The International Football Association Board (IFAB) made several changes to the rules of football on March 2. This body, made up of representatives from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is the only body with the power to regulate the rules.

The plenum of the St. Petersburg branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation unanimously recommended that film director and State Duma deputy Vladimir Bortko be nominated for the post of city governor. In the comments of the radio station "Moscow speaking", the politician confirmed his intention to participate in the elections, saying that he has all the skills necessary for the head of the city. “If I hadn’t assessed my prospects, I would have disagreed from the very beginning.

The Russian embassy in the UK called "a gross lie" an article in The Mail on Sunday, dedicated to the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in London, Alexander Yakovenko. The investigation published in the British tabloid on March 3, in particular, claims that in the 1980s, while working in New York at the USSR mission to the UN, Yakovenko collaborated with Soviet intelligence. At the height of the Cold War, a diplomat was allegedly expelled from the US for espionage.

Football club "Ufa" will return to the fans the money they spent on tickets for the match with Moscow "Dynamo" in the 18th round of the Russian Premier League. Earlier, the general director of the club, Shamil Gazizov , announced that the whole team had decided to compensate each fan for the ticket purchased in case of losing points in the game with Dynamo. On March 3, Ufa lost to Dynamo with a score of 1:2. The Moscow club scored the winning goal in the fourth added minute of the second half.

"Medusa" chose the main video games of Marta Dead or Alive 6 For whom: for fans of fighting Exit date: March 1 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One PlayStation The game was made more accessible to beginners. For example, there was a mechanic called Fatal Rush-if you press the same button several times, the character himself will perform the simplest combo.

A Twitter user from Moscow, Katya Pavlyuchenko, sent congratulations to the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, on the successful launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and its docking with the International Space Station. In her tweet, written in English, she also lamented that Roskosmos is unlikely to congratulate its competitors from SpaceX on this event. “I don’t think Rogozin or Roskosmos will congratulate you, they never do that, and it’s frustrating.

The police officers who detained the mixed martial arts fighter Alexander Emelianenko in Kislovodsk for drunk driving did not receive threats, none of them were fired from law enforcement agencies. An informed source told Interfax about this. A similar statement was published on the website of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Territory. However, it does not mention the name of the detained driver.

Update: Spokespeople for Moscow State University's Political Science Department later clarified that Andrey Manoilo was only joking about inviting Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin to the “First Skripal Readings” conference.

The Moscow State University will host a scientific conference, "The First Skripal Readings," dedicated to the anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Britain. This was stated to the radio station "Moscow Speaks" by MSU professor and member of the scientific council of the Russian Security Council Andrei Manoylo.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station, has successfully docked to the ISS in automatic mode. The docking can be seen on broadcast . a NASA The first-ever test launch of Crew Dragon took place on March 2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On board the ship is a mannequin nicknamed Ripley. After docking with the ISS, Crew Dragon should return to Earth.

In the Irkutsk region, lawyer Galina Muzyka was found dead, Mediazona reports, citing the regional Public Monitoring Commission. She was the defender of Usolye-Sibirskoye resident Mikhail Zagvozdin, who was detained on March 1 after a search of his apartment. According to his wife, the operatives refused to provide a search warrant and then beat Zagvozdin in front of his children. A criminal case has been opened against the detainee for using violence against government officials .

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips - and take the best. In this issue: the long-awaited return of the Solange and The Retuses, Ivan Dorn reads a Russian-people's rap with Tina Kuznetsova, as well as two songs about pussies. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Musik !

The most unusual devices from the MWC conference At the end of February, the largest exhibition of mobile technology Mobile World Congress (MWC) was held in Barcelona. In addition to phones with a folding screen and just flagship models, several devices with completely unexpected characteristics were shown at MWC in 2019. Meduza tells what surprised us.

A mass accident occurred on the Moscow ring road on the morning of March 3. According to Interfax, in the region of the 59th kilometer of the highway, 16 cars collided at once, and another 19 cars a few hundred meters away. Due to the accident, two lanes of the Moscow Ring Road were blocked. At least one person was injured. The cause of the accident was severe ice. On Sunday morning, snow began to fall in Moscow with a blizzard.

The reason for the failure of the negotiations between the leaders of the United States and the DPRK was the demand of Donald Trump to close a secret uranium enrichment plant near Pyongyang, to which Kim Jong-un refused. It is reported by The Sunday Times. According to the publication, at the summit of the two heads of state, the American side spoke about a secret intelligence calculated facility called Kangson, located in the city of Chollima, a few kilometers from the capital of North Korea.