Shares of the electric car manufacturer rose 6%. Auto giants showed interest in Tesla Motors patents almost immediately after policy statement Tesla founder Elon Musk's June 12 " Our Patent Are Belong To You " ("Our patents belong to you"), in which he promised not to sue those automakers that would use patents. Tesla for a good cause.

A recording of a telephone conversation appeared on the network in which a prankster (Internet hooligan), known on the network under the nickname Vovan222, played the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, introducing himself as the son of the dismissed President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. The pranker asks the interlocutor, whose voice is very similar to the voice of Alexander Lukashenko, for political asylum for Yanukovych Sr. and his family.

The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg today acquitted 15-year-old Nikita Leontiev, who was killed by police officers, who was accused of street robbery, Interfax reports . Judge Tatyana Mikhailova in the verdict determined Leontiev's non-involvement in the commission of the crime. This criminal case was sent to the head of the regional branch of the Investigative Committee to search for the real criminal.

On Tuesday, March 17, the Lublinsky Court of Moscow will consider the petition of the Federal Penitentiary Service to extend Alexei Navalny's probationary period as part of the verdict in the Kirovles case. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the lawyer of the oppositionist Vadim Kobzev. The agency is asking the court to extend Navalny's probation for three months.

Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov threatened acting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Deshchytsia because of his obscene remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Vladimir Putin is our national leader, President, Supreme Commander. And you can be sure that there is someone to ask not only for what was publicly said about him, but also for the fact that Deshchitsa, on her knees, did not ask for forgiveness.

The Chief Military Prosecutor's Office today approved the indictment in a criminal case against the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Russian Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, as well as Maxim Zakutailo, Larisa Egorina, Irina Egorova. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The conclusion says that these persons are accused of abuse of power, fraud on an especially large scale, abuse of power and money laundering.

At about 5 p.m., a signal siren went off locally, according to eyewitnesses. Employees of all state institutions and enterprises were urgently sent home. As it became known, there is no mobile communication in the city, in some areas cable television has ceased to be shown, the Internet does not work. Residents of Kramatorsk warned of a possible cessation of water supply to the city.

The statement to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was sent on behalf of Oksana Evdoshchenko. Last August, she went to the Krasnodar maternity hospital, but her baby died, and the body has not been found so far. Oksana blames the doctors for good reason. But the Investigative Committee for some reason ignores these grounds, taking into account the testimony of doctors. The initiation of a criminal case was denied three times.

During the action near the building of the Consulate General of Russia in Odessa, one person was injured, writes the local publication Dumskaya.net . One man received a head injury as a result of a fight between protesters and law enforcement officers. He is hospitalized. Four more protesters were detained. The brawl occurred after protesters tried to come close to the building of the Russian mission to lay mourning wreaths and demand that the consul remove the Russian flag.

The Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in Zaporozhye opened criminal proceedings against the "people's mayor" of Mariupol Oleksandr Fomenko, who is suspected of creating a terrorist organization (part 1 of article 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). This was reported by the press service of the SBU. The article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to fifteen years. The court chose a preventive measure for Fomenko in the form of detention.

Today, the arrest of Kaliningrad activists accused in the case of hanging the German flag near the FSB building was extended. Members of the local movement "Committee of Public Self-Defense" Mikhail Feldman, Oleg Savvin and Dmitry Fonarev were arrested at the end of May and kept in custody until June 26. Extension of the period of arrest is a common procedure, but, as a rule, the arrest is extended a week before the expiration of the period, but not earlier.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that some representatives of the Ukrainian authorities "have lost their adequacy." "This manifests itself in various situations: from the paranoid behavior of the acting foreign minister at the Russian embassy in Kiev to the refusal of the prime minister of Ukraine to negotiate gas on the basis of a preferential price.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hopes that hostilities in the east of the country will stop this week, Interfax reports . “It is proposed to discuss the details of the president's peace plan, which should be proposed as early as this week.

The famous Latvian human rights activist Angelite Kamensk is about the denial of occupation, the restriction of the RTR broadcast and the position of Russians in Latvia. Interview "Novaya Gazeta" The famous Latvian human rights activist Angelite Kamensk is about the denial of occupation, the restriction of the RTR broadcast and the position of Russians in Latvia. Interview with Novaya Gazeta.

The behavior of representatives of the Russian Gazprom in yesterday's talks "is part of a developed plan that began with the annexation of Crimea, terrorists in the Donbass, the supply of weapons by Russia and the sending of Russian bandits to the territory of Ukraine," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a government meeting on Monday. “Gas aggression, economic pressure, because today Russia has banned the import of Ukrainian agricultural products into Russia, financial pressure.