The President of Russia was elected without "carousels", but with the transportation of people by buses Photo: RIA Novosti Election Day, March 18, passed for the CEC without large scandals. The traditional repertoire of voting organizers has been preserved: stuffing ballots, pressure on observers, fraud with voter lists. In several areas, the voting results were canceled.

The ashes of British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will be buried in the pantheon of Westminster Abbey, next to the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, the abbey said on Twitter. “It is clear that the ashes of Professor Stephen Hawking should be buried in the abbey, next to other famous scientists. We believe it is important that science and religion work together to try to solve the great mysteries of life and the universe,” said Reverend John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey.

The Kremlin propaganda first accused the Ukrainian pilot of the death of Boeing, and now he connects his suicide with the tragedy. So is there a connection? Vladislav Voloshin On March 18, in the city of Nikolaev, in his own apartment, in fact, in the presence of relatives, the 29-year-old Major of the 229th Tactical Brigade of Ukraine Vladislav Voloshin, cavalier of the Order for Courage, shot at the presence of a fighting pistol.

A man armed with firearms attacked police station No. 4 in the village of Neftemaisk in Grozny. One of the policemen was wounded. The attacker was killed by return fire, RBC reports with reference to the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya, Magomed-Amin Deniyev. RIA Novosti, citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya , clarifies that the assistant to the duty police department was injured.

Crimea and Sevastopol gave Vladimir Putin not only 92 and 90% of the vote, but also a number of alarming signals Photo: Sergey Malgavko/TASS 10 minutes before the start of voting at the polling station No. 56 in Sevastopol, a crowd of 20 people gather. Mostly pensioners. The woman who decided to vote for Grudinin argues with three supporters of Putin: “I gave a pioneer oath, I was in Komsomol. And do you want to vote for the capitalist?

How the election day has passed in the village of Poodyagi between Gatchina and Pavlovsky Photo: RIA Novosti Poodyagi is a wonderful sample of the merger of the city and the village. Right in the “Christmas tree” field are long block five -story buildings right in the highway. This is almost the entire village. In the yards of five -story buildings, sunlight plays on a large pipe. This is a local scrap: it stretches along all houses in the poodyags.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky supported the idea of ​​creating a Documentary Film Center, reports . the press service of the Ministry of Culture At a meeting with documentary filmmaker Sergei Miroshnichenko, the minister said that such a center would "contribute to the development of Russian documentaries." Miroshnichenko proposed to create this center “in the likeness of Soyuzmultfilm”.

In Dagestan, the results of voting in the presidential elections at four polling stations were canceled due to violations, TASS reports with reference to the representative of the election commission of the republic, Marina Kovaleva. The voting results were invalidated at polling stations No. 1073 of the Leninsky district of Makhachkala, No. 1126 of the Sovetsky district of Makhachkala, No. 1284 of the Suleiman-Stalsky district and No. 0380 of the city of Dagestan Lights.

In Murmansk, an explosion occurred in a residential building. In a five-story building on Sverdova Street, 6/1, three floors were destroyed. A passer-by died under the rubble, later rescuers found the body of a dead woman under the collapsed ceilings. Six people, including a child, were taken to the hospital. In total, 33 people lived in the destroyed entrance, five of them were children. They are placed in a temporary detention facility.

Polish President Andrzej Duda will not attend the opening match of the World Cup, which will be held in Russia on June 14. Krzysztof Szczerski, chief of the Office of the President of Poland, stated this on the air of RMF FM radio station, reports RIA Novosti . This decision is connected with the poisoning in the UK of former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The prosecutor's office demanded to put the head of the Karelian Memorial for 9 years. Who benefits from it? Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" Two days after the presidential elections, the process resumed in Russia against the Karelian historian, the head of the local branch of the Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev. The authorities accuse him of using a minor adopted daughter for the manufacture of pornography.

In which of the worlds of the Strugatsky brothers do we live today? Photo from the personal archive of M.N. Berkatova / TASS One of the favorite topics for discussing with Boris Natanovich Strugatsky for twenty years of our friendship was in which of the “worlds of the Brothers Strugatsky” we live now? The answer to this question changed - as our life has changed. And in recent years - after the departure of Boris Natanovich - this answer continues to change again.

As a criminal case of a convicted person for life imprisonment, Igor Izmestiev turned around near the much less high -profile processes about bribes, fraud and extortion Igor Izmestiev. Photo: RIA Novosti Preface. What is the Izmestyev sits for Igor Izmestiev, born in 1966, engineer of Bashneft JSC, in the early 90s-a private “Davalev”, that is, a lessee of the power of “Bashneft” for the processing of third-party oil into fuel oil and gasoline.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited the ambassadors of all foreign countries to a meeting on March 21 to discuss the UK's claims about the use of poisonous substances on its territory. This was stated by the official representative of the department Maria Zakharova, reports TASS. Ambassadors are invited to meet with the leadership and experts of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control.

What to do if you do not plan to emigrate In social networks, where those few percentages of citizens who consciously did not vote for Vladimir Putin live, Yaroslavna is crying. Someone complains about the people, someone complains about the regime, someone complains about their colleagues in the opposition. The most honest talk about their own responsibility. At the same time, it is obvious that the responsibility, perhaps in different proportions, lies with everyone.