The body of a Russian border guard, Private Artur Matevosyan, born in 1982, was found in Yerevan, ARMENIA Today reported on February 4, citing the country’s police press service. As the police said, on the evening of February 3, the Mashtots police department of Yerevan received a message that the corpse of a man in military uniform had been found under the Kyiv Bridge.

The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case into the theft of 64 million rubles intended to pay taxes. Officials of the financial services of several military units stationed in Chechnya are suspected of committing the crime. This is reported on the department's website.

On the night of February 4, two Azerbaijani citizens were killed in the southeast of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies. At 3:00 on Novocherkassky Boulevard, police officers discovered a Zhiguli car, inside of which were the bodies of two Azerbaijani citizens with gunshot wounds to the head. Two spent 7.62 mm caliber cartridges were found nearby.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a concept for a draft law, according to which football clubs will have to pay the police to maintain order at stadiums. Currently, this document is being coordinated with other interested departments (Ministry of Sports, Ministry of Emergency Situations, FSB and others), writes the newspaper "GZT.RU" .

Since the beginning of February, Russia has promised to give the allied states 3.5 billion dollars and 100 billion rubles. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti . If Russia fulfills its obligations to the maximum extent, it will cost Moscow $12 billion, Kommersant notes . Moscow is ready to provide a billion dollar loan to Belarus in addition to the billion already given to Minsk in November 2008. In addition, Belarus is applying for a loan of 100 billion rubles.

According to the online publication Life.Ru , late on Tuesday evening, employees of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office (SKP) seized the main computer server from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Southern District of Moscow, on the hard drives of which all databases, records and materials of criminal cases are stored.

Four-time biathlon world champion Vladimir Drachev called the reason for the doping scandal involving Russian biathletes an attempt to prevent the leaders of the Russian team from competing at the World Championships. Drachev considers it no coincidence that the results of doping tests have been made public right now, reports the BIA news agency . The 2009 Biathlon World Championships will be held in Pyeongchang, Korea, from February 14 to 22.

Publisher Sega has announced a game called Iron Man 2, writes GameSpot. A new multi-platform project will be released in 2010. The release will take place simultaneously with the premiere of the film of the same name. The San Francisco-based studio Secret Level is responsible for the creation of Iron Man 2. According to the developers, they have significantly updated the game engine.

reports on February 4 In Germany, strikes by public sector workers continue for the second day, Deutsche Welle . Teachers, university employees, doctors, court officials and other public sector workers are demanding that the state increase wages by at least 8 percent. On February 3, about 25 thousand members of public sector unions across the country took part in strikes. The number of strikers as of February 4 has not yet been reported. According to Bloomberg , the strikes are short-term.

The Russian Technologies State Corporation intends to sell part of the stake in the new air carrier Rosavia, which is being created on the basis of the companies of the AiRUnion air alliance. stated this in an interview with Kommersant Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin . According to the official, Russian Technologies will only have 25 percent plus one share in Rosavia.

Failed cause "Right Cause" cannot find a replacement for the head of the Moscow branch who left for London The Right Cause party still cannot find a candidate for the post of head of the Moscow branch. According to reports, this post may be offered to former Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy or journalist Svetlana Sorokina. Earlier, TV presenter Alexander Arkhangelsky already refused such an offer.

The US National Aerospace Agency (NASA) has delayed the first shuttle launch in 2009 by at least a week, Reuters reports. As NASA representatives told the agency, the launch of the Discovery shuttle, which was supposed to launch to the ISS with seven astronauts on February 12, was postponed due to suspicions of possible malfunctions in the valves that maintain pressure in the fuel tanks.

A truck containing 20 camels from Kalmykia has been parked on the Russian-Ukrainian border for five days, RIA Novosti reports . Ukraine refuses to let through a car that is supposed to take animals to Bulgarian zoos. The car arrived at the Matveev Kurgan checkpoint in the Rostov region on January 31. Russian customs officers allowed the animals to be taken out of the country. However, they refused to allow the truck into Ukraine.

On February 4, member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) agreed and signed a draft decision on the creation of collective rapid reaction forces, or CRRF, the ITAR-TASS agency reports , citing a statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev .

Over the course of two years, the administration of the social network MySpace has deleted about 90 thousand accounts belonging to users who have committed sexual crimes - “sexual predators,” Reuters reports. It was previously assumed that the accounts of 40 thousand “sexual predators” were deleted from MySpace.