The Harley-Davidson brand motorcycle, presented last year by Pope Francis, left the hammer for 241.5 thousand euros. The buyer of the motorcycle wished to stay unknown. It is only reported that he is a European, according to the information of the auction house "Bonhams", which is quoted by the Interfax-religion portal. The proceeds will be transferred to the Catholic charity organization Caritas in Rome, which contains a free dining room and hostel for the homeless.

The local historians and city defenders of the city of Pushkino, Moscow Region, are trying to defend the building of the building of 1877 - the cottage Strukovs, on which writer Konstantin Paustovsky lived and worked from 1928 to 1930. A place under an old house needs a city for building - there is already a project and a public hearing has been appointed. As a compromise, the possibility of transferring a two -story wooden cottage to another place is considered, “New Izvestia” write.

The court of the South African Republic passed a verdict to a world-famous foreign athlete, who was found guilty of a custom-made murder of a young woman. The motive for the reprisal was that the victim’s husband did not want to leave her a young child after the divorce and turned to the services of the killers. Former A athlete Ambrose Monier, who in 1988 played for Nigeria at the Olympic Games in Seoul, will serve a life sentence.

The damage caused by fraudsters during the implementation of the State Control State Control Ships at the Zvezda plant in a large stone exceeded a billion rubles, Ilya Shamratov, deputy chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, said on Thursday during a press conference in Vladivostok. “Seven criminal cases have been instituted on the“ star ”, the amount of damage increased to a billion rubles. In the affairs of more than a thousand volumes.

In the State Duma there are two bills on tightening the rules for the turnover of weapons that have received positive government reviews, Vedomosti reports. One of them - on the strengthening of responsibility for storing weapons, has already passed the first reading in the lower house and will be submitted to the second after discussion at the next meeting of the State Duma Committee on Security and Combating Corruption, said the head of this committee Irina Yarovaya.

The artist, actor and musician Sergei Bugaev-Africa decided to create a museum in St. Petersburg, where the Assa: The Last Generation of the Leningrad Vanguard, the right to which he defended in the city court , said on Wednesday at a press conference. “The issue of property is least of all interested in. I am interested in that all those archives that were combined during the Assa exhibition: the last generation of the Leningrad avant-garde,” we would somehow represent in the form of a museum.

In the Trans -Baikal Territory, on suspicion of abuse of power, the deputy mayor of the city of Chita, the chairman of the Infrastructure of the Administration of the city district "City Chita" Vyacheslav Shulyakovsky, was detained, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation .

BMW declassified the updated version of the X3 crossover, which, in addition to the new appearance and the salon, received a couple of new "diesel engines" under the hood. The official premiere of the new thing is at the Motor Show in Geneva in March. It is also reported that in the United States, sales of the Parnish Start will start this spring, when the updated BMW X3 will appear in Russia is unknown.

The captain of the Russian Olympic team in hockey and the Detroit Red Wings Club Pavel Datsyuk , who is recovering after the knee injury, said that his well -being improves day by day. Forward, who has not reached the ice from the New Year, may take part in the meeting of the NHL regular championship with Florida Panthers on February 7. On Thursday, the Russian participated in the morning training of the team. “I feel better day by day,” Datsyuk quotes ITAR -TASS.

Western representatives continue to visit Ukraine, covered by a political crisis and mass protests. Following the high representative of the European Union, Katherine Ashton, who was negotiating with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday in Kiev, Victoria Nuland, deputy Secretary of State Nuland, arrived on a two -day visit for the second time since the beginning of unrest.

The bailiffs from the metropolitan administration of the FSSP completed the enforcement proceedings, in which a criminal fine of half a million rubles in the Kirovles case was recovered from the opposition Alexei Navalny. "Enforcement proceedings against Alexei Navalny were completed by actual execution. The fine appointed by the court was recovered in full," representatives of the department told Interfax .

Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar brought Russia to the leaders of the Olympic team championship in the games in Sochi, winning a short program of sports couples . They received 83.79 points for rental. The seconds are Canadians Magan Duel and Eric Radford (73.10), the third - Cheng Pen and Hao Zhang from China (71.01). After two types of eight, the owners scored 19 out of 20 possible points.

The court of the Leningrad Region sentenced two participants in the group rape of a minor gymnast who turned out to be students of universities. They did not even deprive them of freedom, although the attackers engaged in boxing caused various injuries to the girl. By decision of the Russian Femis, a 19-year-old student of one of the branches of the Samara university Mikhail Molokov and a 20-year-old student of St.

The Russian Orthodox University (RPU) on the eve of a round table on the topic "in unity or confrontation? Faith and knowledge in modern humanitarian education." It was organized on the initiative of the Historical and Philology Faculty of the Orthodox Institute of St. John the Theologian RPU.

The Russian snowboarder Alexei Sobolev overcame the qualification barrier in the competitions in Slopstail at the 2014 Olympics and entered the semifinals of the tournament. In the best of two attempts, he scored 63.00 points and took 10th place. The best results in the first group were shown by the Norwegian Staale Sandbeh (94.50), Finn Peeta Piyronen (90.75), Canadian Sebastian Toutan (87.25) and Briton Jamie Nicholls (86.75).