The Ministry of Construction initiative to equate fines for non -payment of utilities with fines for delay in bank loan is reported by Izvestia with reference to the deputy minister of construction and housing and communal services, the main housing inspector Andrei Chibis. Corresponding amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation have already been submitted to the bill and sent to the State Duma.

Boris Titov, the Commissioner for the President of Russia for Entrepreneurs, proposed to increase the maximum price of state orders for small and medium -sized businesses from 20 to 30 million rubles. This was announced on March 11 at the ONF conference as part of the Gosakaz forum. For honest purchases, "writes Interfax .

"New Gazeta" will suspend the release of the paper version after the May holidays. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the editor -in -chief of the publication Dmitry Muratov. “We will now make a special project on Victory Day, after which we will suspend the release of Novaya Gazeta,” Muratov said. He noted that the publication has no problem with content, adding that he has excellent audit and financial indicators.

Having investigated the kogi of the eagle found more than 100 years ago on the territory of Croatia, scientists discovered marks and traces of polishing on them, indicating a person’s processing. This allowed us to conclude that Neanderthals made decorations from these claws, possibly bracelets or necklaces. Photo: LUKA MJEDA Eight claws examined by scientists belong to the eagles of whitewater ( Haliaetus albicilla ), their age is about 130 thousand years.

Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that he made an “interesting proposal” to the ex-head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov, Interfax reports. According to Medinsky, Kapkov has not yet answered his proposal. At the same time, the minister did not specify what proposal was in question. Kapkov left his position of his own free will. The mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, accepted his resignation on March 10.

In St. Petersburg yesterday, employees of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, with the support of GUEBIPK operatives, as a result of the operation to eliminate a major criminal group specializing in the illegal return of VAT, were detained by ten people, Kommersant reports. At about seven o'clock in the morning, almost simultaneously, representatives of law enforcement agencies came to the apartments and country houses of 30 defendants in the case of illegal return of VAT.

In Tajikistan, the ruling People’s Democratic Party in the parliamentary elections passed on March 1 received 65.4% of the vote. This was reported by the official results published by the Central Election Commission of the Republic. In the elected lower house of the National Parliament, the ruling party took 51sts of 63.

In Odessa, in the Admiral business center, another explosion occurred on the avenue of the same name, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports . “Unknown persons were acted by an explosive device installed at the front door of the leased office of the organization of the political party“ Self -help, ”the report said. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are qualified as a terrorist attack.

American actor Jim Parsons, who played the egocentric scientist Sheldon Cooper in the series “The Big Bang Theory”, became the owner of a star on the Glory Avenue in Hollywood, reports Reuters. “One thing that I know is that the main reason I am here today is my family and support that they provided me,” Parsons said during the ceremony, addressing his parents.

The British writer Terry Pratchett died at the age of 66 in the UK, BBC reports . Information about the death of the writer was confirmed by its publisher. “The world has lost one of the brightest and most acute minds,” said Larry Finley, head of the publishing house of TransWorld Publishers. Since 2007, Pratchett has suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The writer died at home surrounded by a family. Pratchett is the author of a series of books "Flat World" (Discworld).

Residents of the village of Chervonny Zhovten in the Donetsk region told Reuters that they saw a rocket, which was shot down on July 17. 58-year-old Peter Fedotov explained that during the crash of Boeing was with his mother in the garden.

The head of the American engineering corporation Caterpillar, Dug Oberhelman, announced the need to change the regime in Russia to improve the economic situation in the country. It is reported by Bloomberg . “It is necessary that there is something like a change in the regime (in Russia). I do not know how much time it will take, but this will happen, ”Oberhelman said, speaking at the Detroit Economic Club.

Scientists have found a weighty confirmation that in the underwater ocean of Enshalad there is a zone of warm water. This fact makes the distant satellite of Saturn with a very attractive object to search for life in the solar system. Earlier, the Kassini-Huygens interplanetary probe managed to determine that at least in the area of ​​the South Pole under a crust of ice 30-40 kilometers a cluster of water with a depth of at least nine kilometers is hidden.

A suspect of the murder of Boris Nemtsov Zaur Dadaev, in an interview with members of the Public Supervisory Commission, said that investigators used torture to receive testimonies. This was stated by a member of the HRC Andrei Babushkin at a press conference at the Interfax office. “He told us five times that if unlimited methods of influence had not been applied to him, then he would give other evidence,” Grandmother explained.

The descent apparatus of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft with three crew members of the ISS landed in the Kazakhstan steppe in the estimated time, TASS reports with reference to the flight control center. Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, as well as the astronaut NASA Barry Wilmore, returned from the station to Earth. “The capsule landed in the planned landing area, about 146 km southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan,” the Central Bank said.