A twin-engine plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on the evening of February 18, flying half the way from Taganrog on one engine, Interfax reports . There were 13 passengers and three crew members on board the UTair ATR-42 aircraft. As a result of the competent work of the pilots, the landing was successful and no one was injured.

About 50 Russian writers, critics and literary scholars will take part in the London Book Fair, which will be held in April 2011, according to a press release published on the website booktrade.info. A special program dedicated to Russian literature will be organized at the fair. Russian writers will take part in seminars, round tables and other events.

Actress Raisa Ryazanova, known for the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” starred in a new advertisement for the mobile operator MTS. Together with her, actor Alexander Pashutin, who recently played in the TV series “Kotovsky,” took part in the filming. The video can be viewed on the AdMe portal. The operator's new advertisement announces a smartphone from MTS that supports the Google Voice Search service.

On Thursday, February 17, the premiere of an opera about the life of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith took place at London's Covent Garden (aka the Royal Opera House), reports Agence France-Presse . It is reported that the audience and critics who attended the premiere screening of “Anna Nicole” greeted the production favorably. "It has plenty of funny moments, but it's not just a crude farce with a sad ending," writes in Britain's The Daily Telegraph .

The Ministry of Defense has decided to deprive Nikita Mikhalkov’s car of special signals, in particular, a flashing light, Interfax reports , citing its own sources in the department. There has been no official confirmation of this information.

18.02.2011, 16:58:34 version Print | PDA/PDA We came from the flanks The Investigative Committee besieged the Moscow Region prosecutor's office from all sides Under the influence of cobalt, the Bolsheviks often killed each other, while experiencing an incredible sense of pity and compassion. Quote from the movie "Two Captains 2" The investigation into the case of illegal gaming parlors casts an increasingly ominous shadow over the Moscow region prosecutor's office.

The largest Russian airline, Aeroflot, has informed the country's government of a number of conditions under which it is ready to purchase domestic aircraft. , addressed a corresponding letter to Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov at the end of December 2010 The head of the carrier, Vitaly Savelyev newspaper writes , the Kommersant .

Germany extradited to Russia the former head of the Bashkir branch of the OPORA Russia organization, Rail Subkhankulov, accused of fraud. This was reported on February 18 on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Subkhankulov is accused of ten counts of fraud and ten counts of forgery of documents. The Russian was detained at the airport in the German city of Dusseldorf in September 2010.

Shares of the Russian Internet holding Mail.ru Group fell in price on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) over the past month by more than 20 percent, to $35 per GDR (depository receipts, which are the equivalent of shares). newspaper writes about this The Kommersant . As the newspaper points out, on January 17, the price of Mail.ru Group securities reached its maximum after the IPO - $44 per GDR.

On February 17, the youth movement “Nashi” won a lawsuit against the Federation of Car Owners of Russia (FAR) and the online publication Gazeta.ru. This is reported on the movement's website. The Savyolovsky Court of Moscow decided that the organizations must pay Nashi more than 130 thousand rubles. In addition, the defendants must refute previously published information about the Stopham campaign.

The Benedictine Abbey of Ettal in Bavaria has announced the creation of a fund to compensate victims of abuse by priests, Deutsche Welle reports . In March 2010, the monastery found itself at the center of a scandal after it became known about several dozen cases of corruption by clergy of students at a boarding school located at the establishment. The volume of the fund will be 500 thousand euros.

18.02.2011, 13:13:18 version Print | PDA/PDA Room number 600 at the Nuremberg court. Photo ©AFP Leftists staged a pogrom in the historic Nuremberg courtroom Representatives of left-wing organizations staged a pogrom in the historical hall number 600, where the trial of Nazi criminals took place after World War II, Welt reports. The immediate reason was the consideration in court of the case of a 24-year-old neo-Nazi, who is accused of attempting to murder a schoolboy of Kurdish origin.

On the night of February 18, 2011, US President Barack Obama met with leaders of major IT corporations, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs , Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, Twitter Chairman Dick Costello and Google Eric Schmidt . reports this Agence France-Presse . The President held a business lunch with Silicon Valley leaders and discussed options for working together to invest in innovative areas of American industry.

People around the deputy governor of the Kyiv region, Yuri Chizhmar, who had someone throw acid in his face, suggested that the attack was carried out by an acquaintance of the official. reports this “Today” . A source in the regional administration told the publication that Chizhmar may have been attacked by a certain Tatyana, with whom he had previously had a close relationship and who wanted to take revenge on him for something.

China is developing a new type of combat missile with a range of up to 4 thousand kilometers, a source in the country’s military department told the Chinese newspaper Global Times on Friday, February 18. The creation of the missile should be completed by 2015, and it will enter service with the People's Liberation Army within five years. The new missile will be able to hit targets on sea, land, air and space.