For five days that remained before the presidential elections, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised the Russians the growth of salaries and pensions, and also said that in the near future the threshold of retirement would not be increased. By 2020, the average salary in Russia should grow up to 40 thousand rubles, quotes the statement of the Prime Minister, presidential candidate Vladimir Putin Agency RIA Novosti .

Garry Kasparov "...we must treat the vote on March 4 as an opportunity given to us to finally delegitimize the Putin regime and, accordingly, an opportunity to mobilize a significant number of concerned Russian citizens for mass protests. Therefore, it does not matter who we give our vote to, provided that we are voting against Putin. There is no need to torment yourself with unnecessary doubts - on March 4 we are not participating in real presidential elections.

Another incident with US citizens who have taken adopted children in Russia faces a complete ban on the adoption of Russian babies by Americans. The scandal erupted in St. Petersburg, where last Monday the American father left a stroller with foster twins - a boy and a girl in the guardianship department of one of the city districts, after which he escaped.

In Moscow, in the Petrovsky Hall of the Moscow "President-Hotel", the 11th awarding ceremony of the laureates of the annual international prize "Persons" was held. Its winners are determined by the expert council, which includes politicians, state and public figures, representatives of the business elite of Russia, as well as Russian and foreign media.

Microsoft introduced a preliminary version for public testing - Consumer Preview - Windows 8 operating system, RIA Novosti reports. The presentation took place on Wednesday at the WMC World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. The test version of Windows 8, designed for developers, was presented in September. From that moment, more than 100 thousand changes have been made to the platform. You can download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview distribution from the corporation website at Preview.windows.com .

The biathlon team coach German Klaus Zibert believes that a serious threat hung over this sport in the republic due to the fact that the team did not receive from the German representative office of the Finnish company Lapua cartridges for rifles. At the moment, 300 thousand rounds remain in the warehouse due to the lack of permission of the German authorities to export ammunition to Belarus.

The British prosecutor's office intends to seek from Russia the issuance of a former KGB officer Dmitry Kovtun, who was suspected of involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. This was stated by the ex-officer in an interview with The Financial Times . According to Kovtun, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation informed him of a letter from the Royal Prosecutorial Service of Great Britain, dated February 12, which contains a request for extradition.

Under the rubble of the entrance to the residential building in Astrakhan, destroyed as a result of the explosion of the entrance to Nikolai Ostrovsky Street, house 150, building 1, the body of a man was found, on the conscience of which all responsibility for the tragedy can lie, Interfax reports. The man prone to suicide repeatedly threatened his neighbors that he would commit suicide, and described how he was going to do it - open gas burners and blow up the entrance.

The issue of the issuance of Adam Osmaev , detained in Ukraine on suspicion of preparing an attempt on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will be closed in the near future. Such a statement was made by the head of the CIS anti-terrorism center Andrei Novikov at a press conference in Odintsovo, Interfax reports. “This issue will probably be posed in the framework of two states,” Novikov said.

Anatoly Bershtein “Zhirinovsky once again hopelessly and with impunity was rude and bewitched his Russian voter, unscrupulously counting on his denseness and paranoia. And he always gains millions, which means he knows who he is counting on?

On the afternoon of February 28, the vice-president of Lanta-Tur Voyazh, Svetlana Nikiforova, announced to 50 employees that they are free: the resumption of the company is not possible, they told Vedomosti . There is no official application for the termination of work on the company's website.

At the XVII open animation cinema festival, which opens on Wednesday in Suzdal, they will show especially many animated series and student paintings, but there will be less debut films than last year, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the director of the festival Alexander Gerasimov. The open animation cinema festival, founded in 1996, is considered the only professional review of the entire animation created by Russian and Belarusian directors for the year.

Lawyer Dagir Khasavov plans to create an all -Russian human rights center "Muslim Union", which will be engaged in the institution of Shariah courts in the country. “We will help Muslims create Sharia courts in Moscow and other cities,” the portal Dagir Khasavov said on the eve of Interfax -religion . According to the interlocutor of the portal, Sharia courts will have arbitration status.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia proposed to introduce a residence permit in prisons. In accordance with the law issued for public discussion, prisoners will be registered in places of imprisonment as residents. Convicts who will be sent for forced labor will also receive a residence permit. This should happen within the framework of the reform of the punishment system carried out, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta .

It is increasingly difficult for private banks to compete with state, including the size of remuneration to employees. So, the Junikredit -Bank left two heads of the retail unit - the director of the retail sales department, Julia Melts and the head of the department of the mass segment of retail customers Alexander Altukhova.