British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that Russia's policy in Syria could be aimed at creating an "Alawite dwarf state" in the region. It is reported by Reuters. Hammond suggested that Russia could use the Syrian peace process as a "fig leaf" for military aid to President Bashar al-Assad, which could result in the creation of an Alawite dwarf state in the country's northwest.

Taxi ordering service Uber has denied disagreements with the Moscow government over an agreement on the company's operating conditions. “Indeed, there were some delays on our part in coordinating such documents within the company, but work on the agreement is being carried out as usual,” said Evgenia Shipova, a representative of the company. According to her, the ban on the work of Uber was not discussed at official meetings on the organization of transportation in Moscow.

The video from the Instagram of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, where the opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov was depicted in the crosshairs of the sight, actually simulated a view through the periscope. This was stated to Dozhd by the Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov. “Personally, I think that this was generally a half-joking video. There is nothing so terrible - there was no sight there. It was a periscope.

The Moscow authorities will file a lawsuit to ban the Uber taxi service if the company continues to cooperate with drivers who do not have a taxi license. This was stated in an interview with Gazeta.ru by the head of the Moscow Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov. According to him, earlier the authorities of Moscow and Uber agreed to conclude an agreement obliging the service to work with legal taxi drivers, as well as provide the city with data on the routes of movement of cars.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced a ban on entry to Russia for five US citizens. The sanctions included former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and his former Deputy Jay Bybee, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Defense Department General Counsel William Haynes and former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo. The entry ban was introduced in response to the expansion of the American “Magnitsky list”.

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that the draft budget of the Pentagon for the 2016-2017 fiscal year was prepared taking into account five main threats - these are Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and the Islamic State (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization in the Russian Federation and banned). According to Carter, the United States intends to increase spending on new weapons in response to the actions of Russia and China.

Short: "Titanic" Jack, the hero Leonardo DiCaprio from the Titanic, could have been saved. As it turned out, even Kate Winslet, who played Rose in the film, agrees with this. At the Jimmy Kimmel show, in response to the remark of the presenter that she left her lover to die in icy water, Winslet said: “I agree! I think he could fit that fragment of the door.

Infectious disease specialist Dmitry Troshchansky - about "pig flu" and domestic vaccines Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix In Moscow, the flu epidemic has been officially announced , quarantine is administered in different regions throughout the country. According to the Ministry of Health, from the beginning of the epidemic from the complications of the flu, 126 people died.

Three reasons why Apple is no longer the most expensive company in the world Photo: Mark Lennihan / Ap / Scanpix Google overtook Apple in capitalization and became the most expensive company in the world. This is phenomenal news: in the four years that the manufacturer of iPhones was at the top of the rating (only at short segments of time, giving way to the leadership of oil exxonmobil), it seemed that the Apple’s technological giants could not be caught up for anyone - the gap was too great.

The Central Bank supported the proposal of the Ministry of Finance to "cut the deposits" of private depositors of troubled banks. We are talking about the bail-in mechanism - the conversion of part of large deposits into shares or debt obligations of banks. “In principle, individuals could be participants in this procedure, but only in cases where it is in their interests.

The engraving of the field of Fyurst Against the background of reports about the flu epidemic in Russia, someone met a man in a Moscow metro in a Moscow metro station. (In fact, when the photograph was taken, it is unknown, but on the network she spread widely on the second of February). Costumes with a beak became in use in the 17th century. They were worn by doctors during plague epidemics .

Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to abolish Rosfinnadzor and Rosgranitsa. Rosfinnadzor will be merged with the Federal Treasury, while the functions of currency control will be distributed between the tax service and customs.

The head of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov, accuses Instagram of censoring his free speech. He says the social network deleted a post he directed at Russia's political opposition, because it spoke about “the USA's henchmen.” Yesterday, February 1, Instagram reportedly removed a video posted to Kadyrov's account that depicted the opposition politicians Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

The oldest image of the Virgin was found at Yale University Photo: Yale University Art Gallery In the Art Museum of Yale University, perhaps there is the oldest image of the Virgin-a wall painting from the ancient city of a fool-Europe, located on the territory of modern Syria. This image is well known, but it is usually interpreted as a fragment of the scene of the meeting of Christ and Samaritan by the well.

Photo: Olaf Pignataro / Red Bull Content Pool The Formula-1 team Red Bull decided to check who is more powerful-its car or eight strong rugbyists. For this, the racers decided to conduct an experiment. The car rode in one direction, the rugbyists from the British team "Bat" pushed him to another. As a result, they even managed to slightly move the car from their place.