Dmitry Svishchev, a member of the State Duma sports committee from the LDPR, introduced a bill on monetary compensation to the lower house of the Pure athletes, unreasonably suspended from participation in the Olympic or Paralympic Games. The author of the initiative proposes to make payment equal to a ten -time average wage.

Next week, an unusual auction will be held in London - a roof of a residential building on Dreiton -Gardens in Chelsea is exhibited. Savills auctions claim that the buyer, having laid out 560 thousand pounds, will receive the opportunity to build a luxurious penthouse with two bedrooms and three bathrooms on the roof. According to preliminary estimates, construction will cost 550 thousand pounds, writes The UK .

Investigators of the Leningrad region opened a criminal case against an elderly school teacher who is suspected of attacking a young student. The teacher hit the child several times with his head against the wall. Criminal punishment threatens the 70-year-old teacher of the Kuzmolovskaya secondary school, located in the Vsevozhsky district, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

The scientists of the 63rd Russian Antarctic expedition (RAE) managed to collect, perhaps, the oldest ice on the planet, whose age exceeds 1.3 million years. This was reported by the site of St. Petersburg State University. Samples of ancient ice were collected at the Russian Antarctic station "Vostok" . Scientists-Gentologists (specialists in natural ice) arrived there on December 14, 2017. December and January are the most favorable months to conduct research.

The Khaker group of Fancy BEARS reported the intervention of the Canadian government in the work of the Independent Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under the leadership of Richard McLaren, who accused Russians of doping fraud in Sochi-2014. Hackers submitted a number of documents according to which the country's authorities influenced the independent Canadian professor to provide their athletes with high positions in the Medal Security of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

“Naftogaz of Ukraine”, in accordance with the decision of the Stockholm arbitration under the contract of sale of gas, plans to start purchasing gas from the Russian gas monopolist - Gazprom - already in March of this year, the head of the board of state holding Andrei Kobolev told reporters. “We held several rounds of negotiations. We have a document that, according to our estimates, is close to the one that will be signed.

One of the founders of the modern Internet, the founder of the American non -profit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is defending the rights in cyberspace, American John Perry Barlow died at the age of 70, RIA Novosti reports. "Today, the Internet has lost its hero. Eff is mournful about the departure of his wise co -founder John Perry Barlow," the organization said on Facebook. According to EFF Executive Director Cindy Kon, Barlow died in a dream at home.

The construction of the Turkish stream gas pipeline suddenly went up by one billion dollars. At the same time, the expenses for the project will most likely be completely transferred to the balance of Gazprom, and then they will try to compensate them for the issue of bonds, as happened with the North Stream-1 project. About this, according to Interfax , said the deputy chairman of the gas monopoly, Andrei Kruglov at a meeting with investors in London.

Vitaly Portnikov “In order to defeat Russian corruption, it is necessary to dismantle corruption -oligarchic capitalism, which is the essence of modern Russian statehood. And other statehood - and, most importantly, the desire to create such statehood - neither the Russian authorities nor the Russian population,” the observer writes in the column on the Brani.ru website. "However, with Dagestan is a special story.

The Soviet District Court of Krasnoyarsk granted the lawsuit of a local resident Irina Kudinova to compensate for non -pecuniary damage for the illegal bringing her to administrative responsibility in connection with the publication of photographs of Easter Kulich and two eggs on social networks. The defendant was the Ministry of Finance on the complaint.

The Governor of Bermuda on Wednesday, February 7, approved a law that cancel the right of homosexuals to marry, despite last year’s decision of the Supreme Court on the legalization of same -sex marriages. Thus, this overseas territory of Great Britain became the first state in the world, which first legalized same -sex marriages, and then canceled this decision.

The Syrian authorities regard the blows of the Air Force of the US Air Force of the International Coalition to Proper Forces as an Act of aggression, TASS reports with reference to the Syrian news agency Sana. The coalition itself claims that the shelling was carried out as an answer to the "unprovided attack" of the Army of President Bashar al -Assad against the headquarters of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDS) - the Alliance of the Alliance of the Armed opposition forces.

The military parade, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army, took place on the morning of February 8 on Kim Il Sena Square in Pyongyang. Foreign commentators especially note the fact that the parade was held on the eve of the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in the South Korean Pyeongchang.

Model Nastya Rybka shortly after the oppositionist Alexei Navalny published a new investigation , the main defendants of which were the deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Sergey Prikhodko and oligarch Oleg Deripaska, curled up on a billionaire yacht, where she was together with the guest of Deripaska, there was a group rape. She made such a statement on her Instagram page. “I am very grateful to Alexei Navalny for making such a video.

The famous American billionaire George Soros spent more than 400 thousand pounds (over 550 thousand dollars) for the UK conservation campaign in the European Union. This is reported by The Guardian and Daily Express . As it became known, the businessman transferred the named amount to the Best for Britain ("best for Britain"), opposing Brexit.