Deputy Chairman of the Board of VTB Bank Mikhail Oseevsky received the degree of Doctor of Economics, despite the accusations of the Dissernet network community in plagiarism. The order to issue a diploma was signed on March 16 by Deputy Minister of Education and Science Lyudmila Venova, Fontanka reports. Oseevsky defended his scientific work at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in June 2014. Then public activists from Dissernet made a scandal and accused the banker of plagiarism.

The Boston radio station WBUR conducted a survey, the results of which showed that most city residents support a life sentence for Johar Tsarnaev, the trial of which began in early March. The survey, which was attended by 229 registered voter from Boston, 62% of respondents said that Tsarnaev should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 27% spoke out for the death penalty.

A religious examination was not able to endure the conclusion on the Saintological Church of Moscow the first time. This was reported on Tuesday by the press secretary of the Izmailovsky court of the capital Natalya Surikova on Tuesday . The examination was appointed as part of a civil case initiated by representatives of the church, who challenged in court the refusal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to register their charter.

The situation around the research vessel "Academician Nikolai Strakhov", whose fate was preoccupied with the government, was developed.

“The symbol of the forum was a swan swimming in a puddle with the outlines of Russia. True, the southern border of the puddle-country was somehow different. This was hotly discussed by those gathered - someone looked for and did not find Crimea in the puddle, someone, on the contrary, discovered the whole of Kazakhstan. I was rather interested in the symbol itself: why Russia was suddenly flooded and what was hiding in these waters.

The authorities of the Ukrainian city of Sumy did not allow believers to conduct a traditional annual procession on the day of memory of the Theodor's icon of the Mother of God, calling it a "political event." This is stated in the information published on Tuesday on the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC -MP). "On March 27, the traditional large-scale procession in the city was planned on the day of the Feodorovsky Icon of the Mother of God on March 27.

The American television channel CNN received a universal broadcasting license in Russia, Vadim Ampelonsky press secretary of Roskomnadzor told Interfax . "The order for the issuance of a universal broadcasting license CNN has been signed," Ampelonsky said. Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper said that Roskomnadzor issued a universal broadcast license to CNN International structures.

The Governor of the Novosibirsk Region Vladimir Gorodetsky, who commented on Tuesday to journalists, the situation around the sensational production of the opera Tangaiser opera at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, called on respect for Orthodox traditions. “These values ​​must be protected as a zenitsa of an eye. And therefore, I want to appeal to the leaders and organizers of cultural events and other public events to refrain from confrontation of those values.

Police officers of Thailand from the Bureau for Combating drug trafficking (NSB) detained seven foreigners suspected of spreading methamphetamine. Most of the alleged drug dealers are Russian citizens, and three are immigrants from Iran. One of the arrangement of a gang of four drug dealers took place in the Bang-lamung area of ​​the Chonburi Province (Island of Phuket) and in the Fayya-Tay area in Bangkok, writes Thaivisa News .

The Investigative Committee (SK) refused to institute criminal proceedings against the director of the Institute of Regional Press (IRP) of St. Petersburg Anna Sharogradskaya on charges of spreading extremism. Lawyer Evgeny Smirnov said that the UK did not find signs of a crime in the actions of a human rights activist. According to him, Article 282, on which the charges were built, describes the excitement of hatred or enmity as an action committed publicly or using the media.

On March 24, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (CC) issued a ruling on the complaint of St. Petersburg resident Adam Bogatyrev, in which it ordered the federal legislator to create a legal mechanism that would ensure a balance of rights and legitimate interests of all participants in the real estate market, including family members of the previous owner of the property, which was sold for debts.

Members of the youth department of the Party "RPR-Parnas" in St. Petersburg presented the administration of the Holiday Inn hotel on March 23 on the Moscow Gate Square Portrait of Adolf Hitler. This was done in protest against the international Russian conservative forum held there on March 22, which many public representatives called the Congress of Neo -Nazis.

The first congress of the Civil Platform party was held in Moscow after the founder and first leader Mikhail Prokhorov left it. The conference was under the leadership of the Party Committee of Rifat Shaikhutdinov, who spoke about the further plans of the Civil Platform, its ideology and new sponsors. "At the moment, 37 out of 819 members left the party, while 112 people were accepted," Interfax reports him.

Exports to Russia from Germany in January 2015 compared with January 2014 decreased by 35.1% to a little less than 1.44 billion euros. According to DW, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) reports. There has not been such a sharp reduction in the export indicators of Germany in the Russian market since October 2009, when sales volumes fell noticeably due to the global financial crisis.

“It is very comfortable for a person to live with the idea that he and the community of people to which he considers himself are good. That our people are good, and those in power are not fools either and know what they are doing. And under the pressure of circumstances, a person does not change his point of view, but simply retreats to new lines of defense. Because giving up the thought of one’s own “goodness” is unbearable. And if you try to change something, it will only get worse.