The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Grzhegozh Kotyna, said on Monday on the air of the Polish RMF FM radio station that Poland is not considering sending its military personnel to Ukraine if a decision on the UN peacekeeping mission is made, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following a meeting with government members. In particular, the president instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to organize the monitoring of retail prices for medicines with the monthly provision of the corresponding report to him. The first such report should be presented to the head of state on March 20, according to the Kremlin website .

Classes for students from 1 to 11 grades of Yakutsk schools were suspended from February 24 to 28 due to the aggravation of the situation with colds, the press service of the city hall reports on Monday. "By the decision of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Commission of Yakutsk, on February 23, the restriction of the educational process is extended from February 24 to 28," the message will be said. Measures were taken in order to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases, the message notes.

The ex -president of Georgia, and now the adviser to Ukrainian president Mikhail Saakashvili compared the current conflict in the east of Ukraine with the war in South Ossetia in 2008, and Russia with an insatiable crocodile.

The militants of the Extremist organization "Islamic State" (IG) blew up the Central Library in the second largest city of Iraq - Mosul, located 400 kilometers northwest of the capital of the country - Baghdad, recalling that Mosul since July last year has been under the control of the armed groups of IG. According to the director of the Musca library, Ganami At-Taan, the explosion led to a strong fire, which covered all the premises of a three-story building.

The Greece Government has provided the European group with a preliminary list of reforms that they will implement in accordance with previous agreements. Brussels has already received a document, reports Yahoo! News with reference to the AFP agency. But the representative of the European Commission Min Andreev said that the list has not yet been received. “Until we got a list from Greece. We are waiting until the end of the day,” she said.

Rosoboronexport, which is part of the State Corporation Rostec put in 2014 for export worth more than 13 billion dollars. This was announced today by the head of the state corporation Sergey Chemezov. "For 2015, in our plan it also costs a little more than 13 billion. We have a portfolio of orders $ 38.5 billion," TASS quotes him. Chemezov noted that the conflict situation in the Middle East increases the sales of weapons.

Deputies of the State Duma from United Russia sent a letter to the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev with a request to additionally allocate at least 15 billion rubles for spring-field work. This was announced today by the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian issues Nadezhda Schoolkin.

A tragic incident occurred in the Rostov region: a private plane crashed near Rostov-on-Don. The sources of the Interfax agency report. According to the representative of emergency services, the aircraft collapsed a few kilometers from the city. "The plane flew out of the Dugino site and, after 10 minutes of flight, crashed," the source said. The flight of the aircraft could be unauthorized.

On Monday morning, February 23, the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" arrived in the Persian bay, Newsru Israel reports with reference to AFP. The representative of the Ministry of Defense of France said that this aircraft carrier begins to participate in the operation against the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq. The first Rafale fighters on Monday morning have already flown out of the deck of the aircraft carrier in the direction of Iraq, the Russian BBC service reports.

The head of the Moscow branch of the Party of Progress Nikolai Lyaskin filed an application to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with a request to institute criminal proceedings against the publication "Ridus". He wants to hold this media accountable for publishing a false correspondence on his behalf. The ally of Alexei Navalny wrote about this on his blog . It all started due to the publication that Lyaskin allegedly intends to organize the Maidan in Russia.

Employees of the Investigative Committee revealed a double murder committed in the premises of the branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Special Communications in the Chelyabinsk Region" February 21 of this year. The brothers 1977 and 1983 were detained, the eldest of them was previously convicted, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The names of the suspects are not called.

The sixteenth Russian humanitarian convoy will go to Donbass on Tuesday, February 24, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports. It is planned to bring food for residents of Donbass foods, medicines, essential items and other material products: KAMAZ cars will deliver over 1.2 thousand tons of cargo.

The central match of the 25th round of the Greece Championship "Panatinaikos"-"Olympiacos" (2: 1) almost was at risk of a breakdown, reports Sport-Express . Before the starting whistle of the chief judge, the fans of the hosts ran out onto the field, taking with them pyrotechnics and missiles ( video ). Also in the hands of aggressively tuned people were chains, batons and even metal elements of rostrum fences.

In the Kharkov hospital on Monday, February 23, a 15-year-old teenager died, earlier than an explosion in the procession in memory of the Maidan. Information about this appeared on the official website of the city. "The 15-year-old teenager, who suffered during the explosion yesterday, February 22, near the Sports Palace, died today in the ambulance and emergency care hospital named after Prof. A. I. Meshchaninov ... Since yesterday, the teenager was in a coma.