In the Iranian capital Tehran, a woman was sentenced to two years in prison for taking off her hijab on a city street. This is reported by the Associated Press with reference to the Iranian agency Tasnim. Tehran's prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, said the woman (he did not name her) "incited corruption by publicly removing the hijab." She was sentenced at the end of December 2017, but it became known only now.

A student at a university in St. Petersburg papers her department in posters bearing the sexist comments of her teachers Yulia’s personal archive “The more a feminist fails with men, the more radical she becomes.” Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, a student at St.

The Union of Journalists of Moscow will discuss both the actions of Leonid Slutsky, a State Duma deputy accused of harassment, and the behavior of journalists who complained about him. The head of the union, Pavel Gusev, said this on the air of the RTVI channel. The women who were harassed did not immediately report them and thereby violated journalistic ethics, Gusev said. “They committed, well, just, so to speak, the humiliation of our profession,” he said.

The Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in Chechnya fell off a cliff 150 meters high due to a sharp gust of wind, head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov said in his telegram channel. The helicopter belonged to the border service and, according to Kadyrov, was based in the village of Tuskhara, Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya. On March 7, he transported border guards to the outpost; The crash happened while disembarking passengers.

Police are treating the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia as an attempted murder, London Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said. He confirmed that Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, but did not specify what the substance was. The policeman who first arrived on the scene is also now in the hospital; he's in critical condition, Rowley said. , citing sources .

The Central Election Commission refused to accredit 4,500 observers from the Leviathan media outlet, created by Alexei Navalny, because it was deprived of registration by a court decision. Navalny himself announced this on his website. Also, the CEC did not accredit observers from the Molniya publication, from which representatives of the Golos movement, the main public organization for independent election monitoring in Russia, are present at the elections.

Former player of the Arsenal football club Sanchez Watt, now playing for the English club Hemel Hempsted Town, accidentally received a red card. During the match with East Tarrock, Watt knocked out the ball, which was supposed to enter the opponent’s team. The judge showed the football player a yellow card; “Hemel” is a club of the sixth division, and the names of the players were not written on their T -shirts, so the referee clarified Watt with his name. He answered.

Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta flowers near the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Moscow, March 6, 2018 On March 6, in Syria, when landing at the military base of Khmeimim, the Russian AN-26 plane crashed . According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 39 people died - six crew members and 33 passengers. All of them were personnel military. "Medusa" says that it was possible to find out about some military people who died in this plane crash.

March 7. Leonid Slutsky should leave the State Duma Yesterday, the parliamentary correspondent of the Russian BBC Service Farid Rustamova told in detail how MP Leonid Slutsky morale her in his office. Today the reaction of his colleagues followed.

Belarus is the only country in Europe that still executes people, and here’s how they do it Alexey Gromov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The trial against Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov, convicted of organizing the 2011 Minsk subway bombing. They were sentenced to death and executed in 2012. Minsk, September 2011. In January 2018, the Minsk City Court condemned to death two Belarusians: Alexander Zhilnikov and Vyacheslav Sukharko.

The investigation into the case of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia believes that a nerve agent was used against them. It is reported by The Guardian, citing unnamed sources. Newspaper sources refer to the results of medical and chemical research. What substance could be used is not specified. The investigation consists of many directions, one of which is whether this substance is in the UK and where it could have been brought from (English).

Journalists accusing State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky of sexual harassment filed complaints with the prosecutor's office. This was reported to the BBC Russian Service by the head of the parliamentary commission on ethics, Otari Arshba. He did not name the names of the journalists who applied to the prosecutor's office.

Reuters reported that the British police are leaning towards the version of Russia's involvement in the poisoning of former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal. Agency sources in American and European law enforcement agencies claim that this version is the main one. According to sources, police believe that Skripal was poisoned with an unknown substance as revenge for his betrayal. Officially, the British police did not accuse Russia of involvement in the poisoning of Skripal.

From the personal archive On the eve of March 8, at the faculty of international relations of St. Petersburg State University, posters with quotes of teachers about women, hashtag #sexism_na_fmo and the signature “If you hear, do not be silent” were hung. Medusa talked with a student of the faculty, who invented and conducted this action, as well as teachers whose quotes she used.

Director Yuri Butusov resigned as artistic director of the Lensoviet Theater in St. Petersburg. His open letter about this was published by the St. Petersburg theater magazine. Butusov explained his decision by the fact that the director of the Lensoviet Theater Valery Gradkovsky and the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg "blocked" all his initiatives and demands as artistic director. to Fontanka The Committee on Culture confirmed that Butusov had resigned.