selling food products through printed catalogs, which will be in post offices. It is reported by RBC with reference to a representative of the company. The pilot project will begin work in the third quarter of the year "in the Urals and Siberia", where, as the Russian Post explained, "there is a large consumer potential and a limited range." The project is oriented, first of all, to the inhabitants of rural areas.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny, in an interview with Echo of Moscow in Ufa radio, said that in the 2018 Moscow mayoral elections, in order to defeat the United Russia candidate, “it is possible and necessary to unite with the communists and with everyone else.” According to Navalny, of the candidates who announced their participation, the communist Andrei Klychkov, who in 2014 won the prefect of the South-Eastern District Vladimir Zotov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, has the

On the night of March 7, poachers killed a four-year-old male white rhinoceros named Vance in the zoo of Parc Thoiries (50 kilometers west of Paris) in France and sawed off his horn. The animal was killed with a firearm and then sawed off the front horn - presumably with a chainsaw. For unknown reasons, the criminals failed to take the second horn. The other two rhinos, 37-year-old female Gracie and five-year-old male Bruno, were unharmed.

The National Bank of Ukraine initiates the application of sanctions against the Ukrainian PJSC Sberbank in case of confirmation of information about servicing clients with passports of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in the Russian branches of Sberbank. The issue of imposing sanctions will be raised before the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Earlier, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that Sberbank should stop working in Ukraine.

Photo: Peter Kassin / Kommersant On March 7, in the international center-museum of artists Nikolai and Svyatoslav Roerichs in Moscow, searches were held-200 museum exhibits were taken out of the halls, including rare paintings by the Roerich dynasty. The center is suspected of “financing from funds withdrawn criminal through” from a bankrupt master bank. However, museum staff believe that the Ministry of Culture with the help of the police is trying to take away the building from them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the law "On the Prosecutor's Office", which regulate the procedure for conducting prosecutorial checks. The amendments, in particular, establish a five-day (two-day when checking the implementation of laws) deadline for the provision of documents and information at the request of the prosecutor, and also limit the time of the audit to 30 days (the law provides for the possibility of extending the audit).

An employee of the Directorate of Music and Entertainment Programs, who hosted the Minute of Glory show from the production company and was engaged in preparing it for broadcast, was fired from Channel One. This was reported to Meduza by a source on Channel One. The dismissed employee watched the release of "Minute of Glory" with the participation of the dancer Yevgeny Smirnov, who lost his leg in an accident, before the broadcast.

FSB General Oleg Feoktistov has been fired from Rosneft, where he headed the security service, Novaya Gazeta reports, citing sources in the oil company and the security service. His resignation has not been officially confirmed. In November 2016, Novaya Gazeta reported that it was Feoktistov who initiated the investigation against Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev. Oleg Feoktistov was the deputy head of the FSB's own security department.

Melbourne authorities approved the installation of traffic lights with female silhouettes instead of male ones. The idea came from The Committee for Melbourne, a non-profit organization representing more than 120 local companies and institutions. The head of the organization, Martin Letts, said that existing traffic lights with silhouettes of men discriminate against women.

On March 7, a meeting of the Academic Council was held at GITIS, at which it was decided to postpone the merger of the theater and production departments. This initiative came from the rector of the university, Grigory Zaslavsky, but many teachers and students did not support it. The Academic Council voted for the creation of special working groups at each faculty, which will develop a plan for the development of the faculties.

For the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia will release "victory spoons" - the national musical instrument of the fan. They are being developed by Rustam Nugmanov, a craftsman who makes Russian musical instruments from Elektrostal near Moscow. He will receive a presidential grant for his project. the order Vladimir Putin signed on allocation of grants on February 22.

The Frenchman killed a family of four because of a never-existing treasure Photo: Loic Venance / AFP / Scanpix / Leta House, where the Trodec family was killed In the French city of Nantes, a family of four people, who disappeared without a trace in mid -February, was revealed. The killer, 46-year-old Uber Kaissen, admitted that he had scored his wife's brother to death due to her father’s inheritance. In fact, no inheritance existed. "Medusa" tells what happened in Nan.

The host “Let them talk” Andrei Malakhov about the phenomenon of Diana Shurygina Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS The story of Diana Shurygina, the Ulyanovsk girl, whom the court recognized the victim in the rape case, continues to be widely discussed.

Francois Fillon, a French presidential candidate from the right and centrists, did not declare a loan of 50,000 euros, which he took from the co-owner of the Fitch rating agency, billionaire Marc Ladre de Lachariere. This is reported by the weekly Le Canard enchaîné. According to the publication, this happened in 2013. Other details of the investigation are not yet known - the material will be published in full on Wednesday, March 8.