At the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University, they promised to consider a complaint against State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky, who heads the department of international relations. Andrey Shutov, dean of the faculty, spoke about this.

Investigators have begun work at the cemetery in the British city of Salisbury, materials are being transported from there to a local hospital. This is with reference to eyewitness accounts reports the local edition of the Salisbury Journal. Earlier, the police fenced off a plot in the cemetery where the wife and son of Russian Sergei Skripal, who was hospitalized with severe poisoning, are buried.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why did Stalin need a large terror and is he a good commander in chief? Together with Arzamas On March 5, 2018, the 65 years have been 65 years since the death of Joseph Stalin. In this regard, we suggest you listen to two lectures from the course “Stalin. Leaders and the country ”, recorded by our friends from the educational project“ Arzamas ”.

In the Dagestan village of Gerga, two soldiers of the Russian Guard were killed, the attacker was detained. This is reported by TASS and Interfax with reference to an unnamed source in the power structures of the republic . According to the interlocutor of the agencies, the murder occurred "in the course of a domestic conflict." At the same time, Interfax notes that the man who shot the fighters of the Russian Guard has nothing to do with illegal armed groups.

In the Volgograd region, the search for a car was completed, which was put on the wanted list after the alleged abduction. The local department of the Investigative Committee explained that, apparently, there was a misunderstanding. The kidnapping was reported to the police around 21:30 on the evening of 8 March.

The British Ministry of Defense has sent 180 troops to Salisbury, where work continues to clean up the place where former GRU officer Sergei Skripal was found. will go to the city Units of the armored forces, air force and marines . We are talking about units that were trained in chemical protection. The military will be engaged in "removal of cars and other objects from the scene." Including units will evacuate ambulances, which hospitalized the victims.

Disney published a video shot from the drone from the construction site of the entertainment park dedicated to the film "Star Wars". The park will be called Star Wars: Galaxyʼs Edge ("Star Wars: the edge of the Galaxy"). It is built in Disneyland in California.

Joel Marklund / OIS / IOC / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on March 9 in South Korean Pyeongchang opened winter paralympic games. Competitions will be held in six types of sports: skiing, biathlon, skiing, trace-hocky, snowboarding and kerling in strollers. The Paralympic Committee of Russia has been disqualified since August 2016 due to suspicions of doping. In Pyeongchang, Russia will be presented with 30 athletes who appear under a neutral flag.

The trial of 18-year-old Ahmed Hassan, who is accused of bombing a subway car on September 15, 2017, has begun in London. At the next meeting on March 8, the prosecution presented a recording of the surveillance camera inside the car, which shows the moment of the explosion. As the investigation found out, the explosive device did not work completely - the main charge did not detonate.

Law enforcement officials detained between 10 and 30 people on Thursday in a town outside Moscow at a protest against noxious fumes released by a nearby landfill. The demonstrators reportedly blocked the road into the dump, leading riot police to move in. The protesters were released later in the evening, after being charged with violating the peace and disobeying police orders.

Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, issued a statement on Thursday to a State Duma council where she said she’s the victim of daily cyber-bullying. “I’m insulted and bullied for my intelligence, my supposed lifestyle, my appearance, and my friends,” she wrote, adding that the negativity makes her not only “want to stop living on social media, but to stop living altogether.” “That’s the power of cyber-bullying,” Peskova said.

Several unnamed security officials tell The Financial Times that Sergey Skripal, the poisoned former Russian intelligence officer who spied for MI6, continued to work in a limited capacity for the British after he was sent to London in 2010 in a spy swap. He hadn’t been “fully decommissioned,” one source told the newspaper.

Streaming service Netflix invited former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to make a TV show dedicated to "inspiring stories". This is with reference to unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations, writes The New York Times. The publication does not provide any details of the upcoming show, as well as the approximate timing of its release on the air.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska wrote a column for the American conservative publication The Daily Caller . The article was published under the headline “The ever-changing ‘Russian agenda’ is a false manipulation of the audience.” In the column, Deripaska discusses how modern American politics resembles the film Wag the Dog (1999), where a non-existent military conflict was invented to win the US presidential election.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How the first president of the USSR lives. Mikhail Gorbachev - about Yeltsin, Putin and suggestions to shoot Konstantin Benyumov asks Ilya Zhegulev about his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the USSR, about whom Ilya wrote a large material for Medusa. In addition to the story of Zhegulev, in the podcast you can hear fragments of his interview with Gorbachev , including those who did not enter the printed version.