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.

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.

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 .

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.

At the Olympic competitions of snowboarders in a parallel giant slalom among men and women, the medals were won by two owners of the highway - spouses Alena Zavarzina and Vick Wilde . Wilde made his way to the final, where he excited in the fight against Swiss Nevin Galmarini. Slovenian Jacques Koshir became the third. Vick won the first Olympic gold in the history of Russia in snowboarding and threw the sixth award of the highest sample in the piggy bank of the games.

The Ostankino court of Moscow launched a lawsuit of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights against Operators of Communications with the requirement to resume the broadcasting of the Rain television channel, which began a black strip after a ill -fated survey of the blockade of Leningrad. At the same time, in the Savelovsky court of the capital, where OZPP applied a similar requirement, in March of this year, pre -trial training in the case will be held.

A number of people's deputies from the Party of Regions of Ukraine turned to the world community calling for a corresponding assessment of the pressure on the "regionals" and their families from their families by radical protesters, Interfax reports. "We are calling for you to defend democracy, free expression of will and the right to unite in political parties. The need for such protection is dictated by emergency intensification in Ukraine of neo -Nazi right -wing forces.

Hockey players of the Finnish national team did not set themselves the goal of ruining Russia's home Olympiad, on behalf of the Suomi team, the striker Yuhamatti Aalonen after the defeat of the ice squad Zinetula Bilyaletdinov in the quarterfinal game match-2014 with a score of 1: 3. The captain of the team Theema Selanne joined improvised apologies.

The police of the Kaliningrad region detained the master in eastern martial arts and his accomplice, who are suspected of pedophilia. Attackers for more than ten years have gone to the children who went to the karate section. Pedophiles also made pornographic products, which then fell into the network. The investigation began in 2013, when photographs of the Office of Management Code were found in the hands of the scenes of depraved actions against boys.

In Ukraine, instead of opposition barricades, the authorities are erecting reinforced concrete slabs: for example, on Grushevsky Street in Kiev at 13 o’clock in local time the bar was laid out a crane, reports Ukrainian Pravda , publishing a photo. The picture shows that the wall was laid out so that there is a narrow passage for one car. Earlier, the authorities have already tried to protect with reinforced concrete blocks, Institutskaya Street on the corner with silk.

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.

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 .