The DPRK has asked Russia to donate 50,000 tons of wheat "to eliminate the damage caused by natural disasters last year," said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Federation Council committee on international affairs. Kosachev noted that the relevant departments are now working on this issue and expressed hope that a solution will be found. In Russia, 70 million tons of wheat were harvested in 2018, 15 million tons less than a year earlier.

The Hungarian authorities have put up for sale at auction all the MiG-29s on the balance sheet of the Ministry of Defense. The single lot includes 19 aircraft, many of which require overhaul, 20 engines and 293 other items (including spare parts and built-in weapons). The initial price of the lot is 2.8 billion forints ($10 million). After a buyer is found, the sale will have to be approved by the Russian authorities. Hungary received 28 MiG-29s from Russia in 1993 as payment for a Soviet debt.

A court in Basel, Switzerland, has declared Mars One Ventures bankrupt, which planned to send colonizers to Mars. The creator of the project, Bas Lansdorp, said that he is now trying to "find an acceptable solution" in negotiations with all interested parties in order to save the project. The Mars One project was launched in 2011. Lansdorp planned to build a spaceship and send a few people to Mars to establish a permanent colony on the planet. Their return to Earth was not planned.

Bernd Wuestneck / DPA / AP / Scanpix / Leta construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, November 2018 On February 12, the European Union officials will discuss the status of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, which is now being built along the bottom of the Baltic Sea from the Russian Ust-Luga to the German Gracevald.

The US presidential administration has completed work on a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, Fox News reports, citing sources. The final document takes from 150 to 200 pages and "less than five people" are fully familiar with its content.

American programmer and designer Eric Lewis created the Emoji Mosaic service, which turns any pictures into an emoji mosaic. This works best with images without small details. Emoji Mosaic copes with cats, dogs and other animals perfectly. Pictures missed through the service are interesting to study: it turned out that “Monu Lisa” can be drawn using Emoji door and 💩. A couple of our examples But how this photo looks with an increase. Masha Sharapa

In the new teaser for Aladdin, Will Smith was shown as a Genie living in a magic lamp. In the film adaptation, as in the classic Disney cartoon, the Genie can change his appearance at will. In this case, he usually appears as a blue spirit (as in the teaser). Due to the abundance of computer special effects, Smith in the video looks too unnatural. Therefore, his character began to be compared with other heroes of blue and green colors (yes, he reminded many of Shrek!).

The press service of the Federation Council Quote “Today [after the arrest of Rauf Arashukov ] there are no senators with a dubious past or present in the Federation Council, I can declare this responsibly,” said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. Fact The Federation Council has people whose past is in doubt. For example, Senator from Chechnya Suleiman Geremeyev.

A resident of the New Earth - about the invasion of white bears Maksimilian / Shutterstock.com On the territory of the archipelago, the New Land due to the invasion of white bears from February 9 has an emergency regime. A 52 bear was seen near the village of Belushi Lip, some of them behaved aggressively, penetrated into residential and office premises. According to local residents, bears are attracted by landfills and street trashs in which they are looking for food.

On February 9, in Vladimir, traffic police officers blocked traffic on the M7 Volga highway to detain an alleged violator who did not stop at the request of the inspector and drove through a red traffic light. The officers stopped several cars and lined them up across the road as a “human shield” (right with the drivers), hoping that this would stop the offender. But he drove through anyway, simultaneously hitting one of the cars blocking the road. After a chase, the offender was detained. No.

Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus Cabinet in the Stolbtsovskoy school No. 2, where the attack occurred, February 11, 2019 A 10th grade student in Belarus attacked a teacher and peers with a knife. This happened at school No. 2 of the city of Stolbtsev (Minsk region). Before the first lesson, a 15-year-old teenager hit a 50-year-old history teacher Marina Parkhimovich. Two classmates of the attacker tried to protect her, but he also wounded them.

In Estonia, the court sentenced citizens of the country, 38-year-old Denis Metsavas and his 65-year-old father Petr Volin, to imprisonment for spying for Russia. Metsavas received 15 and a half years in prison, Volin - six years. As established by the investigation and the court, Metsavas passed secret information to the Russian GRU for 10 years, his father got involved in criminal activities five years ago.

Zelfira Tregulova, general director of the Tretyakov Gallery, has been reprimanded for stealing a painting by artist Arkhip Kuindzhi. According to experts, RBC quotes a message from the Ministry of Culture, the theft occurred "as a result of the uncoordinated actions of the museum's structural divisions." The Ministry of Culture recommends that disciplinary sanctions be applied to some museum employees, for example, to dismiss the head of the security service.

Three years in the life and transition of a Russian trans man Stanislav Dolzhnitsky Yan in the city of Berezniki, Perm Krai. December 2017 Yan is a video producer from Berezniki, a mid-sized city in Russia’s Perm Krai (he asked that his surname be omitted from this piece). Although he was assigned female at birth and given the name Yana, Yan knew from the time he was a young child that he identified as male.

Russian artists from the MXD art project make unusual collages about life in Russia. In their works, the heroes of the American animated series "Hey Arnold!" Armavir falls on the streets of Armavir , and the police use swords and crossbows during detention. On February 10, MXD published a new selection of collages with converted names of Russian chain stores. For example, the “tape” turned into “decay”, and “magnet” - into “well, you are not a tycoon”.