In North Korea, there have been clashes between the population and soldiers sent to suppress protests. As the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo writes on Thursday, February 24, citing its own sources in the DPRK, clashes occurred last Friday, February 18, in the city of Sinuiju, located near the Chinese border. According to the publication, hundreds of city residents took part in the unrest. Some of them were injured during the dispersal of the protest.

The governments of EU member states have agreed to develop sanctions against Libya, where the brutal suppression of protests continues. reports this Reuters . The decision, according to the agency, was made on Wednesday, February 23, at a meeting of diplomats in Brussels.

On March 23, the musical project Oni Ayhun will perform at the Moscow club "16 tons". The concert organizers refuse to disclose any details and maintain a veil of secrecy around the group, citing the terms of the contract with the artist. The press release received by the editors of Lenta.Ru literally says the following: “You have never heard of this name.

South Korean rescuers have located the crash site of a coast guard helicopter that went missing on Wednesday, February 23. This was reported by the Yonhap agency . The body of a South Korean soldier was found among debris found off the coast of the southern island of Jeju. According to available information, in addition to the woman, there were supposed to be four crew members on board. At the moment, all four are listed as missing.

The number of overnight stays that Russian tourists spent in Germany increased by 24 percent in 2010. reports this with reference to the German Tourism Center (Deutsche Zentrale fuer Tourismus, DZT) DW-WORLD . Exactly how many nights Russians spent in Germany in 2010 is not specified. Meanwhile, according to data from the German Federal Statistical Agency (Statistisches Bundesamt), a year earlier, Russian tourists spent the night in Germany 1.2 million times, ranking 12th in this indicator.

US authorities have charged four Swiss bankers with helping American citizens evade taxes. As reported on Thursday, February 24, Reuters , the following suspects are named in the indictment: Marco Adami, Emanuel Agustoni, Michele Bergantino and Roger Schaerer. The document does not say which bank the accused are related to, but unnamed agency sources claim that we are talking about former and current employees of Credit Suisse.

On February 24, the Ministry of Emergency Situations sent two Il-76 transport aircraft to the Libyan city of Sirte to evacuate Russians, the Interfax agency reports . The first plane, as RIA Novosti clarifies , took off for Libya at 18:55 Moscow time. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, if necessary, Russian planes will pick up citizens of Serbia, Turkey, Belarus and Ukraine from Libya.

On February 24, the Libyan army shelled a mosque in the city of Al-Zawiya, west of Tripoli, near which opposition protests were taking place. reports Associated Press . According to the agency, military forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi used automatic weapons and surface-to-air missiles. As a result, the minaret of the mosque in Al-Zawiya was destroyed. According to eyewitnesses, a large number of demonstrators died, but there is no exact data on the number of victims.

World film box office records set a record in 2010. This was reported in the official press release of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as cited by Deadline. In total, worldwide releases earned $31.8 billion in 2010, up 9 percent from 2009, according to the MPAA. However, the greatest growth was observed in the Asia-Pacific region. There, fees grew by 21 percent, with much of the growth coming from the Chinese market, which was worth more than $1.5 billion in 2010.

In January 2011, the number of transactions on the residential real estate market in St. Petersburg increased by 40 percent compared to January last year. This is stated in the review of the Agency for Development and Research in Real Estate (ARIN). According to the study, in monetary terms, sales increased by 31 percent. The bulk of sales comes from small apartments. In January, they accounted for 82 percent of the total number of transactions and 75 percent of total sales in monetary terms.

The government sent for revision the scenario conditions for economic development until 2030 (Forecast 2030), prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced members of the so-called “Zaripov gang” to imprisonment. agency reported this on February 24 The Interfax . The leader of the gang, Sergei Zaripov, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Another defendant, Sergei Isaev, received a four-year suspended sentence.

To evacuate German citizens who cannot leave Libya on their own, the German authorities brought in the Bundeswehr. According to Agence France-Presse , on Thursday, February 24, the German frigates Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg, as well as the refueling tanker Berlin, set off for the shores of Libya. As a representative of the Ministry of Defense told DW-WORLD , the ships should arrive in Libya within a few days.

Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on legal issues, Veniamin Yakovlev, called on the judicial community to find out who actually wrote the verdict in the second case of businessmen Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev . reports this RIA Novosti .

Participants in the rally in support of the dismissed mayor of Volgograd, Roman Grebennikov , decided to gather daily on the Alley of Heroes, reports the publication Pravda Volgograda . According to AiF-Volgograd , the rally, which took place on February 24 , was attended by about two thousand people. The press service of the regional administration stated that they knew nothing about the rally in support of Grebennikov.