The American Morgan Stanley bank will pay a total of $ 3.2 billion to resolve the claims of the US Ministry of Justice and New York, relating to violations in the mortgage sphere, which the bank made shortly before the financial crisis of 2008, Interfax reports. Last year, Morgan Stanley said that in the framework of this case he would pay the Ministry of Justice $ 2.6 billion, but the final agreement was postponed before the settlement of certain issues.

The national resistance detachment attacked the command post of the Islamic State terrorists ( Daish , the organization is banned in the Russian Federation) in the city of Abu Kemal on the border with Iraq, eliminating one of the leaders of the group nicknamed Abu Yaser and more than two dozen militants. "Farm fighters attacked the Daish command post in the city of Abu Kemal.

“It seems to me that the authorities humanely publish numerous photographs of ruined pavilions, stalls and other small and unnecessary buildings (but they could not do this, quietly tidy up these ruins) so that we, in a gentle way, gradually get used to the types of ruins. There is war ahead, great destruction, so to speak, “Aleppo” - and the Russian viewer must adapt to this. So that there won’t be a “ah!

Boris Titov, the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs, will create a party of entrepreneurs with which the State Duma will go on the basis of the “right business”. The business ombudsman told about this by the newspaper Vedomosti . The party’s congress should take place on February 29. Earlier, the media wrote that Titov was negotiating with the right -wing part in order to head the election list in the State Duma elections in September 2016.

At the Vostochny cosmodrome, they finished collecting the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle for the first launch , said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the construction of this facility in the Amur Region. "According to the report of the Roscosmos on the morning video sector with the eastern one: the launch vehicle is collected and is ready number two," he wrote on his Twitter page.

Russia is accused of using the Syrian war to demonstrate its weapons to achieve the growth of weapons export, the British newspaper The Times writes. Apparently, it was the successful combat sorties of Russian aviation in Syria that ensured the conclusion of several transactions to sell aircraft and other weapons to Algeria, Iran and Egypt.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome from the Center named after Khrunicheva delivered the Proton-M launch vehicle intended to launch the scientific devices of the Russian-European mission of EXOMARS 2016-the demonstration descent of the Schiaparelli module and the Trace Gas Orbiter orbital module, the website of the GKNPC named after Khrunicheva.

On Friday, February 12, the German Aviation and Cosmonautics Center (DLR) announced the imminent cessation of attempts to contact the descent of the PHILAE, which is located on the Cometa Churumova - Gerasimenko, reports Yahoo! News with reference to AFP. “It's time to say goodbye,” the scientists say. “There is almost no hope of getting a signal from it,” said the PHILAE project manager Stefan Ulamk from DLR, where the control center is located.

The Moscow Museum is a tour of the puppet theater and the Rezo Gabriadze multimedia exhibition, which will be held from February 12 to March 20, 2016. As stated in the press release of the museum, the "Extraordinary Exhibition" is a joint project of the museum and the famous artist and sculptor. The creator of the world famous puppet of Rezo Gabriadze will show a large -scale project specially prepared and brought to the Moscow Museum. In the exposition "Extraordinary Exhibition. Theater.

The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater rented a requisite for the production of Spartak ballet for 4 million rubles without any competition. At the same time, the director of the theater Vladimir Kekhman is simultaneously the founder of the fund, which owns the scenery, lighting and other necessary equipment, writes Taiga.info .

“Today, at the FAS Russia commission, it was officially confirmed: the construction of the launch pad of the Vostochny cosmodrome has not yet been completed. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin lied when he said that the cosmodrome was built back in 2015. Today, Rogozin’s words were refuted by the state customer for state contracts of the Vostochny cosmodrome - representative of the federal government institution "Directorate of the Vostochny Cosmodrome".

Three Russian ruffers climbed into one of the highest skyscrapers in China - the Synkhin tower in the city of Shenzhen. At the same time, they not only climbed to the roof, but also climbed to the top of one of the spiers of the building. According to Day Online , the event was attended by ruffers known under the names of Vitaly Pedantov, Vladimir Sidorov and Ivan Kuznetsov (Burkus). As usual, the rise was filmed in the video posted on the On the Roofs channel.

Capital police are looking for thieves-dummies who have visited a three-story mansion. According to unofficial data, the building belongs to the parliamentarian Vladislav Reznik. However, Reznik himself, as well as his colleague-one-fiber, denied the information that they could suffer from the actions of the robbers. The theft occurred in the elite village of Pervomaiskskoye in New Moscow, Lifenews writes with reference to a source in law enforcement.

The jury led by film director Fedor Bondarchuk chose three applicants for the right to become an official talisman of the World Cup, which will be held in 2018 in Russia. This was announced at the awarding ceremony of three students who won the second round of the competition to create mascot talismans, the Russia2018 portal reports. According to the results of the first stage , 10 versions of the talisman were chosen.

Specialists of real estate agencies note a stable interest in the Crimean square meters from the residents of the mainland of Russia. However, in 2015, the number of purchase and sale transactions compared to 2014 decreased significantly, says the Russian Newspaper . “2015 has become the year of adaptation of the Crimean real estate market to the economic and legal realities of Russia,” explains Oleg Sikorsky, the coordinator of the Rem Navigator trading system.