Ukraine and Sberbank of the Russian Federation agreed to write off 25% of the debt on loans issued to Ukrainian enterprises in 2011, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said. We are talking about loans issued by Sberbank to Ukravtodor and Yuzhnoye Commercial Bank under state guarantees.

In Russia, the commission for illegal cashing out has reached 15 percent. A few years ago, it was two or three percent, said Dmitry Skobelkin, deputy head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. According to him, the increase in commission is due to the growth in the volume of these transactions in retail chains. Banks, Skobelkin said, are less and less engaged in cash-out operations, because they "understand that this is a very dangerous business for them, reports .

FBI agents arrested the last four participants in the capture of the building of the Malur natural reserve in Oregon. Three people - Sean Anderson, Sandra Anderson and Jeff Banta - were sorted to the authorities at about 9:40 on the morning of February 11. The last participant in the capture, David Fry, surrendered at about 11 in the morning. This was preceded by a telephone conversation with people who convinced him to surrender, during which Fry threatened to commit suicide.

Photo: Dominic Lockyer / Flickr / CC 2.0. In light of Russia's ongoing financial crisis, a grocery store chain in Vladivostok has begun selling goods to local customers on credit. So far, according to the news agency Reuters , the most popular purchases made using the borrowed money have been whiskey and snacks.

Information about the detention of the administrators of the musical public E: music turned out to be a falsification. A message about this appeared in the VKontakte public itself. Coming up with a traditional festive (anniversary this year, and yes, we do them every year) stuffing on the main page, we could not even imagine that not only naive subscribers would fall for it (hello to those who believed last time that Enteo was closing us ), but also the media.

Photo: Alexey Druzhinin / TASS / Scanpix Microsoft has released a Fetch mobile application! , which can determine the breed of a photographed dog. This service also has a web version- here you can upload a photo and find out what kind of dog is depicted on it. But just determining the breeds of dogs is very boring. Therefore, we uploaded photographs of world leaders to this service and looked at what breeds, according to the Microsoft robot, they correspond.

The current forms of OSAGO policies are not subject to replacement from July 1, 2016, Natalya Nikifirova, a representative of Goznak, told TASS. According to her, we are talking only about the beginning of the issuance of new forms by insurers. The policies in circulation will not change. The Russian Union of Insurers, in turn, called Goznak the initiator of the one-time replacement of policies. “This was a request from Goznak itself to be done at once.

A Moscow business owner describes how the city destroyed her stores Photo: Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant On the night of February 9, by the order of the mayor of Moscow, dozens of shopping pavilions in the city's center and outskirts were demolished. Authorities maintain that these areas were all built in violation of municipal laws. The city argues this, despite the fact that many store owners had the relevant permits and permissions from the city itself.

State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya said that the attacks against Russian President Vladimir Putin are "obviously anti-constitutional provocations against Russia." Thus, she commented on the administrative lawsuit against Putin, which Alexei Navalny filed with the court.

Astrophysicist Sergey Popov - about what gravity waves are Photo: SXS On February 11, it became known that scientists managed to fix gravitational waves-distortion of space-time, predicted by Albert Einstein. Their existence was proved due to observations with the help of high -precision equipment - scientists recorded the fusion of two massive black holes in a billion of light years from the Earth.

Documentary about the search for gravitational waves Shot: Dmitry Zavilgelskiy / YouTube On February 11, it became known that scientists recorded gravitational waves, the presence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein. To understand what gravitational waves are, how and why they are looking for them, the documentary “Waiting for waves and particles”, which received a media zheury prize at the V-International Film Festival of Science and Technology 360 °, will help.

Shot: Mkj Film Distribution / YouTube The final trailer for Batman vs. Superman was released: at the dawn of justice. " And these are an insanely cool two minutes. Stop reading it, look already: MKJ Film Distribution Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Official Final Trailer [HD] In Russia, the film will be released on March 24.

Shot: Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube Sony Pictures released the second trailer for the Comedy “Brothers from Grimsby” with Sasha Baron Cohen, who plays the fiery brother of a cool spy. According to the plot, the hero of Cohen pushes the entire special operation, but then the brothers together will save the planet. The role of the agent went to Strong Marc.

Scientists recorded gravitational waves. Albert Einstein also predicted them, but experimentally the existence of waves proved only now. This was announced at a press conference in Washington. The source of waves that managed to fix was the merger of two black holes in a billion light years from the ground. The waves were recorded in both observatories that participated in the study. As notes The New York Times, scientists managed to record the sound of the merger of two black holes.

In Moscow, on the night of February 11, police officers detained the administrators of the musical public " E:music " Mikhail Meerov and Abdul Kerimov. This was reported in the public "VKontakte". The report notes that the detention is connected precisely with the conduct of the group. Meerov and Kerimov were detained near the Dich club on the Yauzskaya embankment. They were first taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station, and then it was decided to take them to the Yakimanka police station.