In December 2018, a meteorite exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere. According to the BBC with reference to the NASA agency, this happened on December 18 over the Bering Sea near the Kamchatka coast at an altitude of 25.6 km. It is clarified that the explosion capacity was 10 times higher than the explosion of the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima. At the same time, in its power it is inferior to the explosion of the meteorite, which occurred in 2013 over Chelyabinsk .

The head of the Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption Vasily Piskarev and his deputies Ernest Valeev and Alexander Hinshtein submitted a bill to the Lower Chamber of the Russian Parliament, which endowed the police with the authority to issue “official warnings” to citizens. Police, according to lawmakers, will be able to warn from unacceptable “actions that can create a danger” by committing administrative or criminal offenses.

About a third of the procurement in the framework of the preparation and conduct of the World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk were carried out with violations of the law. About this, as Kommersant writes, said Oleg Kharchenko, deputy head of the regional department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. According to Kharchenko, the main violations relate to the preparation of documentation for a particular customer and unreasonable deviations of applications.

Prosecutor Milan Francesco Greco unveiled the results of the forensic medical examination in the death case of the model and dancer Iman Fadil, a key witness, who testified about the connections of the former prime minister of Italy Berlusconi with minor prostitutes. In the blood of a 34-year-old woman who died of poisoning, antimony and cadmium in high concentration were discovered, ANSA agency reports.

In Georgia, large-scale joint command and staff exercises of NATO member countries and partners of the NATO-GEO Exercise 2019 alliance. As RIA Novosti reports, they will end on March 29. The exercises will be held on the territory of a joint training and evaluative center (JTEC). During the exercises, the country plans to visit NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

The Oxford Center for Marine Archeology published the book “Ship 17: Baris from Tonis-Garaklaya”, written by a researcher at the Center for Egyptological Research by the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Belov . The book describes the ancient Egyptian ship, discovered by underwater archaeologists among the "Cemetery of ships" at the bottom of the Gulf of Abukir.

In February 2019, Rosstat recorded in the Russian Federation an acceleration of industry growth to 4.1% compared to a similar last year is the maximum indicator since 2017 (then it reached 6.9%), RBC reports. At the same time, analysts - in particular, the economists surveyed by Bloomberg - predicted a maximum of 1.5%.

In the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, an unknown person opened shooting in the city, there are victims. This was reported on Twitter. According to local media, a person armed with firearms, a person opened fire in a tram. After that, he managed to hide. The territory around the tram stop is numb, ambulance helicopters were sent to the scene. Recall, on March 15, in the mosque in the center of the New Zealand Kraistcher and in the mosque located in his suburb of Linwood, shooting occurred.

Instead of expensive aircraft systems, the Boeing 737 Max pilots learned to manage planes on iPad tablets, writes The New York Times with reference to sources in the pilots' trade unions. According to them, the producing Boeing, the American aircraft -building corporation did not provide a professional simulator for the MAX model - although the pilots from Southwest Airlines and American Airlines demanded that the preparation be carried out on it.

Oleg Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of Russia, said that to use the SIM-Cards Embeded SIM (ESIM), integrated directly into smartphones, no changes to the legislation should be made. The certificate prepared by the department indicates that ESIM is the same subscriber identification module, like an ordinary SIM card.

Vladimir Putin for the commissioning ceremony of Balaklava and Tauride TPP / Kremlin.ru Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, large -scale military exercises with NATO began in Georgia, the FAS announced numerous violations in the Universiade procurement, and NASA reported a meteorite exploded above the Kamchatka.

A native of Turkey Hekman Tanysh, who allegedly arranged a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, was detained by the local police. This was announced by its official representative at a press conference, reports RTL . The detention was carried out as part of a special operation: police special forces stormed the house in which the suspect was located.

Investigators called fake information about threats to the Perechikov family, and the Pskov authorities created a special commission to verify it. In December, twelve-year-old Tasia Perechikov from the village of Tysino, Pskov region, asked Vladimir Putin a mini-tractor so that after two shifts in the hospital it was not so difficult to cultivate the land, after which the villagers began to poison the family.

Relatives of the native of Turkey Hekman Tanya, who fired at tram passengers in the Dutch city of Utrecht, said that his original target was “one of the loved ones”. According to them, Tanysh opened fire "for family reasons." The rest of the dead and victims are passengers who tried to help the wounded relative of the shooter, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu .

The Publishing House "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" published a book of Canadian scientist Stephen Heine "DNA is not a sentence. An amazing relationship between you and your genes ”(DNA is not destiny. The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes).