Russia will take part in tripartite negotiations of the European Commission - Ukraine - Russia on gas on March 2. About this, according to Interfax , said the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum. In addition, on Monday, consultations with the European Commission and Ukrainian partners will take place, Novak added. "We agreed that I would come on Monday. We agreed with the European Commissioner that we would hold tripartite consultations.

Russian scientists will try to determine the exact dates of Buddha Shakyamuni using a radiocarbon analysis. For research, the so -called ringseles will be transferred to them - particles that remained at the place of cremation of the Buddha and stored in Buryatia. The abbot of the Buddhist monastery "Rinpoche Bagsha", where the Holy relics are located, Elo Rinpoche, allowed to conduct an analysis.

Russian Maria Sharapova went to the semifinals of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel tennis tournament in Acapulco (Mexico), whose prize fund is 250 thousand dollars. In a quarter-final match, a 27-year-old athlete, sown at the tournament under the first number, outplayed Magdalen Rykarikova from Slovakia, occupying 50th place in the world ranking, with a score of 6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 2. The match lasted 2 hours 13 minutes.

An unusual hacker attack is currently underway in Brazil. Attackers send malicious files via email, which they use to hack victims’ routers and spy on their web traffic, SecurityLab writes, citing data from Proofpoint. Using malicious attachments, hackers exploit holes in home routers and gain access to the administrator console. After this, the attackers change the DNS router settings.

At an auction that took place the day before in Liverpool at the Beatles' Cavern club, an anonymous buyer purchased Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home for £150,000, The Guardian reports. The bidding started at 100 thousand pounds and lasted only six minutes, writes The Mirror . The future Beatle moved with his parents to a modest two-storey house at number 72 Western Avenue in Liverpool's Speke when he was four years old and lived there until the early 1950s.

The water level in Lake Baikal over the past day decreased by a centimeter and is now below the minimum permissible mark by two centimeters, RIA Novosti said on Friday in the regional services of the region. On Tuesday, it was reported that the water level in Baikal sank a centimeter below the minimum mark of 456 meters. “The decrease per day is by one more centimeter, now the Baikal level mark is 455.98 meters,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Facebook, together with several suicide prevention organizations, has developed an appropriate service on the social network. This was reported on the blog of the social network. If the user notices an alarming post from his friend on the social network, he will be able to inform the Facebook administration about this, whose experts will consider this post.

Conflicting information came from the village of Teriberk in the Murmansk region, where most scenes of the sensational film "Leviathan" Andrei Zvyagintsev were shot. The Flashnord agency reported on January 26 with reference to the representative of the "fishing union" by Vladimir Lyapunov that, due to the lack of raw materials, the work of the only fishing factory of the city was stopped. However, the city authorities and factory leadership refute this.

Journalists accused the head of the Maryino council Tatyana Dorofeev that she allegedly asked the residents of the district not to go out on March 1, so as not to increase the number of the Vesna opposition march, which will be held there on Sunday. This was reported by the portal "iodine" with reference to an anonymous employee of the local administration.

The State Duma Commission on ethics issued a “strict warning” to the deputy Dmitry Gudkov, one of the authors of the sensational bill proposing to limit the president’s right to impose sanctions , but for another reason. By the way, against this background, information appeared on the State Duma website that this bill was sent to the Duma Committee on Economic Policy.

Against the background of the ongoing crisis and abbreviations in power structures and state apparates , salaries of employees of the Presidential Administration will decrease by 10%. This was announced personally by Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of the Security Council, the Kremlin website reports.

UNESCO General Director Irina Bokova sharply condemned the destruction of the Islamic State of Antiquities in the Iraqi city of Mosul. “I am deeply shocked by a video published today, which shows the destruction of statues and other artifacts in the Mosul Museum. I condemn it as a deliberate attack against a thousand -year history and culture of Iraq, as well as an incitement to violence and hatred,” the BBC BOKED Russian service quoted.

More than 100 thousand Catholics from around the world, including from Russia, signed an appeal to the Pope Francis in support of the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church about the family. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" one of the initiators of the collection of signatures, representative of the International Organization of Tradition, Family, Property Juan Miguel Montes.

The South Korean brand Hyundai has published two design sketches of the new crossover based on the subcompact hatchback I20, reports Livecars.ru . Judging by the sketches, the mini-circuit will receive modified bumers with aluminum protective plates, plastic protective pads on the body, headlights of head light with LED sections of daylight lights, LED rear lights and round fog lights in the front bumper.

The Russian Orthodox Church today called on the world community to stop terror, whose victims recently again became hundreds of Syrian Christians on the territories controlled by the militants (IG).