Gazprom signed a contract worth 4.5 billion rubles for the rental of offices in St. Petersburg with a single supplier. The gas concern leases almost the entire Fort Tower business center, located on Moskovsky Prospekt, until 2024, Interfax and Vedomosti reported . The Fort Tower business center belongs to the development company Fort Group, which calls itself one of the leaders in the St. Petersburg commercial real estate market.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Spanish PAZ satellite. "Hisdesat, a Spanish government satellite communications company, has signed an agreement with the US company SpaceX to launch the PAZ Earth observation radar satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is scheduled to take place during the last quarter of 2017," the company said in a . statement Earlier it was planned that the satellite was to be launched on the Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket.

The head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova supported the postponement of the presidential elections in Russia from March 11 to March 18, 2018, reports . Interfax “The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, considers it expedient to postpone the presidential elections from March 11 to March 18, 2018, by a week, if legislative amendments are adopted,” the press service of the CEC said.

Oleg Feoktistov, vice-president and head of the security service of Rosneft, was fired from the state-owned company and the FSB. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by two independent sources - in Rosneft itself and in the FSB. Until recently, Feoktistov was considered one of the most influential generals of the Lubyanka. Prior to joining Rosneft, he served as deputy head of the Internal Security Directorate (SSB) of the FSB.

Why is the rehabilitation center, where they are treated incurable and taught unacceptable, fell into state disgrace Photo provided by the Dawn Center Heaven over "Atlanta" There is a place in Omsk where people with disabilities, large and small, are taken away by all means - from that familiar shell that separates them from us walking, sighted, speaking, hanging out. And do not heal them differently.

In the discussion club of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, they argued whether Russia could return to the Western Way of Development Photo: gaidarfund.ru The second discussion of the cycle “Reforms in Russian”, which is organized by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation and the European University in St. Petersburg (EU), was held in early March.

In Kazan, the next picket of injured depositors deprived of the Tatfondbank license was held. The “fireworks” who have passed to political requirements (as the local media call them) expressed distrust of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and came up with an unusual form to launch the procedure for his resignation. A large shield was installed on the sidewalk with the names of 100 deputies of the State Council of Tatarstan.

Searches in the center of Roerich were carried out as part of the fraud case. Investigators seized paintings acquired by the ex-head of the Masterbank Boris Bulochnik on the stolen means of this bank. This was reported by TASS with reference to the statement of the official representative of the department Irina Volk.

President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the law "On the Prosecutor's Office", which seriously limit the authority of the department. In particular, they prohibit prosecutors, as part of their inspections, to demand from the organization information and documents that do not relate to the subject of the inspection.

The release of Sevastidi lines up with the acquittals of the last days, but... President Putin’s act of pardoning Oksana Sevastidi, elegantly unveiled by March 8, is an extremely clear signal of his intention to somehow correct the “repressive political culture” that has taken root in the country, primarily due to the accusatory bias in judicial practice. Vladimir Putin, unlike Boris Yeltsin, has so far exercised his right to pardon very carefully.

The history of the relationship between two Kharkov businessmen and politicians in the context of the Orange Revolutions Photo: RIA Novosti About five years ago, in Kharkov, I walked around the park from the poet’s widow, a lady sophisticated and witty.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed to consider the possibility of using blockchain technology in the public administration system and the economy until May 11, reports , citing a source familiar with the text of the document. Interfax He said that the order was dated March 3. In addition to the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Economic Development, it is also addressed to VEB.

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said he supported the idea of ​​holding Russian presidential elections in 2018 on March 18, the day Crimea was annexed, reports . Interfax “This is a Sunday, and this is the day on which a vote can be scheduled in accordance with our legislation. And the fact that this day coincides with a wonderful holiday that we have been celebrating for several years is very good,” he said.

On March 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Oksana Sevastidi, convicted of texting about military equipment before the war in Georgia. The decree is published on the official portal of legal information. “Guided by the principles of humanity, I decide to pardon Oksana Sevastidi, born in 1970, convicted on March 3, 2016 by the Krasnodar Regional Court, releasing her from further imprisonment,” the presidential decree says.

Acting Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Anna Antseliovich has resigned, TASS reports with reference to the head of the Russian Paralympic Committee Vladimir Lukin. According to the agency, a general meeting of the founders of RUSADA was held on Tuesday. In late December, The New York Times published an article stating that Antseliovich called the use of doping by Russian athletes “institutional collusion”.