State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov told reporters that during the “government hour” at the plenary meeting of the State Duma on Wednesday, February 15, he presented a report on the situation in the army in connection with the increasing cases of hazing. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov will speak, the Polit.ru correspondent reports. Gryzlov noted that this would be the main issue on the agenda; deputies would ask the minister questions regarding the events in Chelyabinsk.

On Monday evening, in Italy, a bus with tourists broke north-west of Rome, reports Ar . As a result of the accident, 10 passengers died, several more people were seriously injured. In total, there were about 30 tourists from Turkey on the bus.

Thousands of copies of the student newspaper in one of the British universities were seized and destroyed after she published caricatures with the Prophet Muhammad. According to Tuesday, a press secretary of the student union of the University of Cardiff, almost all copies of the 10,000th circulation were destroyed, writes Gazeta.ru . “The membership of the newspaper editor and three students in the Union was suspended during the investigation,” the press secretary said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that his influence on the parliament is greatly exaggerated. “My influence on the Duma, of course, is significant, but it is greatly exaggerated, because on some issues, you know, the deputies have their own opinion.

The State Duma introduced a bill aimed at increasing the responsibility of drivers for violation of traffic rules (traffic rules). "The bill prepared by us is tightening responsibility for violations on the roads and, above all, for serious violations," said Vladimir Pligin, the head of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction, on Tuesday, the head of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction.

Starting from 6:00 local time (from 8:00 Moscow time), the Paris Airport of Orley cannot accept and send planes, ITAR-TASS reports. As a result of the strike of air dispatchers, the activities of the second most important airport in the French capital are practically paralyzed, which provides flights on internal airlines and executes part of international flights. Ruassi Airport - Charles de Gaulle functions normally.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** In Moscow: A meeting of the Commission of the Council of the Federation on natural monopolies will be held, at which the draft amendments to the law "On Energy Savings" and the Law "On the General Principles of the Organization of Legislative (Representative) and Executive Bodies of State power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation" will be held.

Vladimir Putin praised the FSB of Russia for the work on arranging state borders and noted that it is also necessary to act in the fight against terrorism, RIA Novosti reports. “This is the same to work by solving the main task in the fight against terrorists - to purposefully beat at the right point, by all caves, look for these caves and destroy, like rats that hide there,” Putin said, speaking at the expanded collegium of the FSB of Russia.

We publish a recording of the discussion of the book of a professor at the University of California in Berkeley Yuri Slovkin “Era Mercury. Jews in the modern world”. The dean of the faculty of political science of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences Vladimir Malakhov was discussed.

Singapore authorities resolutely stop any attempts by the Muslim population to express solidarity with co -religionists, the dissatisfied publication of cartoons in a number of European and Asian newspapers, RIA Novosti reports. Today, the Singapore police ordered to remove the emerges that appeared shortly after the emergence of publications from the door of the cafe, which do not recommend visiting the institutions of Denmark to citizens.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin at a meeting with members of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts Z. Tsereteli , A. Bichukov , A. Kharkin , M. Kurilko-Ryumin , T. Salakhov expressed regret that culture was not among the priority national projects, and promised that the state would pay attention to the development of this sphere.

To return the Sosnovka-1 summer cottage, the Federal Property Management Agency must be applied directly to the ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. This opinion was expressed by State Duma deputy Alexander Hinshtein, who initiated the consideration of this case, RIA Novosti reports. On February 2, the Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the auction for the sale of the Sosnovka-1 summer cottage.

The body of the border guard who committed suicide at the border outpost on Sakhalin, sent to the Tver region, from where he was called to the service, the site Sakhalin.info reports. According to the deputy military prosecutor Alexander Chekhovsky, during preliminary investigative measures, the facts of the application of non -state relations that could lead to the adoption of suicide decisions were not revealed.

In Chechnya, as a result of the explosion of the building of the Battalion of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Vostok, according to preliminary data, killed 6 and 13 people were injured. This was announced by a source in the Republican Ministry of Emergencies. He noted that this is preliminary data. More accurate numbers will be known after rescuers disassemble the rubble. The incident occurred today at about 20.30 Moscow time in the territory of the specified battalion.

Today, the last session of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada is opening before the election. Until the end of March, the authorities will try not only to extinguish the political crisis, but also to consolidate its supporters to defeat the opposition. Parties and blocks that the majority will form in the new composition of the Verkhovna Rada will in the future will be able to control the executive branch, the “Independent Gazeta” reports. .