In connection with the “Defend the Fatherland” march on Thursday, February 23, traffic in the area of ​​the Luzhniki sports complex will be blocked in Moscow. was told about this Interfax by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the capital.

In the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory, where candidates for city council deputies went on an indefinite hunger strike on February 21, local television was turned off on the morning of February 22, blogger Vadim Boychenko reports in his LiveJournal. Earlier it was also reported that on the evening of February 21, Lermontov’s sites began to be blocked, and local providers began to turn off the Internet.

Eight Turkish businessmen found guilty of economic crimes were deported from Uzbekistan. Fergana reports this with reference to Radio Ozodlik (the local service of Radio Liberty). Most of these entrepreneurs, according to Agence France-Presse , were arrested back in March 2011 - during a raid carried out by representatives of security forces in the largest Turkish shopping center in Tashkent - the Turkuaz supermarket.

Russia became the largest source of DDoS attacks in the second half of 2011. This was reported in a study published by Kaspersky Lab. According to the company, 16 percent of global DDoS traffic in the second half of last year originated from Russia. In second place is Ukraine (12 percent), followed by Thailand (seven percent). In the first half of the year, the leaders were the United States (11 percent), Indonesia and Poland (five percent each).

A group of deputies of the Polish Sejm was not allowed into the territory of Belarus, since their visit was not coordinated with the authorities of the republic. This was stated in the commentary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, which is dedicated to the incident at the Bruzgi border crossing. It took place on Tuesday, February 21st.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could overturn the practice of giving preferential treatment to racial and ethnic minorities in college admissions. The New York Times reports this. The issue will be decided during a hearing in Fisher v. University of Texas, which the court agreed to take up on February 21. White American Abigail Fisher claims she was rejected from university because of her race. , The Washington Post reported .

Electronic Arts and Gracie Films have announced the game The Simpsons: Tapped Out, CNET reports. The game will be released for iOS devices and will be shareware. It will be possible to download it for free, but in order to speed up the passage, users will have to buy the game’s internal currency (in this case, donuts). The game is reportedly being created by writers and voice actors from the original series.

Members of the government of Tuva, led by the Prime Minister of the republic Sholban Kara-ool, celebrated the onset of the New Year according to the lunar calendar (Shagaa). According to Interfax , unlike previous years, when the New Year's ritual of San Salyr was held on Mount Dogee in Kyzyl, this time the holiday took place on Mount Churek-Dag.

The number of victims of the disaster, which occurred on Wednesday, February 22, in Buenos Aires, has risen to 49 people. According to the Associated Press , citing Argentine police, one child was among the dead. Previously, 20 deaths were reported. At least 550 people were injured. The city health department noted that about 200 of them were seriously injured. As the AP notes, when the train hit the dead end, the impact was so strong that one of the cars “drove” six meters into the other.

The online map of Moscow, prepared by the capital's government and demonstrating the situation on the city's roads, will be fully operational by the end of 2013. The head of the Traffic Organization Center (TCOC) told the Kommersant newspaper about this. Currently, on the Center's website you can find out about traffic jams only on the Third Transport Ring (TTK). Information about the traffic situation comes from motion detectors located along the highway.

On February 21, in Belarus, at the Baranovichi airfield, a medium-class unmanned aerial vehicle "Grif-1" with a range of up to 100 kilometers was tested. This was reported on the website of the 558th Aviation Repair Plant.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office explained why the rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev has the right not to declare his income. To this question asked by the head of the Russian branch of Transparency International Elena Panfilova , the prosecutor's office responded that the university was created by Peter I, and the requirements of the relevant presidential decree do not apply to it.

In St. Petersburg, eight people escaped from the Detention Center for Foreign Citizens of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday, February 21, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Migrants detained for violating the rules of stay in Russia broke the locks and physically resisted the police. Four of them were citizens of Uzbekistan, three of Tajikistan and one of Kyrgyzstan. Police are searching for escaped migrants.

Microbiologists monitored the separation of two types of microorganisms. The scientists' article appeared in the journal PLoS One (at the time of writing, the electronic version of the article was not yet available), and its summary is provided by LiveScience. The object of the study was archaea (one of the domains of organisms), which belong to the genus Sulfolobus .

The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department for ensuring the safety of persons subject to state protection, Vitaly Belinsky, who was previously convicted of unlawfully obtaining a veteran’s title, became the head of the apparatus of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. The Vedomosti newspaper writes about this on February 22.