The lower house of the US Congress has approved four laws that are aimed against the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin personally. The adoption of the laws was reported on Twitter by the press service of the House of Representatives. One of the approved documents requires the US Director of National Intelligence to prepare a report on Vladimir Putin's assets for Congress within six months.

Russian airline S7 Airlines will suspend flights on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft from March 13 until the causes of the crash in Ethiopia are determined. The company says the decision will not affect the regularity of its flights. S7 Airlines is the only Russian air carrier that uses Boeing 737 MAX. It has two aircraft of this model. In total, S7 Airlines fleet consists of 96 aircraft.

What started out as a project to stimulate Russia’s grassroots democracy is now a multi-million-dollar Internet resource, following Tuesday’s announcement that Yandex has fully acquired TheQuestion , a question-and-answer social network founded by former Ekho Moskvy journalist Tonia Samsonova. Yandex will merge the website with a similar service it launched last year, integrating the answers submitted and up-voted by users into the company’s “Alice” virtual assistant.

An Iranian court has sentenced lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh to 148 lashes and 10 years in prison, in addition to the five-year prison term she is already serving, Sotoudeh's husband Reza Khandan told AFP, France 24 reports. The court sentenced Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison on seven charges, but she will only serve the longest, 10-year term, he said. The rights activist was previously sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges, Handan said.

British MPs have rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's new Brexit deal, with 391 MPs voting against and 242 in favor, BBC News reports. On March 13, MPs will vote on leaving the EU without a deal. If they do not support this option, another vote will be held on March 14 - on delaying Brexit, which is scheduled for March 29. May's original plan to leave the EU was rejected by parliament in January, with 432 MPs voting against and 202 in favour.

The European Union has grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft following the crash in Ethiopia, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said. All Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-9 MAX flights over the European Union will be suspended from 10 p.m. (Moscow time) on March 12. This ban will apply to airlines from both the EU and third countries. EASA has not specified how long it will last. Earlier, Germany, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands closed their airspace to Boeing 737 MAX.

Yandex announced the purchase of the Question and Answer service TheQuestion. The amount of the transaction is not specified. TheQuestion will be combined with Yandex.Connoisseurs, a service where experts answer user questions. The answers of Yandex.Znatokov are displayed in the search results of Yandex. Now there will also be answers from members of the TheQuestion community. The joint project will be led by the founder of TheQuestion, former journalist of Ekho Moskvy, Tonya Samsonova.

VKontakte told Meduza that it would restore deleted photos of "Putin's tombstone" — a sculpture in the form of the Russian president's grave that was installed in Naberezhnye Chelny on March 10 by activists of the "Indefinite Protest." This was done as part of a campaign against the isolation of the Russian Internet. The news that the social network was deleting the photos of the sculpture became known on March 11.

On March 11, the STMEGI Foundation announced that the first ever Russian-language textbook for learners of the Judeo-Persian language Juhuri has been published by the Sholumi Center for the preservation of Mountain Jewish culture. The textbook’s publication was much anticipated in the Juhuro community and reflects a growing international interest in Russia’s minority languages.

Central Office of Criminal Investigations, Moscow Investigative Committee / TASS / Vida Press Investigators at the scene of Evgeniya Shishkina’s murder, October 10, 2018 Sources tell the BBC Russian Service that someone paid 1 million rubles ($15,215) to arrange the murder of Interior Ministry detective Evgeniya Shishkina last October, hiring the gunman through the Darknet.

On March 7, the STEAM digital store “ShHD: Winter” was published (Itʼs Winter in the English version). Its creation was engaged in the Moscow poet Ilya Mazo and Indie-developer Alexander Ignatov. Ilya Mazo There is no clear goal in the game, it is just a strain simulator in a typical Russian apartment with the opportunity to go out into the courtyard.

Major European countries have begun closing their airspace to Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, one of which crashed in Ethiopia on March 10. This decision was made by Germany, France and the UK. to close the airspace for such liners . decided Earlier , Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore Updated . The Netherlands also decided to close its airspace for the Boeing 737 MAX, reports the Associated Press. Boeing 737 MAX flights are not yet banned in Russia.

Update: On March 12, the press secretary to Chechen government leader Ramzan Kadyrov denied that Magomed Daudov had announced a blood feud. Alvi Karimov told TASS that the politician’s words had been deliberately mistranslated from Chechen and that Daudov had only intended to “call on [Abdurakhmanov] to take responsibility” for his words.

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A former security guard of Akhmat Kadyrov, Ayub Tuntuyev, convicted in cases of terrorist attack and attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya, was found dead in Vladimir Colony No. 6. This was reported by his lawyer Tagir Shamsudinov. "They called me today, said he committed suicide, and hung up. I'm leaving today for Penal Colony No. 6," Shamsudinov said, adding that he visited Tuntuev two months ago.