The UN International Court in The Hague began hearing in the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia, the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports. On the agenda is a request from Kiev on the introduction of temporary measures to protect the country's civilian population, the UNIAN Ukrainian Agency notes. It is expected that the hearings will last four days. Ukraine will present arguments on Monday, March 6, and on Wednesday, March 8. Russia is on Tuesday, March 7, and on Thursday, March 9.

The Pope Francis called on believers regularly read the Bible, addressing it as often as they do with their mobile phones, Reuters reports. He stated this during the traditional Sunday sermon on St. Peter Square in the Vatican.

Since the beginning of 2017, sales of the main types of household appliances and consumer electronics have been reduced both in kind and in monetary terms, the newspaper Vedomosti writes with reference to GFK data. The fall began last December. At the end of 2016, the decline amounted to approximately 10% and affected all the commodity categories, the newspaper told one of the large retailers of household appliances and electronics.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed the directive of the appointment of Sberbank senior vice president Sergey Ivanov, the son of the ex-head of the Presidential Administration, the new head of the Alrosa company, Interfax reports. “I want to inform you: a government directive has been signed on the appointment of a single executive body of the joint -stock company Alrosa,” Medvedev addressed Ivanov.

The Mipromtorg of the Russian Federation expanded the list of cars for 201 position, the owners of which will be required to pay an increased transport tax for 2017. The updated list, published on the website of the ministry, includes cars worth more than 3 million rubles. In total, the document now has 909 items. Moreover, in the document 424 models worth from 3 million to 5 million rubles; In the category "from 5 million to 10 million rubles" - 320 positions.

The Kremlin expresses concern in connection with new missile launches held by North Korea. This, according to Interfax , on Monday, March 6, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. “Of course, we are seriously worried,” he said.

The Yakutsk court sentenced a 43-year-old local resident who is found guilty of a brutal detubication. The woman scored to death with a wooden bar of a young son, who could not quickly learn a literary work. The parent was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the official website of the Republican prosecutor's office reports. She will serve the deadline in a penal colony of general regime. As an additional punishment, the freedom of the convicted was limited for another year.

Actor Ryan Reynolds, who received the nominations for the Golden Globe and the MTV Award for the main role in the Marvel superhero action movie, published the first trailer to continue the Dadpool film. For two days, the video gained almost 17 million views on YouTube . The hero of Reynolds is faced with the wall of Lee, who traditionally plays Camo in the adaptations of his comics, and then tries to put on a superhero suit in a close telephone booth to help the victim of the robber.

The Thai court sentenced the Russians Olga Smirnova, arrested two weeks ago for feeding fish on the beach of the island of Rachay. As reported, the woman was threatened with a punishment in the form of one year of imprisonment or a fine of up to 2.8 thousand dollars, but the court passed a mild sentence. Smirnov should pay a fine of only 1 thousand baht ($ 28) in the size of only, TASS reports with reference to the head of the consular department of the Russian embassy Vladimir Sosnov.

Russian sailors, residents of Sevastopol, freed from captivity of pirates in Nigeria, arrived in Simferopol, reports TASS with reference to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Sevastopol Pavel Butsay. “They flew to the Airport of Simferopol,” the Ombudsman said and added that the relatives of the sailors are already notified of their release. Earlier, Butsai reported that during the negotiations it was possible to agree with the pirates about the redemption, but did not specify the amount.

The Russian fighter of mixed martial arts Khabib Nurmagomedov apologized to the fans for the breakdown of the fight with the representative of the United States Tony Ferguson as part of the tournament in Las Vegas. “I know, many people were waiting for this fight, and I failed everyone. About the fragmented battle, I want to apologize to my fans, UFC and to my opponent. Everything is good with my health, it happened and worse, but each time these trials made me only stronger.

The Federal Service for Supervision of the Protection of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) confirmed the fact of the outbreak of bird flu in the poultry farm in the Moscow Region. "In March of this year, the center of the flu of birds at the poultry farm in the Moscow region was registered," the agency said on the official website said.

A group of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposed the method of using plant cellulose as a raw material for 3D printing instead of the currently used polymers. An article on development was published in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies . According to New Atlas , such a cellulose will allow you to print durable biodegradable objects, as well as reduce the cost of the 3D printing process due to the low cost of cellulose.

“Our society today is very gentle. We do not tolerate any insults. We are sensitive to the feelings of believers, the memory of the war and our history. Those who encroach on the sacred are severely punished - people every now and then receive criminal charges for seemingly harmless, albeit sometimes stupid, actions,” the blogger writes in LiveJournal . “Video blogger Sokolovsky decided to catch Pokemon in the temple and will probably go to jail for this...

Every fourth dairy product on Russian shelves is poor -quality and contains vegetable fats, last week the Accounts Chamber said with reference to the laboratory tests of the Rosselkhoznadzor. According to the chairman of the board of the International Confederation of Consumer Societies Dmitry Yanin, such dairy products are in demand due to a lower price.