“The death of Umberto Eco is a blow for the lonely Russian intellectual. And an intellectual in a country rapidly sliding back into archaism, into stagnation, is inevitably lonely. He is lonely in a country where the university layer is thin and weak and has no influence on the life of society. Try to name right away at least one modern Russian fashionable philosopher - “fashionable” in the same sense in which Likhachev, Losev or Mamardashvili were fashionable in the USSR!

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he wants to continue the dialogue with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for the final resolution of the territorial issue related to the belonging of the southern smokers , and the signing of a peace treaty between the two countries. “After 70 years, there is still a territorial problem between our countries,” he said on February 20 on the air of the National Broadcasting Corporation.

In 400 residential buildings of Samara, a cold water supply was violated due to the accident, according to the website of the regional GU Ministry of Emergencies . More than 43 thousand people were left without water. Information about the breakthrough of the cold water supply pipeline with a diameter of 700 mm on the Moscow highway was received on Saturday at 12:05 local time.

“The wonderful story that happened to Mitya Aleshkovsky, Komsomolskaya Pravda and the Tver villagers is the best illustration of how the results of sociological surveys should be treated in modern Russia! Briefly, the gist of the story is this: 1) Mitya went to his Tver villages, talked with local residents, found out the latest news (the hospital is being closed, the fire department is being laid off, someone died of hunger, someone of the cold) and described it on FB.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, most Russians called equalizable with Vladimir Putin politician, are evidenced by the results of a sociological study by VTsIOM . Respondents described Kadyrov as an independent policy and ally of the President of Russia, and not his subordinate.

Two employees of the Embassy of Serbia in the capital of Libya Tripoli, stolen by militants in November 2015, allegedly died on Friday as a result of the US Air Force air at the Islamic State Terrorist Group camp (prohibited in the Russian Federation). This was announced today by the Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivitsa Dachich. According to the latest data, 49 people were killed by a blow, including one of the leaders of the IG.

A video that appeared on the Internet, where unknown young people in Ryazan are undermined by a cat with firecracker, became the subject of close attention of local law enforcement officers. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a check is being carried out on this fact, although the Internet user has already shot a scandalous video from the publication.

“It seems that Russians are full of domestic cheese products. At the end of January 2016, the production of cheeses and cheese products in Russia decreased by 0.9% compared to January 2015. It would seem, so what’s wrong, we have recorded a decline in many positions Look, the production of passenger cars fell by 40.4% in January, and here about some cheese and cheese products, and even by 0.9%. No, no, cheese deserves to pay attention to this product line. This is what I did earlier in my blogs.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized the investigation to recognize the opposition party to Parnassus the victim in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, who was one of its leaders. According to Interfax , the corresponding decision on Friday was made by Judge Elena Lenskaya. A complaint against the investigator was appealed by the party representative Vadim Prokhorov.

The son of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Kolokoltsev turned out to be a prominent businessman: the assets of the development group with his participation were estimated at $ 500 million, and some projects through partners are associated with the son of the Chaika General Prosecutor General, the Vedomosti claims, investigating the successful entrepreneurial activity of another son of a Russian high -eared official.

At the site of the gathering of the city of Kirovsk , the body of the deceased man was found in the Khibins, Tatyana Kovaleva, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Murmansk Region, told Interfax . Later, the Ministry of Emergencies reported the discovery of the second body.

Leonid Volkov “After 2003, the State Duma was elected only by lists. And citizens of the Russian Federation living abroad simply voted in their consulates and their votes went into the common treasury. And here again there were majoritarian elections, and it became not very clear how to calculate all this correctly. Meanwhile, the number of citizens living abroad has grown significantly over these 13 years. There are now about two million of them - almost 2% of all voters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a reception in the Kremlin, announced a diplomatic resolution of conflicts to Russia, while he praised the pilots bombing Syria and spoke in detail about the strengthening of the Russian army. On Saturday, the opposition of Syria announced the possibility of a truce under the cessation of aircraft, and the heads of foreign policy departments of Russia and the United States discussed interaction.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril on the eve arrived at the airport of the capital of Brazil. The director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Biato and the Russian Ambassador to Brazil Sergey Akopov met at the ramp of a high guest.

The former captain of the Rubin football club and the most famous person involved in the criminal case on the creation of the Pyramid "Rost" Sergey Kharlamov is detained.