The Russian delegation during the negotiations in Poland agreed to amend the legislation in the field of cargo transportation. This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Nikolay Asaul. What changes will be made to the laws, he did not specify. The parties could not agree on the number of permits for carriers, Asaul said.

In Syria, on February 1, a Russian military adviser who was at the location of the Syrian army was killed. On the evening of February 3, Interfax reported this with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The officer, whose name has not been released, was mortally wounded as a result of a mortar shelling of the Syrian military garrison by militants of the Islamic State (the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation).

Russia's Sbarro employees describe life without wages for six months Photo: Vasily Smirnov / TASS For more than six months, the employees of the Sbarro restaurant chain in Russia haven't been paid. Many of these people are migrants, hired through special agencies, and they've found little legal recourse. Like many Russian workers before them, these cashiers, waiters, and managers have appealed to President Putin in an open letter.

Negotiations in Geneva on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Syria are suspended until February 25. This was announced by the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura. “I have come to the conclusion that after a week of preparatory negotiations, more work needs to be done – not only by us, but also by the parties concerned,” de Mistura said. The UN envoy assured that this is "not the end and not the failure of the negotiations", reports AFP.

Shot: Mark Rober / YouTube Former NASA engineer Mark Robert made a machine gun who shoots snowballs. For the manufacture of the gun, he used a machine for cleaning fallen leaves. For half a second, a machine gun can throw 13 snowballs. Mark Rober Snowball Machine Gun- How to Mark Robert quit NASA in 2013. Prior to that, he worked for seven years on the Kuriositi Mars -road (which, by the way, knows how to take a selfie and shoot incredible panoramas ).

Russia conducted military exercises in March 2013, during which a nuclear attack on Sweden was practiced. This is stated in the report of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The report was published ( .pdf ) on January 28, but so far, journalists have not paid attention to its fragment about Russian exercises. Stoltenberg reports that over the past three years, Russia has conducted at least 18 major military exercises, some of which involved more than 100,000 troops.

Roskomnadzor said that he convinced the Prosecutor General's Office to refuse to block the film by Pavel Bardin "Russia 88". As stated in the department, the employees of the supervisory agency managed to explain that the court banned only a fragment of the film, but in general the picture is anti-fascist in nature. On January 28, Roskomnadzor added a YouTube page with "Russia 88" to the list of banned resources .

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Pavel Karpov, who was called in the press the curator of right-wing movements from the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, denied accusations of involvement in the case of the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko. Savchenko's defense claims that it was Karpov who took her from Lugansk to Russia in June 2014. “Now I find it difficult to say what exactly I did on that day, June 23, but according to my feelings, I was not in Lugansk at that time,” said Karpov.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Turkey of violating the Open Skies Treaty, a multilateral agreement between OSCE countries that provides for mutual military checks. Defense Ministry spokesman Sergei Ryzhkov said the Turkish military had banned Russian inspectors from making an observation flight.

9 Moscow restaurants in which you need to order tables in advance Moscow has many problems, but what things are fine with is with restaurants. It seems that Muscovites began to travel less, but there is more. Places open like mushrooms, and there are queues in them.

The Moscow cinema "35 mm" said that the landlord of the building intends to evict him. According to a message on the cinema's website, the owner has been carrying out repairs in the building for 17 months in a row, as a result of which almost all communications (including heating and air conditioning) do not work there. In addition, part of the area was taken from the cinema. When repairing the building, "35 mm", according to the terms of the contract, should be exempt from rent.

In the UK, they allowed to edit the DNA of the human embryo: n+1 Photo: Molekuul.be / Alamy / Vida Press The British scientist was allowed to modify the human embryo genome. Thus, the UK became the first country of the West to allow such experiments; For the world of science, this is almost a sensation. The scientific publication “N+1” tells why this is important. Great Britain allowed the genetic modification of human embryos using CRISPR/CAS9 technology.

For Russian journalists going on a business trip to Turkey, a visa regime will be introduced from February 15, the press service of the Turkish diplomatic mission in Russia reported.