Naftogaz Ukraine transferred another 15 million dollars of prepayment for the supply of Russian gas in March to Gazprom. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ukrainian company. The sixth tranche was listed on March 19. Gazprom has not yet confirmed this information. Since the end of February, Naftogaz transferred $ 90 million to Gazprom. The previous prepayment, as the Russian company said, was enough until March 23 inclusive.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said that a decrease in oil prices was a great test for the Eurasian Economic Union. It is reported by RIA Novosti . At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nazarbayev noted that these risks were known, "and there was a price imbalance, there were excitement." “Thank you for measures after our conversation, all this was stabilized,” said Nazarbayev.

Hollywood actors Jim Kerry and Keanu Reeves will shoot in a romantic film, the main characters of which will be cannibals. It is reported by Deadline . In the filming of The Bad Batch (“Bad Party”), actors Diego Luna and Jason Momoa, as well as the British model Syuki Waterhouse, will also take part. The director of the film was Ana Lily Amirpur, known for the film "The girl returns home one at night." The effect of the picture will unfold in the Texas desert, where the Mount of Ogroedov lives.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma offering bloggers with the status, rights and obligations of journalists, Interfax reports. The corresponding initiative came from the deputy of the Just Russia Alexei Kazakov. The essence of the initiative is that the blogger is endowed with the status of the media in the organization of the dissemination of information on the Internet, and is also endowed with the rights and obligations of the journalist.

On the day of the spring equinox, March 20, 2015, the largest solar eclipse over the past 16 years will occur. The last time a similar phenomenon was observed in August 1999, the next time it can be seen in 2033, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences said, TASS reports. The full phase of the eclipse can only be observed in the Arctic and in the north of the Atlantic Ocean - on the Faroe Islands and Spitsbergen.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government decree on clarifying the procedure for issuing and accounting for certificates of veteran of the Great Patriotic War. The text of the document is published on the official website of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers. This resolution implements amendments to the Federal Law “On Veterans” adopted in December 2014.

Westinghouse wants to become a monopoly supplier of nuclear fuel for all 13 units of Ukrainian nuclear power plants. The head of the American company, Danny Roderick, told Ukrainian journalists about this. Vladimir Kornilov , director of the Center for Eurasian Studies (Ukraine): We all understand why, both under Yushchenko and Poroshenko, Westinghouse immediately sought to enter the Ukrainian market.

Alexandra Younger Exoplanet Gliese 1214 B on the background of the star GJ 1214 Ill.: ESO/L. Calçada Cosmologists from the Australian National University (Australian National University and their colleagues from the Niels Bohr Institute, which in Copvengagen, calculated the statistical probability that somewhere in the distant wilds of our galaxy there are planets that are already or possible life.

Chairman of the Board of Directors and one of the founders of HTC Corp. Cher Wong will become the main executive director of the company. This is stated in the message of HTC. At the CEO post, Wong will replace Peter Chow, who will remain in the company and head the HTC FUTURE DEVELOPMENT development unit. The media note that the permutations in HTC were not a surprise to the market.

A robot named Atrias is the brainchild of engineers from a special university university university (Oregon State University Dynamic Robotics Laboratory). The creators predict him the glory of the most high -speed biped robot in the world. In addition, Atrias is a prototype of the next generation of machines to eliminate emergency situations.

The founder of Kaspersky Laboratory, Evgeny Kaspersky, said that the publication in Bloomberg about the cooperation of his company with Russian special services is frank lies. He wrote about this on his blog. “Firstly, a third of the articles are purely reliable, public facts that can be checked on our website, in our open reports and other public documents. Secondly, which was very strange (this is Bloomberg!). A significant part of the material is not true. Frank lies, ”Kaspersky wrote.

Almost all banks of the Central Federal District have concluded agreements with the Central Bank to connect to the national system of payment cards of Russia. It is reported by RIA Novosti . “At present, the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Central Federal District is underway to conclude additional agreements, bank account agreements.

In St. Petersburg, the tow truck took another tow truck for the wrong parking lot to the parking lot. This was reported by the Russian News Service with reference to a source in a car company that owns a tow truck. The four -ton car was parked near the Vitebsk station. “They drove the car to the parking lot, said that 16 thousand rubles were from us, come, take the car. This is a complete lawlessness. Now we are going to deal with this. Nobody shows the protocol, ”said the owner of the company.

In Nagorno -Karabakh, apparently, there was a real battle between the Azerbaijani army and the forces of an unrecognized republic. Analysts talk about the largest clash since the conclusion of a ceasefire in 1994 and this is especially unpleasant: over the past year, this is the third similar “record”. Baku reported that as a result of a collision on the contact line, about 20 Karabakh troops were killed on March 19.

In the Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh, a fast train came off the rails, as a result of which 15 people were killed, another 150 were injured. It is reported by Hindustan Times. The train followed from the city of Detrahdun in Varanasi. The exact cause of the accident is still unknown. According to one version, the driver did not have time to slow down in time. At the crash site, doctors and rescuers work.