In 2015, China will increase the costs of military needs by 10%, Reuters reports citing a press secretary of the Chinese parliament Fu Ying. At a press conference on Wednesday, March 4, Fu In announced that the exact figure will be published on Thursday, March 5, after the opening of the parliamentary session. According to the agency, last year the military costs of the PRC grew by 12.2% compared to the previous 2013 and amounted to $ 130 billion, losing only the US military budget.

The chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the leader of the United Russia faction Vyacheslav Makarov before the next meeting did not declare a minute of silence in memory of the deceased oppositionist Boris Nemtsov. To honor the memory of the former Prime Minister of Russia, the deputies of the Yabloko faction had to take a break. According to Telegraph , only 12 out of 50 deputies joined the mourning action.

Olga Romanova “The young cashier who is punching the check for me starts yelling at the whole world: “Shut up this hysterical woman already!” The queue assents to her: “So what, well, they’ll see, woman, calm down!” set in supermarket baskets, and obsequiously for some reason they echo the cashier and tell the guards searching the elderly crying woman how best to do it. She didn’t take anything without paying, they just wanted to search her just in case.

On Monday, March 2, in the Norwegian city of Dramen, a lawsuit was launched on charges of five people of sexual actions with children of infancy, reports Aftenbladet . The main accused, 32-year-old man, recognized all the charges against him, including depraved actions with his own two-month son. The remaining four defendants are partially guilty. According to the publication, the network of pedophiles was disclosed almost by accident.

“The plug is on the frame. I come up and see that Arthur has taken the “Fight” sign from someone and tore it up. - What are you doing? - more adequate cops ask him. - Many such posters have already passed, they let everyone through. - They told me there! - Arthur points into the distance with burning eyes. - This is a call, no calls. I'm trying to explain that this is an absolutely normal natural poster, that the man's name was Boris... - Boris, but don’t fight! - Arthur exclaims thoughtfully.

Anton Oreh “If Boris Yefimych could look at this picture, he would be surprised. And he would also ask: what happened here this day, that we are not going to Maryino, but near the Kremlin - and how many people there are! Or maybe and he saw this picture - we don’t know how everything works there, in the world into which he went, and we don’t even know everything about our own world in which we remained.

In London, the 48-year-old highly educated entrepreneur John Crawford Florea, who caused a serious injury to his Russian-speaking mistress, was sentenced in the UK. When the woman allegedly reproached her lover that his wallet was not fat enough and refused him sex, Flory threw her out of bed with a strong kick. When falling, the victim broke his hand. By the decision of the Ailvort court, John Florey, guilty of causing serious harm to health, will spend 1.5 years behind bars.

Moscow police officers detained a 19-year-old visitor from the Nizhny Novgorod region involved in serial murders. An accomplice of the detainee were the previously caught fan of FC Dynamo and her friend. They said that they attacked people to "cleanse the capital of the discharge of society." In the near future, the detained third accomplice of the murders will be charged, the official website of the Main Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation Moscow reports.

Sociologists of the Levada Center revealed the ever-increasing influence of television on the minds of Russians, at least in matters related to the Ukrainian crisis. Changing trends in public opinion is increasingly associated with a picture that is broadcast by federal channels, and those attitudes that give the viewer. So, most Russians believe in the statements of officials about the absence of Russian troops to Ukraine, which is constantly being talked about from TV screens.

The Pension Fund will save 145 billion rubles on working pensioners. This was announced the day before by the head of the Ministry of Labor of Russia Maxim Topilin. He explained that, according to this initiative, the Pension Fund will not accrue a pension to those citizens whose earnings exceeds 1 million rubles at the end of the year, the newspaper Komersant writes.

The Russian guild of bakers and confectioners (Rospik) turned to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemyev with a request to recognize the actions of regional authorities who asked retail chains to record prices for socially significant goods. The authors of the letter noted that the limitation of prices by regional authorities is possible only in the Far North or in the territories equated to it, Kommersant reports.

The lover of Boris Nemtsova, who was killed in the center of Moscow, Anna Duritskaya, who turned out to be the main witness of the crime, gave not as voluminous evidence to the investigation as it could be expected. But the phrases that she "did not remember nothing" and "did not see anyone" said to the 23-year-old model, should not be perceived literally, the politician’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov made it clear.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the bill on financing the Ministry of National Security (MNB) until the end of September, without amendments that would block the immigration reform of the President of Barack Obama. The congressmen decided to allocate $ 39.7 billion for the needs of the department, which, due to legislative delays, could suspend their work. 257 congressmen spoke out for this decision, 167 voted against.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at a press conference following a meeting with the head of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Junker, announced the possible introduction of new sanctions against Russia, Reuters reports. "We discussed the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The topic of sanctions was on the agenda, but it was not the main one.

Russia is ready to teach its Asian partners to resist anti -government speeches, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev following visits to Egypt and the UAE. He spoke at a press conference, where he shared his thoughts about the main problems with which Russia and the countries of the Middle East could fight together: these are, for example, Islamists and “color revolutions”.