Statements by borrowers that the Bank of Moscow infringes on their rights and deceives them is untrue. The head of the mortgage department of the Bank of Moscow, Oleg Pyatlin, told a Lenta.ru correspondent about this. According to him, “a certain radical wing of borrowers has emerged,” whose demands boil down to the desire for the bank to either completely or partially write off their debts.

Russia and South Ossetia signed an agreement to abolish import duties on a number of goods. reports this RIA Novosti . The agreement abolishes duties on the import of fuels and lubricants, electrical products, construction equipment, and agricultural products. The document was signed by the Prime Minister of South Ossetia (currently he is also acting president) Vadim Brovtsev and the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Viktor Basargin .

A new museum will appear in the Udarnik cinema, which ceased functioning for its intended purpose in 2010. In order for the building to accommodate the collection of works of Sots Art and conceptual art, the Artchronika Cultural Foundation, the founder of the museum, will restore the historical building, built in 1931. "Lenta.ru" decided to remember what the cinema looked like in different years of its life.

The head of the Kharkov department of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, Anatoly Slipchenko, has been removed from his post. This was reported by the Kharkov online publication "Objective" . According to local journalists, on Friday a new chief was introduced to the department's employees - Slipchenko's former deputy Evgeniy Barash. The Deputy Chairman of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine came to Kharkov to introduce the new leader.

Cory Barlog has moved to the Crystal Dynamics studio, Industry Gamers reports. There he will work on a reboot of Tomb Raider and on a new game, which the developers have not yet announced. Previously, Barlog worked at Sony Santa Monica studio. He was one of the writers and director of the game God of War II and the creative director of the PSP release Chains of Olympus. Barlog was also the screenwriter for Ghost of Sparta.

In Pakistan, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the entrance to a mosque, killing at least 22 people, reports Agence France-Presse . In addition, more than 20 people were injured. According to the Associated Press , 23 people were killed in the explosion. The attack took place in the Tire Valley in the Khyber region as Muslims were returning from prayer. Most of the dead are members of the Lashkar-e-Islam group. Its leader, Mangal Bagh, controlled the bombed mosque.

At the beginning of March, the Federal Air Transport Agency canceled the operator's certificate of the Jet-2000 airline, which is engaged in business and VIP transportation. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to representatives of the department. There is no information on license revocation on the Rosaviatsiya website. In the fall of 2011, information appeared in the press about the temporary suspension of Jet 2000’s certificate, but the airline itself denied these rumors .

The leader of the Other Russia, Eduard Limonov, accused the coordinator of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, of splitting the opposition. The statement on March 2 was published on Limonov’s blog on LiveJournal . began to split the opposition “ Boris Nemtsov on the evening of December 8 last year, single-handedly conspiring with Deputy Mayor of Moscow Gorbenko about the fate of the rally on December 10,” writes Limonov. Nemtsov agreed to hold a rally on Bolotnaya Square.

Saving "Udarnik" The old cinema will be converted into a museum of modern art The president of the Artchronika cultural foundation, publisher of the magazine of the same name and founder of the Kandinsky Prize, Shalva Breus, conceived the idea of ​​creating a museum, which is long overdue to appear in Moscow.

A resident of the French department of Maine-et-Loire (Maine-et-Loire) sued Google because he was captured relieving himself in a panoramic photo on the Street View service. reports this Reuters . The man believes that because of the photo, the entire village (about three thousand inhabitants) in which he lives began to laugh at him. In this regard, he demanded that the photo be deleted and that he be paid compensation in the amount of 10 thousand euros.

Italy's public debt grew to 120.1 percent of GDP in 2011, Dow Jones reports. The level of debt was only 0.1 percentage point below the record level recorded in 1996. At the same time, the budget deficit amounted to 3.9 percent of GDP, decreasing compared to the previous year. The economy itself grew by 0.4 percent at the end of the year, which turned out to be lower than the official forecast of 0.6 percent.

02.03.2012, 17:06:52 version Print | PDA/PDA Flags of Serbia and EU. Photo ©AFP PhD degree Serbia received the status of a future member of the European Union On March 1, at the EU summit in Brussels, it was announced that Serbia had been awarded the status of a candidate country for membership of the European Union. The foreign ministers of the organization's 27 members voted unanimously for this decision, but a few days before the vote, few could confidently predict its outcome.

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Sevastopol Union of Submariner Veterans asked the Russian Black Sea Fleet to help raise the Russian submarine Skat, which was sunk in April 1919 in the Sevastopol roadstead, from the bottom. As reported by New Region, this was announced by the director of the department of underwater heritage of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Sergei Voronov.

By the end of 2012, the German Armed Forces will completely remove from service the Kormoran 2 anti-ship missiles in service with the 51st Air Force Reconnaissance Wing in Jagel. Kieler Nachrichten reports. According to the publication, the missiles, developed in the 1980s and adopted by Germany since 1991, are expiring. “By the end of 2012, all Kormoran-type missiles must be withdrawn from service in accordance with regulations,” a German Air Force spokesman explained to a German newspaper.

All mosques in Uzbek Namangan were equipped with CCTV cameras in February. This was reported by Ozodlik (Uzbek service of Radio Liberty). Cameras are installed in different parts of buildings and in the courtyards of mosques. According to local imams, this was done to protect believers from thieves, of whom there are too many. At the same time, the Namangan Muslim Department found it difficult to explain the reason for installing video cameras.