The Yandex.Taxi service is considering the possibility of guaranteed additional income for drivers. About this writes "Kommersant" with reference to a source familiar with the plans of the company. According to the interlocutor of the publication, now in Yandex.Taxi they are studying several options for the implementation of this mechanism. We are talking about a fixed payment per day or hour, or about payment for a certain number of trips.

The Federation Council approved the law on the prohibition of the spread of inaccurate socially significant information and the law on the statement of disrespect for representatives of the authorities. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . For the adoption of the "Law on Fakes", 149 senators voted, the three opposed, the three abstained. The law on disrespect was supported by 145 senators, three voted against, four abstained.

In the Mozambik Strait, the tropical cyclone "Idai" is approaching the east of Mozambique and, according to meteorologists, will reach the mainland in the second half of March 14. Currently, the wind speed is estimated at 155 km/h, gusts at 215 km/h, reports StormNews with reference to Météo -France la Réunion . The access to the land of this tropical cyclone will occur a second time. Being in the status of tropical depression, he led to catastrophic floods in Mozambique and Malawi.

The US Ministry of Justice talked about the disclosure of the largest schematic of fraud in their own practice when entering universities. Rich parents, including actors, businessmen and other celebrities, "pushed" their children to the best universities in the country. Naturally, for money, and considerable. The department accused 50 people, including 33 parents. The most famous of them are actresses Felicity Huffman ("desperate housewives") and Lori Laflin ("Full House"), writes "Medusa" .

“On the scheme of the operation of the Venezuela energy networks. The situation seems to have gone into a state of cyclic collapse, when, after desperate attempts to restore the system, she is falling again and again due to incompetence of those responsible for repair and destruction due to overloads of all new links and substations,” writes the analyst and publicist on his Facebook page.

The court in Washington in the United States sentenced the former head of the campaign headquarters Donald Trump Paul Manafort by 3.5 years in prison. Thus, in total, he will have to conduct 7.5 years in prison, The Washington Post reports on Wednesday. On March 8, the court of the American city of Alexandria (Virginia) sentenced Manafort to 47 months of imprisonment at 18 points of accusations, including fraud for tax and banking sector, as well as concealing foreign bank accounts.

On December 1, last year, a government decree on the conduct of a three -year experiment to test in Moscow and Tatarstan of unmanned cars on public roads entered into force . However, the project was faced with a lack of funding, Kommersant writes. According to the publication, 40 million rubles are needed to test cars in us (Central Research Automobile and Automobile Institute).

The militant who was preparing the attack was destroyed during a special operation in the Samara region. This was reported on the website of the National Anti -Terrorism Committee (NAC). As specified, on the night of March 13, the FSB bodies of the Russian Federation received information that an armed person who planned to commit a terrorist attack is in a private house in the village of Yekaterinovka of the Bezenchuk district of the Samara region.

Mercer consulting company has published the next rating of the world in the comfort of living. Vienna became the winner for a tenth year in a row, while Russian cities practically did not improve their positions in the ranking-Moscow and St. Petersburg were at the end of the second hundred.

In February, the Ministry of Culture introduced the draft amendments to the Law "On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information" aimed at combating pirate content on the Web. This was announced by the head of the department, Vladimir Medinsky, clarifying that the damage to the movie industry from the actions of the pirates is from 40 to 70 billion rubles a year.

Mozilla announced the launch of the Firefox Send file -proprietary service. Details about him are given on the Mozilla blog . A free service allows you to download files up to 1 GB and up to 2.5 GB in case of registration of account in Firefox. Developers emphasize the high level of protection of the loaded data: Firefox Send uses through (end-to-end) encryption, thanks to which only senders and recipients can access files.

The Melbourne District Court on March 13 sentenced the prefect of the Secretariat of the Economics of the Vatican - Cardinal George Pell , accused of sexual violence, to six years in prison. The decision was made in the case of sexual harassment against two participants in the boys choir in 1996, SBS reports. Taking a verdict, the court took into account the venerable age of the cardinal - 77 years.

Forward of the Pittsburgh Penguins club Evgeny Malkin reached a thousand points scored in the regular championships of the National Hockey League (NHL) and became the fifth representative of Russia, who designed such an achievement. In the home match against Washington (5: 3), Eugene gave two assists, which allowed the striker to score 1000 (391+609) points on the goal of the goal plus pass.

The European Aviation Security Agency (EASA) announced the introduction of a temporary ban on all flights of Boeing 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 airliners in the air space of the European Union after the crash of this modification in Ethiopia. The decree came into effect from 19:00 UTC (22:00 Moscow time), the statement on the website of the department said.

In Chuvashia, blogger and journalist Konstantin Ishutov was detained by security forces for 48 hours on the afternoon of March 13. His lawyer Yuri Ivanov reported this on Facebook. According to him, Ishutov is accused of creating, storing and distributing child pornography (clause “d”, part 2 of article 242.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Previously, the journalist was suspected of justifying Nazism.