The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Russia decided to increase the key rate from 4.25% to 4.5%, the financial regulator said . An increase in the key rate has been taking place for the first time since 2018. “Inflational expectations of the population and business remain at an increased level. The balance of the risks shifted towards the incurumration, ”the press service of the regulator notes.

On March 19, 1956, Yegor Gaidar was born, one of the main ideologists and leaders of economic reforms of the early 1990s. Personal business Egor Timurovich Gaidar (1956-2009) was born in Moscow in the family of the Military correspondent of the newspaper Pravda, Rear Admiral Timur Gaidar. Both of his grandfathers - Arkady Gaidar and Pavel Bazhov - were famous writers. With the beginning of the Caribbean crisis in 1962-1964, he lived in Cuba, where his father wrote materials for Pravda.

Latvia Minister of Health Daniel Pavlyts said that on March 19, the country resumed vaccination against coronavirus with the drug Astrazeneca, Interfax reports . Vaccination points were asked to prepare for this on March 18. Vaccinations should start set on Friday after 12:00. Latvia was waiting for the results of checking the European Agency for Medicines (EMA). Vaccination was not carried out within three days after information that the Astrazeneca vaccine can lead to blood clots.

Four types of bacteria were discovered on board the International Space Station, three of which were previously unknown to science. Researchers, however, believe that these bacteria come from the Earth. Previous studies have shown that some stable strains of bacteria can survive in harsh conditions of the cosmos, including disputes of Deinococcus bacteria, which, as part of the experiment, were placed on the outer surface of the station and retained viability for three years.

The ex-head of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, will not be able to publish messages on Facebook within a month, should be from the announcement on the page of his assistant Leila Huseynova. The social network administration blocked him on the complaint of other users. Huseynova published the message of Roizman, in which he explains that the reason for blocking was the word "ishak". Whom the ex-mayor offended this word, he did not specify. “While I'm leaving for Twitter (Twitter - approx.

The company "RN -Yuganskneftegaz", the largest extractive asset of Rosneft, after recalculating the oil and dissolved gas reserves of the purchased deposits developed, said that the initial geological reserves of the deposits increased by 280.5 million tons, the initial extracted reserves of oil - by 41.6 million tons. The increase in stocks was achieved as a result of the implementation of exploratory and operational drilling programs.

The VKontakte administration blocked the public “Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for equality”, reports TJournal. This publication was announced by a representative of the social network. The community was blocked at the request of Roskomnadzor. The agency referred to the decision of the metallurgical district court of Chelyabinsk, which recognized the information posted on the public page.

Evgeny Savelyev Icons in support of Greenpeace activists Official Facebook page Greenpeace Why are the "green" chasing the effect, and not for the results Experts note that Greenpeace and many other foreign eco -organization have been repeatedly seen in demagogic statements, working for the sake of money and grants received, including from large Western structures. Well, Russia more often receives criticism from foreign eco -activists than real help in protecting nature.

Finland for the fourth year in a row is recognized as the happiest country of the world. This was reported by the compilers of the World Happiness Report rating, which is released annually. Also in the top ten are all countries of Northern Europe: Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Norway. The top 10 happiest countries New Zealand and Austria are closed. The USA is in the 14th position. Canada flew out of the first ten to 15th place.

The European Agency for Medicines (EMA) has published the results of a new security check of the Oxford University Vaccine and the Swedish-British pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca. It says that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh possible risks. In addition, the vaccine does not lead to an increase in the general risk of blood clots and there is no evidence that the problem may be associated with specific parties of the vaccine or specific manufacturers.

Greece will increase the number of permitted entrances for Russians to 4 thousand per week, said the first deputy head of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Miltiadis Varviotis. It is quoted by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. This was announced by the official according to the results of a video conference with the Minister of Transport of Russia Vitaly Savelyev.

Player "What?" Where? When?" Mikhail Skipsky continues to train schoolchildren, learned the “project”. In the summer of 2020, he was accused of harassment to his minor students. The publication writes that Skipsky conducted a training in the center for gifted children “Klyuchevsky” in Penza, and also at the end of February took part in the change in the preparation of schoolchildren for the intellectual Olympiad of the Volga Federal District.

In Moscow, operatives came to the editorial office of MBH Media with searches, the publication reported on their website. There is no information about the reasons for this yet. There were no editorial staff at the time the security forces came. “According to our data, there are definitely more than four people, they have a support group-comrades in Balaclavas, and they are waiting for someone to come to the editorial office,” Veronika Kutsyllo, editor-in-chief of MBH Media, told RBC.

US President Joe Biden will not be able to enter into an online statement in the near future, suggested by the head of the Russian state Vladimir Putin. The American leader is busy, said Biden Psaki, spokeswoman for Biden. It is quoted by Daily Storm. She noted that the US president already had negotiations with Putin. Psaki clarified that on March 19 Biden would go to Georgia, he will not have time.

In the city of Khimki of the Moscow region, an explosion occurred in a residential building, the Ministry of Emergencies said . A man died, the search for people under the wreckage continues, writes 112. The Ministry of Emergencies said that the emergency occurred at about 10:24 in a residential building along Zelennaya Street. After the explosion, a fire began in the house, the ceilings between the eighth and ninth floors collapsed.