Photo: Dadin // YouTube Thaw or not: Sobesednik.ru discussed with a political scientist the wave of “political” acquittals and pardons in recent days. President Putin approved the pardon of Oksana Sevastidi, who was convicted of no less than treason . A Sochi resident was given seven years in prison for sending several SMS messages to a friend in Georgia in 2008, in which she wrote about military equipment being transported through the city.

Academician Valery Tishkov stated that Russians are not ready to accept such a concept as a nation. As Valery Tishkov, head of the working group preparing the law “On the unity of the Russian nation and the management of interethnic relations,” told Kommersant, the document will be renamed due to society’s unwillingness to accept the concept of “nation.” “It turned out that society is not very prepared to perceive such a concept as a single nation,” Tishkov said.

The laws of hydraulics determine the beating of the human heart, as scientists have established. Swedish researchers have received an answer to a question that has long interested science . They learned why the heart beats in the first place. MRI scans have shown that the laws of hydraulics play a decisive role in this interesting process.

Photo: In total, after the demolition of five-story buildings, 1.6 million people will move to new apartments // Sergey Kovalev / Global Look Press 25 thousand Muscovites will be able to claim improved living conditions after the second wave of demolition of five-story buildings .

A Saratov resident posted an advertisement for 101 roses for rent on the eve of International Women's Day. Saratov Room reports that an enterprising Saratov resident decided to rent out a huge bouquet of roses after he saw a post on a social network from a girl dreaming of such a gift for March 8th. For a 10-minute photo shoot with roses, a man asks for 800 rubles, for a 20-minute photo shoot – 1,200 rubles. “I believe that there is nothing dishonest in such photo shoots.

In the Zamoskvoretsky district of Moscow, an unknown person stole a Mercedes-Benz S 63 AMG 4. As the 360 ​​TV channel reported on March 7 with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, the car was parked at house 1 in the 3rd Lyusinovsky lane of the Zamoskvoretsky district of the capital. The cost of the stolen Mercedes-Benz S 63 AMG 4 was 8.4 million rubles. A criminal case has been initiated into the incident.

Photo: Sobesednik.ru spoke with Ildar Dadin shortly after his release from prison in Altai. The first and only person convicted under the “rally” article. 212.1 Ildar Dadin, despite everything that happened to him, intends to continue his fight. He spoke about this and much more during a meeting with civil activists that took place last weekend at the Sakharov Center. — Ildar, what helped you endure torture, hardships and not break?

“A civil nation, of course, is being formed. This is a continuous process” Photo: Zamir Usmanov / Global Look Press The expert explained to Sobesednik.ru what is really happening around the sensational bill on a single nation.

On Tuesday, the International Center of the Roerichs in Moscow was cordoned off by “employees of the Investigative Committee,” riot police and the Russian Guard. According to the organization's leadership, operatives from these departments broke down the doors to the museum, and communication with ordinary employees during the investigative actions was difficult. “The museum is being destroyed, searches are underway.

Every day, the human heart pumps blood over a total distance of 10,000 kilometers Photo: imagebroker/Ernst-Georg Kohout/Global Look Press Experts have named the most amazing scientific facts regarding the functioning of the human heart. The heart is the central pump for our entire body, pumping oxygenated blood from the lungs throughout the body.

Scientists have found that blue taxis are more likely to get into accidents than taxis of other colors. Singaporean, American and Chinese scientists analyzed three years of monthly accident statistics for the largest taxi network in Singapore. According to their findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for every thousand vehicles, a blue car is 6.1 (or 9%) more likely to be involved in an accident than a yellow vehicle.

Audi positions its new crossover as the crossover of the future Photo: Winfried Rothermel / Global Look Press On March 7, at the Geneva International Motor Show, Audi presented the new Q8 sport concept crossover. As a Lenta.ru correspondent reports from the scene, Audi is positioning its new crossover as the crossover of the future. The car, equipped with a 476 horsepower engine, can accelerate to 100 km/h in 4.7 seconds. Its maximum speed will be 275 km/h.

On March 6, Russia transferred almost $78 million to the UN regular budget. This was reported on the website of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN. “The Russian Federation transferred the amount of 77,888,309 US dollars as payment of Russia’s assessed contribution to the UN regular budget,” the diplomatic mission said in a statement.

On March 6, the DPRK launched four ballistic missiles in an easterly direction, which flew 1 thousand kilometers. According to the KCNA agency, the purpose of the missile tests last Monday was to practice attacks on US bases in Japan. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised the tests. It is noted that he called on the military to maintain a high level of readiness and launch missiles on command.

Sobesednik.ru learned unknown facts about the connection between Dmitry Medvedev’s foundation and a Krasnodar wine production company Photo: Global Look Press The enterprise, related to Dmitry Medvedev , is preparing to produce up to 200 thousand bottles of elite wine per year. Last week, Alexei Navalny got ahead of Sobesednik.ru and posted a large investigation on the Internet dedicated to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.