A Kyiv police officer died from a gunshot wound to the neck. this on February 18 . reported The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine A policeman died in an ambulance. An investigative team arrived at the scene of the incident. Previously, the Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that activists participating in the riots in the center of Kyiv were using firearms against law enforcement officers. The opposition made similar claims against the police.

View of the Moscow River from Berezhkovskaya embankment. Photo: ist76photo / “Yandex.Photos” The head office of the United Rocket and Space Corporation will be located on Berezhkovskaya Embankment opposite the Novodevichy Convent. reports this Interfax . The headquarters of ORKK will occupy the former building of the General Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (Berezhkovskaya embankment, building 22).

Opposition supporters left the Ukrainian House cultural and business center, which had been seized earlier. This is reported by Comments . The building remained guarded by a small group of internal troops. The publication's correspondent witnessed how they stopped one of the leaving oppositionists. He was ordered to take off his bulletproof vest, then his documents were checked and he was released.

Three people were killed during a shootout in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region. reported this on February 18 RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The police received a report of a shootout at the 33rd kilometer of Yegoryevskoye Highway at 09:50. Arriving police found a car and three dead people at the scene, as well as a Saiga carbine.

On February 10, 2014, Rear Admiral of the Navy Vyacheslav Apanasenko died in Moscow. Four days earlier, Apanasenko, who was sick with cancer, shot himself in the head with an award pistol. The 66-year-old rear admiral left a suicide note: “I ask you to blame the government and the Ministry of Health for my death...

The Ministry of Finance will buy 212.2 billion rubles worth of currency from the Central Bank from February 20 to the end of May. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Moiseev, Interfax reports . The department will allocate 3.5 billion rubles for the purchase of foreign currency every day during this period. Funds are purchased to transfer additional oil and gas revenues for 2013 to the Reserve Fund.

Moscow drivers will not be allowed into dedicated lanes for public transport at night on weekdays. The head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov, wrote about this in his letter to deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov, who asked to “open” the dedicated lanes at night, Gazeta.ru reports.

The work of the metro in Kyiv has been stopped. Passengers are disembarked from trains at nearby stations. As UNIAN reports , loudspeakers announce that the work of the metro has been stopped due to riots. Earlier today, “due to the threat of a terrorist attack,” several metro stations in the city center were closed: Khreshchatyk, Teatralnaya, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Arsenalnaya, and Poshtovaya Ploshchad.

in one of the district courts of New York was charged Late last week , the son of American businessman Calvin Darden, Calvin Darden Jr., . According to investigators, Darden Jr. attempted to fraudulently sell Maxim, a men's magazine that did not belong to him, on behalf of his father. In addition, he extorted $500,000 from an unnamed Taiwanese company for organizing an exhibition match of NBA teams in Taiwan, to whose management he also had nothing to do.

One of the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, called on protesters awaiting a “cleansing” on Maidan Nezalezhnosti not to panic and to be ready to defend. According to UNIAN , he stated this while speaking from the stage on the Maidan. “We will not back down. No step back. This is our space of freedom, and we will defend it,” the politician said. Earlier, a prayer service was held on Maidan, which was periodically interrupted by speeches by activists.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun testing the PROxiTT robotic system designed for automated refueling of satellites in orbit. According to the department, the first tests of the system took place in a laboratory on the ground in early February 2014, using hypergolic fuel and an oxidizer for simulated refueling of the satellite.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Igor Lebedev, who is the son of LDPR head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, was found to have an undeclared apartment in Dubai. Information about the real estate that the deputy acquired in 2009 was published on his blog by opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The deal to purchase the apartment was finally completed in 2012, when Lebedev made the last of six payments totaling about 87 million rubles.

The security forces of Ukraine delivered an ultimatum to the rioters in the center of Kyiv. This is stated in a joint statement by the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine. As noted in the appeal, if the riots in the capital do not stop by 18.00 (20.00 Moscow time), the security forces will be obliged to “restore order using the methods provided for by law.” What exactly is planned to be done is not specified.

The Russian authorities intend, through the corporatization of non-state pension funds, to eliminate ring-based control schemes over pension funds. Russian Forbes writes about this with reference to anonymous sources. According to the publication, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina are actively seeking to liquidate the schemes.

Three opposition activists were killed during the riots in the center of Kyiv. this on her Facebook page reported MP from the opposition Batkivshchyna party Lesya Orobets . According to her, the corpses are in the House of Officers, where the protesters organized a temporary medical center.