Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine. Photo http://ukrinform.info The deputies of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko filed a lawsuit against the Constitutional Court of Ukraine with a request to recognize the amendments to the law on presidential elections that were not relevant to the Basic Law, Ukrainian News report. According to the deputy of the Rada from BYUT, Andrei Portnov, amendments violate the constitutional principle of the equality of citizens to be elected.

Arrest A criminal case was opened in St. Petersburg against the 25-year-old Anton Kladya, the operative of the branch of the NCB Interpol of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to the UPP, the case was instituted on the grounds of the crime, part 3 of article 159 (attempted fraud).

A rally in Lithuania. Photo delfi.ee The General Prosecutor of Lithuania Algimantas Valantinas on Friday filed a petition for resignation, reports DELFI.LV. President of the country Dalya Grybauskaite said that she had already signed a decree on the introduction of Valentine's petition for consideration to parliament.

Vladimir Pronin. Photo Infox.Ru The former head of the Moscow police department, Vladimir Pronin, categorically denied rumors about his close acquaintance with the family of Major Denis Evsyukov, who fired at the Ostrov store. In an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, he stated that he first met Yevsyukov only after the events of April 27, 2009.

The village "Sokol". Photo from the site moscowmsk.ru On the territory of the village of Sokol artists in the north of Moscow, a rally authorized by the authorities was held against the demolition of the village. According to Interfax, about 200 people participated in the action. Several dozens of protesters stood near the mansions under construction in the village with home -made posters, on which “Hands off our heritage” were written.

Victor But. Photo from the site Lenta.ru The Russian businessman Victor Boot was called to the Thai criminal court on February 16. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by lawyer Buta Chamren Phanynophakacon. “Having learned from Viktor Buta, I went to the court, I went to the court. I was informed that my client was summoned to court by 09.00 on February 16, but they didn’t explain why,” the defender explained.

The flag of Ukraine. Frame '' Vesti '' The journalist of the Georgian television company "Imady" Zurab Hvistani was not allowed into the territory of Ukraine, RIA "Novosti" reports.

Shalva Chigirinsky. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the claim of the structure of the businessman Shalva Chigirinsky LLC “STELOPRAM” to the Moscow government to recover more than 4 billion rubles. According to RIA Novosti, an investment contract with the Chigirinsky company for the reconstruction of the Rossiya Hotel was previously invalidated.

Baltic Sea. Photo from the site http://esenin.strussa.ru The Swedish prosecutor’s office began an official investigation of reports on the discharge of Russian radioactive waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, reports Associated Press. Prosecutor Mats Palm in an interview with local television said that the investigation was started on the past Wednesday.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine in circles engaged in inciting enmity between two neighboring countries, the feeling of a holiday is growing. Here, Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovych will win - and an end to the adversaries will come! Well, if Julia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko wins, it doesn’t matter either, because Vladimir Vladimirovich recognized her treaty.

Chechnya Five military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed and six were injured in a battle with militants who occurred on Thursday seven kilometers from the village of Komsomolskoye Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. This was reported by RIA Novosti by a source in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya. Special activities are held in the area, the agency’s interlocutor said.

Currency exchange point. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The Central Bank is studying the possibility of closing currency exchange points that are engaged in only one type of operation - conversion. According to Vedomosti, this was announced by the director of the Department of Licensing and Financial Highlighting of the Central Bank Mikhail Sukhov.

The funeral of Konstantin Popov. Frame "Vesti" In Tomsk, a forensic psychological examination of a policeman was conducted, who beat a journalist in the medical worker in early January. According to Interfax , the head of the SCP SU in the Tomsk region Pavel Sabyshko, its results will be ready by the end of February. "Experts, as I understand it, almost have no doubt about the mental health of the accused. But, one way or another, they asked for additional materials.

One of the departments of Sberbank. Photo from the site sbrf.ru Law enforcement agencies detained the controller-cashier of the department of the Sberbank of the city of Korkino, Chelyabinsk Region, Irina Shvetsova, suspected of involvement in the theft of 12 million rubles. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the information and public relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the region, Alexei Popov. The theft was committed on February 2, 2010.

Fragment of the pre -election poster of the party '' Apple ''. Photo from the site '' Youth Apple '' The “apple” will not unite with the supporters of the “oligarchy”, in an interview with Kommersant, the party leader Sergei Mitrokhin in response to the proposal of ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov to create a pre-election coalition. “We are not going to unite with those who are going to build an oligarchy in Russia again, as it was in the 1990s,” Mitrokhin said.