Since 2014, companies from Russia doubled the average number of partner countries. RNS was told about this in Sberbank: “Starting since 2014, there has been a large diversification of the countries with which participants in foreign economic activity interact. Until 2014, there was a very frequent profile of the client, which interacts with one or two countries, and now it is an average of three or four countries, and one country is already very rare.

Scientists from the University of California in San Diego successfully introduced human stem cells into the organisms of monkeys with damage to the spinal cord: according to the results of the experiment, monkeys were able to partially restore the mobility of the limbs. The work is published in Nature Medicine, briefly talks about it by The Scientist. The idea of ​​using stem cells for the treatment of damage to the spinal cord has been developed over the years.

In the modern world, sometimes events occur that entail immediate and serious consequences. Such events, of course, attract attention. But the consequences are soon passing, and the event is forgotten. Therefore, it is logical that events that themselves do not cause any important consequences in themselves, but indicate some important trends that can affect the future fate of the world.

Not so long ago, the Polish authorities adopted an interesting law . Now punishment in Poland can be subjected to “public statements about the involvement of the Poles in the Holocaust”, as well as for “denial of crimes of Ukrainian nationalists”. It sounds crazy, but obviously made in imitation of the laws on the “denial of the Holocaust” (for this they punish about one and a half dozen countries).

The accused of organizing a terrorist attack in the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg Dmitry Lukyanenko was recognized as insane. This was announced by TASS by his lawyer Elena Kornilova. She added that the side of the defense was not acquainted with the results of the examination. Lukyanenko from the age of 19 was observed in a neuropsychiatric dispensary. The explosion in the Perekrestok supermarket occurred on the evening of December 27. 18 people were injured, no one died.

The site russianplanes.net with a register of data on aircraft and their flights became not available several hours after the publication of RBC material about cocaine from the Russian embassy in Argentina. The publication used information from the site to prepare material. As RBC notes , at first, when switching to the site, an entry appeared: “The site was created to publish photos of our aircraft. Their beauty, work of thousands of engineers and designers.

In the United States, there are fewer fewer those who advocate the cancellation of a tip in restaurants. Over the past few years, dozens of establishments for various reasons have tried to abandon this tradition. However, many later returned to her. JoE's Crab Shack restaurants network canceled the tips at eighteen of her dots a couple of years ago, but returned the previous practice in most of them six months later.

A strange and tragic story with Wagner PMC fighters who fought in Syria either for their homeland, or for salaries, or for the plant, hardly has simple explanations. But some useful thoughts in this regard can occur to it, if you turn, as it may seem, to the matters of past days. Heroes - bandits - guards Private military companies were not born today or yesterday. Their flowering belongs to the era of the late Middle Ages.

Alexey Navalny. Photo: Evgeny Feldman / AP / TASS On March 5, the Tver court of Moscow will consider materials on an administrative case against Alexei Navalny about a repeated violation of the procedure for organizing a protest rally, which was held on January 28. The Code of Administrative Offenses provides for a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles and up to 30 days of arrest.

The State Department and the Pentagon signed an agreement on the joint struggle against foreign propaganda and disinformation. $ 40 million was allocated for its implementation. Politico writes about this. Center for global interaction As part of the program, the Pentagon will support the Global Engagement Center created in the structure of the State Department.

The premiere of the film by Marvel “Avengers: Infinity War” was returned to the original date of the premiere - May 3. This was reported by the "Film Driver Bulletin" with reference to The Walt Disney Company. The fact that the premiere of the film will be transferred to May 11 became known in early February. The Ministry of Culture claimed that the distributor initially announced this date, but in the press service of the distributor this was rejected.

The head of the LDPR, presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that he would not deal with accusations of harassment against the deputy from the LDPR Leonid Slutsky. This was reported by the Russian BBC service. “Go to you, throw an election campaign, run and spy on who was pestering to whom, I will not. Picked up - declare this. If not stated, it means a provocation. In America, they went to bed for a role in bed, but the deputy can not give you anything, he will not even give a gift.

An employee of the wine factory near Cape Town. Photo: Mike Hutchings / Reuters Last week on winemaking of the South African Republic, a crushing blow was inflicted. Firstly, one of the most famous winemakers of the country Charles Beck was the victim of another attack on farmers.

The prosecutor's office of South Korea requested a 30 -year prison for the former president of the country, Yonhap News writes . The charge also asked for her a fine of 118.5 billion won ($ 110.4 million). It is expected that the court will make a decision in late March or early April. Pak Kyn Hy is accused of conspiracy with the head of Lotte Group Sin Don Bin, abuse of power, illegal pressure on large companies and disclosing state secrets.

The Euro Polis company, connected with billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin, signed a binding agreement on work in Syria shortly before the collision of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC with the American military in Deir ez-Zor. About this with reference to sources writes The Bell. The agreement was signed in January 2018. According to the Ambassador of Syria to Russia, Riad Haddad, Russia and Syria in January signed a “road map” about joint work in the oil industry.