Haker Adrian Lamo died in the United States, who gained fame after the US authorities issued data for the arrest of WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning (Bradley Manning). Lamo was 37 years old. The coroner in Kansas confirmed the Air Force data on his death, but did not specify the reason. His Father Mario, who wrote about the death of Lamo, wrote to his friends that a bright mind and a compassionate soul had passed from life.

British conservatives must abandon the use of Russian money in the political system, said the leader of the parliamentary opposition, Labor Jeremy Corbin. He called on the government of Teresa May to start fighting "clan capitalism." Criticizing political opponents, Korbin noticed that the government led by the conservative May accuses the Russian Federation of involvement in the incident with poisoning in Salisbury, but at the same time accepts donations to the party from the wealthy Russians.

The President of the island state, Mauritius, the only woman in Africa Amin Gurib-Fakim ​​on Saturday, on March 17, officially resigned after a flared financial scandal, Interfax reports with reference to the Associated Press agency. As expected, the resignation will enter into force on March 23.

In the match of the 23rd round of the Russian Football Championship, Tula Arsenal in its field tied 2: 2 with Rostov. For two goals, the forward was scored by striker Artem Dziuba (14 ', 59'), who came from Zenit during the season, the striker Alexei Ionov (7 ', 31') distinguished himself twice.

The Facebook social network blocked the page of Cambridge Analytica, whose representatives argued that their new technology for targeting political advertising has largely provided Donald Trump during the pre -election campaign. It turned out that to compile its portraits, the company used unlawfully obtained data from users of the social network, reports The Guardian . Moreover, we are talking about obtaining data from 50 million users.

In Russia, a vote in the presidential election started. The first polling stations in the Chukotsk Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Territory began their work. They opened at 8:00 local time (at 23:00 Saturday in Moscow). The voting process can be observed using surveillance cameras . According to Interfax , about 33 thousand voters are waiting for Chukchi plots. In the district center Anadyr, people can get to a taxi vote for free.

The players of the Osero club Michael Barreto and Pierre -IV Polome were removed from the field during the guest match of the French League 2 against the Keviy -Ruen club for a fight with each other. In the 80th minute of the meeting, when 3: 1 numbers were burning on the scoreboard in favor of the home team, Barreto hit the breast of the floor, as a result of the teammates, the players of both teams detached.

The decision to terminate the activities of the British Council in Russia was made due to the fact that British intelligence was operating under the roof of this organization, RIA Novosti Senator, Veteran of the SVR Igor Morozov. On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the activities of the British Council in Russia are terminated in connection with the unsuccessfulness of its legal status.

The Army hockey clubs of SKA and CSKA with unconditional domestic victories began the second stage of the playoffs of the Gagarin Cup, winning with the same score of 4: 0 Lokomotiv and the Finnish Jokerit, respectively. In the match, which took place in St. Petersburg, the goals of the Yaroslavl team sent Vadim Shipachev (1 '), Yarno Koskirant (18'), Vyacheslav Voinov (30 ') and Vladislav Gavrikov (34'), and the goalkeeper SKO Mikko Koskinen held the second “dry” match in the current playoff.

Xi Jinping on Saturday was re -elected chairman of the People's Republic of China and the chairman of the Central Military Council (CVS), thus, for the second time, heading China. His deputy was the former head of the party special services, who previously headed the "cleaning" of corrupt officials, Reuters reports. During the vote, journalists were asked to leave the meeting room of the All -China Assembly of People's Representatives (BCH) so that the deputies calmly make their choice.

The Yabloko party calls for directions for observers whom the headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny planned to send to Chechnya, said the deputy chairman of the party Nikolai Rybakov. Navalny sent 53 activists to Chechnya. “From Novaya Gazeta journalists, we learned that Alexey Navalny decided to send observers to the Presidential President on March 18, 2018 to the Chechen Republic. For this, directions issued by one of the proxies of Grigory Yavlinsky were used.

The Britain Foreign Ministry called the “expected” answer to Moscow to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats. However, in London it is believed that the spiral of mutual measures only began to spin: there they still expect explanations from Russia about the nerve-paralytical substance "Novice" and prepare a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the following steps.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallstrom rejected the assumption of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova about the Swedish origin of the nerve substance "Novice", used in the attack in British Salisbury. About this, as TASS reports, Wallstrom wrote on her Twitter page.

The scientist Vil Mirzayanov , who is called one of the creators of the nervous substance "Novice", warned of the possible postponed infection in Britain and called insufficient precautions that the country's authorities take. He told about this in a big interview with the Russian Air Force service . In Russia, the existence of the program and the substance itself deny. According to the British authorities, former GRU employee Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia, were poisoned in the UK.

The former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov, now an informant of WADA, announced the doping industry substitution at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, which Moscow accepted. The professor told this through his lawyer Jim Walden.