Turkish military operation against the Kurds led to a sharp exacerbation of relations with the United States YPG flag on Afrin Street. Photo: RIA Novosti For almost a month, the operation of the Turkish Army “Olive Branch” has been continuing to clean up the border Syrian region around the city of Afrin from the YPG Kurdish self -defense units.

The Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a warning about adverse weather conditions in the capital over the coming weekend. The report says that the Meteorological Bureau expects precipitation of up to 10 cm. Ice and snow sticking are possible on the roads. Drivers are asked to be careful. In addition, the Center for Traffic Management (TsODD) asked Muscovites to travel by public transport if possible. which is operating normally, reports .

Interview with Russian presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin. Video With the participation of Alexandra Sorochinskaya

Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: RIA Novosti In the USA, as part of the investigation of the Russian intervention case, 13 Russian citizens were charged with the presidential election. Among the accused is businessman Evgeny Prigozhin. The corresponding document is published on the website of the US Department of Justice.

Every day, the website of the President of Russia is subjected to more than a hundred attacks, while their number doubles every year, said Nikolai Ilyin, deputy head of the Information Systems Department of the Special Communications and Information Service of the FSO. He made such a statement, RBC writes , as part of an investment forum in Sochi. Ilyin added that the means of information security for enterprises must be provided for already in the development of technical specifications.

The Civil Initiatives Committee criticized the electoral legislation and proposed reforms Photo: RIA Novosti Experts of the Committee of Civil Initiatives (KGI) held a round table “Registration of candidates and party lists in the elections: the need for complex reform”. The presidential election again indicated the relevance of problems related to the procedures for collecting signatures and registering candidates.

The US Department of the Treasury has decided to block access to the American financial system for the Latvian bank ABLV. All US financial institutions will be banned from opening and maintaining correspondent accounts for ABLV. In fact, this means that the Latvian bank will no longer be able to make transactions in dollars. The decision of the Ministry of Finance was a response to the investigation of FinCEN, the Financial Crime Enforcement Agency.

The first Muscovites received the keys to new apartments as part of the renovation program. Five families became them, TASS was informed in the Department of City Property of Moscow. Residents of houses No. 3 and 5 on Konstantin Fedin Street received the keys to a house adapted to the standards of the program at 62B 5th Parkovaya Street (East of Moscow).

The former general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Izvestiya Publishing House, Erast Galumov, was arrested for one month, until March 14, on suspicion of fraud on an especially large scale. This was reported to TASS by the press secretary of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow, Ekaterina Krasnova. According to her, the case against Galumov was initiated under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on a special large scale).

Student Artyom Yegorov was detained near the MSU building, who was holding leaflets with information about the protest against the construction of a fan zone for the 2018 FIFA World Cup on the territory of MSU. Yegorov himself told Novaya Gazeta about this. According to him, he had three flyers and a sticker on his chest. Also next to him were several people from the Initiative Group of Moscow State University, who also had leaflets.

The Governor of the Kaluga Region, Anatoly Artamonov, proposed his own solution to the problem of population and labor shortages in the regions.

The representative of the prosecutor's office asked the court to sentence Zakhary Kalashov, also known as Shakro Molodoy, accused of extortion, to 10 years in prison. It is reported by TASS. “I ask you to recognize Kalashov guilty and sentence him to 10 years in a colony with a sentence served in a strict regime colony, as well as a fine of 700 thousand rubles,” the prosecutor said.

Yandex showed a video from the salon of its prototype of an unmanned car, which drove along the streets of the Moscow district of Khamovniki after snowfall. Yandex reported this on his blog. The trip went automatically, but a pilot pilot was in the driver's seat. Tests are carried out in winter, because "trips in the cold season have their own characteristics." “The image with an abundance of white is very different from the picture, which the drone“ sees ”in the summer.

The famous director about his film “Dovlatov”, a special climate of the Motherland, about the generation of people with straight backs, about military rhetoric and growing emigration Photo: Sergey Konkov/TASS - How did Dovlatov arise in your life? - I heard this surname at home in childhood. They had some relationship with their father, then his father was offended by him for saying something about his grandfather. Then they reconciled.

In Kyiv, they offered to exchange two Russians Alexander Baranov and Maxim Odintsov for Roman Sushchenko and Oleg Sentsov, the first of whom was arrested and the second convicted in Russia. This was reported to Interfax in the office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovskaya.