Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russian troops in Syria would not leave until they achieve victory over terrorist groups, in particular over the Islamic State forbidden in the Russian Federation (IS, ISIS or Daish ), Interfax reports. He also called one of the key conditions for the completion of the military operation.

“The Russian state is feverishly looking for money, but deliberately passes by the “gold mine” - inbound tourism. The country’s tourism potential is used only by 20%. Now 30 million people come to us a year and “bring” about 10 billion dollars. In the USA, income from tourism is 10 times higher, in Spain – 5 times. The essence of the problem is that visas are extremely difficult to obtain. We are losing millions of guests and billions of precious dollars on them.

Recent satellite pictures showed that the jasmine typhoon, formed over Southeast Asia at the end of December last year, almost completely destroyed one of the artificial islands poured by Vietnam in the South China Sea, reports Onliner.by with reference to the Chinese media. The incident occurred against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the conflict around the Svtli archipelago, part of which was the injured island.

In 2013, Russia really conducted exercises simulating the attack on Sweden, according to a fresh report by NATO, which was prepared by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “The degree of military maneuvers and exercises of Russia reached a level unprecedented from the end of the Cold War,” he commented on what happened. As follows from the message of The Local , the exercises of the Russian military in 2013 took place near the eastern border of the Stockholm archipelago.

In Thailand, in the southern province of Krabi, two Russian citizens received severe injuries as a result of an incident in the sea near the island of Pi-Pi, the newspaper Bangkok Post . According to police, tourists aged 30 and 48 were injured by a motor boat, when they were engaged in snorkeling - swimming with an underwater mask. As a result of the incident, one of the victims lost his leg. The emergency occurred on Wednesday morning at about 11:00 local time (07:00 in Moscow).

On Wednesday, February 3, about 70 thousand people took part in the fun magical ceremonies of the expulsion of devils in the Buddhist temple complex Naritasan near Tokyo, TASS reports. The ceremonies are held on the occasion of the old holiday of Setsubun, which marks the victory of good over the forces of evil in connection with the first signs of the awakening of nature at the end of winter.

People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Bashmet on Wednesday, February 3, will take part in the performance of the Pokrovsky Musical Theater - the opera "Altist Danilov", which composer Alexander Tchaikovsky dedicated to the musician. In honor of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the composer and artistic director of the Moscow Philharmonic, Yuri Bashmet will perform solo on Alt in the play, RIA Novosti was told in the theater press service.

“With initiative, as they say. If a gun hangs in the most visible place, it’s time to make a demonstrative noise from it. The Ministry of Justice decided that this hour has come. And it poses the question squarely before the Constitutional Court - where will we play, and where will we wrap the fish? Which decisions of Strasbourg must be implemented, and which are optional. In general, I would not implement any decisions of the ECHR at all.

The police of the Dalnerechensky district of Primorye detained a young employee of a financial institution who is suspected of a series of theft of money from customer bank accounts. The total damage exceeded one million rubles. Criminal punishment faces a 24-year-old bank employee. Taking advantage of her official position, she cashed out funds during 2015, the official website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he had forgotten about the imminent expired of his authority in this post, which was reminded of the journalists the day before. He stated that he was not preparing for the elections, but he believes that the president must approve the candidate, although political parties formally offer them.

The new generation of the Porsche Cayenne crossover was brought to road tests. Spy photos of the new products were at the disposal of the publication Autoevolution. The photographs captured a test mule, on which the company's engineers run up the units of the future crossover. The prototype is equipped with a spoiler and wide wheel arches, notes LiveCars . The new generation Porsche Cayenne will stand on the MLB EVO platform, so the novelty will become 100 kg easier than its predecessor.

Employees of the Limnology Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Lin SB RAS) discovered 98 polluted soil flows flowing from the resort village of Listvyanka into the water area of ​​Lake Baikal, the site "Science in Siberia" reports. These are domestic drains, which are the product of the activities of numerous tourist cases and hotels on the coast of the lake.

The State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation invited the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to eliminate the overhaul funds and return the contributions paid there. "We ask you to work out the issue of eliminating the system of capital repairs of the common property of apartment buildings, while ensuring the conduct of urgent work and the return to citizens of the contributions paid by them," the request to Medvedev, the text quoted by RIA Novosti , said.

The Microsoft Corporation acquired the British company Swiftkey, which developed the same virtual keyboard for Android and iOS. According to the Financial Times , the transaction amount amounted to $ 250 million. According to CNews , the Swiftkey keyboard uses the semblance of artificial intelligence, predicting what word and phrase the user wants to introduce. The more the owner of the mobile device uses SWIFTKEY, the more accurate the forecasts of the algorithm become.

The falling ruble again, as a year ago - in the first wave of devaluation, made an extremely attractive for foreigners to buy new and used cars in Russia, especially the premium segment. Their cost in Russia and, for example, in Belarus can vary in several thousand euros, Kommersant writes. In January, the number of views on the sale of cars on the Portal of Auto.ru owned by Yandex doubled compared to December, the company said.