The Russian Ministry of Emergencies summed up preliminary results of fire safety inspections in entertainment institutions launched in December 2009 after a fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse". In just two months, more than 17 thousand clubs and discos were checked throughout Russia and 116 thousand violations of fire safety requirements were identified.

Russia and the United States began a new “reboot”-this time in the field of counteracting drug trafficking, said the head of the Federal Drug Control (FSKN) service, Viktor Ivanov, based on the results of a meeting of the Russian-American anti-drug workers' group, created as part of the Presidential Commission of the Medvedev-Obama. He said that Russia was ready to send its drug police to Afghanistan to combat a narcotic threat.

In Russia, cases of the use of the so -called punitive psychiatry in orphanages continue to be recorded. Another such incident occurred in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the press service of the organization Civil Commission on Human Rights reports. Last year, such news from the orphanage in the Tula region caused a loud scandal . In early November 2009, a pupil of the orphanage No. 1 of the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur called the Civil Commission on Human Rights.

The British tabloid The Sun claims that the Club of the English Football Premier League Club caught on a public house is the Israeli Coach of Portusmut Abraham Grant, who previously headed the London Chelsea and the Israeli national team.

The Don federal highway will become tolled along its entire length this year. Governor of the Voronezh region Alexey Gordeev told reporters about this on Thursday, ITAR-TASS reports. As he explained, the transition to a toll regime was caused by the need for accelerated reconstruction of this road connecting Moscow and the central regions of Russia with the North Caucasus and the Black Sea coast.

The head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan Hilarion, recalled that the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) allows the possibility of mixed marriages between Christians of different faiths.

The Law "On the Fundamentals of State Regulation and Development of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation", which entered into force on February 1, gives an advantage to foreign players working mainly in large formats, said the main owner and general director of Magnit OJSC, one of the largest Russian retailers, Sergey Galitsky. "They will decide abroad where, on which shelf the goods of domestic manufacturers will stand," Galitsky said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper.

Romania agrees to place on its territory a missiles-interceptors provided for by the new US missile defense system (PRO) of the United States. The president of this country Trajan Basescu made such a statement on February 4, AFP reports. "US President Barack Obama officially invited Romania to participate in the pro system," Basescu told after a meeting of the High Council for National Defense.

Yulia Tymoshenko is ready to bring her people to the streets and arrange a new "Maidan" if the second round of the presidential election passes, in her opinion, dishonest. “We will raise people,” said the current Prime Minister and presidential candidate at a press conference in Kiev, Interfax reports. At the same time, Tymoshenko did not specify what the gap between the candidates in the second round of the elections should be so that both of them recognize the results.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday terminated the production of VTB for the recovery of 2.7 billion rubles of loan debt from the PIC Group of Companies. The court accepted VTB's refusal from the lawsuit. The meeting noted that on December 30 last year, the defendant repaid the main debt and part of the percent, writes Interfax .

The human rights center of the World Russian People’s Cathedral expressed indignation on the continuing shares of vandalism in relation to the worships established in the territory of Adygea and the reaction of local nationalist organizations to them.

Last year, Russian spamers earned 3.7 billion rubles last year, and the economy lost 14.1 billion rubles because of them. Such data, as the Vedomosti newspaper writes, are contained in the report of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC).

All 10 riot police, whose names are indicated in Monday published on Monday in The New Times in the scandalous article "Racon slaves" , said they did not participate in its writing. “I have statements signed by all ten acting and former OMON employees, where they declare their lack of involvement in this material,” said the commander of the Moscow Office of Moscow, Vyacheslav Haustov at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA won a second victory in a row in the top 16 of the Euroleague, defeating the Kaunas "Zhalgiris" on his parquet with a score of 83:68 (17:26, 18:19, 22:11, 26:12). The army team managed to turn off the course of an unsuccessful match and forced to surrender the principal opponent. Giveled "-15" in the middle of the second quarter, the rest of the meeting champions of Russia won with a difference of 30 points.

In the Samara region, a criminal case has been instituted on the death of a resident of Chapaevsk after getting into a medical unit. As reported on Thursday in the National Council of the Russian Federation, the criminal case was instituted under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, which entailed by negligence the death of the victim." Traces of violence were discovered on the body of the deceased.