A retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of David Bowie broke records for tickets sold even before the opening, The Daily Telegraph reported on February 24. London's Victoria and Albert Museum, which will host the David Bowie Is exhibition, has already sold more than 26,000 tickets to the event. This is a museum record for the number of tickets sold for an exhibition that has not yet opened. An exhibition dedicated to Bowie's work was announced in September 2012.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is conducting a pre-investigation investigation into abuses committed during preparations for the 2013 Universiade in Kazan. This was reported on the UK website on February 25. According to preliminary data, in mid-2012, the management of the Directorate of Railway Stations (a branch of JSC Russian Railways) concluded several contracts with Automated Control Systems Plus LLC for the installation of inspection equipment.

The leader of the Russian snowboard team, Andrei Boldykov, who specializes in the snowboard cross discipline, will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury. This was reported by the official website of the Russian Alpine Skiing and Snowboard Federation (FGSSR). Boldykov was injured on February 17 during the 11th stage of the World Cup in Sochi. The Russian fell during the semi-final race, but managed to reach the finish line on his own.

Much of Pakistan was left without power for more than two hours on Sunday following an accident at one of the country's largest power plants. reports this Agence France-Presse . The failure at the HUBCO power plant, which is located in Baluchistan province and produces about 1,200 megawatts per day, caused cascading outages at substations across Pakistan.

The Potok company (formerly Mirax Group) of Sergei Polonsky announced that on February 18, 2013 it held a meeting of the founders, at which Alexander Dobrovinsky was appointed chairman of the developer’s board, and Miron Shakira was appointed general director. Thus, as stated in the Potok message , Alexey Alyakin does not have the right to speak on behalf of the company.

Investigators on Monday, February 25, charged another person involved in the case of the kidnapping of Lipetsk deputy Mikhail Pakhomov, reports . the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee Charges have been brought against businessman Sergei Krasovsky, born in 1958, who was detained several days ago in Anapa. He is accused of committing a crime under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (kidnapping).

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began an investigation of A Just Russia deputy Ilya Ponomarev at the request of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. This is reported on the department's website.

The presidential administration did not have time to prepare a new form for the declaration, which should contain a section on the expenses of deputies. Izvestia wrote about this on Monday, February 25, with reference to Vladimir Pozdnyakov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regulations. This means MPs may be able to avoid spending reports despite legislation passed in November .

Ural scientists found a fragment of a Chelyabinsk meteorite weighing more than a kilogram, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the expedition organized by the Ural Federal University (Ural Federal University), Viktor Grokhovsky. This is the largest fragment of a celestial body discovered to date that fell on the territory of the Chelyabinsk region. The fragment was found last weekend. About 30 skiers from the UrFU tourist club took part in the search, Interfax clarifies .

Russian Dmitry Tursunov rose 27 positions in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings. The updated version of the rating was published on February 25 on the official website of the Asia-Pacific region. Tursunov moved from 119th to 92nd place. The rise of the Russian tennis player is associated with his successful performance at the tournament in Marseille, where Tursunov reached the semi-finals, in which he lost to the Czech Tomas Berdych.

Nokia presented the Lumia 520 and Lumia 720 smartphones at a presentation on Monday, February 25, according to a press release received by Lenta.ru. Both devices run the Windows Phone 8 operating system. The Lumia 720 has a screen diagonal of 4.3 inches, while the cheaper Lumia 520 has a four-inch screen diagonal. The displays of both smartphones respond to touches with fingernails and gloved fingers.

About 500 young people gathered near the building of Yerevan State University and called on students for a “general boycott” of the educational process. reports this Interfax . According to Tert.am, those gathered near YSU are themselves students. They came with orange armbands and signs that read “Everyone Stand Up,” “Hello Training Strike,” and “No Fraudulent Elections.” One of the YSU teachers, Gevorg Manukyan, came out to the participants of the action.

Pop music is constantly changing. Now, in the era of hipsters and the Internet, when everyone has heard everything, knows everything and everyone is bored, it is trying to become as strange, surprising, challenging and sometimes unpleasant as possible. It’s not that this is a negative process, it’s at least fascinating to follow, but it hasn’t brought any decent results yet.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case into the death of 9-year-old Anton Fomin in the United States: this was reported on the official website of the Investigative Committee. The case was initiated under paragraph “c” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “murder of a minor.” The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee will investigate it.

The Slon Internet portal has lost part of its editorial staff. As social activist Roman Dobrokhotov, who wrote for the portal, said on Twitter, he resigned, as well as, as follows from his words , the correspondent of the “Russia” section, Sofya Shaidullina. In addition, Dobrokhotov said that another correspondent of “Russia” Vera Kichanova moved to another division of the editorial office - “Bystry Slon”.