The television and radio company VGTRK lost the case against the largest Russian social network VKontakte regarding the posting on the website of the network of unlicensed copies of the film "Hunting Piranha". The Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation refused to transfer the case to the Presidium and revise the decision of the cassation instance, thus putting the point in the loudest in RuNet due to illegal content, ITAR-TASS reports.

The administrative district court on Tuesday canceled the ban on the Riga Duma to hold the event of the Latvian radicals from the Daugavsky hawks in Latvia on the day of memory of the Latvian legion of the SS auxiliary forces (Waffen SS) on March 16, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, on Wednesday, in the center of the Latvian capital, the march of the former Latvian veterans-SS people and their supporters will be held, and local anti-fascists will hold a traditional protest.

Radioactive materials thrown into the air as a result of an accident at Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11 can infect food and water, thereby posed a threat to public health. At the same time, small children and embryos become the most vulnerable. Such an opinion, reports Reuters, expressed foreign experts. They said that contact with radioactive materials is able to cause various types of cancer and anomalies in the development of the fetus.

In Russian legislation, there will be no norms limiting the possibility of using VISA and MasterCard international payment systems, the Assistant of the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich said on his blog on Twitter, commenting on the amendments to the bill "On the National Payment System" (NPS). The State Duma adopted this bill in the first reading in December 2010, in the second reading it should consider it in March this year.

In Dagestan Kizilyurt, an attack on the internal affairs department was committed, he was fired. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, at first the building was fired, then the car exploded nearby. The message about the attack was received by the duty unit at 23:15 in Moscow. According to updated data, one policeman was injured. He is hospitalized. Earlier it was reported that perhaps this attack was without victims and victims.

Microsoft had to apologize for using the Japanese earthquake to promote its Bing search engine. In the Bing account on Twitter, a message appeared that the company would sacrifice $ 1 to the victims of the earthquake for each "retweet". Such advertising, according to Adindex.ru , caused criticism of users who considered that Microsoft uses disaster for their own marketing purposes.

Kazan "Ak Bars" reduced the lag in the quarterfinal series of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League against the Ufa Salavat Yulaev. Being a step away from the departure from the Gagarin Cup from the draw, the current owners of this trophy scored four unrequited goals in Ufa. The account in the series was 3-1 in favor of Salavat, which won all three previous meetings. Nico Kapanen, Alexei Morozov, Marcice Hossa and Yannah Pesonen distinguished themselves as part of the Kazan team.

On Tuesday, US stock indices are sharply reduced at the beginning of trading against the background of increased radiation threat in Japan, where work is underway to cool three nuclear reactors damaged by the earthquake on March 11 , Finmarket reports. The fall in the US stock market follows the collapse of the Japanese Nikkei 225 by almost 11% and a sharp decrease in European indices, Bloomberg notes.

An earthquake in Japan awakened the Shinmoe volcano, RIA Novosti reports. Ash and stones fly into the air to a height of four kilometers. Experts assigned volcanic activity three out of five points on the danger scale. Authorities in Miyazaki Prefecture, where the volcano is located, are urging residents to stay as far away from Shinmoe as possible. People are being evacuated from the danger zone. Shinmoe is located 1,500 kilometers from the earthquake area.

The beginning of the new football season of the first and second divisions of the Japanese Japanese Jay League, scheduled for the first days of April, is postponed indefinitely. The corresponding decision, according to ITAR-TASS, was made on Tuesday at a meeting of the leadership of 38 clubs in the Japanese capital.

At least two people were killed and more than 200 were injured on Tuesday during the clashes of demonstrators with the police in Bahrain, Interfax reports. Local doctors clarified that one supporter of the opposition and one policeman died. According to them, the condition of 10 wounded is assessed as serious. The representative of the Bahrain government denied the reports transferred on Tuesday by some media reports about the death of the Saudi soldier in the kingdom of the Saudi.

Since March, the Mercedes-Benz company has switched to a direct supply scheme for car supplies that purchase state bodies or companies with state-regions. The new scheme excludes dealers from the chain and allows you to reduce the level of corruption during the purchase of new cars, the president of the Merdedes-Benz-Rus-Rus Jurgen Zauer said on Tuesday. Speaking of the results of 2010, Zauer noted that the revenue in Russia from the sale of cars amounted to 1.3 billion euros.

The great post for Russians means mainly spiritual cleansing and getting rid of sinful thoughts. Such an answer during a survey conducted by VTsIOM on March 5-6 in 46 regions of the Russian Federation was given 24% of respondents.

In the capital, a traffic accident occurred with the participation of cars of the State traffic inspectorate and the Federal Security Service (FSO). Both cars moved along the road with flashing lights turned on. According to Rosbalt , the cars collided the day before at the intersection of the Mozhaisk highway and Kubinka Street.

The metropolitan police are looking for criminals who made an armed raid on a jewelry salon. At the same time, they shot the resistance of the guard. In recent days, this is the third attack on a jewelry store. The crime was committed on Nizhny Maslovka Street, where in house No. 5 there is a jewelry salon of the Adamas plant.