Thailand's Thai Raksa Chaat party will withdraw from the nomination of the King's sister Ubol Ratana for the post of prime minister. This follows from the party's statement about its readiness to fulfill the will of King Vajiralongkorn, who called the initiative inappropriate. The party declared their allegiance to the royal family and thanked Ubol Ratana for his kindness. The king's sister, in turn, thanked supporters for their support.

A Russian contract serviceman died in an accident in Abkhazia, TASS reports citing the local Ministry of Emergency Situations. The deceased in a passenger car collided with a KamAZ truck, also owned by the Russian military, the ministry said. The Southern Military District said that the deceased, according to preliminary data, “in the conditions of a slippery road” lost control and drove into the oncoming lane.

In Paris, a yellow vest protester had his hand blown off by a stun grenade during clashes with police. According to an eyewitness, the victim was a Yellow Vest photographer filming demonstrators trying to break through the barriers at the National Assembly. A grenade fired by the police hit him in the leg and went off when he tried to throw it away from him.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Ja, Faveli, aliens. What did Deutsl believe in and what he did for hip-hop Alexei Ponomarev recalls the story of Raper Kirill Tolmatsky , who died on February 3, 2019, who performed under the pseudonyms of decl and Le Truk. Because of what deiets quarreled with producer Alexander Tolmatsky Why Cyril left Bad B.

On February 9, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow refused to arrest MSU Mechanics and Mathematics postgraduate student Azat Miftakhov, who has been in police custody for over a week and, according to his own words, was tortured there. The court extended his detention for another 72 hours, giving the defense time to collect characterizing materials, Mediazona reports . The investigation requested Miftakhov's arrest in connection with the arson of the United Russia office in Moscow in January 2018.

Andree Kaiser / Caro / Scanpix / Leta Helsinki, Finland The Finnish State Social Support Agency Kela published preliminary results of one of the most remarkable economic experiments in recent years. For two years, the Finnish authorities paid the unemployed group of 560 euros per month to check whether they will help them find this suitable job. Medusa tells how the experiment was arranged and what results it showed after the first year. What is the experiment?

The Rossiya Segodnya agency cut 23 minutes from the video recording of the round table "Media and the fight against drugs" with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to concerns that drug propaganda laws could be violated in the conversation. The deleted fragment contained the answers of the round table participants to the questions of the Kommersant journalist. Whose statements caused concern to "Russia Today", the agency did not specify.

On February 7, we wrote about a student who received a lifelong test for his luxurious cat's costume, and asked readers to tell about the features of their teachers. Of the hundreds of the messages sent, we selected seven - about the strangest ways to get the test. Kirill Chaplinsky / TASS Chess game Engineering schedule teachers played chess for students. The group, whose teacher won, received "offset" and good grades. Another group is a rigid analysis of flights and retake.

The Reebok ad campaign in Russia “No Limits”, the materials of which were partially removed after a controversial reaction, was prepared “in time trouble” and was not tested on focus groups. The Bell writes about this with reference to marketer Alexander Golofast, who was involved in the project.

Bernard Weil / Toronto Star / Getty images investigators collect evidence on the Bruce MacArthur section In Canada, the court sentenced Bruce MacArthur to the long -term conclusion of the serial killer. He killed eight people and was probably preparing to kill the ninth when the police came to his house to arrest. MacArthur was born in 1951 in a small town in Ontario. In his youth, he was married, his son and daughter were born in marriage.

Shutterstock.com On the New Earth, an emergency regime was introduced due to the mass invasion of white bears-they began to enter the territory of settlements in December. This was reported by the press service of the government of the Arkhangelsk region. In the area of ​​Belushiy, the lips - one of the two villages on the New Earth - are 52 bears. Sometimes they behave aggressively, attacking people and penetrating the premises.

Jean-Claude Moireau / Berlin International Film Festival In Germany, the 69th International Berlin Film Festival was opened. One of the first films shown in the competitive program was the “mercy of God” by the French director Francois Ozon. The painting is based on the real history of the Catholic priest Bernard Prisin from Lyon, in 2017 of minor parishioners accused of molestation (by his own admission, there were 13 of them, witnesses declared 70 victims).

In Quebec, a court has sentenced 29-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, who on January 29, 2017 killed six people in the city's mosque. He is sentenced to life in prison with the right to ask for parole after 40 years. The prosecution asked to be sentenced not to simultaneous, but to consecutive serving of the sentence for each of the murders, which would deprive him of the opportunity to ask for parole. The court considered such a punishment too harsh, noting that Bissonnette had mental problems.

After a long break in Russian, the historical detectives of the Dutch diplomat and the well-known scholarship of Robert Wang Gulik about the adventures of Judge Dee-by the end of February, the Lacques Shirma, Red Pavilion and the Ghost Monastery (translated by Elena Brosalina) will be published again. Combining the best traditions of the European detective with a reliably recreated oriental exotic, the novels of Van Gulik are considered a golden classic of the genre.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office. The main films of this week: a new part of the puppet epic “Lego Film-2”, Russian militant “Plant”, Belgian drama about the Baypage Bayopic Bayopic “Van Gogh. On the threshold of eternity ”with William Defoe in the title role.