The European Court in Luxembourg recognized the right of countries - members of the European Union for an independent decision in issues of issuing humanitarian visas to refugees. The court ruled that pan -European law does not oblige the EU countries to issue visas, because such issues are regulated by the national legislation of each individual state.

On the eve of March 8, sales in stores traditionally increase. Men strive to please their family, acquaintances, unfamiliar and generally unfamiliar women with signs of attention and various gifts. Of course, the flowers are in the first place. Gift bouquets are invariably in high demand on the eve of the holiday.

The Prionezhsky District Court found guilty of the defendants in the Tu-134 crash in Karelia in 2011, but amnestied all three defendants, Interfax reports. "The court applies to Vladimir Kaparupa, Vladimir Pronin and Eduard Voitovsky an amnesty act with the release of a sentence from serving a criminal record," the judge Natalya Molodtsova announced the decision.

By 2019, 30% of Russian agricultural enterprises will use Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and predict the sowing season using drones. This scenario for the development of agriculture is provided for by the road map for the introduction of high technologies in the agro-industrial complex, writes RBC .

The Swedish press spoke of the "Soviet" methods of influence and the desire of Moscow to strengthen the tension between the EU and NATO countries after it turned out that some Russian journalists paid the residents of the troubled area during riots in the suburbs of Stockholm in order to remove the spectacular plot. With youth from the Rinkebu district, where several cars were burned on February 22, Radio24SYV journalists talked.

Activist Ildar Dadin , who was released on February 26 after the abolition of his sentence by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, will soon appeal to the court with a claim for compensation for illegal criminal prosecution. This was told on Tuesday by his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina.

The Investigative Committee of Russia established which of the commanders of the Ukrainian army ordered to use the Point-U missile system against the civilian population of Donbass, according to the website of the IC of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, the commander of the 19th separate missile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Fedor Yaroshevich, was involved in the investigation.

In mid -April, at the Open Russia conference, a new chairman of the movement will be elected instead of Mikhail Khodorkovsky leaving this post. Earlier, he announced his intention during the constituent conference in Helsinki. In addition, the Federal Council of Movement will be re -elected. According to the executive director of the movement Timur Valeev, the upcoming conference, in which the election of the successor of Khodorkovsky will be held, will be held from April 15 to 16.

The Volkswagen concern at the Geneva Motor Show showed the prototype of its first completely self -governing car. The concept was called Sedric - abbreviated from Self -Driving Car. The show-kar, designed for four passengers, is assigned the fifth level of autonomy, which means that a person does not need a person to control the machine.

Two famous Oscar -winners, Tom Hanks and Maryl Streep, are united with the third - Stephen Spielberg - in a project dedicated to the scandal of the war in Vietnam.

Dmitry Oreshkin "We have a pronounced and aggravated case of a characteristic of the Soviet period of splitting between reality and virtual propaganda heaven," the political scientist notes in the "Daily Journal" in connection with the news of the reluctance of Russian banks to serve customers with passports of unrecognized DPR and LPR.

The working group to prepare the concept of the bill on a single Russian nation decided to rename it into the law "On the Fundamentals of State National Policy". As the head of the group of Academician Valery Tishkov explained to the Kommersant newspaper, the decision is associated with "the unavailability of society to perceive the idea of ​​a single nation." “It turned out more calmly.

International Women's Day is annually celebrated on March 8 not only in Russia, but also in many countries of the world . Since 1975, International Women's Day has been supported by the United Nations (UN). The first state that celebrated the national female day was the United States. On February 28, 1909, at the initiative of the Socialist Party of America, he was held on the territory of all states and was celebrated until 1913 on the last Sunday of February.

In Cairo, the Mall of Egypt shopping center began to accept visitors, the main attraction of which is the Covered Ski Egypt ski park. He became the first similar object in Africa. The shopping and entertainment complex belongs to the Emirate Corporation of Majid Al -Futtaim - the owner of a similar Dubai project - SKI Dubai. The stroke of the Cairo Center for Snow Entertainment cost $ 722 million, writes Newsru Israel . The total area of ​​the complex is 165,000 square meters.

The court of the Chelyabinsk region sentenced two former law enforcement officers who brutally beat a citizen detained for smoking at the entrance of a residential building. For the victim, doctors diagnosed the rupture of internal organs. One of the police officers also hit the girl who stood up for the victim.