How Russian law enforcement identifies Facebook and Telegram users Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Internet freedom rally in Moscow, protesting a court ruling that blocked Telegram in Russia. April 13, 2018. When policing online behavior in Russia, law enforcement agencies enjoy total compliance from the country’s most popular social network, Vkontakte, which coughs up users’ personal data whenever requested.

Amazon Prime action series based on the works of John R.R. Tolkien, which is expected to be released in 2021, will take place in the Second Age of Middle-earth - that is, long before the events described in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This followed from several maps of Middle-earth that Amazon has published in recent days on social media and on the project's website ; finally, on March 7, the guess was confirmed with the message "Welcome to the Second Age".

While investigating Maria Butina for illegal foreign agent activities, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly explored her ties to Russian-American political expert and Center for the National Interest president Dimitri Simes, who has co-hosted a talk show on Russian state television since 2018. Two sources who know Simes told the online project Otkrytye Media (Open Media) that FBI agents previously questioned them about Simes’s connections to Butina.

The FBI, during the investigation of the Maria Butina case, was interested in the activities of the American political scientist Dmitry Simes, who has been broadcasting the Big Game program on Channel One since 2018. This is reported by the Open Media project, citing sources. Two acquaintances of Simes said that FBI agents asked them about Simes' connections with Butina.

Anna Pavlikova’s lawyer - about the verdict of the defendant of the “New Greatness” case, who pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence Vladimir Andreev / Ura.ru / TASS are involved in the case of "New Greatness" in the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow, July 12, 2018 In the case of the creation of the extremist community "New Greatness", the first sentence was sentenced.

The Investigative Committee announced the completion of the investigation into the case of embezzlement of 850 million rubles, in which the general director of the former advertising contractor of the Moscow metro, the Auto Cell company, is involved. According to investigators, the general director of the company Gyulya Kogan "with her accomplices" embezzled money that was intended to pay for advertising space in the metro.

The UK has tightened the rules for obtaining visas for investors. Now, in order to receive such a visa, the applicant must prove that he has owned the two million pounds sterling that he is going to invest in the economy for at least two years. Also, it will be possible to invest only in British companies - and not in government bonds. Previously, a sufficient term for holding money was 90 days.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long and important message where he told how he sees the future of Facebook. Among other things, he wrote that the company will not store data in countries where human rights are violated - even under the threat of blocking. We don't know what criteria Facebook will use.

"MVK" poster of the cartoon "Gurvinek. Magic game " The material was updated on March 14 after the cinemas stopped the Boycot of Gurvinka, and the Royal Corgi received a rental certificate. February 28 ↓ The Ministry of Culture refuses to give the Volga to a rental certificate for the display of the Royal Corgi Belgian cartoon from March 7 - and asks to choose a later date.

Ddp / INTERTOPICS / Vida Press November 8, 2017 ↓ The website Fontanka publishes an investigative report about Gazprom’s construction of a 100-kilometer-long (62-mile-long) gas pipeline in Priozersk, outside St. Petersburg. According to financial records, the project’s contractor, “Omega,” completed the work back in 2014 and received 1.7 billion rubles ($25.8 million, according to the current exchange rate).

How Kazakhstan welcomes ISS astronauts back to Earth Andrew McConnell / Museum of Cosmonautics For the first time in Russia, images by the Irish photographer and two-time World Press Photo award winner Andrew McConnell will be displayed in a public exhibit. Re-entry is open in Moscow’s Museum of Cosmonautics until March 31. The foundation of the project is a set of photographs McConnell took in Kazakhstan during reentry missions from the International Space Station.

On March 7, Meduza published Anton Dolin's review of Captain Marvel. In our social networks, the material appeared with such an eyeliner : The Meduza post turned into a meme — Twitter users started joking about what else Anton Dolin might have discovered. Meduza requested a comment from Anton Dolin. “❤️❤️❤️,” the film critic replied.

In the news release of Channel One, a story was released in which journalists offered teenagers to work as drug couriers. A report about how teenagers are attracted to the delivery of drugs was shown on March 5, but it did not attract public attention until a few days later. In particular, Znak.com wrote about the plot .

On March 7, the Non-Blockchain Telegram channel published a video called “live broadcast on March 8 from Sberbank.” On the recording, one of the corporate party participants is trying to pour champagne into a pyramid of glasses. An orchestra is playing in the room. The hero of the video touches a glass standing at the very top - it falls down, the pyramid collapses. Customers scream, the music stops. Meduza requested a comment from Sberbank on Twitter.

The police have summoned one of the developers of the nerve agent Novichok , scientist Vladimir Uglev, for questioning, the BBC Russian Service reports. Uglev told the publication that he was summoned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a suspect in a petty theft committed in one of the sanatoriums of the Krasnodar Territory. According to Uglev, a criminal case has been opened.