In Russia, the demand for cremation is growing against the backdrop of the rise in the cost of coffins and burial services in the grave, Kommersant said with reference to the Association of Crematories. Traditional funerals are now half as much as cremation, and residents of large cities have become 60-70% of cases to choose it, the newspaper said.

The surging emotions did not allow the head of the Munich conference on security to Christoph Hoysgen to complete his speech that closes the event. A fragment of his performance was published by RTE. “After the performance of Vice President Wans on Friday, we fear that our common basic values ​​are no longer so common,” Hoysgen said in a trembling voice.

Tatyana Dremova worked for seven months as a psychologist in a private rehabilitation center and quit from there due to systematic physical and psychological violence in relation to customers. According to Dremova, they beat and forcibly hold people in the walls of the center, and the leadership not only indulges this, but also participates in punishments. “Cold” spoke with Dremova and several former residents of Rehab to find out what was hiding behind his walls. I could not put up with this.

Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, suggested that Visa and MasterCard payment systems will return to Russia in the near future, but will encounter difficulties when entering the domestic market. The politician said this in an interview with TASS. “I think that they will return in the near future and will offer their services.

If necessary, Great Britain is ready to send her military to Ukraine to ensure the implementation of a peace agreement. This is stated in the article of the British Prime Minister Kira Starmer, published in the newspaper Telegraph. “Britain is ready to play a leading role in accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine. This includes further support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on which the UK has already allocated three billion pounds a year until at least 2030.

Moscow doctors were able to save the life of a patient whose heart stopped 25 times a day due to arrhythmia, RBC reports with reference to the words of the vice-mayor of Moscow on the social development issues of Anastasia Rakakova. The organ restoration operation lasted seven hours, the patient has already been discharged from the hospital.

In the Leninsky district of Ulyanovsk, the World Court fined the owner of the “Uzhebar” Vadim Kudyushev for 150 thousand rubles in the administrative case of “propaganda of LGBT”. This publication "7x7" was announced by the representative of the bar.

Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), expressed hope for mitigating the sanctions regime after negotiations of representatives of Russia and the USA in Ukraine, which will be held in the capital of Saudi Arabia.

At the age of 97, the Italian chemist and the creator of the famous nut-chocolate pasta Nutella Francesco Rivela died. This was reported by the Italian newspaper IL Messaggero. The publication clarified that Rivella died on February 14. His death occurred exactly ten years after the Italian entrepreneur and owner of Ferrero, who owns the Nutella brand, Michele Ferrero, died.

Extreme weather conditions will cause fluctuations in food prices and a decrease in productivity in 2025. This was written by The Guardian with reference to the study of the consulting company Inverto. According to the study, a sharp increase in prices for a number of food products in January, associated with unexpected weather conditions, confirms that climate change can provoke a lack of food this year.

In Argentina, representatives of the opposition called for the impeachment of the current president of the country Havier Miley, accusing him of participating in a fraudulent scheme with cryptocurrency, CNN writes . According to the channel, the reason for the accusations was the post that Miley published on his page on the social network X, to which more than 3.8 million people were signed.

The militants of the Hamas movement shot both legs to the Russian citizen Alexander Trufanov, who was released the day before, as part of an agreement with the Israeli authorities, the mother of the former hostage to the newspaper “Akhronot” said . The son was wounded at the time of the abduction in October 2023, said Elena Trufanova. Trufanov was captured for 498 days and was released along with two other hostages, American Saga Deco Chen and Argentinean Ier Horne.

In China, the topic of divorces is increasingly politicized. The idea of ​​preserving the family led to the fact that women who suffered from violence are denied divorce, and the police ignore their complaints and requests for help. About this writes The Wall Street Journal with reference to several experts.

In the Russian labor market, a new trend - employers are trying to save current employees, and not look for new ones, reports Vedomosti with reference to the data of representatives of recruiting platforms. The number of people who view vacancies, already having a permanent job, has also increased. The most “win” companies that build their own educational systems and attract young people.

President Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine will not participate in the negotiations of the United States and Russia about the end of the war this week and will not accept the results achieved in Saudi Arabia. “Ukraine regarding any negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine as unsuccessful. And we cannot recognize agreements on us without us, ”the British newspaper The Guardian reports the words of Zelensky.