The United States is the main energy ally of Europe, so the EU should think about gas supplies through the Atlantic, said European Commissioner Miguel Arias Caneon during the discussion of the American-European Treasury and Investment Agreement (TTIP) in the Atlantic Council in Washington. This was reported on Wednesday by the Prime Agency with reference to the press service of the European Commission, which officially distributed in Brussels the text of the performance of Kanyet.

The leader of the Russian AvtoVAZ car market, which was the first to report on the results of January, reduced sales by 26%. The market believes that the decline may be associated with the exciting December demand that devastated the drainage of dealers and the consumer wallets, and the fact that until January 18 AvtoVAZ did not work due to corporate leave. Experts believe that empty drains will affect other manufacturers, Kommersant writes.

After the publication of a terrifying video, demonstrating how the Jordanian pilot Muaz al-Qasassby, locked in a cage, was set on fire, it became more clearly the opinion that the militants of the “Islamic state” until a certain moment only create the illusion that the hostages are still alive and they are ready to negotiate their release.

In connection with the drop in oil prices and the weakening of the national currency in Venezuela, a curious incident arose - a shortage of condoms. A pack of Kondomov from 36 pieces in a Latin American country now costs $ 750, and out of three - 62 dollars, Bloomberg reports. In Russia, according to analysts, the situation is somewhat better .

In February, Rosneft will sell about 500 thousand tons of Urals oil by the Swiss trader Trafigura. These are three times more volumes provided for by the contract, reports Reuters. According to the current five-year agreement with Trafigura, concluded in mid-2013, Rosneft should sell a trader to 150-200 thousand tons per month. By increasing deliveries, Rosneft attracts money to pay off creditors.

At the Spanish Nuclear power plant "Vandelos II", located in the city of the same name near the Call de Balager, on February 4, the supply of electricity was suddenly stopped, which led to the automatic stop of the reactor, reports Europapress . The power outage at the Vandelos II nuclear power plant occurred at 15:00 local time. "All security systems have worked as usual and the reactor is not disconnected," according to the official website of the power plant.

Claude Claude Monet "Grand Canal in Venice" (Le Grand Canal, 1908), was sold at the British auction Sotheby's for 23.7 million pounds ($ 35.9 million), not reaching the limit of evaluative value. The picture was the most expensive lot of Bonhams and Sotheby's auction houses in British auction houses on Tuesday evening by trading works of impressionists and surrealists, TASS reports.

Famous writers and translators - Alexei Varlamov, Linor Goralik, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Vladimir Sharov - will present Russian literature at the Jerusalem International Book Fair, which will be held from February 8 to 12 at the First Station Cultural and entertainment center at the old Jerusalem Station, TASS reports with reference to "Rospinating". "More than 600 print publications of leading Russian publishing houses will be presented at the fair.

Finland police are investigating a group rape committed last Saturday aboard the Viking Line passenger vessel, which is following from Stockholm to Turku. According to preliminary data, eight people participated in the cabin in the cabin in the cabin, writes The Local . Five suspects were detained at the final point of the flight - to Turku, and another tried to hide in the Aland Islands, but was also caught. The other suspects were seized in Stockholm by the Swedish guardians of the law.

The State Duma has been submitted to the State Duma according to which certain categories of Russians will be allowed to privatize housing for free after March 1 of this year, and to the poor - to abandon the previously made privatization and transfer apartments to the state property, writes the Rossiyskaya Gazeta .

There will be no more abnormal weather in the metropolitan region: meteorologists are of this opinion, who predict the Cold February Muscovites after an unusually warm January with rains and thunderstorms . This month, the temperature will be about normal or slightly lower, said Roman Wilfand, director of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation.

As a result of a collision of a minibus with a KAMAZ truck transporting grain, 11 people were killed in the Belgorod region, five more were injured. “At about seven in the morning in the village of Sovetskoye Alekseevsky District of the Belgorod Region, a minibus driver with Ukrainian registration numbers, in which there were 14 passengers, allegedly residents of Ukraine, for the so far the reason went into the oncoming lane,” TASS said in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The poet’s persecution - the future laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature - became the theme of the new performance “The Court of Brodsky”, whose premiere will be held on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, in the literary and memorial museum of Fedor Dostoevsky, reports TASS. The project was jointly implemented by young creative forces of the Open Scene in St. Petersburg and the Baat theater partnership.

On Wednesday, February 5, a bill was introduced to the State Duma, which provides for the cancellation of parole (UDO) for persons who committed a crime against the sexual integrity of minors. According to the developers, the peppers often are often released by parole, and then again attacked children. Also, the Senators initiative suggests for this category of convicts to introduce a ban on replacing an unsent part of the term with a milder type of punishment.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified the agreement with Lithuania and Poland on the creation of a joint military brigade. The corresponding bill was supported by 290 parliamentarians, reports Newsru.ua . The site of the Rada says that, according to the contract, "the parties create a joint Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian military unit of the brigade level (hereinafter-the brigade)." The relevant agreements were concluded in September last year.