In the village of Khrechevitsa, the Novgorod region, balconies in a new house built for veterans of the Great Patriotic War collapsed. The prosecutor's office established that this happened due to the large amount of snow, Interfax reports. The new house was built at the expense of the city budget near the Volkhov River, Komsomolskaya Pravda said, and designed for 18 families. It was commissioned in November last year.

The former first lady of France Karl Bruni Sarkozy became a guest of the Popular Popity Festival of pop songs. The ex-model and singer performed on Wednesday in the evening, February 13, a new composition of her own essay, accompanying her guitar. Bruni, an Italian by birth, a native of Turin, but a naturalized Frenchwoman after many years of life in France was, as always, sweet, charming, modest and laconic.

“In other words, the locals are very good at adopting the norms of behavior from the Russians, although the Russians themselves don’t like it at all. They see themselves in the behavior of migrants - as in a distorting mirror.

After the speech to the College of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Putin decided to set tasks for the FSB college. Special services, as the president noted, should pay special attention to Internet propagandists, but do not build obstacles to business.

The State Labor Inspectorate of Udmurtia could not help a resident of the republic who accepted tonsure in one of the female monasteries in Russia. The nun turned to the department in the hope of receiving a salary for her work for 10 years from the monastery.

In the Kuban, a member of the infamous Kushchevsky organized crime group, exposed and defeated only after the resonant murder of 12 people in 2010 , was released from the colony only two years later. By the decision of the Belorechensky court, convicted Igor Maidanyuk received parole, a representative of the FSIN Office in the Krasnodar Territory told RIA Novosti . Maidanyuk was convicted in the summer of 2011. He "shone" up to 10 years in prison.

The Russian clubs Zenit, Anji and Rubin successfully started in the spring stage of the Playoff League of the European UEFA, having won the formidable opponents in the second most important football European competition. The St. Petersburg team, inspired by the powerful support of its fans , at the Petrovsky stadium scored two unrequited balls into the goal of the English Liverpool, who came to the city on the Neva with its strongest composition.

The French driver probably survived the worst nightmare in his life, when he was in a deadly trap inside his own Renault Laguna III at a speed of 200 km/h with the simultaneously refused brakes, which jammed the gas pedal and stop without any opportunity. The horror film began in reality when 36-year-old Frank Leserf left his house in the town of Pon-de-Metz, which was not far from the northern French city of Amiens, and went shopping at the local supermarket "Auchan".

American Airlines and US Airways will make a merger deal and form the largest airline in the world. The transaction was approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, reports Associated Press. The transaction value is estimated at $ 11 billion. It is reported that the United Company will be called American Airlines, however, the Executive Director of US Airways Dag Parker will lead it.

In the USA - the first state of the world, which created individual cybervysk - established a reward that will be awarded for special merits during the military operations of cyberspace or in managing complex military equipment - combat drones and missiles. Distinguished Warfare Medal ("For the difference in combat operations") will be awarded by soldiers and officers who do not directly participate in "contact" military operations and showed themselves in the service.

While the Russian Foreign Minister has been performed by Africa in complete inaccessibility for his new American colleague John Kerry, from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow officially responded to the idea of ​​further reducing the nuclear arsenals of the Russian Federation and the United States. Judging by the text on the department’s website , the Obama Barack administration was simply besieged.

The first, according to official figures, the interrogation of the former Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik in the Rosagrolysing case ended with her relatively painlessly - the ex -official retained the evidence status and seemed to have provided some evidence of 39 billion rubles to the alleged theft.

Pesennik poet Ilya Revision resigned the powers of the Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with a wide public condemnation of violation of the rules of the road, Interfax reports. "I decided to commit an officer: I wrote a letter to the Minister of the Interior in which I apologized for this absurd case and announced his resignation," Reznik said. According to him, two circumstances brought him to such a decision.

The metropolitan law enforcement officers detained an armed beaten man who is suspected of attacking their colleague. A daring crime was committed in the heart of the capital - on Red Square near the church of Blessed Vasily. The incident occurred on Thursday, at noon, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow.

Three militants were destroyed during the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, security officials report. Presumably, among them there may be an explosion involved in the traffic police departure at the entrance to the city of Khasavyurt, as a result of which four police officers died, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation said.