The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after a helicopter crash in Istanbul, which killed four Russians. The case was initiated under the article on violation of flight safety rules. Now investigators are looking for relatives of the victims. As expected, on March 12, the bodies of helicopter passengers will be delivered to Russia. The disaster in Istanbul occurred on the morning of March 10.

On the night of March 11, the US Secret Service detained a man with a backpack near the White House. The man, whose name is not given, was detained at the southern entrance to the presidential residence, a part of the building closed to tourists. The violator was detained after he overcame the fence and approached the White House. Due to the incident, the White House has been put on an orange, high alert. The Secret Service said the man had no dangerous materials or weapons with him.

Hewillnotdivide.us Actor Shaya Labaf chose an unusual way to protest against President Donald Trump. On January 20, on the day of the inauguration, he installed a camera in New York next to the inscription “He will not divide us” (He Will Not Divide us). Anyone could come up and say what he thinks; The image was broadcast on a special website .

The judges of the Minute of Glory program on Channel One, journalist Vladimir Pozner and actress Renata Litvinova, apologized to dancer Yevgeny Smirnov for his words about “forbidden tricks”, as the artist performed without a prosthetic leg.

In Kazan, the police detained the leader of the Tatarstan branch of the Parnassus party, Marcel Shamsutdinov. According to the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, he is suspected of participating in an unsanctioned rally of depositors of Tatfondbank and Intekhbank, which took place on March 4. Shamsutdinov was detained at a new rally of depositors in a Kazan park, which took place on March 11.

In Edmonton, Canada, police shot and killed Russian Vitaly Savin, who attacked them with a knife. This was reported by the CBC with reference to unnamed sources. According to the channel, on Thursday, two residents of the city called the police and reported a driver who was driving strangely. Arriving police officers stopped the car at a dead end. When they approached the car, according to an eyewitness, the driver attacked one of the police officers with a knife.

Photo: BBC World The BBC viral video, in which an interview with American professor Robert Kelly about the impeachment of President Korea is interrupted by his young children, turned out to be not only the object of mass network tenderness, but also the reason for serious discussions about how people perceive Asian women and what stereotypes for paternity still exist in society. Medusa talks about disputes around the BBC video. What kind of professor?

A draft amendment was introduced to the State Duma that would regulate the demolition of several thousand Moscow houses (mostly five-story buildings), the construction of new ones and the resettlement of 1.6 million residents. In short, the essence is approximately this: the authorities decided that it was more profitable to demolish all five-story buildings and move people into new houses than to spend money on major repairs.

The Dutch authorities have withdrawn permission to land the aircraft of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who was going to visit a European country on the evening of March 11. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the decision was due to Cavusoglu's intention to stage a mass demonstration in Rotterdam over the Turkish constitutional referendum. According to Rutte, they offered the Turkish side to inform the Turks living in Holland within the framework of a small meeting.

One of the organizers of the feminist rally outside the Moscow Kremlin, Leda Garina, announced that she had already developed a plan to falsify one of the photos from the event. Garina wrote about this on her Facebook on the evening of March 10. The activists prepared pictures of the Kremlin's Corner Arsenal Tower and girls with a banner "The national idea is feminism", which were then combined in a graphic editor.

Universal released the first trailer for the “atomic blonde” - a spy action movie with Charlize Theron in the lead role. Universal Pictures Atomic Blonde - Restricted Trailer [HD] Teron is played by Lorraine Broton, an agent of British intelligence, which is sent to Berlin on the eve of the fall of the wall in 1989. The broton should find a list of double agents who are sent to the West. The film was shot on the comic book "The Cold City" of Anthony Johnston.

Lawyer Ruslan Koblev, who defends the alleged leader of the Shaltai-Boltai group, Vladimir Anikeev, said that his client and other hackers of the group were not involved in hacking the correspondence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Koblev also doubted that the mail of the head of government "could be opened by ordinary hackers." According to the lawyer, the Humpty Dumpty group also did not open boxes in the government domain “.gov”.

A draft law on a program for the resettlement and demolition of five-story buildings in Moscow has been submitted to the State Duma. The document was introduced by a group of deputies led by Nikolai Gonchar from United Russia, who was elected from the central district of the capital. The bill fixes the conditions for the construction of new houses, the resettlement of residents of Khrushchev, as well as the demolition of five-story buildings under the "renovation" program.

Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky interrupted a series of matches played dry. On the evening of March 10, in a game with the Buffalo Sabers, he missed three goals. Columbus won the match 4-3. Prior to that, Bobrovsky three matches in a row reflected all the shots on his own goal, the Russian dry series lasted 182 minutes. For goaltenders, "Columbus" is the second result in history after Steve Mason.

“Everything that I did not say”, “The orchid ate all of them”, “Book of mirrors” The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about three good and easy translated novels for unrelealing reading: “All that I did not say” Celesta Ing, “The Orchid ate them all” Scarlett Thomas and the “Book of Mirrors” by E. O. Chirovichi. Celeste Ing. All that I did not say. M.: Fantom Press, 2017. Translation by A.