The police of Tajikistan detained a Russian soldier in Dushanbe, who is suspected of attacking a taxi driver. The officer defeated the victim, and then abducted his car and made an accident. Criminal punishment threatens the senior lieutenant of the Ministry of Defense, serving on the 201nd Russian military base (RVB), stationed in Tajikistan, Interfax reports with reference to a senior source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan.

Archaeologists who excavated in the city of Yeniseisk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory suggest that they found the grave of the righteous Daniil Achinsky (1784 - 1843) and his relics destroyed in the 1920s. "They found several bones of the legs and spine - it is likely that it was not pulled out during the destruction of the grave. Above it was a shut -ditch, coffin -diggers in the Warbarish, without any exhumation procedure, struggled the skull, the chest, bones of the hands, part of the pelvis.

If until recently the Russians showed the greatest interest in Lifestyle-Real Estate (villas, castles, islands, chalets in ski resorts and even vineyards), today such purchases have faded into the background, giving way to more stable from the point of view of commercial real estate investments, the Vediums write.

Former researcher at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center (RFYAC) Vladimir Golubev, accused of disclosing state secrets, officially abandoned the lawyer appointed to him during the preliminary investigation.

The Thai Parliament approved a law prohibiting foreigners to pay for the services of Thai surrogate mothers for bearing a child, BBC reports. The law also prohibits the services of intermediaries and any advertising of women who want to endure someone else's child. This decision was made after two high -profile stories that caused a wide public discussion last year.

The head of the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) Vasily Anisimov accused the propagandists and officials in Ukraine of inciting a fratricidal conflict. "During the long months of this terrible war, someone heard that at least one word about brotherhood, mercy and humanity in relation to opponents from the lips of power or militant propagandists? Where did this fanatical intolerance come from?

The gas, which Russia urgently began to supply the day before to the Donbass, has enough consumers in the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, said the chairman of the People’s Council of the DPR Andrei Purgin on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. While the DPR has suspended payment to Ukraine for gas supplies to the republic, Purgin noted. "We have now stopped payments for recalculations. So far they will not be carried out.

In Pyatigorsk, a joint raid of Chechen and Stavropol police officers took place, during which 200 drug addicts, natives of Chechnya were detained. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, came to the detainees and urged them to change for the better, reports the television and radio company Stavropol . All this was broadcast on the direct television. “Why are you not trying to live like normal people, why aren't you ashamed? Drink these pills, and then go to fight in Syria to kill innocent people!

The former team coach Sergei Mikhalev entered the new composition of the board of the Ufa Club of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) "Salavat Yulaev. This was announced by the president and chairman of the board of the club, who retained his post, Yuri Rusovgarov.

General Edrian Bradshaw, deputy commander of the United NATO forces in Europe, said that the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance should take measures in case of a large-scale and rapid attack by Russia on one of the Eastern European member countries of the organization, Interfax reports.

The procession and rally of Anti -Maidan, which are planned in Moscow on February 21, on the anniversary of demonstrations in Kiev, will be held with the participation of state employees who were called by the authorities, says RBC .

Ukraine closed more than twenty checkpoints on the border with Russia on the eve of spring, as it turned out, also introduced additional restrictions on the admission of girls. On March 1, Russians will not be able to get into the territory of a neighboring country by internal identification, as has been allowed so far: a foreign passport will be needed. But even having this document, not every citizen of the Russian Federation will be able to get into the country.

Kiev’s statements about a certain “Russian trace” and the involvement of the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov in the events on the Maidan is “nonsense”, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. “However, the Ukrainian special services have repeatedly put the leadership of Ukraine in the awkward - I would like to use less diplomatic words - position.

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee, Andrei Krasov, sent requests to the heads of the FSB, the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to verify the correspondence information between the adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Andrei Revutsky and a member of the Progress Party Council Nikolai Lyaskin, reports TASS, who received copies of requests in the name of Alexander Bortnikov, Alexander Bastrykin and Yuri Chaika.

The author of "Fifty Shades of Gray" E. L. James wants more control over the release of the film version of the continuation of the novel and requires Universal Pictures to become a scriptwriter of the sequel "fifty shades darker," Variety reports.