Left-wing activist Viktor Filinkov, arrested in a terrorism case, was transferred from St. Petersburg pre-trial detention center No. 3 to pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the Leningrad region, which is known for torturing prisoners. Mediazona reports this.

On a highway in the West Bank of the Jordan River, a terrorist in a car crashed into a group of soldiers of the Israeli army. Two people were killed and two others were injured, according to Ynetnews. The injured were taken by helicopter to the Rabin Medical Center in the city of Petah Tikva. One of them is in critical condition; the second had a moderate injury, representatives of the center said.

March 16. The murder of a friend of Berezovsky and a report from the White Sea Markanal Main The death of Nikolai Glushkov, a friend and business partner Boris Berezovsky, was recognized as a murder . London police said that it was investigating the case under this article. According to the media, Glushkov found hanged at home. The Investigative Committee of Russia also brought a criminal case on the murder of Glushkov.

Pat Sullivan / AP / Scanpix / Leta Scott (left) and Mark Kelly, March 2016 54-year-old American astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly are identical twins . In 2015–2016, Scott spent 340 days at the International Space Station (ISS) - this is a record for astronauts from the United States, who are usually sent into space for no more than six months. When Kelly returned to the ground, scientists examined himself in detail himself and his brother.

Meduza and SKOLKOVO business school test We have already made a quick reference guide to modern business management to remind you what models, approaches and methods of analysis are in modern management. Now it's time to check how well you have mastered this knowledge. Meduza and the SKOLKOVO Business School have compiled 9 practical tasks in which you need to find the best solution and prove that you are capable of managing your own company.

London police are investigating the death of Nikolai Glushkov, a friend and business partner of Boris Berezovsky, under a murder charge. This is stated in the official report of Scotland Yard. An autopsy showed that Glushkov died as a result of "neck compression". According to Sky News sources, he was found hanged at his home. "The London Terrorism Police Department, which is leading the investigation, now considers Mr Glushkov's death a murder," Scotland Yard said.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS in Moscow on March 16 opened a memorial plate Boris Nemtsov. She was installed on a house in a small horde where the deceased politician lived. The application for the installation of a tablet was submitted by Ksenia Sobchak, who is running for president of Russia. The sign was installed by the son of Nemtsov Anton. Other close Nemtsov and his associates refused to participate in the ceremony, calling it a political event before the elections.

On March 18, the presidential election will be held in Russia. For each of the 97 thousand polling stations, the turnout will be known, the percentage of votes cast for each candidate, and many more different data that can be analyzed. How to discover falsification in the elections with the help of mathematical laws? Explain in five minutes. The editors thanks the professor of the Russian Economic School Ruben Yenikolopov for help in the preparation of the material

Russian citizens will not be allowed into Russian diplomatic missions in Ukraine on voting day in the presidential elections on March 18. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. “Persons with diplomatic status will have access to the institutions only,” Avakov said. In Ukraine, four polling stations have been organized for Russians - at the embassy in Kyiv, as well as at consulates in Odessa, Kharkov and Lvov.

Sergey Drozdov, whose brother was tortured to death by police in Kazan, has filed a lawsuit against Russia’s Interior Ministry, demanding 2.1 million rubles (almost $34,500) in compensation for psychological damage. Drozdov says watching video camera surveillance of his brother’s death at the hands of five police officers has caused him enormous mental anguish. According to his lawyer, his lawsuit is in line with practices at the European Court of Human Rights. What happened to the brother?

On March 16, Russia’s Justice Ministry stated that it found no procedural violations in the Federal Security Service’s orders to the instant messenger Telegram to provide decrypted copies of all user correspondence. The FSB’s order was dated July 19, 2016 — a day before the formal adoption of the “anti-terrorism” legislation on which the order is based — but the order didn’t enter force until August 23, the Justice Ministry points out. What is this lawsuit?

On Friday, Russian federal agents announced that they are formally investigating two crimes: the use of a “generally dangerous method” to try to kill Yulia Skripal in the English town of Salisbury, and the supposed murder of Nikolai Glushkov in London. Yulia Skripal remains in serious condition in an English hospital after being exposed to a nerve agent with her father, a former Russian intelligence colonel who spied for MI6.

The Russian Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, gave an interview to the RT channel. In particular, he complained that the Russian side did not have access to the case of an investigation of the case of the poisoning of the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. Russian diplomats, he added, also could not visit the Skripals in the hospital. “Are they alive? Maybe they are healthy? " - said Yakovenko. Subscribe to our YouTube

Why is Moscow’s foreign policy what it is? Meduza asks the experts Alexey Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin in Hanover, meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the beginning of a tour of Europe, April 8, 2013 In recent years — thanks to the annexation of Crimea, the intervention in eastern Ukraine, and the war in Syria — foreign policy has come to influence the everyday lives of ordinary Russians both directly and indirectly.

In Moscow, on Malaya Ordynka, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where Boris Nemtsov lived. The installation was broadcast on the YouTube channel of Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, who initiated the action. “Without Parnassus, without Solidarity, without Nemtsov Bridge, all this would have been impossible,” Sobchak said at the ceremony.