In the Kemerovo region, a verdict was sentenced to a man found guilty of the murder of a friend. After a booze, one of the drinking companions began to look for his civil spouse and became furious when a friend unsuccessfully joked about her murder and cannibalism. By a court decision, the accused Andrei Grigoryev will spend nine years behind bars.

The American magazine Forbes calculated that only seven people (0.4%) from the global list of billionaires of 2014 openly declare their unconventional orientation. Some of them even use their condition to protect the rights of sexual minorities, the Russian journal writes on Friday. These "seven brave" owned conditions of almost $ 16 billion.

The policy of using threats and sanctions against Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine "will bring the opposite (desired) effect." The former US Ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock in an interview with the independent television program Democracy now (“Democracy now”), which is awarded a total of more than a thousand television and radio stations in North America, made such a warning on Thursday, March 20.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine established a number of people involved in the murders of people in Independence Square in Kyiv. So far, there are only citizens of Ukraine among them. About this, as reports "Interfax-Ukraine" , said the acting Prosecutor General Oleg Makhnitsky. “I can’t name these persons, but I can’t name their surnames,” Makhnitsky said on the air of the channel 5 on Thursday evening, March 20.

Documents issued by the Ukrainian authorities to residents of Crimea and Sevastopol will continue to operate after the adoption of the republic in the Russian Federation or to the dates indicated in them. The relevant provision is contained in the Federal Constitutional Law "On the adoption of new entities in the Russian Federation and education in the Russian Federation, " Interfax reports.

“Candidates suing each other is a common form of election struggle. And when it comes to a lawsuit demanding the removal of a candidate from the party in power, the outcome of the court hearing (in Russia) is predictable. More precisely, it was predictable until March 21, 2014, when Judge Yulia Bliznyak in Novosibirsk decided to cancel the registration of Vladimir Znatkov. The claim concerned the use of official position for election purposes.

In relation to the leader of one of the nationalist organizations of Dmitry Korchinsky, the IC of Russia opened a criminal case for calls to unleash a war against the Crimea, ITAR-TASS reports the words of the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin.

The bill on the return of "winter time" is ready for consideration in the State Duma. This was announced today at the meeting by the author of the initiative, the head of the Duma Committee for Health Protection Sergey Kalashnikov, ITAR-TASS reports. During the discussion of the chamber of the chamber in April, the Communist Nikolai Kolomeytsev asked why there is still no issue of "winter time" on the agenda. After all, 87 deputies have already signed under the bill.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health decided to revive the system of detectors in large Russian cities in order to prevent alcoholization of the population and reduce the number of crimes committed by drunk citizens. This was stated by the head of the internal affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, reports ITAR-TASS. "In recent years, there has been a stable trend in the growth of crimes committed in a state of intoxication.

Plans for creating a joint venture in Russia for the assembly of Q400 turboprop aircraft can be postponed due to events in Ukraine. This was announced in an interview with Bloomberg business news agency President of the Canadian Machine -Building Corporation Bombardier Pierre Baudouin. According to him, the government intends to follow the example of the United States with regard to the imposition of economic sanctions against Russia.

Over the next months, the largest European car manufacturer Volkswagen will announce the creation of a new brand that will develop and produce budget cars for developing markets. The Germans see the main competitor Dacia - the budget division of Renault. The question of creating a budget brand was extremely difficult. Earlier, several top managers of Volkswagen immediately expressed fear that the production of low-quality machines would negatively affect the image of the brand.

The father of the six -time champion of the Olympic Games in the short track of the Russian Viktor AN AN Hi won said that he was ready to consider the possibility of changing citizenship by his youngest son - the skate of AN Hyun Chun. “If the skating union does not go to reforms, I will consider the option in which AN Hyun Chun will change citizenship,” Reuters said to the AN Guon.

In the metropolitan region, large economist Mikhail Dmitriev is beaten. He was attacked by robbers when he approached the house. Until recently, Dmitriev served as president of the Center for Strategic Development Foundation (CSR). However, he was forced to resign after a critical analysis of the activities of the Russian authorities. Deputy Mikhail Dmitriev Sergey Belanovsky reported on the scientist , who was committed against a scientist.

About 20 years after the death of the famous musician, the leader of the Nirvana group Kurt Kobein, the Seattle Police doubled the case file, finding four unwashed photography in them, the local Kiro TV channel reports. Checking the case file was organized to answer some questions that may appear in connection with the 20th anniversary of Cobain's death. On the discovered photographs, an apartment was captured, where in 1994 they found the body of Cobain with a gunshot wound in the head.

“The United States and its Western allies are now racking their brains over how to use China in a campaign of pressure on Russia in connection with Ukraine and Crimea. Decisive events in this direction will play out next week, when Chinese President Xi Jinping goes on his first visit to Western Europe. Europe. On March 24-25, he will take part in the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. Barack Obama had already arranged a mandatory meeting with him there.