“Listen, but these new laws about blocking and insults. It’s not that I was going to insult someone, but I just want to understand whether these restrictions on speaking in English are subject to,” the marketer and journalist as a question on his Facebook page. "The transition to English in the Internet communication, if that, is several significant advantages at once. Firstly, we will tighten the tongue, and we will make stable errors the norm.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the bill "On the Non -recognition of the annexation of Crimea", which prohibits the White House to recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The congressmen decided unanimously. "To ban the US government to recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia," the bill published on the committee’s website says.

“Yesterday, in a year and a half conversation with European diplomats, one of the participants on the Russian side mentioned the“ unshakable principles of Russian foreign policy. ”This immediately caused me the UN General Assembly, which Putin and Obama (I don’t remember the date) came up with the speeches,” writes Orientalist and the oil and gas expert on his Facebook page. "Obama said that the United States will always support peoples suffering from totalitarian dictatorial regimes.

In the St. Petersburg cafe "Simona", where at certain hours the entrance to men is prohibited, on March 7, activists of the Prochrevsky movement "Network" with large armfuls of flowers broke. They decided to congratulate the feminists and even did it in chorus, despite persistent demands to leave the room. As the representative of Simona Julia Rosbalt said, in the afternoon the entrance for men to the coffee shop-carrier is closed, they can attend events in the evening, and then on certain days.

The police came to the boarding house where the grandmother of politician Ilya Yashin, Alexandra Dmitrievna, is kept. Yashin told MBH Media about this. According to the oppositionist, the detective of the local police department said that a signal had been received about some violations and asked to look at the documents.

Two taxi passengers died in an accident in the south-east of Moscow. As the Moscow Speaks radio station was informed by the press service of the capital's traffic police department, the incident occurred at 7:40 a.m. on Bratislavskaya Street opposite house 33. As Alexander Evsin, deputy head of the traffic control center, wrote on his Facebook page, the driver lost control and crashed into a pole. Alcohol was found in his blood. There were a man and a woman inside the taxi.

The leadership of the counterintelligence Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany demanded that its employees report on possible membership in the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany and other connections with party representatives. This was reported by the electronic version of Focus magazine with reference to a letter that was received by more than 3 thousand employees of the department.

The head of Apple Tim Cook changed the name in the description of his account on Twitter - instead of his last name, he placed the company's emblem in the form of a bitten apple. Thus, now his name sounds like Tim Apple. Cook did it not by chance. The reason for the renaming was the reservation of US President Donald Trump - on March 6, at a meeting of the Consulting Council on Personnel Policy, Trump called Cook "Tim Apple".

Nikolai Travkin “If the authorities promised the people an abundance, but it happens on the contrary, then the people immediately resemble a legend about Moses. A good legend. Just in our spirit. In the spirit of Russian folk tales. Happy life does not need to be done - it should not be found. Moreover, even the searches are not bothering - go after the host,” the former Facebook policy writes.

The British investment company MMC Ventures has studied European startups, which claim that their activities are related to the sphere of artificial intelligence (AI). As a result, analysts came to the conclusion that 40% of such startups do not use AI in their work. As stated in the MMC Ventures report , the review of Kommersant , the analysts studied the activities of over 2.8 thousand startups in 13 European countries.

The feminist strike takes place on Friday throughout Spain on the occasion of International Women's Day. Thousands of women who requiring equal rights and the cessation of gender violence joined the action, TASS reports. The strike, among other things, will affect the work of public transport, educational institutions and medical institutions. The Spanish railway operator Renfe announced a total of more than 300 trains.

Thailand is ready to start the first tests of Cannabis oil for treatment in July or August, TASS reports. According to Nantacan Suvanpikol, the director of the research and development of the State Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO), the clinical trials authorized by the state will begin in July. During tests, hemp extract will be accepted by volunteers suffering from nausea and pain due to chemotherapy. “We will use cannabis plants to get oil,” the specialist said.

On Thursday, many areas of Karakas and more than 20 out of 23 states of Venezuela were left without energy supply. According to the national electric company, the reason for the incident was sabotage at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Power Station, the largest in the country. Maduro accused the incident "American imperialism." "Nothing and no one will defeat the people of Chavez!" - He wrote on his Twitter page.

FSB officers detained the former first deputy head of Rosgeology Ruslan Gorring in a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale, TASS reports. "Gorring was detained on suspicion of fraud, the criminal case was opened in 2011," the agency’s source said in law enforcement. The detainee of the former first deputy head of Rosgeology Ruslan Gorring is taken for interrogation to the investigator as a suspect in the framework of a criminal case of fraud.

The daughter of the former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov Gulnare Karimova and the former head of Uzdunrobita LLC (subsidiary of MTS in Uzbekistan) Behzoda Akhmedov was charged with bribery and laundering of money at $ 865 million, according to the website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York.