The American publication VOX compiled a selection of 27 "hilariously bad cards that do not explain anything." It is divided into three categories, the first of which is simply called "so bad that even the great." This included a map of the 2012 presidential elections in the United States. The candidates - Baraku Obama and Mitt Romni - corresponded to their colors, in which the states that supported them were painted.

In the Ufa contact zoo, the newborn kangurenok first crawled out of his mother's bag. On February 18, he took the first steps along the aviary, after which he again climbed into the bag. Paul Kangurenka is still unknown: he will live in his mother’s bag for another three months. After that, the animal will be examined, determine his floor and give him a name. The fact that Kangaroo is bearing the cub, the zoo employees recognized in the fall.

The head of PACE, Anne Brasser, said that the continuation of the fighting near Debaltseve is a violation of the Minsk agreements. “I regret that despite the Minsk agreements and the resolution of the UN Security Council, fighting continues,” Brasser said. “There can be no forceful solution to the conflict. I reiterate my call for respect for the ceasefire agreement,” Brasser said.

Photo: Google Maps Google has added panoramic pictures of Greenland to its cartographic service. Not the entire island is available to users, but only a few groups of points in different parts of the coast. In particular, the panoramas were shot in the city of Ilulissat, located at the mouth of the Fjord of the same name in the west of Greenland. From the boat, Google also photographed icebergs, floating along the coast.

Look At Media has launched an urban publication about New York, which will be published in English. The media is called Hopes & Fears - the same name used to be the Russian-language project Look At Me about entrepreneurs. The editor-in-chief of the new edition was the journalist Marina Galperina, who until the fall of 2014 worked in the Animal New York project. Three journalists and a producer will work with her.

The Moscow City Court banned the activities of the Minin and Pozharsky People's Militia, which is headed by retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov. The organization has been declared a terrorist organization. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia applied to the court with a demand to ban the "Militia". Her position was supported by the FSB and the Ministry of Justice. Representatives of the liquidated organization insisted in court that there was nothing terrorist in it.

The authorities of St. Petersburg refused to approve the opposition march on March 1. This was announced by the co-chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the RPR-Parnas party Andrei Pivovarov. According to him, the city administration rejected all the routes proposed by the applicants. The organizers of the action offered seven options for the procession route, most of them from the Gorkovskaya metro station and further to Birzhevaya Square, Manezhnaya Square or the Field of Mars.

The Moscow office of the Qiwi payment service came with a search. It is not known what kind of investigative measures are being taken there and for what specific reason. According to the Qiwi press service, the company periodically encounters requests from law enforcement agencies about the activities of partners and customers.

The former head of "MENATEP" Platon Lebedev said that he does not see Mikhail Khodorkovsky as the president of Russia. According to Lebedev, Khodorkovsky could become a kind of "transitional institution" for the country. “Khodorkovsky is very good as an anti-crisis manager, a long period is not his path,” said the former head of MENATEP. Lebedev spoke at the first press conference after his release. He told what he was going to do in the near future.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov and director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky will hold a discussion on 28 February as part of the February Dialogues project organized by the Open Library. The topic for conversation is “Russian Fairy Tales”: we will talk about patriotism, cultural policy and history.

The Moscow authorities refused to agree to the procession, which the opposition planned to hold on March 1 on Tverskaya Street. Instead, the mayor's office offered to organize a march in Maryino. This was announced by the representative of the movement "Solidarity" Sergei Davidis. In total, 11 applications were submitted for holding mass actions on March 1. The mayor's office reported that they made a proposal for each individual notification.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu approved the motto of the logistic support troops. The motto will be "No one is better than us". “The development of the competition system continues in the Armed Forces. We have restored and continue to develop competitiveness in all specialties (MTO). This is a very important activity for us,” said Dmitry Bulgakov, deputy head of the military department. TASS Separate formations in the Russian army already have their own mottos.

The world of "classmates" has always remained for users the rest of the Runet with a mystery. In this world, decent people seemed to give out a stream of a three -story mat in response to “one” (and even “four”) to the photographs. And from crazy comments in discussions under the photos of children and jokes, the “Classmates Branch” community in VKontakte, and then the Spear Railway Spear Branch “In case of important negotiations” grew up.

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Russia increased by 20% in 2014. 14.5 thousand companies were declared insolvent. There were 1,585 bankruptcies registered in December, up 28 percent from December 2013. According to experts, the increase in the number of bankruptcies is connected both with the situation in the economy and with changes in legislation.

According to a new poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), more than a third of all Russians expect cutbacks where they work, as well as wage losses and delays in getting their paychecks. According to VTsIOM’s new survey, 38 percent of Russians say they believe layoffs will affect them or their loved ones, and another 7 percent of Russians either say they’re already affected or are certain they will be.