In St. Petersburg, two suspects in the murder of an investigator in particularly important cases of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in transport in the Central Federal District Evgenia Shishkina in October 2018 were detained. This is stated on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to investigators, Abdulaziz Abdulazizov, born in 2000, acted as a killer, and a 17-year-old resident of St. Petersburg became an intermediary.

The UN specialist for the situation with human rights activists Michael Forst and his colleague David Kaye, who is involved in the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinions and their free expression, called on the Russian authorities to free Oyub Titiev. He headed the Chechen branch of the Memorial human rights center.

Moscow "Spartak" lost to the St. Petersburg SKA in the fifth match of the first round of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), losing the third meeting in a row and allowing the opponent to go forward in the series. The game in the Arena of the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, which was visited by more than 12 thousand spectators, ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of its owners. The decisive puck in the 55th minute was abandoned by the Swedish defender David Rundblad.

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II made her first publication on Thursday in the Instagram photoblogs service. This was reported by the Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, using the iPad, posted on the Royal Family page on Instagram a photograph of the creator of the prototype of a modern computer written in 1843 - mathematics and engineer Charles Babbiga. It is addressed to Prince Albert, the active wife of Queen Victoria.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected in February the proposal of US Vice President Michael Pensa to send German warships through the Kerch Strait in order to demonstrate Russia's tough position. This was reported on Thursday by Bloomberg . According to three of its sources, Pence proposed Merkel to send warships through the strait during their meeting on February 16 at the Munich Security Conference.

“To go nuts. Klishas will punish for respect for Russia. Everyone wrote about the adopted laws on fakes and insulting the state, but no one read them. But in vain. Because the main thing is not what the senators and deputies wanted to say, but what they wrote. They dug up, and could not defeat the main enemy, their own language,” the politician writes on their Facebook page. "We read aloud, according to syllables. Just sit stronger.

On March 5, the Sergiev Posad City Court of the Moscow Region issued the first sentence in the case of the organization "New Greatness" , whose members are accused of creating an extremist community and participating in it. Rustam Rustamov was given a year and a half in prison.

In Anapa of the Krasnodar Territory, scientist Vladimir Korov, who was one of the developers of the nerve-paralytic fighting poisonous substances "Novice", was called for interrogation as a suspect in petty theft. The chemist himself told the Russian service BBC about this. According to Vladimir Korov, we are talking about the theft committed in one of the sanatoriums of the Krasnodar Territory.

Alexey Roshchin "The presidential election in Ukraine is like an interesting entertainment for an observer from Russia, but it is depressing that there is no sense in them. Yes - unlike Russian underlines last year, Ukrainians have a certain unpredictability and intrigue, the set of applicants for a high position - as much as 44 people; but this is even more sorry for the fact that they will not choose in Ukraine, whoever will not be chosen.

"The other day, an interesting investigation of BuzzFeed was published: it turns out people in the third world countries are tortured and killed not only for the sake of universal good, but also for the sake of a tear of the rhino. The famous WWF Wildlife Protection Fund sponsor paramilitary and government structures to combat poaching (" rangers ").

The former chief shareholder of one of the once largest Russian private investment banks Troika Dialog, Ruben Vardanyan called the investigation of journalists about offshore and laundering billions of dollars. According to him, experts of the international project to investigate organized crime and corruption (OCCRP) "mixed round and green." "Everything was mixed in the published materials: information, interpretation and fiction torn from context, round and green.

On the evening of March 5, a powerful thunderstorm fell on the southern part of the American state of California. She arranged an incredible light show. For one five-minute segment, 1489 lightnings were recorded near the coast, 231 in the district of Santa Barbara and 40 in the Los Angeles district, Los Angeles Times reports with reference to the US National Meteorological Service (NWS). According to meteorologists, so much lightning for Southern California is abnormally large.

Member of the Board of Gazprom PJSC Sergey Prozorov sharply reported subordinates due to the situation with the loss of the gas pipeline in the city of Priozersk, Leningrad Region. In 2014, 1.7 billion rubles were spent on the construction of the pipe, but only a quarter of the project was carried out. Prozorov called the current situation with the “pipe’s theft” shame, a fragment of an audio recording of a closed meeting in Gazprom published a 47news portal on March 7.

The showman Vladimir Zelensky, who nominated his candidacy in the presidential election in Ukraine, said that provocations were being prepared against him. According to a politician, they are trying to discredit it with accusations of relations with the LPR, as well as bring to criminal liability for money laundering. "Now the authorities have already been breaking through the bottom. Firstly, they began to listen to my office.

The metropolitan city planning and land committee approved the construction of the cable car through the Khimkinsky reservoir in the north of Moscow. As reported on the website of the Moskomstroyinvest, the project provides for the creation of a common -a -sector cable transport system from the Skhodnenskaya metro station to the River Station metro station. The cable car 2.3 km long will connect the Levoberezhnaya, North and South Tushino areas, separated by the Khimki reservoir.