The head of the Central Bank of Latvia Ilmar Rimshevich detained the anti -corruption bureau, reports Delfi . According to the prime minister, the Bureau for the fight and the prevention of corruption appointed him the status of a detainee in the framework of a criminal case, the details of which have not yet been reported. On Friday, February 16, the bureau conducted searches in the office and in the house of Ilmar Rimshevich.

Women in Saudi Arabia will be able to open their own business without the consent of the husband or relative, the Ministry of Commerce and Investments of the Kingdom said on Sunday. Previously, this required the consent of the guardian. "From now on, women can open their business and use (state) electronic services, without providing evidence of the consent of their guardian, " Interfax quotes the department’s message.

The fragments of the Iranian aircraft crashed into the mountain were found, on board which 66 people died . According to the Embassy of the Russian Federation, there are no citizens of Russia among the victims of the plane crash. According to Newsru Israel , the fragments of the ATR 72 aircraft were found in the Dena mountain massif, not far from the village of Ku-Dinar (south of the city of Semir, the province of Isfahan).

The unknown opened shooting at the parishioners of the temple of St. George the Victorious in the Dagestan Kizlyar, when they left service on forgiven Sunday: as a result of the massacre, four women died on the spot. Another later died in the hospital on the operating table. The attacker - a 22 -year -old local resident - was killed in a shootout with the police. Judging by the photo from the place of emergency, he shot from the hunting rifle.

Moldova Prime Minister Pavel Philip during his Saturday speech at the Munich Security Conference expressed the hope that Russia would withdraw its troops from the territory of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR). According to him, this would allow countries to have "balanced, friendly relations" (quote for TASS).

US President Donald Trump said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spends too much time on attempts to prove the non-existent conspiracy between his assistants and Russia during the presidential election in 2016, which is why the department missed Nicholas Cruise, which shot 17 people at the School in the city of Parkland (Florida). The head of the White House was reported on Twitter .

Several dozen cars were covered with snow due to the collapse of the roof in the private parking lot in Balashikha, Interfax was told in the Unified Dispenser Service of the city. "In the Unified duty dispatch service of Balashikha, about 16 hours received a message about the collapse of the roof under the weight of the snow in the private parking lot in the railway microdistrict. As a result, about 40 cars fell asleep." The agency’s interlocutor said.

Senator Suleiman Kerimov agreed with the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananyevs on the purchase of a stake in the Renaissance bank, Reuters reports. According to the agency, it was precisely to finally agree on the transaction of the Kerimov transaction to French investigators. According to another version, he visited Russia because of the aggravation of the situation in Dagestan. Three sources reported the completion of the transaction for the purchase of Renaissance by Reuters.

At the Olympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang, a male ski relay race is 4x10 km, in which the Russian quartet - Andrei Larkov, Alexander Bolshunov, Alexei Chervotkin and Denis Spitsov - played a silver medal. - Diary of the 2018 Olympics. Schedule and results of competitions A day earlier, in a similar discipline, Russian skiers finished third .

The Japanese skating of NAO Kodair won a gold medal at a distance of 500 meters at the Olympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang. The 31-year-old athlete set a new Olympic record, showing the time 36.94 seconds. - Diary of the 2018 Olympics. Schedule and results of competitions Kodira updated the achievement of Lee San San San Sun, which in Sochi in 2014 showed a result of 37.28 seconds . Lee San Un today took second place (+0.39), Bronze won Czech Carolina Erbanova (+0.40).

Russian freestyist Ilya Burov became the owner of the bronze medal of the Olympiad in competitions in ski acrobatics. Burov scored 122,17 points for the performance in the third round of the final, eventually taking third place. “I am very glad, I did everything to the maximum. I got a little worried. I think that the judges appreciated me in the last jump. I devote this bronze medal to my children,” Burov told reporters. - Diary of the 2018 Olympics.

The shooting at the temple of George the Victorious in Kizlyar, whose victims were five people , was discovered by 22-year-old Khalil Khalilov, who was part of the so-called "sleeping cell" "Islamic state"*, RBC reports with reference to sources.

On Saturday evening, in the Shkinskiy district of the Tula region, three journalists of the Center for Investigation Management (CUR) and two volunteers blocked two Zubyr hunting farms on the road, where, according to unofficial data, the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin hunts. According to the Portal of the MBH , the film crew came to the area after a complaint of local residents about the illegal seizure of the hunting farm of their land.

Norwegian Freestyist Eystin Broten became the owner of the Golden Medal of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in the discipline of Slopstail. Scandinavus in the best of three final attempts showed the result of 95.00 points. - Diary of the 2018 Olympics. Schedule and results of competitions For Hepper, this is the second Olympic medal in a career. In 2014, he won bronze. “In training before the finale, I fell several times,” said the triumph after the performance.

The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone conversation with the Polish colleague Mateusz Moravesky announced the unacceptability of words about the involvement of individual representatives of the Jewish people in the Holocaust. The head of Israel said that he hopes to resolve the conflict with diplomatic methods, but “on the table” all the options - up to the recall of the ambassador from Warsaw.