In the case of Maksimenko, the court questioned investigators of the GSU SK in Moscow Photo: RIA Novosti On Monday, February 12, the Moscow City Court continued to interrogate the witnesses of the prosecution in the case of the former head of the Main Directorate of Interdepartmental Interaction and Safety of the RF IC Mikhail Maksimenko.

According to the results of the fourth day of the Olympics in South Korea, the German team takes 1st place with four gold medals, the second place went to the Netherlands, which has three gold medals, and the third place was taken by the Norwegian team, which also has two gold medals. The Russian team has not yet won a single gold medal. However, on February 12, the skaters took second place in the team tournament, losing to the Canadians and beating the United States.

What to do if the latest news makes you be afraid of airplanes Photo: Ruslan Shamukov / TASS Almost a third of the population of the planet suffers from aerophobia. 14% of all people on Earth are so afraid to fly that they will never dare to sit on the plane. Another 10% - they sit on the plane through force, and 6.5% - they abandoned the flights at all. Aerophobia is classified as a mental disorder, and at the same time it is almost not connected with aviation.

Saratovites brought flowers to the airport in memory of the dead members of the An-148 crew Photo: Matvey Flyazhnikov / "New Gazeta" A day after the An-148 Disaster, which operated on the Moscow-Orsk flight, a mourning ceremony of color laying in the Saratov airport in memory of the dead crew members was held at the Saratov airport. Photo: Matvey Flyazhnikov / "New Gazeta" In front of the airport building, cloves and dark roses are already lying.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart Donald Trump. It is reported by RIA Novosti from a meeting between Putin and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Putin also said that at the meeting with Abbas he wants to "compare clocks" in approaches to resolving the conflict. In turn, Abass said that Palestine refuses to cooperate with the United States as the only mediator.

Judges believe that citizens do not need to know on what basis they are deprived of property The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation came up with an initiative of “judicial reform”, which (if the bill is approved) will allow judges, in particular, when making decisions on civil cases, to be limited to the introductory and operative parts, omitting the motivational (that is, substantive) part.

The winner at the open All-Russian sports competitions, which will be attended by athletes who did not qualify for the Pyeongchang Olympics, will receive 4 million rubles, follows from the order published on the government's website. An athlete who wins a silver medal can count on an incentive of 2.5 million rubles. The one who takes third place on the podium will receive 1.7 million rubles, the document explains.

Another unauthorized rally for clean air was held in the city Photo: Alexey Tarasov / "New Gazeta" In Moloch, Kuprin, engineer Bobrov Gadko, that the whole disastrous work at the factory, “an incessant clang and the roar of iron”, “one continuous, chaotic, slowly crawling to the east of a cloud” - only so that the French ward to put millions in the pocket, and a member of the board of the plant Vasily Terentyevich Kvashnin, the beauty of Nina Zinenenko.

The Other Russia activist Kirill Ananyev died on the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria. about this "Mediazone" Alexander Averin, coordinator of The Other Russia, told . According to the interlocutor of the publication, Ananyev died during an airstrike by the international coalition near Hisham on February 7.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) found the companies Pharm-proekt and Vesta Pharm guilty of concluding an anti-competitive agreement with three Moscow hospitals. The department's website reports that drug suppliers did not allow companies that did not participate in the agreement to bid at auctions. According to the FAS, companies hindered competition at 426 open auctions for the supply of medicines, equipment, baby and diet food for state medical organizations in 2014-2016.

CONTINUATION In Syria, was killed during an airstrike by an international coalition an activist of the "Other Russia" The investigative group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) learned the names of the Russians who died in Syria on February 7 during an airstrike by the international anti-terrorist coalition under the command of the United States. this CIT announced on its Facebook page.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, was asked to allow businessman Gleb Fetisov, who is under house arrest, to travel to the United States so that he can attend the Oscar film award ceremony. Former senator from the Voronezh region Fetisov is the producer of the film "Dislike" directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, which was nominated for an award in the nomination "Best Foreign Language Film".

The State Border Service of Ukraine confirms the expulsion of politician Mikheil Saakashvili to Poland. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the adviser to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov. “U.l.e.t.e.l,” Biryukov wrote on his Facebook page. The speaker of the State Border Service, Oleg Slobodyan, confirmed to Hromadske that the politician had flown out of Ukraine. “How are people treated in any civilized country who do not have the right to be on its territory?

Photos Screenshot video of the Investigative Committee The search and rescue operation of the An-148 “Saratov Airlines” began the night before. It was complicated by weather conditions, the technique cleared snow so that rescuers could reach the crash site. The search continued all night, on Monday morning, the head of the Ministry of Emergencies, Vladimir Puchkov, announced that the experts had completed the rescue part of the operation.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the director of the Phoenix rehabilitation center, whose patient was actor Dmitry Maryanov, according to the website of the department. The director is suspected of illegally providing medical services without legal grounds and a license (part 1 of article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the department notes.