Near the Ostankino television center on Akademika Korolev Street, a man who may have an explosive device is detained. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in law enforcement agencies of the capital. The man was detained at about 18:00 near the building of the television center. A suspicious subject was found in a man in a bag, a dog handler with a dog specially trained in search of explosives was called to the scene.

Vereshchaginsky District Court of the Perm Territory decided to close the criminal case of the director of one of the local schools Alexander Ponosov, who was accused of using unlicensed software. It was decided not to elect preventive measures against Ponosov. Ponosov said that he was not in principle not satisfied with the verdict and intends to appeal him.

The injury forced Anastasia Myskin to refuse to participate in tennis tournaments in Doha and Indian-Wells. According to the Katar newspaper Gulf Times, the Russian tennis player is forced to withdraw from the upcoming tournament in Doha, where she had become a champion twice before. The reason is the injury of the thumb on the leg.

The Dutch archaeologists found in the necropolis in Sakkara, 20 kilometers south of Cairo, a tomb of a large Egyptian official who lived in the echonaton reign - about 3300 years ago. The High Council on Antiquities of Egypt announced the find. The burial found belongs to the custodian of the press of the pharaoh Ptah AM.

The European Council of Religious Leaders discussed the situation of Muslims in Europe, the place of religion in society and in the field of education, as well as ways to confront terror and pseudo -religious extremism. The meeting of the Council took place on February 12-14 in Birmingham (Great Britain), at the religious and administrative center of the Sikh community.

On Thursday, the 18th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan marks. The head of the Russian General Staff, Army General Yuri Baluevsky, said that more than 200 thousand generals, officers and soldiers who took part in hostilities in Afghanistan were awarded state awards.

In the northwestern part of Africa, on Thursday, the Boeing 737 Air Mauritania (Air Mauritania) with dozens of passengers on board was stolen, Reuters reports with reference to the Mauritan Police. The plane, which performed an internal flight from the capital of the United Naakhot to the airport of the city of Noadib in the north of Mauritania, made an intermediate landing in the city of Dahl in Western Sahara for refueling - the hijackers wanted to fly to France.

The State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency" (ASV) was involved in the corruption scandal. The leading specialist of the DIA Vasily Bedin, who participated in the liquidation of a dozen commercial banks, was detained for extortion, but the investigation has not yet been able to achieve his arrest in court, Kommersant writes.

The military personnel of the Belarusian army switch to wearing socks instead of footcloths and new shoes - Bertsev ( army half -saps ) instead of boots. As reported on Thursday at the Ministry of Defense of Belarus, this is provided for by a new resolution on the allowance of military personnel. They noted that some of the military personnel of the Belarusian army are already provided with new patterns of uniform shoes.

The Moscow City Court postponed the selection of a jury on March 14 in the case of the murder of the editor of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikov at the second consideration of this case today.

The Antige Caricatures Competition began at the Serving Forum "Living Faith" . In such a non-standard way, activists of the Male Conversation movement decided to express their attitude towards the “evoked European liberal machine of the so-called“ gay culture ”, the Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the press service of the service.

The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted for consideration the four claims from CJSC Inteco, owned by Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, to her brother Viktor Baturina and his companies-Inteko-Agro LLC and Inteko-Agro-Service. In one lawsuit, Inteko requires a 100% share in the management company, on which Baturin’s agricultural assets can be located, and in other claims - more than 300 million rubles of debts. Baturin is preparing two more retaliatory lawsuits.

Millie Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan, in order to tighten state control over the activities of missionary organizations, is preparing a new version of the Law "On Freedom of Religion". The current law "On Freedom of Review", adopted in 1992, does not reflect the current realities. "There are legal differences between the realities of the early 90s and the current time," the Interfax agency in Milli Majlis told.

Major of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia died on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic said on Thursday. According to the press service, last Wednesday, the Armenian military personnel, 49-year-old Major of the Armed Forces of Armenia Norayir Pashikyan, was shot dead by the Azerbaijani border in the Noemiberensky section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Interfax reports.

The EU Council as a whole approved proposals for the new energy policy of the European Union. The corresponding decision, according to Interfax, was made at a meeting of the Council on Thursday in Brussels. According to Andris Pibalgs, a member of the European Commission, who oversees energy issues, the meeting demonstrated the trust of the EU countries proposals of the European Commission.