In Irkutsk, employees of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation detained the alleged killers of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War and his wife. Pensioners were given multiple stab wounds, from their apartment, they previously stole the money, according to the website of the local department of the SK. The amount of stolen is not called. Also, the number of detainees is not indicated in the published note.

Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov called the coincidence by the award time of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov with the arrest of the suspects of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of whom served in the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, reports RBC . According to the press secretary, the assignment of state awards, including Kadyrov, was planned for a long time. "The execution of award documents takes several months," Peskov said.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) published a report , which presents the results of monitoring of the plane crash. The number of such incidents in the world in 2014 decreased, but the number of dead people grew. According to experts, in 2014 there were 12 crashes with human victims, or one 4.4 million flights. In 2013, one disaster was 2.4 million flights. But if you look at the number of dead, it increased. In 2014, 641 people were killed, and in 2013 210 people.

Opposition politician Ilya Yashin gave an interview to SPEKTR , in which he again stated that he considered it necessary to demand from special services to publish entries from video cameras at the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, as well as interrogate President Vladimir Putin as a witness. "So far, the main version is the involvement of the special services ... Vladimir Putin is still the main beneficiary, the main beneficiary of Boris Nemtsov’s death.

Employees of law enforcement agencies and operational services under Veliky Novgorod are looking for a nine -year -old girl. The child sailed along the Veronda River on an ice floe that broke away from the shore, Interfax reports. "The incident at the Lareshnikovo village occurred at about 17:00. Previously, the missing girl, along with a 12-year-old brother, played Veronda. Suddenly a girl broke away from the shore. A girl was on her.

Russian runners at 800 meters Ekaterina Skstogova and Anastasia Bazdyreva during the European Winter Championship in Prague were forced to interrogate by employees of the World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada).

In the Versailles Palace in France, the so -called monopods or tripods for selfie were banned - special devices for shooting itself on a mobile phone, the Russian BBC service reports. Thousands of tourists visit Versailles daily, many halls fill in crowds of people. Representatives of the palace believe that, using tripods, visitors can damage valuable works of art. It is believed that Versailles became the first European Museum to ban the monopodes.

Representatives of the "people's republics" in the east of Ukraine called on the Kyiv authorities to hurry with the definition of a special status of separatist territories. At the same time, representatives of Kyiv and the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic exchanged accusations of violating the ceasefire in the Donbass.

Roscosmos announced the holding of festive events dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the birth of the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin. "On March 9, 2015, festive events dedicated to Yuri Gagarin’s birthday and the opening of 42 international socio-scientific readings will be held in the city of Gagarin," the agency’s official website reports. In addition, the All -Russian flash mob was launched on social networks on this day.

The Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Strayuma appealed to the residents of the republic with a call to avoid provocations if the former SS legionnaires (Waffen SS), which is held annually on March 16. “I want to call all the inhabitants to avoid all kinds of provocations that can be, to perceive everything calmly and not participate in provocations,” she said on the air of Latvian radio .

The Russian skater Denis Yuskov won a silver medal in the classic all -around at the World Cup in the Canadian Kalgary. The Dutchman Sven Kramer became the champion, Norwegian Lunde Pedersen got a bronze. Yuskov was a leader after three distances and had a chance to first place, but in the final race for 10 kilometers, which is not his strength, showed only the fifth result.

The Kazan Rubin with a score of 1: 0 outplayed the Tula Arsenal in the home match of the 18th round of the Russian Football Championship. The decisive ball in the 5th minute of the match was scored by Igor Portnyagin. The 26-year-old striker scored the eighth ball in 15 matches of the Russian Championship this season. For the previous eight seasons in the Premier League, in which Portnyagin played 70 games, he scored only one goal, TASS notes.

The players of the Moscow Lokomotiv defeated Rostov in the guest match of the 18th round of the Russian championship and extended a series without missing goals in the championship until six meetings. The debut of Kurban Berdyev as head coach Rostov was unsuccessful because of his team missed by him in the 64th minute of the goal of the Lokomotiv’s new recruit, Petara Shkuletich, who scored in his first match in the Russian championship, the Premier League press service notes.

Oleg Navalny, sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in the Yves Rosher case, was discovered in a pre -trial detention center in the city of Orel, and not in a colony in the Oryol region, as previously reported in the media. This was written on Twitter by his brother-opposition Alexei Navalny, who received a conditional term in the same case. The fact that Oleg Navalny was transferred from Moscow to the colony of the Oryol region, his lawyer Kirill Polozov told reporters on March 4.

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the National Radio Company on March 9 will hold the 18-hour radio marathon "Shevchenko Mobilizes!", The press service of the Ukrainian government reports. The declared goal of a poetic event is the propaganda of mobilization . The action was timed to the poet’s birthday, March 9, 1814. Throughout the day, the participants will read the verses of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on the air of the radio stations of Ukraine.