At the Motor Show, the organizers of the World Car of the Year contest (World Car of the Year) called the models that went to the final of the competition in the main and additional nominations, RBC writes. Recall that a short list of 10 applicants for victory in the final of the annual competition was published in early February. Now only three models will fight for the honorary title: Audi E-Tron, Jaguar I-Pace and Volvo S60/V60 . Note that the first two applicants are electric cars.

The company "Cosmost", which is engaged in the development of space tourism in Russia, confirmed the conclusion of an agreement with the Nizhny Novgorod region on interaction as part of the creation of the first private cosmodrome in the Russian Federation. “We confirm that we signed an agreement with the Nizhny Novgorod region. This is interesting for us and for them.

On March 6, the State Duma adopted a bill in the third and final reading, which prohibits the use of residential premises as hostels and hotels. In the second reading, the bill, which is amendments to the Housing Code, was approved the day before. Amendments adopted by deputies prohibit the use of residential premises as a hotel or other temporary accommodation agent, as well as provide hotel services in them.

According to the results of February 2019, sales of cars and light commercial cars in Russia decreased by 3.6% compared to February 2018. This fall was the first for the Russian market after 22 months of continuous growth. According to the European Business Association (AEB), last month 128,406 cars were sold in Russia, 4771 car less than a year earlier, RBC writes. “For the first time, for almost two years, sales in February showed a small one, but a decrease compared to the previous year.

There are no regulatory grounds for introducing paid registration at the airports of the Russian Federation, TASS reported in the press service of the Ministry of Transport. Enter the paid registration at Russian airports was previously offered by the Lawkoster "Victory". "We responded to the appeal of" Victory ". Now there are no regulatory grounds for this," the Ministry of Transport said.

Vladimir Guriev “By the way, there is such a myth - or, I don’t know, the fact that a woman after the decree is difficult to get a job,” writes a journalist and marketer on her Facebook page. "If this is so, then this, of course, is a wild omission, of which excellent managers should come out. It is only necessary to explain to them what is happening in understandable terms. - Here, look, this is Kolya.

The French authorities introduced a tax of 3% on the local revenue of large technological companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. It is assumed that this year the income from this tax to the country's budget will amount to 400 million euros, and by 2022 this amount will reach 650 million. According to The Wall Street Journal , the tax will begin to be charged retroactively since the beginning of 2019.

Ford is considering the possibility of closing its plants in the Leningrad Region and in Tatarstan. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources familiar with the company's plans. The fact that Ford management plans to improve the financial indicators of the company due to serious business restructuring in Europe, including Russia and Turkey, became known in January.

Investments in rare varieties of Scottish whiskey brought much more benefit than investments in other types of products and property: works of art, wine, rare cars or real estate. Over the past year, whiskey brought investors an income of 40%. This is stated in the WEALTH REPORT 2019 WEALTH REPORT INTRODUCTION OF THE WORTHER CONSULATION OF THE INEILTH REPORT FRANK .

The construction examination recognized eight entrances that survived after the explosion in the house along Karl Marx Avenue in Magnitogorsk. This was announced by Znak.com by a source in the government of the Chelyabinsk region. The spokesman for the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Dmitry Fedechkin specified that officially documents from the expert organization have not yet been received. “There are no documents yet, we are waiting for them in the near future.

On March 6, the State Duma adopted in the second reading bills on fines for publishing facts (fake) news and insulting power on the Internet. 327 deputies voted for the draft law, against 42.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in 2018 the Federal Security Service (FSB) exposed almost 600 foreign spies - 129 full -time employees and 465 special services agents. The head of state reported these data at a meeting of the College of the FSB of Russia. “We see that foreign intelligence tends to build up their activity in the Russian direction, seek access to political, economic, scientific, technological nature in all ways,” the Kremlin’s website quotes the president.

The former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance Carlos Gon, arrested in Japan last November, left prison on bail of $ 9 million after 108 days of imprisonment. This was reported by Kyodo . The Tokyo court approved the bail for the rutal on March 5. The next day, the right amount was paid, and the prosecutor’s protest was rejected, after which Gon was able to leave the insulator.

The Kirovsky District Court of Kazan appointed three days of administrative arrest to the activist of the Azatlyk Union of Tatar Youth Batyrkhan Agzamov, whose post on social networks on the capture of Kazan by the troops of Ivan the Terrible was recognized as incurring hatred between Russians and Tatars.

The South Korean court sentenced four Russian sailors from the Palladium vessel to real prison terms, another received a suspended term with a delay. This was reported by the TASS Consul of the Russian Federation in Busan Roman Bykov. "Today the sentence was announced.