The prosecutor's office of Moldova spoke about the detention of former MP Yuri Bolboceanu in the case of espionage and treason. The status of the detainee - suspect or accused - was not specified. According to the prosecutor's office, Bolboceanu maintained contacts with the assistant to the military attache of the Russian embassy in Moldova, Alexander Grudin, and passed on "some information" to him.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has successfully landed in the Pacific Ocean, according to a tweet from the company. Landing was carried out using parachutes. According to the company, the ship delivered a cargo with the results of the ISS research to Earth. The Dragon expedition lasted more than three weeks - the ship launched to the ISS on February 23.

Memory of the legendary musician Chuck Berry Photo: GIJSBERT HANEKROOT / REDFERNS / GETTY IMAGES On March 18, in the United States, at the age of 90, Chuck Berry died, a man, largely thanks to which rock music appeared. In the 1950s, Berry came up with his own style of playing the guitar, behaved on stage and beyond as a rock star and wrote songs that were not all-bored at that time. For dozens of guitarists, he became a teacher, he inspired hundreds of thousands to pick up the instrument.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny said he would go to an anti-corruption rally on March 26, despite the fact that the Moscow government refused to agree on it. The impossibility of holding the proposed Navalny procession along Tverskaya in the Moscow City Hall was announced on March 18, citing the fact that the procession would create inconvenience for the city's residents.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman promised "without the slightest hesitation" to destroy Syrian air defense systems if they open fire on Israeli aircraft again. Syrian air defenses fired on Israeli aircraft on March 17 during an air operation carried out by Israeli Air Force aircraft over Syrian territory. According to the Israeli command, the planes attacked weapons destined for the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.

Director of the Mostly Human series - about how a person’s relationship with technology changes Shot: CNN One of the most interesting premieres shown at the festival of music, cinema and media technologies South by Southwest in Texas is the documentary of the Mostly Human series (“Almost Man”). This is a story about the relations of people and cars that become more and more personal.

An independent Scotland will seek full EU membership but keep the pound sterling. This was stated in an interview with Sky News by the country's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. According to her, the pound is as much a Scottish currency as it is an English one. The preservation of the pound will be the basic condition for an independence referendum. Sturgeon did not elaborate on how the course for full EU membership is combined with the refusal to join the eurozone.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with RBC, said that the question of when Ukraine and Russia will be able to improve relations is not important at the moment. The question of the restoration of relations was linked to the question of the status of Crimea - thus, Peskov answered both at the same time: “I don’t think that anyone can give such forecasts [about when Ukraine will recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation].

What Emma Watson is fighting for (and why she is accused of hypocrisy) Photo: Yoram Kahana / Shooting Star / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta Disney fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” was released, the main role in which is played by one of the highest paid actresses of the young generation, British Emma Watson. In the past - Hermione in the Harry Potter over -off -off franchise, at the age of 26, Watson is the UN Goodwill Ambassador and an activist with a worked out image and a million fans.

Frame in the announcement: ATT News of Belarus and Peace / YouTube so the head of Belteleradiocompany Gennady Davydko responded to residents of Belarus, who go to rallies against "tuneus tax." This law obliges citizens who are not employed for more than six months to pay about $ 230 to the budget.

On March 19, a rally was held in Novosibirsk against the increase in housing and communal services tariffs. Several thousand people attended the event. The rally was the fifth since Governor Vladimir Gorodetsky signed a decree on July 1, 2016 to increase tariffs by 15%. The authorities of the region did not provide economic justifications for the increase in tariffs, notes Interfax . The law comes into force on July 1, 2017.

A court in Kataysk, Kurgan Region, decided to arrest Kim Danelyan, the son of the main witness in the case, Yevgenia Chudnovets, who was sentenced to five months in prison in December 2016 for trying to draw attention to child abuse. Danelyan, along with another young man, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the store: a group of teenagers, including several children from the orphanage, stole 13 thousand rubles, threatening the cashier with a knife.

In Walt Disney entertainment parks in Florida and California, attractions from the Star Wars universe are under construction. In particular, in the Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland parks, walking armored AT-AT armored vehicles shown in the film “The Empire Replies Disgions”. On March 16, Walt Disney published the first video construction of AT-AT.

Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn spoke with a student who had Russian citizenship in 2014. According to the sources of the publication, the student's name was Svetlana Lokhova, and Flynn saw her only once - at the Cambridge seminar on intelligence in February 2014. Flynn did not inform the Pentagon, where he worked at that time, about this meeting.

A new rocket engine made in North Korea has been tested at the Sohe launch site in North Pyongan province. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who was present at the test, announced that the new engines will bring the means of delivering satellites into outer space to the world level.