The photograph of Prince Harry, smiling near the great buffalo shot by him on the hunt, caused violent discussions against the backdrop of his statements of a week ago, when the young representative of the British royal family promised to do everything possible to save Africa wild animals, and reports the Daily Mail . The discussion was affected by the brother of Harry, Prince William, ten days ago shot boar on a hunt in Spain.

Venezuela authorities decided to expel three US Embassy employees from the country, El Universo reports. This was stated by President Nicholas Maduro during a performance on television. The names and positions of the diplomats are not specified, but the head of the country noted that these people allegedly do subversive work. In particular, in the student environment, where, according to the Venezuelan authorities, they penetrate under the pretext of working with student visas.

In Russia, they decide the fate of the MiG-29M/M2 fighters, which Moscow planned to put the Air Force of Syria. The contract for the supply of 12 such fighters was signed back in 2007, but was never executed due to the financial problems of Damascus and the lack of Russia's ability to deliver large-sized military equipment without counteracting the Western countries.

"Where did President Putin get $ 50 billion to the Olympic Games?" - The newspaper The Financial Times asks and offers to look for an answer from Ukraine, Germany and other Gazprom clients paying overpriced gas prices. Russian revenues from gas exports for a long time stimulated Putin’s foreign policy and helped to arrange the most wasteful Olympic spectacle in history, the article says. - The American analogue of Gazprom does not exist.

In Sochi, where the Olympics is now being held, they detained a man for a single picket in defense of the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, sentenced to three years in a colony-settlement for applying the fence of the mansion, which the Green considered the cottage of the Kuban governor Alexander Tkachev. The activist went to the square of the city administration with a poster requiring the freedom of the accused ecologist, Reuters reports.

The co -chair of the Alexander Me, brother of the priest Pavel Men, in an interview with the Orthodox newspaper Eternal Call, said that Soviet special services are behind the murder of his father Alexander. “I have indirect evidence that the KGB did it. At that time there was such an attitude: if some movement begins to develop rapidly, it must be suppressed,” the portal of Interfax-religion quotes Paul's words.

In the Vatican, behind closed doors chaired by the Pope, the Roman Francis, the next, third in a row, a meeting of the Cardinal Council, called the "Big Eight". So, with the light hand of journalists, they began to call a special commission of eight advisers to Pontiff, who instructed them to prepare a large -scale reform of the Roman curia. Before the meeting, the pontiff made, together with eight members of the Council of Mass in the chapel of St.

Men's biathlon race from the mass start at the Sochi Olympics, which was postponed from the evening of the fog, was postponed to Tuesday due to thick fog over the Laura ski-biatel complex. The new time of the start of the race is 14:30 on February 18, the press service of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia reports. Initially, the race was supposed to take place on Sunday evening, but due to the fog, the start time was postponed for an hour.

The Russian women's team in Kerling lost the chances of continuing the struggle for the medals of the Olympic tournament in Sochi, losing to the British team in the final round of the circular stage. The match ended with a score of 9: 6 in favor of the Britons. The Russians waged an equal struggle to the eighth End, in which four stones lost at once. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

Several hundred people holding high posts in the power structures of North Korea can be involved in crimes against humanity. It is possible that among them is the leader of the country Kim Jong -un. This was announced on February 17 at a press conference in Geneva was stated by the compilers of the UN report on problems with human rights in the DPRK, reports Reuters.

Dozens of Russian higher educational institutions changed the list of entrance exams, although the Ministry of Education and Science assured that this would not happen. Lists of entrance tests are published on the sites of educational institutions on February 15. Many universities, before the official explanations of the ministry decided not to publish information about the receipt, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, convicted of the United States for 20 years in prison for trying to smuggle drugs, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request for help in resolving the issue of transferring him to his homeland. It is reported by ITAR -TASS with reference to his lawyer - Alexei Tarasov. "I am very sought to turn to the American side and personally US President Barack Obama with a request for my speedy transfer to my homeland.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs returned to the long -standing idea to oblige pedestrians in the dark to have reflective elements on their clothes, which will allow motorists to notice them in more than 100 meters.

The best British film by the British Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (BAFTA) was recognized by the thriller "Gravity" (Gravity). Most of this tape starred at the English studios Pinewood and Shepperton, which is why it is considered British specialists, ITAR-TASS explains. At the same time, the best film of the year is the historical drama "12 years of slavery".

In Bashkiria, the arrest of the 26-year-old resident of Ufa Ilya Klimov, who is considered the culprit of the road accident, entailing the death of a family member of senior officials Marina Poltavets, was extended for two months. The deceased woman held the post of judge of the Arbitration Court of Bashkiria. During the investigation, another criminal episode “surfaced” - Ilya Klimov buried the girl alive, who rejected his harassment.