Former head of Gazprom Rem Vyakhirev died at the age of 79. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to unnamed sources in the gas industry. The information was also confirmed to the agency by an unnamed representative of the Ministry of Energy. Vyakhirev has served as head of the gas company since 1992, and before that he was the first deputy head of the company. He became the chairman of the board of the concern after Viktor Chernomyrdin, who held this post, left to work in the government.

In Bataysk, Rostov region, three men stole a ficus from a flower kiosk, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda. Soon after the theft of the flower, all three were detained. According to employees of the retail outlet, the ficus thieves came to the 24-hour flower pavilion late in the evening (according to local media, the incident occurred on February 6) and took the pot with the plant. The attackers got into the car and fled the scene.

Syfy will produce a four-part film based on Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle, Variety reports. Frank Spotnitz, who previously participated in the creation of the television series The X-Files, Millennium and Strike Back, will work on the project as a screenwriter. One of the producers of the film adaptation of The Man in the High Castle is Ridley Scott. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle was first published in 1962.

In Armenia, a preventive measure has been assigned to two suspects of involvement in the assassination attempt on the country's presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan. PanARMENIAN.Net reports this. By court decision, Khachatur Poghosyan and Samvel Harutyunyan, who were previously detained, were placed under arrest for two months. Harutyunyan and Poghosyan were detained at the end of last week. The National Security Service, which is investigating the attack, said they had already confessed.

Germany offered Russia to exchange the spy couple Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag, exposed in October 2011, for FSB officer Valery Mikhailov , who was found guilty of transferring secret data to the CIA, writes Welt am Sonntag. Former FSB colonel Mikhailov, now 60 years old, has been held since June 2012 in correctional colony No. 3 in Irkutsk for convicted law enforcement officers. A military court in Moscow sentenced him to 18 years in prison for spying for the CIA.

The Indonesian football club Mitra Kukar invited former football player of Italian Milan, London Chelsea and the Ukrainian national team Andrey Shevchenko. According to the manager of the Indonesian team, Rony Fauzan, Shevchenko was interested in the offer of Mitra Kukar. This was reported by the online publication Goal.com. Negotiations on the Indonesian contract with Shevchenko are far from completed.

Pursuit of a fan who ran onto the field during the match between Zenit and Terek. Photo: Alexey Danichev / RIA Novosti The World Court upheld the claim of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit against a fan who ran onto the field during the Russian Championship match with Terek. The fan will have to pay 20 thousand rubles - this is the amount for which the St. Petersburg club was fined for the fan’s behavior, Interfax reports . The incident occurred on September 14, 2012.

Just before the start of the Iowa Bacon Festival, a pig was pardoned. According to the Associated Press , the ceremony was performed by state Governor Terry Brandsted. A Berkshire pig named Bonnie was pardoned. Two-year-old Bonnie was randomly selected from all the pigs in Des Moines. According to the governor, during his work he had to pardon turkeys for Thanksgiving Day, but this was the first time he gave life to a pig.

Lenta.ru begins a series of reviews of applications for the two most popular mobile operating systems in the world - Android and iOS. In the first issue, we decided to consider programs for students of a foreign language and for tourists who find themselves in a foreign-speaking country: dictionaries, phrase books and educational books.

A military helicopter crashed in Azerbaijan. APA reports this with reference to its own sources. According to preliminary data, the aircraft, owned by the republic's air force, fell into the Caspian Sea. source An Interfax clarified that an Mi-8 helicopter crashed. According to Trend , the incident occurred in the area of ​​the village of Shikhovo, near the Salyan highway. The helicopter fell into the sea at a distance of 300 meters from the shore.

An NTV film crew is trying to find the apartment of opposition leader Ashurkov, which was searched by the Investigative Committee. All that television crews have at their disposal is the oppositionist’s house number and his photograph. Vladimir Ashurkov heads the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny. On February 7, Ashurkov’s apartment was searched in connection with the theft of funds from the SPS party.

Shares of American household goods corporations fell on February 8 after Venezuelan authorities announced the devaluation of the national currency, the bolivar. Bloomberg reports this. Venezuela accounts for a fairly large volume of sales from the world's largest manufacturers of household goods. Thus, quotes of the world's largest toothpaste manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive at the close of trading decreased by 1.5 percent, and shares of the cosmetics company Avon - by 2.5 percent.

13:56, 11 February 2013 "Sailboat without a rudder" Putin's advisor Sergei Glazyev spoke about Russia's development plan Sergey Glazyev Photo: Ruslan Shamukov / ITAR-TASS At the end of January, it became known that RAS scientists would prepare a report for Russian President Vladimir Putin, outlining a list of measures necessary for the development of the country. From the side of the presidential administration, this work will be supervised by Putin’s adviser, academician Sergei Glazyev.

Google displays links to porn sites when you enter certain mathematical expressions into the search bar due to the fact that it cannot correctly interpret the content of the request. Google developer Jeremy Hoffman announced this on January 8 on the question and answer site Quora. On January 17, 2013, a Quora user posted a question regarding a bug he noticed in Google.

For the first time, the government decided to sell state property through an independent operator. According to the Kommersant newspaper , the Russian Auction House (RAD) received the right to sell 36 stakes in state-owned companies. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.