The Google Project Loon team transported and installed in Puerto Rico one of the launchers designed to accelerated the launch of Internet stratum steering. This was reported on the official page of the project on the social network Google+. The launcher called Chicken Little is a crane with a height of more than 16 meters, which is surrounded by windproof shields from three sides. It takes about 30 minutes to raise, inflate and run into the air for about 30 minutes.

More than 130 thousand refugees, or 13% of the total number of migrants adopted by Germany over the past 14 months, have disappeared without a trace, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. The Ministry of the Interior led such statistics, responding to the parliamentary request of the Socialist Party Die Linke. According to the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 130 thousand refugees registered in Germany did not return to the reception points intended for them.

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, answering questions from journalists, was commented by the fact that the head of state Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev were simultaneously absent in the country, RIA Novosti reports. “They were all located, Putin and Medvedev were in the territory of the Union State,” said the head of the Kremlin press service.

The court of the Kurzemsky district of Riga sentenced Maxim Kopteelov, who published a petition on the Internet on the accession of Latvia to Russia on the Internet. The joker received a real prison term - six months. According to Leta , citing lawyer Ilon Bulgakov, a full court decision will appear on March 11. The defense intends to appeal the verdict, as he considers him "shame for Latvia." "I believe that this is a shame for Latvia and this punishment is too harsh.

Five -year -old Murtase Ahmadi from Afghanistan, who became famous throughout the world thanks to the game of football in the homemade shirt Lionel Messi from a cellophane package, received an original set of the form of the leader of the Argentine national team. The son of a simple Afghan farmer conquered the Internet with his touching ingenuity.

Russia and the United States distributed a resolution on the ceasefire in Syria in the UN Security Council, Reuters reported. SB plans to put this question on a vote on Friday, February 26.

“It seemed important to me to talk about the nature of such universal legal nihilism, which, I think, is closely related to the attitude of the authorities to their people and the people to their power. I would call this relationship traditional antagonism. Personally, I have not met a single person who would be satisfied with power (those who climbed to its heights do not count).

US President Barack Obama said that air strikes of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia improved the situation of the Syrian authorities and worsened the humanitarian situation in Syria. In his appeal, he also expressed the opinion that the operation of the Russian Federation strengthened the government of President Syria Bashar al -Assad.

The head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Alexander Konovalov, admits the possibility of appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation regarding the possibility of non -fulfillment of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the claims of former shareholders of the Yukos NK.

In the American state of Pennsylvania, a 23-year-old Ukrainian was exposed, who impersoned a local high school student, reports Yahoo! News with reference to AP. According to the police, the Ukrainian took advantage of fake documents after the expiration of the visa. Arthur Samarin, who lived under the name Esher Potts, was arrested on Thursday, February 25, in the capital of Pennsylvania Harrisberg.

The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Vladimir Puchkov arrived in Vorkuta, where a mountain blow occurred at the Severnaya mine. Most miners managed to get out, earlier it became known about two dead and 28 missing ones, then the sources of TASS and Interfax reported the discovery of two more bodies. The Technical Director of the Vorkutangol enterprise Denis Paykin said that two explosions occurred in the Severnaya mine with a break, which led to collapse and fire.

In Tbilisi, an armed attack on the opposition politician was committed. The man was beaten in the cemetery and shot his legs. Freedom Secretary of the Opposition Party "Free Democrats", a former state minister for the integration of Georgia into European and Euro -Atlantic structures Alexy Petriashvili, was received by firearms. He was attacked in the territory of the Sababurna cemetery, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reports.

By March 24, the federal authorities of the United States and the Volkswagen group of companies should give a certain answer on the chances of resolving claims to the German auto giant around the "diesel scandal", TASS reports with reference to the decision of the district federal judge in San Francisco (California) Charles Breyer. According to the Reuters news agency today, Robert Jifra, who represented the interests of Volkswagen, spoke at the meeting.

Oil prices on Friday continued the growth on the eve of the evening. The cost of the Brent variety exceeded $ 36 per barrel for the first time since the end of January, Bloomberg reports. April Brent oil futures on the ICE Futures London Exchange by 13:00 in Moscow went up by 73 cents (2.07%) - to $ 36.02 per barrel. Quotes of WTI oil futures for April at electronic trading in the New York Model Exchange (NYMEX) at the indicated time increased by 0.71 (2.15%) to 33.78 per barrel.

The former owner of Inteko and the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina, launched her first development project in New York in the center of Brooklyn, Forbes reports, citing the entrepreneur’s press service. For $10 million, Baturina bought a complex of office buildings next to the Barclay's Center sports and entertainment complex, which is home to the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, and the New York Islanders hockey club.