In the homeland of Karl Marx in the German city of Trier, a pedestrian traffic light with a figurine of the philosopher appeared. It was installed in connection with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Marx (he was born on May 5, 1818). "The famous philosopher glows not only in the classic revolutionary red, but also in green," the said city's website in a statement. The second such traffic light will appear in Trier in the coming weeks.

The Cambridge Analytica board of directors has suspended the company's CEO, Alexander Nix. Nix has been suspended pending an independent investigation into media coverage of the company. Cambridge Analytica plans to make the findings public.

In Grozny on the evening of March 20, an armed man opened fire on a police officer and wounded him, the press service of the Interior Ministry for Chechnya reported. “The offender was destroyed by return fire from police officers,” said . the police Under what circumstances the attack was committed is not specified. Update. The Chechen police reported the killing of four militants on the border with Ingushetia around 22:00 Moscow time.

The ashes of British scientist Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14, will be buried in Westminster Abbey, next to the graves of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other British scientists. This was stated by the rector of the church, John Hall. When exactly the ceremony will take place has not yet been announced. Those close to Hawking will say goodbye in a private ceremony at University Church in Cambridge on March 31.

The former Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Viktor Yerin, who headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1992-1995, has died. This was reported on the official website of the ministry. Yerin served as minister during the confrontation between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Council. In September 1993, Yeltsin signed a decree dissolving the Supreme Soviet, the deputies in response accused the president of attempting a coup d'état.

Adam Gerrard / Mirrorpix / Vida Press Investigative actions in the case of the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripaley, March 18, 2018 British Prime Minister Teresa May said that former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were poisoned by the nervous substance of the Novichok class, the development of which has been conducted in the USSR since the 1970s.

There was a shooting at Great Mills School in Maryland on March 20. According to the St. Mary County Sheriff, before the start of classes, one of the students wounded a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy with a pistol. The victim is in critical condition. A security guard arrived at the scene, and a shootout ensued between him and the attacker, during which the student was wounded. He was taken to the hospital, where he died.

March 20. Telegram will be blocked in Russia The only question is when exactly this will happen. Today, Roskomnadzor sent Telegram a notification "On the need to fulfill the duties of the organizer of information distribution." The messenger has 15 days to transfer the FSB to encryption keys. Pavel Durov is not going to do this. “Telegram will protect the freedom and secret of private life,” he said .

Natalie Behring / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta the Uber Current Car in Arizona. Accident On Sunday evening, March 18, in the city of Temple in Arizona, 49-year-old Elein Herzberg walked along the side of the road and pushed a bicycle loaded with packages. Uber's self -governing car moved along the road. There was a driver in the car who theoretically could intercept control, but the car moved independently at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour.

Russian diplomats expelled by the British government after the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal have left the country. 23 employees of the Russian embassy in London, as well as their families, flew out of the UK. The diplomats flew to Moscow on an Il-96 aircraft with tail number RA-96023 . This liner appears in the materials of the case of cocaine smuggling from Argentina to Russia.

US President Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election, according to the Kremlin website. Trump said he had a "very good call" with Putin. He said he wanted to meet with the Russian president in the near future to discuss the "arms race" and other issues. On the whole, the conversation had a constructive, business-like character and was focused on overcoming the accumulated problems in Russian-American relations.

Discussion from the Kennan Institute on Medusa Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On March 20, the Discussion “Elections of the President of Russia was held at the Kennan Institute. What next? ”, In which the invited expert of the institute took part, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko and political scientists Ekaterina Shulman, Kirill Rogov and Dmitry Oreshkin. The topic of discussion is the results of the elections and the next six years of the presidency of Vladimir Putin.

23 Russian diplomats and members of their families deported by Great Britain flew from London on IL-96 with the RA-96023 onboard number, which was involved in the operation to suppress the smuggling of cocaine from Argentina. Ruptly and TASS, the publication of RBC, paid attention to the number of the aircraft and photos of the Ruptly and TASS agencies. According to the Flightradar24 website , the plane flew from Vnukovo to Stasted on March 20, and then went back .

We are praxis / youtube Alex Kogan (now he changed his surname to the spectrum) On March 17, The Guardian and The New York Times published a series of materials about the British political technology company Cambridge Analytica, which is allegedly helped Donald Trump to win the presidential presidential election using microargaging political advertising in social networks.

The newsletter The Bell published an interview on March 20 with Vladimir Uglev, one of the Soviet scientists at the state chemical research institute known as “GosNIIOKhT,” who helped developed “Novichok” — the nerve agent reportedly used to poison ex-spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in England, earlier this month.