The Office of the President (UDP) of the Russian Federation planned a large -scale reconstruction of three buildings of the Presidential Administration (AP) on Old Square in Moscow. A project worth 7 billion rubles should be completed by December 2018.

The Armenian Apostolic Church sent a letter to President of Switzerland a letter calling for a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Doga Perinchek, which denies the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, the Blagovet-Info agency reports. Doga Perinchek is the chairman of the Turkish Workers' Party and the co -chair of the Talaat Pasha Committee. In 2008, in Switzerland, he was convicted and fined for the public denial of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

In the Mogochinsky district of the Trans -Baikal Territory, five cars of the cargo composition on Zhanna - Small Kovali came off the rails on Wednesday in the morning. A few hours later, on the Madalalan -Takhtamydias of the Svobodnensky district of the Amur Region, one wheel pair of the locomotive of a cargo train with empty gondola cars got off the rails. In both cases, there are no victims.

The Federation Council on Wednesday ahead of schedule removed the powers from Senator Ruslan Gattarov on his own application in connection with the transition to another job, Interfax reports. Gattarov previously said that he received an offer from the acting governor of the Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky "to work in his team as the vice-governor.

A piece of wall with graffiti "Kissing Coppers" British street artist Banksy, who retains his anonymity, was sold at auction in Miami for 575 thousand dollars at Estimeth $ 500-700 thousand, reports Reuters. Bidding organizers, Auction House Fine Art Actions Miami, do not disclose the name of the new owner of the work. It is only reported that he participated in the auction by phone.

The priesthood of the main Ukrainian churches was calling for the cessation of bloodshed in Kyiv and the country. The manager of the affairs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), Metropolitan Borispolsky and Brovarsky, announced the need to stop violence in the capital of the country and prevent a civil war.

Valery Fedotov “I’ll just talk about pragmatic considerations. That any bloody outcome in Ukraine is extremely dangerous for Russia. And those Russian citizens who call for it are either fools or scoundrels. The fact is that we must understand one thing: Yanukovych, in any case, does not have enough strength to subjugate the entire country.

The Security Service of Ukraine and the Anti -Terrorism Center of Ukraine announced the imminent beginning of the anti -terrorist operation in the country. This is stated in the statement of the head of the SBU Alexander Yakimenko of February 19, which quotes Newsru.ua .

Russian law enforcement officers have stopped the international wanted list of the former Senator from Tuva and one of the founders of the bankrupt Interprombank (MPB) by Sergey Pugachev, who was accused of organizing funds in a particularly large scale.

On Tuesday, French police detained a 48-year-old resident of the village of Latuel in Upper Savoy, who is considered involved in a resonant crime, completely a year and a half ago. Then a family of British tourists and a cyclist was shot in the Alps. According to preliminary information, the detained in his own house, Eric Devaasso used to serve in the police. During the search, a whole arsenal of several weapons was discovered in his home, writes The Local .

In the State Research Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Schuseva on the eve of the exhibition "Under the arches of the Russian Temple" opened. In the exposition located under the powerful arches of the white -stone two -stage chamber of the pharmaceutical order - the exhibition hall of the museum, the works of the Russian church sculpture of the XVII -XIX centuries from museum and private collections are presented.

For the first time, Google has published a short reference guide for Glass smart glasses users to rely on in case of confusion in a variety of situations. From these points, in particular, one can understand what typical problems both the owners of the still exclusive gadget and the people with whom they communicate have already encountered. Glass users, in particular, are asked not to be rude to others and not to read Leo Tolstoy with glasses.

The European Union and the United States condemned the riots in Kiev and threatened the authorities of Ukraine with sanctions. The Americans have already canceled visas to some Ukrainian officials, and Europeans promised to discuss "targeted measures" in the near future. Germany wants to connect Russia to the solution of the problem in Ukraine.

The doctors of the Russian national team did everything possible to bring Olga Zaitseva and Olga Vilukhina to the functional form of biathlonists at the Olympic Games. “At the moment, the composition on the mixed baton as part of the Sochi Olympics remains unchanged: Zaitseva, Vilukhin, Garanichev, Shipulin. Doctors did everything possible so that Olga Zaitseva would start without pain after falling in the mass start,” the official microblog of the SBR informs. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

Representatives of the United Nations are negotiating with the leaders of the Jebhat al-Nusra terrorist group (Victory Front), which is considered the cell of the Al-Qaeda international network in Syria, writes Foreign Policy .