27 people died, about 30 more were injured as a result of a collision of two trains near Brussels. The collision occurred near Brussels. The report notes that the clash occurred in conditions of heavy snowfall. The seriously wounded is taken to the nearest hospital. Passengers receive psychological assistance in a nearby sports center. At the scene of the accident, doctors and representatives of emergency services work.

Already this year, most likely in the near Moscow Region, the construction of an analogue of the American Silicon Valley will begin, the first deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov, who is the curator of this project, told the Vedomosti newspaper. The idea of ​​creating an innovative valley belongs to Dmitry Medvedev, Surkov said.

Autotor Kaliningrad Plant is ready to redeem the IZHAVTO plant last year, Vedomosti writes. According to the newspaper, for 100% of Izavto shares, Avtotor is ready to pay $ 35-40 million. He also sent a proposal to Sberbank. Sberbank is the largest creditor of the plant, in the pledge of which is 75% of Izavto shares. According to the newspaper, Autotor also has an alternative proposal - to redeem the control package of Izavto shares and finish it up to $ 100 million in it.

The Japanese automaker Toyota is going to withdraw the American market cars again, BBC reports. This time, to respond with Tacoma cars. About 8 thousand cars will be withdrawn due to defective front shafts of the machine. The company's statement says that cracks can lead to the front shaft separation from the car, which can cause loss of control. Toyota intends to start notification of pickup owners in mid -March.

The Blok Yulia Tymoshenko intends to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine in the near future to challenge the results of the presidential election of Ukraine, UNIAN reports. “Today, a maximum of tomorrow, we are filing a complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine,” said the chairman of the Bloc, Ivan Kirilenko, at the Constituent Council.

At today's meeting in parliament, the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan Nurlan Tursunkulov publicly admitted that law enforcement officers are using torture in the investigation of criminal cases, Radio Liberty reports. According to Tursunkulov, the Prosecutor General’s Office “intends to fight” with this. According to the Prosecutor General, in 2009, 32 criminal cases were instituted on the facts of the use of torture, 2 years ago there were only 20 such cases.

The Russian Internet company Rambler Media also key to the struggle for the ICQ Internet mixer, put up for the sale of the American AOL, Kommersant writes. The publication notes that the main applicants for the purchase are still considered by the Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies (Mail.ru, "Odnoklassniki.ru", "In Contact, Facebook) and the South African group Naspers.

The number of unemployed citizens registered in the employment service bodies of Russia increased by 1.2% in a week and amounted to 2 million 232 thousand people on February 10, news agencies report. The report of the Ministry of Economic Development says that the growth of unemployed citizens registered in the employment service was observed in 73 subjects of Russia (Sakhalin and Astrakhan regions, the Republic of Adygea and Sakha /Yakutia /, the Republic of Kalmykia).

The body of the Georgian sanitary fork Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died tragically at the Olympic Games, will be delivered to Georgia at the end of the examination, said the Minister of Culture, Sports and Protection of the Monuments, Nikoloz Rurois, “Imady”.

Mikhail Kulikov was appointed vice president of Twel OJSC, the company's press service reports. His responsibilities will include the development and implementation of the strategy created on the basis of TVEL OJSC of the fuel company, determining new areas of business development, building the effective interaction of the Labor Code with the Rosatom State Corporation in terms of industry strategic planning.

The Government of Georgia is seeking to give the terms "occupation" and "ethnic cleaning" in connection with the actions of Russia at the international level of legal status. This was reported on Monday at a briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Deputy Minister Nino Kalandadze, reports Novosti-Georgia . According to her, this issue will be discussed at negotiations held today in Tbilisi with a delegation of Denmark in PACA.

The upcoming meeting of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave rise to a scandal inside the Israeli delegation, the Israeli agency Kursor reports with reference to the Maariv newspaper. According to the report, the office of the head of government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel could not agree on exactly who would take part in the meeting of Netanyahu and Medvedev.

The Duma of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Ugra unanimously approved Natalia Komarov as the governor of the region. The presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko expressed confidence that Komarova "will become the successor to the pursuing policy in the district, and will also ensure a new dynamics in the development of the district." “A lot of Ugra Governor Alexander Filipenko did a lot for the region for the region.

The British writer Dick Francis, the author of more than 40 detective bestsellers, died on Sunday on February 14 in his house on the Kaiman Islands at the age of 89, news agencies report. Francis, a native of Wales, was carried away by horse riding after the Second World War, where he served as a fighter pilot. Francis has 345 victories on the account, however, experts in races remember him from the incident that happened in 1956 during the most prestigious Grand National tournament in the UK.

The head of the unofficial Union of the Poles of Belarus Angelica Boris was fined at 30 basic units (1 million 50 thousand Belarusian rubles - about $ 350). The Grodno court found her guilty of organizing on February 10 in the Grodno unauthorized rally in support of the Ivenstskaya organization of St. Petersburg, headed by Teresa Sobol.