The resonant story with the Murmansk military servicemen, who were threatened with sending to the east of Ukraine, was continued. The military serving under a contract in the military unit N10544 in the Murmansk region assured that the words of their commanders about a possible "business trip" on the Donbass were incorrectly understood, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) Sergei Krivenko told "rain .

Russian architects, restorers, art historians and specialists in the field of cultural heritage protection addressed the chairman of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev with a letter to restore the Building of the Russian RAS in accordance with the initial project of the Architect Yakov Belopolsky, the architects said in an open letter of architects.

The famous Eclipse yacht Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, who is considered one of the largest ships of his class and has repeatedly surprised the inhabitants of the port cities, possibly broke. Journalists found that the ship is located in the port of Hamburg, in the dry dock of the German shipbuilding company Blohm & Voss. It was this company who built a ship five years ago. The Daily Mail tabloid reports that the work is carried out at various levels of the ship.

The Preobrazhensky court of Moscow terminated the criminal prosecution of the famous lawyer Murad Musaev in the case of pressure on the court in the process of investigating the death of Colonel Budanov, Interfax reports. "According to the results of preliminary hearings, production against Musaev was discontinued behind the expiration of the statute of limitations," the report said.

“Here are some interesting observations - in connection with Kobzon’s ban on entry into the European Union. Firstly, the reaction of Kobzon himself is undisguised resentment, with tears in his eyes. How can I not? But everyone like Troitsky, Makarevich or Vasya Pupkin from Penza can?! And purely reflexively - no, let’s also ban all of them who disagree with the war and the official party line from leaving as a form of punishment. Punishment by the Motherland is, of course, cool.

The head of the Ministry of Labor, Maxim Topilin, after a meeting on social issues with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, said that there are no grounds for additional indexation of Russian pensions this year. At the same time, he, however, assured that everything related to the reform of the pension system would not do without consultations with trade unions and employers. "In 2015, indexation was carried out at the level of inflation.

The head of the Main Directorate for ensuring the safety of traffic (OBDD) of the State traffic inspectorate (traffic police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Viktor Nilov negatively refers to the initiative of the Moscow authorities to administer a number of violations of the Road Rules, but advocates the department of the department of issuing a license plate. “A lot of disputes about the transfer of powers.

The branch of the British HSBC Bank in Geneva conducted searches and an investigation was launched upon laundering of money, the prosecutor’s office of Canton Geneva said. "The Canton's prosecutor’s office announced that in connection with the recent public revelations related to the activities of the Swiss branch of the HSBC, the criminal process was initiated against the bank," the British television radio corporation of the Air Force reported.

The Japanese prosecutor’s office opened criminal cases against two Russian citizens who were taken into custody on charges of inducing almost three dozen kilograms of narcotic substances into the country. Criminal punishment threatens the 31-year-old sailor of the dry carrier to Roman Andryushchenko and the 26-year-old businessman Sergei Titov. According to the police, the accomplice of the Russians was an unemployed 54-year-old Japanese Hiroshi Suzuki.

On March 1, amendments to the Land Code (LC) come into force, according to which it will become easier for entrepreneurs to rent municipal land from the city, and the management of plots of adjacent territories will move to the level of local governments. Social activists point out that for now, the adjacent territories are managed by law by the residents of the houses, and the amendments will free up the hands of spot developers and organizers of paid parking lots.

Participants of the Russian Pussy Riot group, who received two years in colonies for the performance of a punk-spring in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, shot a clip for the song "I canb Breathe" dedicated to police arbitrariness. The premiere of the video took place on February 18. Pussy Riot first performed a song in English and for the first time did not devote it to Russian politics.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation decided to amend the procedure for organizing training in schools. For this, the department has prepared a draft order according to which, in particular, the time allotted to schoolchildren to do homework will be clearly set, Russian Newspaper reports. The text of the document is published on a single portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

The judicial department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation posted on the court website information on the opening of more than 40 vacancies of managers and specialists in the central apparatus and regional departments. Recently, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a change in the structure of the Judicial Department in the framework of the general reform of the Armed Forces, reports Right.ru .

On the side of the Donetsk separatists, who took control of the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, "militants of Chechen nationality" are fighting, the Ukrainian MVD claims. The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Donetsk region Vyacheslav Abroskin said that during the exit from Debaltseve, some “bandits” attacked law enforcement officers who shouted “Allah Akbar” during the attack. Abroskin identified them as Chechens.

The record number of hungry and sick cubs of sea lions wanders along the coast of Southern California, flooding rescue centers and forcing experts to talk about one of the worst situations in their memory, Buzzfeed News reports. Experts say that this year everything is worse than in 2013, a record for the number of sea lions who died from hunger. According to them, this time the number of mammals that have taken to the shore.