Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Governor Konstantin Ilkov, who led the problematic Transbaikal Territory, TASS reports. The head of state signed a corresponding decree - "On the early termination of powers of the Governor of the Trans -Baikal Territory," the press release on the Kremlin website says.

President of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia (Feor), Alexander Boroda, made a sharp condemnation of the Nationalist procession in Lithuania. “Unfortunately, for the umpteenth once again we are witnessing such dirty actions aimed at the heroization of war criminals, including those whose hands and according to whose orders the Holocaust was carried out.

In Petrozavodsk, the masters created an ice copy of the famous Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord from the island of Kizhi. This was reported to the Interfax agency in the museum-reserve. From February 17 to February 21 in the capital of Karelia will host the international winter festival "Hyperborea-2016", in which the team of the Kizhi Museum will also participate.

The Ulan-Ude police in Buryatia is looking for criminals who exploded the ATM. As a result, money belonging to Sberbank was stolen. Information about the explosion entered the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday at about 2:20. "Unknown, with the help of the gas -air mixture, damaged an ATM located in the self -service zone of stopping type in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Ulan -Ude," the official website of the Republican Police reports.

The Canadian authorities are investigating numerous cases of murder of representatives of Indian tribes. Police are reluctant to do such crimes and try to attribute to suicide or accident, reports Radio Canada International . It is assumed that over the past 30 years thousands of Indian women have been killed, but they didn’t even look for criminals.

In France, deputies of the National Assembly (lower house of parliament) voted to extend the emergency regime introduced in the country after the November attacks of last year, for another three months - until May 26. 212 deputies spoke out for this decision, 31 deputies voted against, BFMTV reports. Last week, the Senate of France also voted in support of the extension of the emergency regime.

In the Presidential Palace of Lopez in AsunSion, the day before, the official meeting of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill with the President of the Republic, Orasio, Manuel Cartes Haroy, took place. The head of state met the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church at the main entrance to his residence.

The passenger plane, flying from Ashgabat to Minsk, made an emergency landing at Domodedovo’s capital's airport due to the death of one of the passengers, RIA Novosti reports. “Presumably, a 1965 man died from heart and legal failure,” the agency was told in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Central Federal District.

The Apostolsky Nunius (Papal Ambassador) in the Russian Federation Slovenian Archbishop Ivan Yurkovich was appointed to Geneva. This is stated in the release of the bulletin of the Printing Service of the Holy See posted on the Vatican website, TASS reports.

Despite the crisis, Russian state -owneds continue to spend money on housing to their employees. The federal compulsory medical insurance fund (FFMS) in 2016 will spend 54 million rubles on apartments, the New Gazeta draws attention. In 2015 and 2014, 60 million was on this. Until 2014, the scale of housing subsidies did not specify. The FFOMS began to spend money on apartments for employees in 2010, when a large -scale reform of the medical insurance system was carried out.

One of the spacecraft of the domestic system GLONASS failed, TASS reports with reference to a source in the rocket and space industry. This happened on the eve of the planned transfer of the system into operation of the Ministry of Defense, the agency notes. The "Glonass-M" satellite N738 failed due to mechanical damage. On Thursday, the Roscosmos commission should decide on its withdrawal from the system, "the source said.

“The first week has passed since Moscow was saved from the petty semi-criminal business of Luzhkov’s times. The liberation happened on a dark February night, when hundreds of large cars and fearless people surrounded the enemy and by morning they left heaps of twisted metal. Mayor Sobyanin himself acted as the city’s defender, who declared after a crushing victory that “you cannot hide behind pieces of property that were clearly acquired fraudulently.

In the IV quarter of last year, large retail banks noticeably slowed down the pace of personnel reduction, RBC reports. The agency analyzed the quarterly reports of 12 banks, in which the share of loans to the population in assets exceeds 40%, and found out that in a year they said goodbye from 18.3 thousand employees. But if in the III quarter all these banks reduced 1759 people together, then in IV they hired an additional 1441 employees.

In Dagestan, the number of victims of the explosion in the DPS post in the Derbent district increased to three people, the head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov told reporters on Tuesday. According to him, on Monday evening, a woman died, who received severe injuries as a result of the explosion.

The national memorial, created at the site of the murder of the opposition Boris Nemtsov on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, was again cleaned. For an hour and a half, public utilities took out all the flowers brought by the associates of the murdered politician. Activists on duty on the bridge were detained before cleaning. They took the portraits of Nemtsov to the police department, which allowed them to be preserved.