Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group has agreed to sell a 6% stake in Rusal to the Zonoville Investments Limited consortium, which is headed by Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik. After the transaction, they will own a 26.5% stake in Rusal, that is, a blocking stake, Vedomosti writes. The amount of the transaction is not called.

The box office of the film "Upward Movement" in Russia and the CIS countries exceeded three billion rubles, RBC reports with reference to the company "Central Partnership". In Russia, according to the results of eight weeks of rental, fees amount to about 2.9 billion rubles. Previously, only one film managed to collect more than 3 billion rubles in the Russian box office - the American Avatar released in 2009 in 3D format.

The head of the Bank of Latvia, Ilmars Rimsevics, who was detained in the case of extortion of bribes, was released on bail of 100,000 euros. This was announced by his lawyer. After being released from custody, Rimshevich stated that he did not admit guilt, and promised to give detailed comments on the case the next day. Rimshevich was banned from performing official duties. The country's president, Raymond Vējonis , announced that he should resign.

In Kizlyar, February 20 was declared a day of mourning for those who died as a result of attacks on parishioners of the Orthodox Church. This was reported to Interfax by the press service of the city administration. On February 20, according to the agency, the dead will be buried. The head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasilyev, said that the funeral would take place on the territory of the church of St. George the Victorious, who was attacked. about the same Meduza .

The story of Pavel Kalikin - the abbot of the cathedral in Kizlyar, where five people were shot Musa Salgereev / Newsteam / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On February 18, 22-year-old Khalil Khalilov came to the Cathedral of the Great Martyr George the Victorious in the Dagestan city of Kizlyar-and opened fire from the hunting rifle on people leaving the church after service.

At all Orthodox churches in Dagestan, police squads were put up. This was reported in the Makhachkala diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. On February 18, the parishioners of one of the churches were attacked, killing five people. “The police have [been on duty] since last night. Previously, there were no motives to put up guards - there were no such precedents, this case is egregious, ”said the representative of the diocese. He added that there are 20 Orthodox churches in Dagestan.

The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow has appointed a new chief in SIZO No. 1 "Matrosskaya Tishina". The former head of the pre-trial detention center Vladimir Klochek retired. Sergei Pozdeev, who was previously deputy head of the FSIN department for the Kirov region, was appointed to his position.

A Muscovite invited a homeless woman to spend the night and wrote about her on Facebook. The President of Moldova promised to take up her case On February 17, Natalya Chevalkova, a resident of Moscow, told on her Facebook page the story of Tatyana Novikova, a 56-year-old native of Tiraspol. For the first time, Natalya saw a woman a little more than a week ago - she was sitting on the parapet near Sberbank on Smolenskaya Street, opposite the Foreign Ministry building.

February 19. How many of you could be bought before the abolition of serfdom? Main In Spain, the court began in the case of the Russian Mafia. He was investigated for about 10 years. The prosecution was charged with the defendants, 18 people were on the bench. The most senior defendant is the State Duma deputy Vladislav Reznik. Among the accusations are murders, smuggling weapons and drugs, extortion, fraud, forking documents and bribery.

In Japan, Twitter users staged a flash mob in which they share photos of their pets falling asleep in very strange positions, with an unusual expression on their faces or in unusual places. The name of the flash mob can be translated as "crazy poses in which animals fall asleep." In addition to dogs and cats, the Japanese post their pet parrots, rodents and even hedgehogs!

Users found that on the website of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) an unusual page 404 , which opens when someone is trying to cross the non-existent link. It depicts the unsuccessful ring of the Olympics in Sochi! The page says: “404 - the page was not found. Sometimes things are not going as planned. ” The case with the unsuccessful ring occurred at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics.

In Liverpool, a court sentenced former children's football coach Barry Bennell to 31 years in prison, who was tried for sexual abuse of children. Bennel, 64, was found guilty of 50 counts of violence against 12 boys, who were between eight and 15 years old. The episodes took place between 1979 and 1991. The judge described Bennel as "the devil in the flesh" and "sheer evil".

Ronen Zvulun / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In Iceland, they want to introduce criminal liability for circumcision of boys for religious reasons. According to The Guardian, the parliament introduces a bill on the prohibition of circusia, surgery to remove the foreskin of the penis - unless it is done according to medical reasons. Punishment for violation - up to six years in prison.

In the Chelyabinsk region, the director of a boarding school for children with developmental delays, where pupils were raped, was fired. It is reported by URA.RU with reference to its own source in the commission to investigate the causes of the incident. The name of the director and the name of the boarding school are unknown.

Update . The World Anti-Doping Agency denied the involvement in the disruption of Alina Zagitova's training. “WADA is not responsible for doping tests at the Olympics,” told RBC. the agency’s press service In Pyeongchang, doping officers disrupted the training session of Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova on February 19, demanding to pass a doping test. This was announced by the headquarters of the Russian team. “A few hours ago, a WADA doping officer came to Alina and took her blood.