Oleg Tinkov, the founder of Tinkoff Bank, has paid £20 million as bail for the duration of the trial with the US tax service, which is taking place in the UK. This is reported by the tabloid Sunday Express, without naming the sources of this information. According to the publication, the US prosecutor's office issued a preliminary warrant for the arrest of a businessman, accusing him of tax evasion.

Over the weekend, a festive fair in honor of Maslenitsa ended in Moscow's Zaryadye Park near the Kremlin. On this occasion, the organizers decorated the space at the entrance to the park in a very unusual way: next to the shopping malls they laid out real haystacks, around which acrobats in black tailcoats and top hats swayed on flexible poles.

Journalists Ksenia Sobchak, Alexey Pivovarov and Rodion Chepel, who independently released investigative films about the murder of Vlad Listyev , demanded that the heads of the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office reopen the investigation of this criminal case. The journalists' joint appeal was published on their social networks.

Psychologist Olga Yakotsuts, who conducted an examination in the criminal case of Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopieva, filed a lawsuit against her. She is demanding half a million rubles in compensation for post dated January 23, which, according to the expert, denigrates her business reputation. a journalist's Facebook In particular, Yakotsuts saw in it allegations of "violation of business ethics and business customs", "wrong, unethical behavior in personal, public or political life, .

The police released the chief editor of the Turkish bureau Sputnik, Mahir Boztepe, who was detained earlier on March 1 in Istanbul. Also, after testifying, three employees of the agency, who were detained earlier in Ankara, were released. The day before, a group of people shouting nationalist slogans tried to break into the journalists' apartments. After contacting the police, Sputnik employees were detained, and contact with them was lost.

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The Paris Louvre closed on March 1 indefinitely due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus, the museum said on its Facebook page. ⚠ Une réunion d'information sur la situation sanitaire aux mesures de prévention du Covid-19 à la suite des...

Justin Lane / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Over the past week, against the background of the coronavirus epidemic, stock markets all over the world fell through; The price of gold, which is considered a safe asset , increased (and then fell as sharply); Investors are actively buying up American bonds. The price of oil has fallen by 14% - the largest fall since 2011. In Russia, the euro for the first time since August 2019 rose above 74 rubles, the dollar has risen in price to 67 rubles.

25 years ago, Listyev was killed. Katerina Gordeeva talked with his widow Albina Nazimova Archive of Albina Nazimova / "Mosthenepozner" On March 1, 1995, journalist Vladislav Listyev was killed in the entrance of his own house in Moscow. Listyev was the first general director of the ORT and, perhaps, the most famous television journalist in the country, leading the programs “Field of Miracles”, “Topic” and “Hour of the Peak”. The murder of Listyev has not yet been disclosed.

The editor-in-chief of the Turkish bureau of the Sputnik agency, Mahir Boztepe, was detained by police in Istanbul. Earlier, it became known that three more Turkish citizens, Sputnik journalists, had been detained in Ankara. The day before, people shouting nationalist slogans tried to break into their apartments. After they contacted the police, they were detained and contact with them was lost.

The Yandex.Taxi service began to show the rating of passengers in a mobile application for iOS and Android, RBC reports. As representatives of the service clarified in the vc.ru commentary, the passenger rating existed before (more precisely, since 2018), but only from this February it began to be displayed in test mode for some users. It can be seen in the menu under the username.

On March 1, a law came into force allowing the import into Russia of unregistered drugs containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. Drugs can be imported to help specific patients, in respect of which the medical commission has decided that it is impossible to treat with other registered drugs. According to the order of the Ministry of Health, the list of drugs allowed for import includes diazepam, midazolam, clobazam, lorazepam and phenobarbital.

Anton Dolin-about the winner and other laureates of Berlinale-2020 Tobias Schwarz / AFP / Scanpix / Leta the film “Evil does not exist” receives “Golden Bear” The main prize of the 70th Berlin Film Festival was received by the picture of the Iranian director of Mohammad Rasulof “Evil does not exist”-a film about the death penalty shot by a political dissident.

The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that the Turkish authorities intervene in the situation with the employees of the Turkish bureau of the Sputnik news agency. Earlier, RT reported that on the evening of February 29, organized groups of people who shouted nationalist slogans, insults and threats tried to break into the apartments of three Sputnik Turkey employees in Ankara. In particular, they shouted "Turkey for the Turks", "Traitors", "Russian spies".

Dmitry Serebryakov / AP / Scanpix / Leta February 29 in the art park near the Kaluga village of Nikola-Lenivtsi on the occasion of Shrovetide traditionally burned a new art object. This year they became a large bridge 20 meters high and 66 meters long. The bridge has been built from the end of December according to the project of the Katarsis architectural bureau from dry, straw and wooden construction waste.