The European geostationary weather satellite Meteosat-10 received a photograph of the trace of a meteorite that fell on February 15 in the Chelyabinsk region. The image was published on the page of the European Organization of Satellite Meteorology on the Flickr photo hosting site. In the picture you can see clouds of steam that appeared in the atmosphere as a result of the fall of a meteorite.

Acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov named the candidate he will support in the upcoming mayoral elections in Zhukovsky. The head of the region supported the head of the local military unit of the air rescue center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Andrei Voityuk. writes about this on February 15 Kommersant . Vorobyov explained his choice by the fact that Voytyuk realized himself in Zhukovsky, loves this city and is an aviator.

Still from the movie “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK” In Odessa, a local loader was sentenced for committing a robbery with an imaginary pistol. This was reported by Dumskaya. The man was sentenced to two years in prison. The crime in question was committed in February 2012. Then the loader and his friend, being drunk, took a taxi from Privoz, where they worked, to Razumovskaya Street. When the car arrived at its destination, the man got the idea to rob the taxi driver.

The police detained a tax inspector from Lyubertsy near Moscow, suspecting him of extorting seven million rubles from a businessman. This was reported in a press release from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was received by Lenta.ru on February 15. According to the police, the chief tax inspector of the field inspection department of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate No. 17 for the Moscow Region demanded money, promising the entrepreneur to reduce the amount of unpaid taxes.

The coaching staff of the Russian biathlon team has decided on the composition of the team for the women's relay at the World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. This was reported by the official website of the Russian Biathlon Union (RUB). Ekaterina Glazyrina will perform at the first stage of the relay, Olga Zaitseva at the second, Ekaterina Shumilova at the third, and Olga Vilukhina at the fourth. The women's relay is scheduled for the evening of February 15.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia proposed to exclude the funded component from the pension formula and make it independent. As RIA Novosti reports , this was stated by Deputy Head of the Department Andrei Pudov at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum. Thus, the Ministry of Labor proposes to give Russians two pensions instead of one: labor and funded. Pudov noted that if approved, the existing principles for calculating both components will remain.

On Friday, February 15, the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) unanimously deprived Andrei Andriyanov, the former director of the Moscow State University Scientific Research Center, who was convicted of plagiarism, of his candidate of science degree. reports this RIA Novosti . In January 2013, the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science came to the conclusion that the share of plagiarism in Andriyanov’s dissertation amounts to 53.9 percent of the total work.

On the morning of Friday, February 15, searches began in the government and tax service of Moldova. According to Novosti-Moldova, they are carried out by employees of the prosecutor's office and the national anti-corruption center. NAC spokeswoman Angela Starinsky said that investigative measures are being carried out in connection with criminal cases against high-ranking officials suspected of corruption.

By the end of 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense will have the first computer system at its disposal, allowing commanders, staffs and units to remotely control combat in real time. The Izvestia newspaper wrote about this on Friday, February 15, citing a source in the military department. According to the newspaper's interlocutor, the automated control system (ACS) was developed by the Sozvezdie concern for the Ground Forces.

A businessman fired at the office of a St. Petersburg business company and then committed suicide. reports this Interfax with reference to the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred at about 16:00 on the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal. The man, whose name was not disclosed by official sources, fired a gun at house 78, where the office of the state unitary enterprise Lensvet is located, and then committed suicide.

Marion Cotillard intends to play the lead role in the French film adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel "The Diary of a Maid" ("Le Journal d'une femme de chambre"), Variety reports. Mirbeau's novel was first published in 1900. The book is written in the form of a diary, authored by a maid named Celestina. Describing events from her own life, she simultaneously allows readers to get an idea of ​​the moral character of French high society. It is Celestine who should be played by Cotillard.

Hacker attacks targeting media companies and individual journalists have been called a simple and cheap way to censor the press. According to Reuters , this statement was made on February 14 by the Committee to Protect Journalists. According to the organization, over the past few years the number of cyber attacks on publication websites has increased significantly, and they are becoming more complex.

Channel One, in a story about the fall of a meteorite in the Chelyabinsk region, showed a video that supposedly shows a crater from the collision of a celestial body with the earth. The recording of the story was uploaded to the channel's website . Commenting on the video of the burning crater, the newscaster said that this was footage from the place where the meteorite may have fallen. “The area is sparsely populated. You see the crater that has formed there,” he noted.

On February 15, the Federal Air Transport Agency renewed the airworthiness certificate of another Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100), owned by Aeroflot. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the airliner manufacturer, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company.

Latvian President Andris Berzins approved the law on the introduction of the euro. The Mixnews portal reports this with reference to the local publication Latvijas Vēstnesis. Thus, the law on the accession of the Baltic country to the eurozone from January 1, 2014 passed all the main authorities in Latvia. The Latvian Seimas approved the law on the introduction of the euro on January 31.