Ukraine has developed “Plan A”, according to which it will be in matters of organizing the transit of Russian gas to Europe from January 1, 2020, after the completion of the current contract with Russia. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Elena Mirror.

The Permanent Representatives of the EU countries at a meeting of their committee in Brussels agreed on a list of 8 people who in the European Union are considered involved in the events of the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018. The diplomatic source in the EU institutions told about this.

The Ministry of Justice refused to clarify exactly how the “circumstances of the insurmountable force” allow the official to not be responsible for corruption crimes. The department secreted the report on this Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Center for the Anti-Corruption Policy (DAC) of the Yabloko party reports .

The European Court of Human Rights awarded € 5100 compensation to the former governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin for unreasonably long detention before the court. The court’s decision, published on February 21, drew the attention of the Mediazona. In February 2018, Khoroshavin was sentenced to 13 years in a colony on charges of receiving bribes from businessmen worth 522 million rubles. The detention and arrest took place back in March 2015.

Petrozavodsky City Court extended the arrest of the head of the Karelian Memorial to Yuri Dmitriev until June 25. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Viktor Anufriev. The consideration of the case on which Dmitriev is accused of violence over the adopted daughter, storage of children's pornography and weapons details began on February 27. Earlier it became known that a sexological and psychiatric examination did not reveal deviations from Dmitriev.

In an environment of high demands State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin at the State Duma meeting stopped the speech of the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin and proposed to transfer the “government hour”, since, in his opinion, the head of the department could not disclose the topic proposed for discussion ... “Success will be when the growth will be provided at least 3% per year. And we finished last year - 2.3%; And now the forecast was voiced to us 1.3%.

In the capital of Algeria and other cities, protests are continuing against the nomination for the fifth term of the current 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Butfliki. Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly students, take part in them. Several thousand opponents of Butefliki among the Algerian diaspora in France also initiated rallies, the largest of which took place in Paris and Marseille. The current head of state officially joined the presidential race on March 3.

The prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod district released Irina Slavin from the police of the editor -in -chief of the Kozapress publication, detained for participating in the memory of the politician Boris Nemtsov. It is reported by "Apology of Protest." The prosecutor recalled that the restriction of a citizen’s freedom for a period of more than three hours can be applied in exceptional cases for timely consideration of an administrative case.

The Japanese architect Arata Isodzaki became the laureate of the Pritzkarev Prize - the most prestigious award in the field of architecture. This was reported on the website of The Pritzker Prize. Isodzaki graduated from the architectural department of the Faculty of Engineering of Tokyo University in 1954.

The former head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, who was arrested on charges of corruption, was transferred to the hospital of the Matrosian silence. This was told by his wife Julia Shestun. Shestun on the 27th day holds a hunger strike, during which time he lost 14 kg, his wife said. He was hospitalized on March 5. Shestuna was detained in June 2018 and accused of fraud, legalization of property, receiving bribes and illegal entrepreneurship.

The accounts of a number of Venezuelan companies in Russia, including the PDVSA oil state -owned company, will be transferred to the Russian Financial Corporation (RFC). This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to sources close to negotiations. According to one of the sources, the RFC will become a base bank for servicing all Venezuelan enterprises. He noted that first of all we are talking about PDVSA.

North Korea conducts restoration work at the SOCE testing ground (or Tonchkhan-ni), which promised to dismantle in June 2018 after the joint summit of the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. This was reported by the American Analytical Center for Beyond Parallel Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington and special services of South Korea .

Rosalkogolregulovye was carried out by Yandex.Markete, noting that the section with alcohol violates the ban on its remote sale, Kommersant reports . The department demanded that the violations and report this, otherwise the Yandex.Markete faces a fine of 100 thousand to 300 thousand rubles. Earlier, the chairman of the board of the Republican Law Society, Alexander Khaminsky, asked to check the site. He sent requests to the Federal Antimonopoly Service and Prosecutor General.

The Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said that the State Duma raised the question for discussion at the "government hour" more widely than it was originally planned. So he explained the proposal of the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin to transfer his report to a later date.

The New Scientist reported the third patient who, presumably, managed to recover from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The patient was transplanted from the bone marrow from the donor with the mutation in the CCR5 gene, which provides its carrier resistance to infection with the immunodeficiency virus. A similar procedure was committed against the previous two patients .