Boris Berezovsky announced the sale of all his current assets, including the Kommersant Publishing House, the business partner of Badri Patarkatsishvili. He explained his decision with increased "political risks for people who are not agreeing with the current Russian authorities." “I don’t comment separately the sale of each of my assets. I can clearly say that I and Badri Patarkatsishvili share my business.

15:28 // 02/17/2006 Adolescents who have reached the age of 15 can soon be excluded from school for repeated gross violations of the established order. The corresponding amendments to the Law "On Education" were adopted in the third final reading at a meeting of the State Duma on Friday. It is stipulated that the decision on the exclusion is made by the management body of the educational institution, taking into account the opinion of the parents or legal representatives of the excluded.

17:23 // 02/17/2006 The People's Artist of the USSR Evgeny Samoilov died. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Directorate of the State Academic Maly Theater, where he worked since 1967. Evgeny Samoilov began his creative activity in Leningrad in the early 30s. In 1934-1938 he worked at the Meyerhold Theater. 4 years of work near the outstanding master became a period of intensive comprehension of the acting profession for a young artist.

09:38 // 02/17/2006 In the center of "dark", hidden cosmic dust of galaxies, as a rule, there is a giant black hole, the mass of which is more than a million times higher than the mass of the sun, ITAR-TASS reports. On the basis of many years of observation using the powerful infrared telescope, the Subaru, which was bred on the Hawaiian islands, announced this today by the Japanese National Observatory.

12:48 // 02/17/2006 The strong cotton, which was heard on Thursday by the inhabitants of several districts of Moscow, occurred during the planned flight of the MiG-25 aircraft while overcoming the sound barrier, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, head of the Air Force press service, told Interfax.

14:43 // 02/17/2006 The Schelkovo Vitamin Plant did not hide that Phenotropil, due to the use of which Olga Pyleva was disqualified, was developed on the basis of Carffedon. This was stated at a press conference by Andrei Belashov, director of strategic development of the domestic medicine holding, which includes the Schelkovo Vitamin Plant.

09:23 // 02/17/2006 The daughter of the American "King Rock-n-Rola" Elvis Presley Lisa Marie Presley married the guitarist and her musical producer Michael Lokwood. The ceremony was held on January 22 in the ancient capital of Japan Kyoto, according to the traditional Japanese marriage ceremony, RIA Novosti reports. The first husband of Presley, musician Danny Kew, from whom she has two children, performed the shaffer at the wedding.