Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the successful completion of ballistic missile tests. This was reported by Sepahnews. Iran carried out test launches of missiles for two days. On March 9, Tehran launched two Qadr H ballistic missiles in the north of the country. They hit targets in southeast Iran, flying 1,400 km. In recent days, Iran has been conducting military exercises during which it launches missiles with a range of 300 to 2 thousand km.

From March 1 to March 9, consumer prices in Russia increased by 0.2%, reports . Rosstat At the same time, over the last week of February, the increase in consumer prices was 0.1%, and in February as a whole - 0.6%. Since the beginning of 2016, the inflation rate has reached 1.8%. The beginning of March was marked by an accelerated increase in retail prices for a number of products.

The head of the Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said that the first batch of Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles will likely be delivered to Iran this year. He spoke about this in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I think we will deliver the S-300 to [Iran] by the end of the year. The first delivery will be in September or August,” Chemezov explained. According to him, Tehran announced the need to purchase the S-300PMU-1 modification.

A car exploded near a mosque in Nazran after Friday prayers. It is completely destroyed. According to preliminary data, the car could have been mined, although initially there was talk of an explosion of the car's gas equipment Memorial stele at the entrance to Nazran (Photo: RIA Novosti) In Nazran, near the Nasyr-Kortovskaya mosque, immediately after the end of Friday prayers on March 11, a high-power explosion occurred.

The operating company Nord Stream AG 2 has completed an international tender for the supply of steel pipes for two pipelines of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The company's press service reported this. The supplies of pipes with a total length of 2.5 thousand km and a weight of 2.2 million tons will be carried out by the German Europipe GmbH, Mülheim (Germany, 40%), OJSC United Metallurgical Company (Russia, 33%) and OJSC Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant ( 27%).

A criminal case was opened against lawyer and former FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin under Article 310 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (disclosure of preliminary investigation data). about this . The lawyer told Moskovsky Komsomolets According to Trepashkin, a criminal case was opened against him on July 23, 2015, but he only learned about it today.

Infantility, apathy and lack of independence are the distinctive features of Homo Soveticus. Why few people in Russia are ready to take responsibility and how to deal with it Experiments on dogs In the sixties of the last century, American psychologist Martin Seligman discovered a phenomenon he called “learned helplessness.” The phenomenon was discovered during an experiment based on the classical principles of conditioning by Ivan Pavlov. Seligman placed two groups of dogs in separate rooms.

The goalkeeper of Lokomotiv Moscow, Brazilian Guilherme Marinato, who has Russian citizenship, joined the Russian national football team. This was reported on the official website of the Russian Football Union. As part of the national team, he will perform in friendly matches against the national teams of Lithuania (March 26) and France (March 29). The matches will take place in Moscow and Paris, respectively. The RFU notes that the composition of the team may be changed.

The majority of metropolitan medical institutions distort reporting documents by including information about unprovided services, a prosecutor's audit revealed.

Gazprombank and Roscosmos are trying to recover 5.1 billion rubles from Dalspetsstroy.

After a fire in the basement of the new building of the Scarlet Sails residential complex in north-west Moscow, the body of a man was discovered. reports this Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. As the agency’s interlocutor said, the fire started at approximately 00:30 Moscow time in one of the locked rooms on the minus first floor of a building under construction at 79 Aviatsionnaya Street. An hour later the fire was extinguished.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. and Royal Bank of Canada board member Jao Pedro Reinhardt resigned after being charged with drug possession two weeks ago, reports Bloomberg . A message about Reinhardt's resignation from his post at the Royal Bank of Canada was published on the credit institution's website . It notes that the decision “takes effect immediately.” The reasons for it are not explained.

Communist deputies are asking the Accounts Chamber to check the Moscow City Hall’s spending on road repairs, replacing curbs and tiles.

The NATO Council approved the decision of US President Barack Obama to nominate General Curtis Scaparrotti to the post of head of NATO Allied Command Europe. US President Barack Obama (Photo: AP) Scaparrotti will replace General Philip Breedlove as commander of NATO Allied Forces Europe, who traditionally also leads the European Command of the US Armed Forces, the press service of the North Atlantic Alliance reports .

Mikail Shishkhanov's pension funds attracted the most clients last year, overtaking the previous leader - NPF Sberbank Client register in one of the Pension Fund branches (Photo: Yuriy Smityuk/TASS) Leaders in influx RBC asked the 15 largest pension funds (by volume of pension savings) how many they managed to attract new clients as part of the 2015 transition campaign. Half of the funds surveyed provided preliminary data that they received from the Pension Fund.