Amazon founder Jeff Bezos created the Bezos Earth Fund. The businessman announced this on Instagram. At the initial stage, Bezos will invest $10 billion in the fund - about 8% of his current wealth. The money will be used for projects to combat climate change. “The earth is what unites us all - let’s protect it together,” the billionaire wrote. Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Forbes magazine estimates his fortune at almost $130 billion.

Chairman of the "A Just Russia" party Sergei Mironov sent appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Supreme Court regarding the "Network" case . This was reported on the party's website. According to Mironov, the defendants in the case said that confessions were extracted from them under torture, but law enforcement agencies did not conduct a serious investigation of these statements, and the court did not demand additional evidence of guilt.

On February 15, the passenger aircraft of the Etihad Airways airline, which performed a flight from Abu Dhabi to London, landed at Khitrovo Airport during Hurricane Dennis. The aircraft planting video was published on the UTUB channel SpeedbirdTV. Speedbirdv Storm Dennis London Great Flying- Turbulent Weather- Great Pilots The video shows how, with a strong wind, the plane for a few seconds seems to freeze over the runway and landing at an angle.

The prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region officially apologized to military pensioner Sergei Zaruba, who was suspected of illegally receiving a pension supplement in the amount of 1,500 rubles. Zaruba told Novaya Gazeta about this. “On behalf of the state, I offer you an official apology in connection with the unreasonable criminal prosecution, the choice of a measure of procedural coercion in the form of an obligation to appear,” the letter from the prosecutor says.

An internist at a polyclinic in the village of Nyrob (Perm Territory) refused to admit an HIV-positive patient and disclosed his diagnosis to others. This was reported by the Perm edition 59.ru with reference to Anna Kargapoltseva, a member of the local Public Monitoring Commission on the Rights of Convicts. The patient is a man with a diagnosis of HIV, recently released from a colony-settlement. He is taking antiretroviral therapy, his medication will run out in two weeks.

Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) has recalculated the country’s industrial production index, updating its base year from 2010 to 2018, and found that the economy’s share of oil and gas production rose from 34.3 percent to 38.9 percent in the overall structure of value added, according to the website RBC . What's IPI? The industrial production index is an economic indicator that measures real production output of manufacturing, mining, and utilities.

Aeroflot Airlines has announced a reduction in flights to China due to lower demand. Information about this is available on the carrier's website. From February 18 to March 28, Aeroflot will cancel one of two daily flights to Beijing and Shanghai, and will also reduce the number of flights to Guangzhou. From 1 to 28 March, the number of flights to Hong Kong will also be reduced.

Samsung Electronics Corporation is ready to comply with the law on the pre-installation of Russian software. This was announced to TASS in the press service of the Russian office of Samsung. “Samsung Electronics will be ready to comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation provided by the regulator, and adapt the company's activities in accordance with the adopted resolutions,” Samsung said.

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Rosstat presented the calculation of the industrial production index based on a new base year - 2018. Previously, 2010 was used as the base year, RBC reports. Recalculation from 2010 to the 2018 base year showed that the share of oil and gas production increased from 34.3% to 38.9% in the overall structure of added value, the publication writes. The share of other types of activity, especially manufacturing, decreased from 53.2% to 50.7%.

Alla Ilyina, a resident of St. Petersburg, who arbitrarily left the hospital, where she was put in case of coronavirus, faces an administrative fine. Ilyina, Interfax reports with reference to the United press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, part 1 of Article 19.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation is charged with a non-compliance with the legal order of the official carrying out state supervision.

Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On February 14, candidate for Paris mayor Benjamen Grivo withdrew from the elections after publishing an intimate video with his participation. The Russian actor artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who is now living in France, said that he had posted a video in protest against the hypocrisy of politician. Pavlensky and his girlfriend are detained, they face up to two years in prison.

Krasnodar resident Dmitry Baksheev, sentenced to 12 years in prison in the so-called Krasnodar cannibal case, died in a prison hospital in Rostov-on-Don, Interfax reports, citing public defender Yulia Fedotova. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated, Fedotova added. Dmitry Baksheev was found guilty of murdering his friend Elena Vakhrusheva, with whom his wife Natalya had quarreled due to jealousy. He dismembered the body and took a photo with its fragments.

The State Council working group, led by Tula Region Governor Alexey Dyumin, has proposed partial decriminalization of legislation on economic crimes. This was reported by RBC, citing the draft instructions of the president to the Russian government. The document proposes to exclude Article 145.1 from the Criminal Code (non-payment of wages, which provides for up to five years of imprisonment) and replace imprisonment for economic crimes with fines.

Representatives of the Russian artistic community published a statement in connection with the Network case. The authors of the appeal, in particular, condemned “the practice of torture that emerged during this trial.” "Power! These tortures of Network figures and other suspects, these trials fabricated by the security forces deprive you of your legitimacy. You become an accomplice in crime. Before it’s too late, stop the presumptuous nonhumans!” - the statement says.