The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, represented by the National Bank of Dagestan, filed a lawsuit in the Arbitration Court of the Republic on Bankruptcy Imbank, Interfax reports. The application was submitted on February 7. The date of the preliminary court session will become known later. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation withdrew the license at Imbank on January 20. In the Dagestan bank, a major lack of cash was found.

The creators of Hollywood films use a special technique that allows actresses to look much thinner and higher on the screen than in life. This technique, called "Digital Surgery", is a cinematic analogue of the Photoshop program and was used in a number of paintings and television shows, reports Newsru Israel with reference to The Daily Mail .

The Federal Antimonopoly Service received a complaint against the creators and distributors of the movie "VII", in which activists of the public project "Sober Russia" accuse them of using hidden advertising of alcoholic beverages in the film, the Prime agency was told in the department. The painting "Wii 3D", created by director Oleg Stepchenko based on the famous story of Nikolai Gogol, headed the Russian rental.

The referendum in Switzerland, following which citizens of the country supported the tightening of the confederation immigration policy, can ruin relations with the European Union. According to the official representative of the European Commission of PII Hansen, now it all depends on the Swiss authorities and the steps they took. The European press is pessimistic: the results of the return of quotas for immigrants can be deplorable for relations between Brussels and Bern.

On Monday, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court announced the sentence to a 22-year-old man who committed a brutal double murder in the house of his mentor. The teacher sheltered his mature student, but he arranged a stabbing for a reproach of drunkenness. Together with the teacher, his young cohabitant also died. By court decision, the killer S.P. Chernykh will spend 18 years behind bars.

“But meanwhile, it is precisely in these seemingly calm days and hours that a lot, if not everything, is being decided.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation resumed the proceedings in the final criminal case of the former director of the Department of Planning and Coordination of the Material and Technical Support of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Sergei Zhirov. The reason for this was the testimony of one of the defendants in the case for a witness, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

“This will happen quite soon, in a couple of weeks. Will the country renew itself? Will it unite? Will citizens have any additional reasons for pride? Will new cultural codes emerge? Will your spiritual bonds become stronger? All this would not matter - the holiday passed, and it was great - if these Games were not accompanied by some kind of inhuman pomp.

The Pope Francis blessed the publication of the decree recognizing the fact of the martyrdom of the Korean Pavel Ji-Chung and 123 people who suffered with him in 1791. As noted in the decree, these Korean Catholics were killed because of the "hatred of faith." The glorification of Korean martyrs is of particular importance in the context of the upcoming Pope’s visit to South Korea, planned for August this year.

Prostitutes and drug dealers will add about 16 billion dollars (10 billion pounds) to GDP of Great Britain, the British newspaper The Times writes on Monday. The fact is that the European Union insists that when determining the size of its GDP, the EU country should take into account the shadow economy. This is necessary that statistics on the size of the economy of the countries of the EU members correspond to each other.

The Gatchina City Court of the Leningrad Region, at the request of the investigation, arrested the head of the Department of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Policy of the Government of the region Hermann Tereshkin, suspected of fraud with municipal lands, the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Region. During the interrogation, Tereshkin, the former head of the administration of the Vyritsky city settlement, refused to testify.

SquareTrade, a company specializing in the repair and protection of computers and mobile devices, has studied the strength of popular gadgets, reports the website 3Dnews.ru . Experts evaluated the design of the devices in terms of durability and conducted several tests during which the devices were dropped to the ground and exposed to moisture.

The court in Istanbul authorized the arrest of a citizen of Ukraine Artem Kozlov, who was trying to hide the plane in order to fly to the Olympic Games in Sochi, Anadolu Turkish Agency reports. The 45-year-old Ukrainian at the time of the incident on board the liner flying from Kharkov to Istanbul was clearly drunk. He tried to get into the cockpit, misleading the flight attendants with statements that he had a bomb, the message says.

In Moscow, a policeman shot down a woman at a pedestrian crossing. The victim is hospitalized. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

US Ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFol hopes for a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the diplomat leaves his post at the end of February and returned to his homeland. McFol said this from Sochi in an interview with CNN . “I hope to see Putin before my departure from Russia and thank him,” said the diplomat. “I spent a fantastic time as an ambassador of the United States.