Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may return to politics by running for the Senate. This is reported by Politico, citing several sources among California Republicans. According to them, he is considering participating in the 2018 legislative elections and may run as an independent candidate. They recall the bickering between Schwarzenegger and President Donald Trump on Twitter.

American cable channel HBO promises to release a series about the last presidential elections in the United States, according to the HBO website. The series is based on the soon-to-be-published book by journalists Mark Halprin and John Heilimann. The series will be directed by Jay Roach, who made such films as Trumbo and Meet the Fockers. Roach also previously directed Game Change, a series about the 2008 presidential race.

On March 22, a meeting of the foreign ministers of the anti-ISIS coalition will begin in Washington. All 68 countries of the coalition will take part in it; a meeting of this scale will take place for the first time since the creation of this association in 2014, said US State Department spokesman Mark Toner. When asked about Russia's participation in this meeting, he answered negatively: Russia is not part of this coalition.

The concentration of ethyl mercaptan, a substance that is added to natural gas, is 400 times higher in the air of Omsk, the regional Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement. A substance was released today in Omsk, hundreds of citizens complained of an “unpleasant chemical smell.” It is not yet known which plant the release occurred from.

Real estate What one of the most expensive stadiums in the world looks like The construction of the St. Petersburg stadium cost 43 billion rubles 03/10/2017 E. Egorov / Vedomosti Stadium "St. Petersburg" (in different years it bore the working name "Zenit-a... E. Egorov / Vedomosti The construction of the stadium "St. Petersburg" began in 2007 and cost, according to ... E. Egorov / Vedomosti The stadium is equipped with a retractable roof that can withstand 26,000 tons of snow. K... E.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office, at the request of the Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva, conducted an investigation into the spending of budget funds by the former leadership of the Department of Science and Technology. During the investigation, the prosecutor's office suspected former officials of the department of embezzling 127 million rubles of budget funds.

Mobile networks in Russia operate on three generations of technologies / ANDREY GORDEYEV / Vedomosti In 2016, the share of second-generation base stations (GSM) for the first time was less than half of the total number of base stations of Russian mobile operators. Year-on-year, their share decreased by 6.4 percentage points to 43.9%, due to the growth of the share of fourth-generation transmitters (LTE) - by 6.7 percentage points to 20.7%, according to Roskomnadzor data.

The Kremlin has not yet formed a position on the initiative to raise the personal income tax rate for those who do not save for retirement. "No, there is no position yet," Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president's press secretary, told reporters. "Of course, this needs to be calculated." Peskov believes it is necessary to wait for the opinion of a number of departments, including the Ministry of Finance, on this matter.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The heads of state are expected to discuss bilateral cooperation and the implementation of major projects - the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline and the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Read also: Russian and Turkish presidents to discuss Ankara's purchase of S-400 in Moscow The last time Putin and Erdogan met was in October 2016 in Istanbul at the World Energy Congress.

See also: PHOTO: Tanks and armored vehicles on the contact line in Donbass The Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic accused fighters of the 8th Special Forces Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of killing the commander of the "Somali" battalion Mikhail Tolstykh, better known as Givi. This was reported by the Luhansk Information Center with reference to the head of the LPR MGB Leonid Pasechnik.

The St. Petersburg Transport Committee plans to purchase 36 metro cars, as follows from the committee’s procurement schedule. The tender will be announced in April, the maximum contract value will be 3.7 billion rubles. The cars must arrive in the metro before December 2019. The funding limit for 2018 is 1.75 billion rubles, for 2019 - 1.95 billion rubles. The committee will purchase six six-car trains, its representative confirmed.

March 10, 2017, 20:17 / Finance New York and London fight over Saudi Aramco IPO Their exchanges beat competitors to host biggest listing in history David Sheppard Anjli Rawal Nicole Bullock Saudi Aramco is valued by Saudi officials at $2 trillion / Saudi Aramco / AP New York and London are the main contenders for the IPO of the state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has launched the Speak Up! mobile app, which allows anyone to report a violation of anti-doping rules. The app is already available in the Play Market and App Store. “We recommend that anyone who identifies, establishes, sees, learns (about violations) and has reasonable grounds to suspect that (doping sample) substitution has occurred, Speak Up!” WADA said in a statement .

March 10, 2017, 00:27 / Economics New income tax rates will encourage people to save for retirement For those who do not want to save, the rate will increase to 15% - officials are discussing this option Elizaveta Bazanova Alexandra Prokopenko The proposal of the Ministry of Economic Development is designed for those who have something to save, but there are not very many such people in Russia / Eric Gaillard / REUTERS To encourage Russians to save for their own retirement, the Ministry of

March 10, 2017, 17:03 / Finance / News Tatarstan asks the Central Bank to find a bank that will take Tatfondbank depositors in exchange for assets undefined Vedomosti Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov asked the Central Bank of Russia to consider the possibility of finding a managing bank that would take over part of Tatfondbank's depositors in exchange for its assets. This was stated by the Minister of Economy of Tatarstan Artem Zdunov.