Not far from Karakas, the capital of Venezuela, noticed the Russian IL-62 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Ministry of Defense, follows from the data of the Flightradar24 service, which was noteworthy of the Telegram channel “Another Roldugin”. Screenshot with Flightradar24 The plane flew out on the morning of March 2 from the district near the Military Airfield of Chkalovsky in the Moscow region, on the night of March 3, the board was recorded in the Karakasa area.

The defense of the founder of the Hermitage Capital fund, William Browder, confirmed the initiation of a criminal case against him for the murder of Russian businessman Alexander Perepelichny, but the financier was not charged. This was reported to Interfax by lawyer Alexander Antipov. According to investigators, Browder organized the murder of Perepelichny in order to hide the embezzlement of 5.4 billion rubles from the budget (a criminal case on the fact of fraud was initiated back in 2004).

Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov came second in the men's 50 km freestyle race at the World Championships in Seefeld, Austria. This is the fourth silver that the 22-year-old skier has won in this championship. The first place was taken by the Norwegian Hans Christer Holund, ahead of the Russian by 27.8 seconds. Another Norwegian Schur Rete finished third (+57.8). In the middle of the race, Holund ran away from his pursuers, creating a one-minute advantage.

In India, a plant for the manufacture of Kalashnikov assault rifles (AK-203) has been launched. This was announced by the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugaev, writes . Interfax “Today, the opening of a plant for the production of AK-203 assault rifles at an arms factory in the city of Corva in India took place in accordance with the previously reached agreements at the highest level and the signed intergovernmental agreement,” he said.

Lomonosov Moscow State University will host a round table "The First Skripal Readings", timed to coincide with the anniversary of the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. radio Andrey Manoilo , a Moscow State University professor, told station Govorit Moskva that alleged GRU officers Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom the UK considers involved in the poisoning, were invited to the event.

The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft of private company SpaceX has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), according to a tweet from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The spacecraft docked to the ISS in offline mode around 14:00 Moscow time. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched on Saturday at 10:49 Moscow time from the launch site at Cape Canaveral (Florida).

The international anti-corruption organization Transparency International has warned of the risk of canceling the visa-free regime for Ukraine due to the recognition of the unconstitutional criminal article on illicit enrichment. “Officials accused of corruption must be held accountable and the rule of law must be established.

Last year, the police registered more than 206,000 crimes related to telecommunications and computer information. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry.

Cadets of the Ulyanovsk Suvorov Military School fell ill with echinococcosis (a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms - ed .) from May 26 to July 15, 2017. This was announced at the parents' meeting by epidemiologist Sergei Kozlov, who was involved in the investigation of the incident by the Ministry of Defense.

Representatives of the Russian branch of Greenpeace handed over 100,000 signatures to the presidential administration asking Vladimir Putin to release killer whales and beluga whales from the “whale prison” in Primorye. As reported on the website of the movement, among the signatories are environmentalists, scientists, officials, journalists and Hollywood stars. the petition .

Russian skier Alisa Zhambalova won the first gold medal of the 2019 Universiade, which is taking place in Krasnoyarsk, TASS reports . The athlete won the individual 5 km classic with a time of 14 minutes 48.6 seconds. Russian Ekaterina Smirnova (+3.7 seconds) took second place in the race, Russian Yana Kirpichenko came third (+3.8 seconds). Alisa Zhambalova has been a member of the Russian national team since 2012. Her best result was fifth place in the classic sprint at the World Cup.

A meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam's Hanoi ended ahead of schedule due to US demands to shut down a secret uranium enrichment facility, reports The Sunday Times. According to the newspaper, the talks broke down after the North Korean leader refused to comply with this condition. It may be a facility called "Kangson", which is located in the industrial city of Chollima near Pyongyang, the newspaper suggests.

At the critical moment of the history of the country, the Brezhnev patriarchs were able to give way to a man of a new style Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo: RIA Novosti Anatoly Chernyaev, an employee of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, has been a diary from the beginning of the 70s, in which the Soviet leaders lived and made decisions. By the last years of Brezhnev’s reign, Chernyaev plunges into despair: the clouds of the country were thickened.