Military parade in Beijing Damir Sagolj / Reuters In 2016, China plans to carry out a large-scale reform of the national liberation army. Its purpose is that a huge structure of 2.3 million becomes more effective and capable of protecting the state in modern conditions. Bloomberg tells about the essence of planned changes, here are the main trends that expect the Chinese army in the near future.

The American military involves the B-52 strategic bombers to combat the Islamic State, Fox reports . The TV channel notes that the B-52, which can carry a nuclear charge, will replace other strategic bombers-B-1 Lancer. The commander of the Air Force Charles Brown said that the B-1 was returned to the base for improvement. According to the Air Force Times, the first V-52 sorties against ISIS are scheduled for April.

US Secretary of Defense Esh Carter will submit proposals on defense reform in a few weeks, Reuters reports. The head of the Pentagon did not report the details, clarifying that some of the proposed changes will require changes in the law. Others can be implemented within the framework of the current powers of the President and the Ministry of Defense. According to Defense News, the Carter initiatives are likely to affect cybersecurity and expansion of the authorities in terms of data collection.

The head of the capital's department of trade and services, Alexei Nemeryuk, considered a poster with hooliganism, which was hung out at the Paveletsky station on the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the Radio Says Moscow radio station. Nemery noted that the poster was removed by order of the head of the Department of the Media and Advertising of Ivan Shubin. “I talked with him. He just answers this question.

The large Russian company Ig Seismic Services (IgSS), which is engaged in seismic exploration, announced the departure with the London Stock Exchange. This was reported in the IGSS press release. The corresponding decision was made at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, which took place on March 2. Also at the meeting, a new composition of the board of directors was established.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Crimea Ruslan Balbek announced that in the Kherson region of Ukraine there are Turkish military instructors who are preparing mercenaries, RIA Novosti reports . “We have reliable data that a lot of military instructors from Turkey gathered in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Today they are trying to create a training ground for preparing mercenaries for conducting hostilities both in open areas and urban conditions, ”he assured.

In Istanbul, the police used tear gas and plastic bullets against demonstrators who opposed Zaman, Reuters reports. According to the agency, about two thousand people participated in the mass action. Earlier it was reported that the security forces cordoned off the publication building. https://twitter.com/peninsulaqatar/status/706102357319356417 Police officers had already dispersed the demonstration earlier on March 5, which began after the news of the search in the newspaper building.

The Belarusian authorities will not miss Ukrainian citizens on new passports in the form of cards, the State Border Committee of the Republic reports . As noted, the current agreement on visa -free trips, concluded in 2009, does not provide for passports in the form of plastic cards that were introduced in Ukraine.

The head of the press service and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov, was reprimanded. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to sources. It is clarified that Major General was punished for insufficient compliance with safety measures when working with media representatives in the area of ​​special tasks.

SpaceX could not catch the first step of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle on the floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The founder of the company Ilon Musk wrote about this on his Twitter. “The rocket landed hard on the barge. We did not expect that this time everything would come out, but the next launch has good chances, ”Musk writes. The launch of the Falcon 9 missile was made from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) at 2:35 Moscow time.

The International Council of Football Associations (IFAB) announced the introduction of a video replacement system. No later than the 2017 \ 2018 season, it will work in test mode, reports Reuters . “We made a really historical decision for football. We showed that we listen to [modern] football and show common sense. We must act carefully, but move forward to show that a new era has come in FIFA and IFAB, ”said FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Joseph Stalin N. Sitnikov / ITAR-TASS On March 1, 1953, Stalin was found on the floor of his dining room in the near dacha. Doctors were called only the next day - they diagnosed the paralysis of the right side of the body. It (body) lived up to ten ten on March 5. Later he was gutted and, together with another mummy, was left to lie on the main square of the country. In 1961, upstairs decided that the remains had to be buried.

Gold ingots Michael Dalder / Reuters Canada finally got rid of its gold reserve. For decades, the country gradually sold ingots and coins that made up part of its gold and foreign exchange reserves. By the end of 2015, the supply was reduced to several tons (for comparison - in the middle of the 20th century it was about a thousand tons). And by the beginning of March 2016, according to official figures , the share of gold in the reserves of Canada fell to zero.

Hackers withdrew 200 million rubles from Metalinvestbank accounts, reports a credit institution. It is emphasized that this is less than 1% of the bank’s assets, the amount less than the profit received by the credit institution since the beginning of 2016. As explained in the bank, on February 29, hackers tried to withdraw about 667 million rubles from accounts: the money was transferred from the bank's correspondent account to private individuals in other banks.

The administration of Metalinvestbank complained about withdrawing 677 million rubles from the accounts of a credit institution, a source in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. “According to the bank, in the last days of February, more than 677 million rubles have been transferred from their bank accounts.