Who will win in the oil war, Russia or Saudi Arabia? Explains Marcel Salikhov On Monday, March 9, immediately after the opening of the auction, oil quotes collapsed by 30%. The cost of a barrel WTI dropped below $ 30, and the dollar exchange rate jumped up to 75 rubles. The cause of the collapse was the price war in the oil market, unleashed by Saudi Arabia against Russia after the disruption of the OPEC+negotiations.

The World Figure Skating Championships, which was supposed to be held in Montreal next week, have been canceled due to the threat of the spread of the coronavirus. This is reported by the Canadian TV channel CP24. Decision based on advice from the Department of Health in the province of Quebec, which includes Montreal.

The first victim of coronavirus died in Sofia, a 66-year-old woman who was hospitalized yesterday with a positive test for COVID-19. It is noted that the treatment of her husband, who also tested positive for coronavirus, continues. Meanwhile, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced the country's first case of coronavirus, reported Reuters . This happened to a Turkish citizen who recently returned from Europe. He has been placed in quarantine.

Aeroflot Airlines has decided to compensate the owner of two cats who died during the flight from New York to Moscow, three thousand rubles for a broken carrier. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the owner of the animals Maxim Chumachenko.

Illegal window business earns on pensioners throughout Russia. How to protect yourself Photo: Arden Arkman, for "New" An epidemic of calls with offers of free repair or installation of plastic windows covered the whole country. At risk, the most trusting, according to scientists, the category is elderly people, on whom special sales techniques are calculated. “State program”, “Social Service for Veterans” - window scammers use words acting on the older generation hypnotically.

In Syria, a Russian contract serviceman died in an accident. This was reported to RT by the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is clarified that the incident occurred on March 11: “Moving as part of a convoy along the mountainous section of the al-Kadmus-Baniyas public road, the Ural-4320 car of the Khmeimim airbase slid into a ditch and collided with a roadside building,” the report says. The cause of the accident "could be a technical malfunction of the car," the ministry said.

Why every man of honor should go and vote against constitutional amendments "If God is in the Constitution, then everything is allowed." Literally so: the very way in which the amendments are pushed into the Basic Law establishes and sanctifies autocratic power in Russia.

A number of Russian experts in the field of constitutional and other branches of law, as well as civil society activists and human rights activists, initiated an open collective appeal to the Council of Europe through the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe with a request to give an opinion on the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and on the very procedure for their adoption.

More than 200 dogs and cats were destroyed in the Yakut shelter that had contact with a frantic individual. Now the zoo defenders find out if there was really rabies Photo: RIA Novosti On March 3, the State “Yakut Republican Veterinary Laboratory Laboratory” conducted a virological study during “planned, annual measures for monitoring studies for rabies, as part of the execution of state assignment”. At least this is approved on the website of the regional department of veterinary medicine.

Moscow begins to cancel all major events due to coronavirus Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Due to the situation with the coronavirus, the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin banned in the capital the holding of mass events of more than 5 thousand people. So far only for a month - until April 10. According to Vice-mayor Anastasia Rakakova, now about a thousand people are under supervision under the supervision of coronavirus.

Eight more cases of COVID-19 infection have been recorded in Russia. This was reported in the operational headquarters of Moscow. Thus, the number of cases of coronavirus registered in the country increased to 28. As specified, six people fell ill in Moscow, two more in the Moscow region. One of the cases in the capital is a child who has no symptoms of the disease at all. “Patients have been hospitalized in the capital's hospitals.

Russia is temporarily suspending flights to France, Germany, Italy and Spain due to the coronavirus outbreak. This was reported in the operational headquarters. A temporary ban on the air transportation of passengers is introduced from March 13. The exceptions will be flights Moscow-Berlin, Moscow-Munich, Moscow-Frankfurt am Main, Moscow-Rome, Moscow-Barcelona, ​​Moscow-Madrid and Moscow-Paris. We are talking about flights in both directions.

The Russian Academy of Sciences has adopted a state order for new censorship technologies on the Internet Everything went quickly. The start date of submitting applications on the website of the State Zacups was marked in the documents on March 3, and on the same day at 12 o’clock in the afternoon the procedure was closed.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global pandemic of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. This was reported on her Twitter. Earlier, WHO said that the death rate from coronavirus exceeded the statistics on the number of deaths from influenza. “The death rate from coronavirus worldwide is about 3.4%. In comparison, seasonal flu typically kills less than 1% of those infected,” the organization said.

Former deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Oleg Korshunov was sentenced to 9 years in a penal colony in the case of embezzlement of 155 million rubles. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The court found Korshunov guilty of embezzlement of budget money when concluding contracts for the supply of sugar and fuels and lubricants.