Toyota Motor Corporation will stop producing cars in Australia by the end of 2017. This is stated in the official press release of the company. As Agence France-Presse points out , with Toyota's departure, car production in Australia will effectively cease. Previously, the Japanese corporation remained the only large concern producing cars in the country, with the exception of small local auto companies. As Toyota explained, the decision to curtail production was made for several reasons.

In California, as a result of a car driving into the oncoming lane, a major accident occurred, killing six people. reported this on February 9 The Associated Press . Police arrested the oncoming driver, 21-year-old Olivia Culbreath. She is suspected of drunk driving, writes the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. The detainee herself is in the hospital, she has a hip fracture and a ruptured bladder.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case into the death of a resident of the Moscow region, Dmitrov, in the elevator of a residential building. This was reported on the UK website on February 10. The case was initiated under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (performance of work and provision of services that do not meet safety requirements). No defendants have appeared in it yet.

Lenta.ru continues to study “controversial issues” formulated by experts preparing a “single textbook” on Russian history. Topic No. 19 is devoted to “the nature of the Bolshevik national policy and its assessment.” By the early 1920s, Soviet Russia had subjugated almost the entire territory of the country, with the exception of the Far East. All that remained was to pacify the national outskirts.

Russian Railways will halve its share in Aeroexpress, which transports passengers on city-airport routes, from 50 to 25 percent. This was stated in a message from the railway monopoly on February 10. The buyer is the company Delta-Trans-Invest, which is part of Transgroup AS. Now she owns 25 percent of Aeroexpress shares. Russian Railways cited the desire to receive “investment income” as the reason for the sale of shares in Aeroexpress.

A French investigative team will arrive in Russia to investigate the murder of Russian Mikhail Lanin in Nice. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on February 10. Representatives of the French Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will work together with Russian investigators from February 10 to 14.

In early February, Bosnia and Herzegovina was engulfed in protests. Throughout much of the country, people attacked police and set fire to government buildings. Hundreds of people were injured, but by luck no one died. The pogroms marked the end of a nearly 20-year period of calm after the Bosnian War.

The capital's department of the Federal Drug Control Service asked the prefecture of the Central District of Moscow to close the Izvestia Hall club, RIA Novosti reports . The request was made by the head of the Moscow department of the department, Vyacheslav Davydov. According to the lieutenant general, his employees have repeatedly identified facts of drug sales in an entertainment establishment.

The prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow agreed to fulfill the request of the Federal Drug Control Service to close the Izvestia Hall club. reported this on February 10 RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the prefecture.

The man who shot two people in the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk confessed, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sakhalin Region. According to investigators, the suspect was drunk at the time of the crime. He did not explain the motives for his action. The sanity of the suspect will be determined based on the results of a psychological and psychiatric examination.

The Domodedovo City Court of the Moscow Region fined actor Valentin Smirnitsky one thousand rubles for insulting flight attendants. reported this on February 10 RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the court. The actor was found guilty of violating Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code (“petty hooliganism”). The incident occurred on the evening of February 9 on board a plane flying from Alicante, Spain to Moscow.

Investigative authorities have returned to the preliminary investigation stage the criminal case against the former director of the department of planning and coordination of logistics of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Sergei Zhirov, Kommersant reports . According to the publication, one of the defendants in the case testified against a witness who could be interested in the scam, which became the reason for criminal proceedings.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation received a complaint about Oleg Stepchenko’s film “Viy”. agency reported this on February 10 The Prime , citing a statement from the FAS. “The complaint has been received by the FAS Russia, but not yet by the relevant department,” the department’s press service said. “The complaint will be considered in due course.” The complaint was sent from activists of the Sober Russia project.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia faced opposition from other states when preparing for the Olympics. According to him, the tools of the theory of containment, developed during the Cold War, were used against Russia. reports this RIA Novosti . “The atavisms of this theory of containment, they manifest themselves here and there,” Putin said.

Channel One presenter Irada Zeynalova apologized for quoting an article from the nationalist resource “Sputnik and Pogrom” in a story about the opening of the Olympics in Sochi. The presenter apologized to the editor-in-chief of Sputnik and Pogrom, Yegor Prosvirnin, on her Facebook. “Colleagues, I have to admit the incredible,” Zeynalova wrote.