The House of Commons of the British Parliament opposed Brexit without an agreement with the EU. This option was rejected by 321 deputies, 278 parliamentarians supported it. On March 14, Parliament will vote to postpone Brexit from March 29 to a later date. If the House of Commons supports the postponement, the British government will make a corresponding request to the EU. Prime Minister Theresa May will ask MPs to vote for a delay until June 30.

Forbes magazine published a list of the richest Russian bachelors. It included 15 people who are either divorced or have never been married. The first place in the list is occupied by the founder of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman, whose fortune is estimated at $15 billion. The businessman divorced over 10 years ago and has four children. In second place is the owner of the metallurgical company Evraz and the Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, with a fortune of $12.4 billion.

US President Donald Trump announced an immediate grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft, Associated Press reports. He explained this by “new information” about the crash of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia, without giving details. Earlier, the US Federal Aviation Administration refused to ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, saying that no systemic problems had been identified in their operation.

In the new James Bond film, star Daniel Craig will drive British manufacturer Aston Martin's Rapide E, whose cars have been featured in 007 films since 1964. According to the source of the tabloid The Sun, it was the director of the film, Cary Fukunaga, who pays increased attention to environmental issues, who suggested changing Bond to an electric car. The car will play an important role in one of the action scenes in the new film, the source said The Sun.

Facebook and Instagram have crashed. , complained about problems with access to social networks Users, in particular, from Russia , Belarus and Ukraine . According to Downdetector, the biggest disruption to Facebook and Instagram is in the US and Western Europe. The Verge writes that both social networks have lost the ability to publish records, as well as send and receive messages. Updated . The Facebook administration reported that it is trying to solve problems with access.

Former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has been sentenced to six years in prison for conspiring against the United States and trying to influence witnesses. It is reported by CNN. Last week, Manafort already received three years and 11 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and banking fraud. As a result of the partial addition of sentences, the former Trump campaign chief will spend seven and a half years in prison. Updated .

At first glance, it seems that “triangular dances” is very simple. The participants of the challenge (there should be three of them) to stand opposite each other, put their hands on the shoulders of the neighbors and take turns jumping into the center of the triangle formed by them. Employees of Medusa also decided to master the “triangular dances”. It turned out that this is not at all easy! Which team was best managed to cope with the challenge, our readers will determine.

In the criminal case of Lia Milushkina, coordinator of Open Russia in Pskov, who is accused of selling drugs, a second episode of selling amphetamines appeared. Pavel Dmitriev, editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets in Pskov, reported this to Mediazona with reference to a court hearing on the extension of Milushkina's house arrest. A representative of the UK told the court that on January 13, the activist sold 2.16 grams of amphetamine to a man named Pavlov, reported .

David Mullich is the key creator of the third part of the turn-based strategy “Heroes of Might and Magic”. The other day, one of the Russian journalists told him about the incredible popularity of the game in Russia. Mullich wrote about this on his Facebook. I was just informed by a Russian journalist that my game Heroes of Might and Magic 3 was the reason many young Russian...

Kirill Shipitsin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA The construction site for a water bottling plant at Lake Baikal This Tuesday, March 12, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered National Resources and Environment Minister Dmitry Kobylkin to verify that the construction of a bottling facility in the Lake Baikal area complies with “the strictest environmental standards.” Construction on the plant began this January, supported by 1.5 billion rubles ($22.9 million) in investment from the company “Aquasib.”

The Novosibirsk Art Council approved the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin in the fenced area of ​​the regional committee of the Communist Party. This is a compromise solution, the head of the initiative group for the installation of the monument, Alexei Denisyuk, told RIA Novosti. Previously, the city hall has repeatedly refused to agree on the installation of a monument in public places, he recalled. According to Denisyuk, it is planned to open a monument to Stalin by May 9, 2019.

The court fined the editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod publication KozaPress Irina Slavina (Murakhtaeva) 20 thousand rubles on charges of organizing an unauthorized march in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by the human rights project "Apology of Protest".

The Federation Council of the Russian Federation gave its approval to two new bills despite opposition from another federal agency. The bills would penalize Internet users and online media for publishing “unreliable” information of social significance or spreading “obscene” criticisms of the Russian government, its symbols, or some of its members.

On March 6, Russia’s State Duma approved a new law that consists primarily of a single sentence: “A residential space in a building with multiple apartments may not be used to provide hotel services.” As of March 13, the Federal Council had requested that the final draft of the law be modified to go into effect on January 1, 2020 rather than taking effect immediately. However, the Council’s members indicated support for the law, and there is no doubt that it will sooner or later become active.

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to the State Duma that gives new powers to the Investigative Committee. The agency will be allowed to engage in forensic examination. Carrying out forensic examinations, according to the text of the document, will become one of the main tasks of the Investigative Committee. The agency will be allowed to have forensic units and forensic organizations, and investigators will be allowed to appoint and carry out forensic examinations.