The Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine opened the proceedings on the illegality of the appointment of Alexander Turchinov to the position of acting president of Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. The plaintiff in the case is the Donetsk lawyer Vladimir Oletsevich.

Roskomnadzor issued a warning to Lenta.ru for publishing an interview with one of the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement “Right Sector” Andrey Tarasenko. This was reported in a press release received by the publication.

Anna Sakoyan Svetlana Konovalova (Russia), Anya Viker (Germany) and Lyudmila Pavlenko (Ukraine) Photo: Sochi2014.ru Unlike the Olympics, the Paralympic Games are usually covered in the press significantly less versatile. Sochi Paralympics-2014 in this sense is no exception.

The Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Didier Burkkhalter said that representatives of the organization will not observe the progress of the referendum in the Crimea on March 16, RIA Novosti reports. He explained that such activities can only be carried out by invitation from the state-participating state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that increases to 8 thousand rubles the maximum fine for officials who produce faulty transport on the road, ITAR-TASS reports. The law strengthens administrative liability “for the release of a vehicle that has a malfunction with which operation is prohibited or converted without appropriate permission” and establishes for officials who are responsible for their technical condition and operation, a fine of 5,000 to 8000 rubles.

In Turkey cities, anti -government protests were held on Tuesday. The speeches were organized in connection with the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who, after being injured by the gas sequenger, and 268 days in the coma, died in the Istanbul clinic, reports Reuters . During the manifestations in Istanbul, the participants of which were several hundred people, the police used special equipment against them. It is reported that several dozen people were detained.

Deputies and senators from United Russia and the LDPR proposed a bill to the State Duma, which cancels direct elections of mayors in large cities with district division. The document is published on the website of the lower house of parliament. According to the document, direct elections of mayors are proposed to be canceled in 67 cities, 56 of which are regional centers. In other cities, the Institute of Direct Elections is proposed to be preserved.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading the law on blocking sites with any pirate content, adding books, music, software and other content to films, ITAR-TASS reports. As the author of the bill explained, the vice speaker of the lower house Sergey Zheleznyak, the document expands the objects of protected copyrights and improves the mechanism for blocking illegal content.

British Prime Minister David Cameron intends to call on the European Union to introduce visa restrictions on “famous Russian deputies”, “insisting on the conduct of unacceptable steps” in the Crimea . According to The Guardian , lists may appear by Monday, March 17. Under sanctions, Cameron noted, Russian President Vladimir Putin or Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as ordinary parliamentarians, regardless of how they voted.

Grigory Kabatyansky, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, chief researcher at IPPI RAS, will devote his lecture to the founder of information theory of information about the theory of coding. His performance will be held as part of public lectures “Polit.ru” on March 13, on Thursday, at 19.00, in the Moscow cafe “Tomorrow”. The conversation will go about the seemingly completely applied area of ​​mathematics - the theory of coding. But the lecturer with such a division does not agree.

The seven-time world champion in Formula 1 car races Michael Schumacher went recovering and demonstrates “small signs of improvement,” the RED of REPAIRS said in a statement of the motorist, BBC reports. “From the very beginning it was clear that it would be a long and difficult struggle for Michael,” relatives say, calling everyone to patience. “We are still sure that Michael will go this way to the end and leave the coma,” Schumacher's native Schumacher adds.

The State Duma formed a commission of 25 people who will go to Crimea to observe a referendum on the issue of joining the peninsula to Russia. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to a source in the lower house of parliament. According to him, the commission was formed according to the interfractional principle, it included 12 representatives of United Russia, as well as four deputies from the Communist Party, LDPR and Just Russia.

In the suburbs, FSKN employees seized a large batch of heroin, according to the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Moscow Region. It is reported that in November 2013, the drug police received information about the Bang of Drug Trade from the Central Asian region engaged in the supply of heroin. Then law enforcement officers became aware that in February - March 2014, a large batch of heroin from the remote regions of Russia will arrive in the capital's region.

Grigory Kabatyansky G. Kabatyansky: "Before Shannon, the word" codes "was used as a theory of encryption, that is, the secret -painting" Photo by N.

Russian athlete Roman Petushkov won a gold medal in the 1 km sitting sprint race at the Paralympics in Sochi. Another Russian, Grigory Murygin, received a silver medal. Third place went to Ukrainian Maxim Yarovoy. Thus, Petushkov became a four-time Paralympic champion.