In the Moscow City Court, the first hearing was held in the case of an attempt to organize the riots accused of which the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov and his ally, assistant to the State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, Leonid Razvozdaev. During the court session, both defendants categorically did not admit their guilt.

The Moscow authorities no longer want to see the oceanarium on Poklonnaya Gora with offices with a total area of ​​215 thousand square meters. meters. The city hall is ready to allow to build a hotel here, a sports center with a stadium and a rink, Kommersant writes.

The US Armed Forces will begin to equip its ships with laser guns in the summer of 2014. The first sample of this new type of weapon will appear on the landing ship "Ponce", which is currently located in the Persian Gulf. Laser weapons are designed to eliminate drones and high -speed boats, which the US military call "asymmetric threats." In addition to the laser, the American military also plan to experience an electromagnetic cannon on the water.

The Russian team of Russia on Tuesday launched at the home Olympic tournament for the release of the match against the Norway national team. The winner of this confrontation received the right in the quarterfinals to cross the clubs with the Finns, and the loser is forced to abandon the struggle for the medal. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

South trackers from South Korea won the relay at a distance of 3000 meters at the Olympic Games in Sochi. Gold medals won Cho Ha Ri, Kim a Lan, Pak son of Ha and Siming Huh. Silver and bronze went to Canadians and Italians. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics. Schedule and results of competitions Recall that the Russians did not take part in the final distribution of awards. The hostesses won the final "B" and took the final fourth place, since the Chinese women were disqualified in the final "A".

Vice-mayor of Blagoveshchensk Sergey Rybakov, who was convicted of poaching, resigned. The official quit of his own free will. The official reason for his dismissal is the retirement. As follows from the message on the website of the Blagoveshchensk administration, Rybakov left his post on February 13. However, the press release about his dismissal appeared on the portal of the administration only on February 17, and the next day was widely replicated in the media.

The new generation Fiat 500 will be released in 2016. The Autonews website, citing the British publication Autoexpress, reports that the new product will receive fundamental changes compared to its predecessor. The car will become longer and wider than the current version, but will retain the same form factor. The most noticeable change in the cabin is the appearance of a large touchpad. It is expected that her diagonal will be the largest among all her classmates.

The visitor of the website of the answers, Stackexchange asked at first glance a stupid question: why all the cursors in all operating systems are a little “curves”, that is, they have a certain slope, and do not indicate directly - because the vertical location would be most convenient for highlighting the text and other tasks. He is answered by an expert who is well familiar with the history of computer technology.

On Tuesday at the Olympic Games in Sochi, if the weather allows , seven sets of medals will be played. Athletes will reveal the strongest in such species as biathlon, skiing, skate sport, ski biases, freestyle, snowboarding and a short track. In addition, participants in the quarterfinals of the men's hockey tournament will be determined.

The Bank of Russia is evaluating the positive contribution of the Winter Olympiad to Sochi to the country's economy at 0.3% of GDP, according to the prepared Central Bank of the Russian Federation "report on monetary policy." "An event that can have a noticeable impact on the dynamics of economic activity in the first half of 2014 is the holding of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

The famous violinist Vanessa May, playing at the Olympic competitions in skiing under the flag of Thailand, claims that the rights of animals are observed in Sochi and, in particular, do not offend homeless dogs. She told reporters about this after a debut at the Olympic Games, which fell into a giant slalom competition, ITAR-TASS reports. May on Tuesday took 67th place in a giant slalom.

The head of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the director of the South Space Center FSUE, Yevgeny Anisimov, left his post, the Kommersant newspaper approves. In the department, his resignation is explained by personal reasons. According to the sources of the publication, Anisimov did not fit into the team of the new head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Oleg Odapenko. As Kommersant told a high -ranking source in Roscosmos, Anisimov was called from Baikonur to Moscow to Ostapenko on February 15.

The five-level penthouse with an area of ​​1.8 thousand square meters in the elite residential complex "Vienna House" in the center of Moscow will be put up for auction in early spring at a start price of 1 ruble, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company acting as a realtor of the facility.

Sony may present at the end of February at the MWC 2014 congress in Barcelona a continuation of the line of Android tablets - the Xperia Tablet Z2 model, which will have a thickness of only 6.4 mm, the Cnet website reports, citing unofficial data. For comparison, the thickness of the Apple iPad Air tablet, one of the thinnest on the market, is 7.5 mm.

A visitor of the Horhe Peres Museum in American Miami (Florida) defeated the vase of the work of the famous Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei worth $ 1 million, ITAR-TASS reports. The 51-year-old local artist Maximo Camineuro went into the hall, where there were several VAZ, not protected by a window. The man took one of the valuable exhibits from the pedestal, and when the guard asked him to put the vase in place, he refused and, instead, threw it to the floor with all his strength.