During his address to the people on February 8, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that he would allow a compromise with Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition. This was reported by Novosti-Georgia. According to Saakashvili, he is ready to compromise on a number of constitutional amendments - in particular, those relating to the powers of the head of state. The head of Georgia, however, added that he is against the abolition of direct presidential elections.

On February 8, pirates freed the British ship Esther-C, which had been captured earlier off the coast of Cameroon, Reuters reports , citing the ship's operator, Carisbrooke Shipping. The attack on the ship occurred on February 6 between the Cameroonian port of Douala and the port of Malabo in Equatorial Guinea. As reported by the operating company, the pirates stole a certain amount of cargo from the ship (what exactly was not reported), and also captured three crew members.

The first cargo was transported through the Russian NATO transit point. As Russia's permanent representative to NATO, Alexander Grushko, told the Interfax agency , in December 2012, cargo intended for the British contingent in Afghanistan passed through Ulyanovsk. Previously, it was assumed that the transshipment point in Ulyanovsk would become operational in August 2012: Nikolai Korchunov, who at that time was acting as permanent representative to NATO, spoke about this in July.

The governors of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and Rhode Island declared a state of emergency in connection with Cyclone Nemo, which is accompanied by large-scale snowfall. reported this on Saturday Reuters . These states have introduced a temporary ban on driving and people are advised not to leave their homes. According to CNN, about 500 thousand people are already left without electricity. Many airports in the region, as previously reported, are closed.

On February 8, a court in Ohio sentenced American cultist Samuel Mallett, accused of hate crimes, to 15 years in prison. reports this Agence France-Presse . Mallett's 15 accomplices, who fully admitted their guilt, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to seven years. Samuel Mallett, the leader of the Protestant Amish sect in Ohio, and 15 of his followers were found guilty of committing at least eight attacks on other members of the sect in the fall of 2011.

New York airports, closed due to a snowstorm, resumed operations on the morning of Saturday, February 9. This was reported on Twitter by the New York and New Jersey Air Service. It noted that airport operations will be partially reopened and that passengers should check the status of their flights. More than 2,000 flights were canceled in New York and New Jersey due to the snowstorm.

Former Guns N'Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash will perform in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Interfax reported on Saturday, citing the organizers of the performance. On February 16 he will play in Moscow at the Arena Moscow club, and on February 17 he will take the stage at the St. Petersburg club A2. The concerts will take place with the Conspirators and Alter Bridge vocalist Myles Kennedy.

1. ...For example, representatives of the established intelligentsia are talking about recent legislative initiatives - and in this regard they talk, of course, about the depravity of morals, the disintegration of moral guidelines and other caviar, stellate sturgeon, life. The representative of the working class who has squeezed in between them, that is, a middle manager from some printer company, is noticeably inspired.

In Novosibirsk, the head of the general representative office of the International Committee against Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption IKOKRIM in the Siberian Federal District, Vyacheslav Rodikov, was detained. reported this on Saturday RIA Novosti with reference to the Moscow department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Exactly when Rodikov was detained is not specified.

Due to Cyclone Nemo, which is accompanied by heavy rainfall over the northeastern coast of the United States, all flights were canceled in New York on February 8. reports this Agence France-Presse . As of mid-day, New York's LaGuardia Airport and Newark Airport in the neighboring state of New Jersey ceased operations, New York authorities said. John F. Kennedy Airport canceled all flights starting in the early evening. In total, about 2,300 flights were cancelled.

“I can’t feed on the Holy Spirit” Moscow’s Basmanny Court sent Sergei Udaltsov under house arrest: Lenta.ru report Sergei Udaltsov at a meeting of the Basmanny Court, February 9, 2013. Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters The Basmanny Court of Moscow sent the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov under house arrest.

On February 8, a court in Canada sentenced Canadian officer Jeffrey Paul DeLisle, who admitted spying for Russia, to 20 years in prison. reports this Agence France-Presse . In addition, DeLisle must pay a fine of $111.5 thousand. This amount roughly corresponds to the fee he received for espionage. Canadian Navy sub-lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle was arrested in January 2012. As DeLisle himself admitted, he voluntarily offered his cooperation to the Russian intelligence services in 2007.

German Education Minister Annette Schavan, who was caught plagiarizing while writing her dissertation, resigned. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced this on Saturday at a special joint briefing following a meeting with Chavan, reports Agence France-Presse .

The leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation recommended that party deputy Konstantin Shirshov, who is accused of involvement in a scam involving the “sale” of seats in the State Duma, voluntarily renounce his mandate. this to RIA Novosti on February 9.

Recently, a scandal erupted in the Croatian border town of Vukovar caused by the government's intention to duplicate inscriptions in the Latin alphabet in Serbian Cyrillic. Veterans of the Croatian War of Independence spoke out against it, and it almost came to a fight. The paradox is that the Cyrillic alphabet, which has become a symbol of the ethnic identity of Croatian Serbs, is used less and less both in Serbia itself and in neighboring countries.