A resident of the village of Kogel, Kenya. Photo: Thomas Mukoya / Reuters Automation of production frees a person from labor, but scientists are scared by the future of mankind, left without work. One of the main solutions to the problem is the idea of ​​basic income, which has been discussed for a long time (strictly speaking, since the time of the “utopia” of Thomas Mora), but now has gained a new meaning.

From March 6 to April 7, the Ministry of Finance will purchase currency for 3.2 billion rubles a day. Thus, for a month, the department will spend 70.5 billion rubles on the purchase of currency. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Finance. “While maintaining the current conjuncture, it is expected that the amount of funds sent to the purchase of currency in the domestic market will be higher in the following periods,” the department notes.

The initiative to cancel the sentences to the activist Ildar Dadin and the teacher Evgenia Chudnovets came from the Prosecutor General, and not from the Kremlin. About this Medusa was told by a source close to the leadership of the supervisory authority. According to him, this is due to the arrival of new people to the department. So, about the liberation of Dadin and the Chuderovets, the deputy prosecutor general Leonid Korzhinek, who has been working in this position since November 2016.

The Syrian city of Palmyra was completely freed from the “Islamic state” (ISIS), said Sergey Rudskoy, head of the main operational department of the General Staff of the Russian Federation. It is reported by TASS. “The successes in Palmyra were achieved, despite the constant increase in the militants group due to their withdrawal from under Mosul and Rakka. However, this did not help the international coalition achieve the goals declared last year, ”Rudskoy said.

The Moscow authorities conducted 50 auctions for the right to trade from mobile carts, writes RBC with reference to competitive documents . According to the results of all trading, the city budget received 341 million rubles. Under the terms of the competitions, from May to October from the carts it will be possible to trade ice cream, in the cold season - hot drinks and baking, contracts are concluded for five years.

Moscow will not apply Washington's approaches to the contacts of US Ambassador John Tefft, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We do not want to monitor, and we will not be monkey. But if the same principle were applied to the activities of the Tefft Ambassador in the Russian Federation and its contacts, then I assure you, it would be a very funny picture, ” Interfax quoted him quoted.

The US Department of National Security considers the opportunity to share mothers and children who have come from Mexico illegally to reduce the number of migrants. The sources in the government told Reuters about this. This measure will allow the mothers who dispute the deportation or wait until they are provided with asylum. According to the current law, until the court decides, migrants with children are delayed and at the same time allowed to be in the United States.

One of the rooms of the hotel with graffiti Banksy, depicting an Israeli border policeman and Palestinian who beat pillows. Photo: Photo: Dusan Vranic / AP / TASS British artist Banksy opens a hotel on the border of Israel and Palestinian territories. It is located on the outskirts of Bethlehem - a city under the control of the Palestinian National Administration. The hotel designed by Banksy is called Walled Off ("behind the wall").

Children with ice cream Eskimo, July 1, 1981. Photo: Photo chronicle TASS The investment banker, which now lives between London and Singapore, Sergey Grechishkin wrote and is going to publish a book about his Soviet childhood in the United States - “EVERYTHINGS NORMAL: Life and Times of A Soviet Kid”. It is both memoirs and the history of everyday life in Leningrad in the 70s and 80s. The book does not pretend to be scientific fullness, but interestingly with a frank, personal view of the past.

The DPRK citizen RI Chen Chol, who was detained in Malaysia on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the half -brother of the DPRK leader Kim Jong Nam, is released and prepared for deportation, reports Kyodo News. According to the agency, the liberation of RI, who, together with another 7 citizens of the DPRK, “is still considered directly involved in the incident [according to the special services of South Korea],” emphasizes the difficulty of reconstructing the picture of the murder.

The Kremlin did not get acquainted in detail with the investigation of the Corruption Fund (FBK) of Alexei Navalny about the "Secret Empire" of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. “Media messages saw. This is not the first example of the work of this well -known convicted citizen, ”Peskov quotes Interfax as saying.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, who emigrated to Ukraine. It is reported by Interfax . The investigation appealed to the court with a petition for the absentee imprisonment of Voronenkov on March 3. During the meeting, it turned out that the ex-deputy was put on the international wanted list.

Cars on Havana Street, Cuba, 2016. Photo: Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters “Russia should prepare for the fact that it will live in the conditions of sanctions vaguely long,” said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with the Vesti on Saturday program. "Vaguely long" - how much? Two days later, helpful experts in state -films give an expansion interpretation. “We need to prepare for the fact that sanctions can be on a generation,” they repeat in different ways.

In Syria, under Palmyra, the General of the Russian Army, the head of the military training department of the headquarters of the Western Military District, Petr Milyukhin, was blown up on a mine. It is reported by Fontanka. The incident occurred about a week ago. The military lost both legs and eyes, he was transported to the Moscow hospital named after Burdenko. According to Fontanka, this is the first Russian general to be injured in Syria.

The struggle of the US Presidential Administration Donald Trump with information leaks in the media from state departments raised among the American civil servants “paranoia”. Reuters told several anonymous sources about this.