SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), announced NASA . The docking was successful and on schedule. The device was launched on March 2 from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida, and will return to Earth on March 8. This is the first test flight of Crew Dragon to the ISS; it brought more than 180 kg of payload to the station. After docking in the Russian segment of the ISS, sounded an alarm .

March 04, 2019, 00:07 / Business Exclusively by subscription Sales on the domestic market have brought oil companies 55 billion rubles in losses since the beginning of the year They ask the government to change the calculation of compensation for the supply of fuel to the domestic market Vitaly Petlevoy Elizaveta Bazanova Gasoline producers had to pay 10 billion rubles to the budget, Vygon calculated / Denis Abramov / Vedomosti Sales to the domestic market since the beginning of the year have

March 04, 2019, 00:07 / Business Russian Post will increase its route network and frequency of flights to China More than 90% of international parcels to Russia come from this country Alexander Vorobyov The number of mail items from China in 2019 may grow by another 15–20%, says a representative of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has begun investigating an accident involving a Tesla in Florida. Crews have already responded to Delray Beach, where the accident occurred, the NTSB said in a statement. Employees of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the US Department of Transportation will also take part in the investigation of the accident. According to Bloomberg , the accident that killed the Tesla driver occurred on Friday, March 1.

Moscow officials know where they live and work, how they get to work, where and when Muscovites go to their dachas with an accuracy of up to 500 m and a few minutes. For millions of rubles, they buy geoanalytics from telecom operators - data on the movement of citizens based on the movement of their SIM cards. Focusing on operator data, Moscow is changing urban transport and infrastructure.

Organizers have suspended the sale of tickets to the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, suspecting that hundreds of the best seats in the audience were distributed among local celebrities, said the Israeli broadcaster Kan, which is responsible for hosting the competition, . If the investigation confirms violations, these tickets will be returned to public sale, the statement said. Ticket sales for Eurovision 2019 began on February 28.

A plant for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles has opened in the Indian city of Corva, said Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia ( quoted by Interfax). According to him, the project involves the creation of more than 700,000 units of AK-203 with a phased localization of production, that is, there will be a transition to Indian components for the assault rifles.

In St. Petersburg, the memory of Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov, who died on March 2, will be immortalized, acting city governor Alexander Beglov told reporters. According to him, a commission has been created in St. Petersburg that is organizing the scientist’s funeral. The issue of perpetuating his memory will be discussed with Alferov’s relatives, Beglov added (his words are quoted by TASS). The acting governor said that he knew the scientist for more than 30 years.

Kenji Sukeno /Bloomberg/Gettyimages In the public consciousness, the Japanese company Fujifilm is probably still largely associated with photographic films, and this word – “film” – is still part of its name. However, with the advent of the new century, the company began to radically change its activities, realizing that digital technologies could completely kill its traditional business.

March 04, 2019, 00:07 / Business The former main competitor of Magnit cosmetic stores is having problems Creditors and suppliers of the Sangi Style chain are trying to return over 4 billion rubles and force its bankruptcy Tatyana Romanova Natalya Ishchenko Just two years ago, Sangi Style, with 820 stores, was one of the three largest chains of cosmetics and household chemicals in Russia / Sangi Style Since the beginning of 2018, creditors and suppliers have filed more than 250 lawsuits against

An alarm sounded in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) after the SapaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the station. The crew's negotiations were broadcast on the NASA website. It was assumed that the oxygen generation system was broken, but during the inspection it turned out that it was a false alarm. The flight control center in Houston, after negotiations with colleagues from Moscow, instructed the crew to perceive the alarm as a false one.

March 04, 2019, 00:05 / Business AFK Sistema acquired a stake in the manufacturer Essentuki The project in the corporation is supervised by Alexander Khloponin’s relative Ekaterina Burlakova Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s company may soon become the owner of most of the famous brands of mineral waters in the Caucasus / Ekaterina Chesnokova / RIA Novosti The structure of AFK Sistema acquired a 33.3% stake in the Aqua Invest company from Egor Loginov, the corporation’s investment director Nikita Shashkin

Vladimir Putin’s February address to the Federal Assembly had almost no effect on the ratings of the president and the government, as follows from the first polls by VTsIOM and FOM after its announcement. The level of trust in Putin, according to VTsIOM, even decreased – from 33.5 to 32.8%, although the share of those who approve of the president’s activities still increased from 62.2 to 64.8%.

03 March 2019, 22:58 / Economics The Ministry of Finance wants to transfer payments worth 316.6 billion rubles under the control of tax authorities It will become more difficult and dangerous to evade them Elizaveta Bazanova Businesses were afraid of this - increased control and the emergence of the risk of criminal liability for non-payment of such fees / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The bill on the inclusion of basic non-tax payments in the Tax Code should be submitted to the government as

The Russian Embassy in the UK commented on the letter from Briton Evan Hope, whose mother died from nerve agent poisoning in Amesbury. “First of all, our deepest sympathy for Hope. Like him, we are interested in a detailed investigation of everything that happened,” the diplomatic mission said in a statement.