A week before the presidential election in Russia, their most likely winner Vladimir Putin alarmed the West by his speech at a rally of supporters in Moscow ( video ).

At a meeting of the Presidium of the Government on February 22, Vladimir Putin persistently questioned the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov on bank loan and inflation rates. “Why do commercial banks raise bets? Here they met in the regions, complain that the branches and Sberbank and VTB increase the bets according to the new credit agreements,” he said. “Work with them and find out what is happening. And they all squeak that inflation, inflation is difficult for them?

Vladimir Varfolomeev "On January 29, Janusz Klosinski took to the stage of the National Theater in Warsaw. The play "The Wedding" based on one of the most famous plays by the classic of Polish drama Stanislaw Wyspiański did not promise any surprises. The historical drama, however, played out that evening not only on stage, but also in the audience hall and behind the scenes.

Two-time Olympic champion in the sixth jump Elena Isinbaeva won the XL-Galan international competitions in Stockholm, breaking her own world record for closed rooms. The Russian woman submitted a height of 5 meters 1 centimeter. Elena began with a height of 4.72, which she overcame on the second attempt. At this line, only two of her rivals continued the struggle - Kubinka Yarisley Silva and British Holly Blisdale, and the latter managed to go around Isinbaeva, spending only one jump.

All the most significant debuts of Russian cinema over the past year, as well as several films from the programs of Locarnano, Venice, Cannes and other festivals of the world, will be shown at the Flame Spirit film festival, which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from February 24 to March 1, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia considers the accusations to be incorrectly and unproven, brought to it by Georgia in a complaint to the Strasbourg Court, in the fact that Russian military personnel during the conflict in South Ossetia allegedly violated human rights and freedoms, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin said on Friday.

The Dutch prince Johan Friso, who fell under an avalanche in Austria and fell into a coma a week ago, may never come into consciousness, BBC reports with reference to Austrian doctors. The 42-year-old man stayed without oxygen for too long, as a result, his brain received severe damage. Recall that Friso fell under the snow avalanche in the mountains in the west of Austria.

The conflict between Moscow and Kyiv on the gas issue has aggravated. The first attack was made by the representative of Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov, who said that Ukraine will have a “zero value” for the export of Russian gas, when two gas pipelines - Northern Stream and South Stream will be fully earned, allowing Russian gas to bypass the territory of Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov said in response that the threats of the Ukrainian side were not terrible.

In the village of Eenotaevka, the Astrakhan region, on Thursday night there was a mass fight with the participation of 10 people. As a result, one of them died, the rest were injured in varying severity, Interfax was told in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the region. The brawl broke out in the rural cafe "Sapphire".

In Switzerland, at the age of 77, the American opera singer and translator Dmitry Nabokov, the only son of the classic of Russian literature Vladimir Nabokov, died. This was reported by the Netherlands newspaper NRC Handelsblad . This information, as ITAR-TASS reports, was confirmed by phone by a long-term friend and colleague Dmitry Nabokova, a famous Italian writer Serena Vital. According to her, the death of Nabokov occurred at about 3 a.m. on February 23 in one of the Swiss clinics.

Capital police are looking for armed criminals who attacked carriers of money. Both collectors are hospitalized with gunshot wounds. The robbery was committed on Friday at 9:30 near the house number 7a on Golyanovskaya Street. Attackers awaited the collectors at the exit from the office of the estimated non -bank credit organization "Settlement Center" Energomobus ", Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement.

The outgoing President of Yemen Ali Abdallah Salekh, who was treated in the United States, left the country, but where he went, is unknown, Interfax reports with reference to the Yemeni official in Washington. Salekh has been treating in the United States since January. He repeatedly declared his intention to return to Yemen only as a party leader.

The rarest Hispano-Suiza Type Alfonso XIII car, dated to 1913 and named after the Spanish king, is put up for bidding. This is one of the few cars in the world named the monarch, as well as one of the rarest cars on Earth, because only four unique instances of Type Alfonso XIII were created, RBC Style reports.

Russia is ready, if necessary, to adjust its position on increasing the capital of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said on Friday. “We will consult with our colleagues, discuss their positions, we are talking about $ 600 billion, and if necessary, we will adjust our position based on the positions of other countries,” RIA Novosti quoted Siluanova.

Two pupils of a boarding school in the Leningrad Region were taken to the hospital in a coma. According to doctors, they consumed smoking mixtures, the Interfax regional TFR reported on Friday, specifying that the emergency occurred on February 22.