The exhibition will present black and white pictures of the Civil War in Tajikistan and its consequences (1991-1993), photographs of the peaceful life of the peoples of the country from the Soviet era to the present day published in different publications, as well as unknown photographs from the author’s archive. “I realized that both humanly and photographically connected with the whole former world of my former country for many years.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary General Andreas Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday. This was reported to Interfax in the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Problematic issues and prospects for the development of Russia-NATO relations will be discussed during the meeting.

Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov has been charged in a case of large-scale fraud involving illegal registration of gas networks in ownership, Interfax reports . Nasrutdinov was detained on January 19 at the Moscow Vnukovo airport, where he flew from Makhachkala, on January 21, the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow arrested Nasrutdinov.

The command of the Egyptian armed forces approved the candidacy of Field Marshal Abdul Fattah Sisi as a candidate for the presidency of Egypt in the upcoming elections, Interfax reports . To nominate their candidate, the military held a special meeting and in the coming days should announce the reasons why they consider Sisi the best candidate. Abdul Sisi led a military coup last summer that led to the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi. Egypt has been without a president since the summer of 2013.

A new meeting of Viktor Yanukovych and members of the working group to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine with opposition leaders has begun in Kiev, UNN reports . The meeting is attended by the leader of the UDAR party, Vitali Klitschko, the head of the Batkivshchyna, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the chairman of the Svoboda party, Oleg Tyagnibok. The meeting is also attended by First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Andrei Portnov and Minister of Justice Elena Lukash.

Chinese scientists have not yet been able to troubleshoot the Yutu (Jade Hare) lunar rover, Popular Mechanics reports . At the moment, the apparatus exploring the surface of the Earth's satellite is still immobilized. The problem became known last Saturday. Yutu was put into sleep mode for the second time, and in the process of changing the operating modes of the device, malfunctions were detected in its control system.

Two episodes of attacks on pensioners in St. Petersburg were combined into one case. In both cases, the victims remembered the child helping the bandits The brutal attack on two elderly women, which is now being jointly investigated by law enforcement agencies and Internet users, is most likely not the only crime committed by the same group of people in St. Petersburg over the past month. The scheme is brutally simple and ruthless.

The second batch of chemical weapons was taken out of Syria today, Agence France Presse reports , citing a statement by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The chemicals were tested, loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships and taken out of the country. Recall that the first batch of chemical weapons was taken out of Syria on January 7. It is expected that all Syrian chemical weapons will be destroyed by the summer of this year.

The Crimean parliament banned the activities of the VO "Svoboda" in the region, UNIAN reports . "In 10 regions of Ukraine, an anti-constitutional coup took place, the legitimate authorities were by force removed from exercising the powers provided for by the Constitution of Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine, <...>," the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Crimea said in a statement.

About the films "August: Osage County" by John Wells and "Inside Lewis Davis" by the Coen brothers About the films "August: Osage County" by John Wells and "Inside Lewis Davis" by the Coen brothers The current Oscar list is again full of impressive, strong, like sea knots, genre and sharply social works. The exception is Nebraska . A low-profile, modest sketch by Alexander Payne is an example of independent cinema about the metamorphoses that American myths undergo.

Bikers from the club "Night Wolves" set up duty near the building of the Sevastopol City State Administration. According to Argumenty Nedeli - Krym, they intend to protect the building from being seized by Euromaidan activists. According to club member Alexander "Katka" Lizunov, the bikers took the SSCA building under guard last night. “We are on duty at the city administration building together with Yatsuba (Chairman of the SSCA) to avoid captures. Lizunov says.

The Bank of Russia warns Russian citizens and companies against using virtual currencies like bitcoin. This was reported by the press service of the Central Bank. The report says that, in accordance with Article 27 of the Federal Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation", the issue of "money surrogates" on the territory of the Russian Federation is prohibited. The message notes that transactions with bitcoins will be classified as suspicious transactions.

The unregistered People's Alliance party, led by Alexei Navalny, has supported protesters in Ukraine. “We support and stand in solidarity with the desire of the Ukrainian people for freedom and a change of power, which has taken the path of systematic violation of the constitutional freedoms of citizens,” the party said in a statement. “We see many similarities in the approaches and methods of the Ukrainian and Russian authorities.

Photo by the author On January 27, Samara fishermen gathered in Square of Glory, immediately before the building of the regional administration. The fishermen chose the place for the picket by chance, since their main messiage, as it is now customary to say in Russian, was addressed to the governor. "Governor, ban the trawl!" - They say fishermen with a rough tongue of a poster.

One of the commandants of "Maidan", people's deputy of Ukraine from the "Batkivshchyna" Stepan Kubov called the seizure of ministries' buildings by activists a provocation, UNIAN reports . "I want to say and dissociate myself, I'm speaking now as a people's deputy, as a commandant, this is my opinion and I'm voicing it, that these are provocations. We dissociate ourselves from them," the people's deputy said at a briefing at the National Resistance Headquarters.