The attention of the copyright holders was attracted by the Mail.ru service, which allows users to listen to musical compositions on their page. According to copyright holders, the company acts as an accomplice of the pirates, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. In the search line of the main page of Mail.ru, you can enter the name of the song and the name of the performer, after which the system gives the player playing this composition.

Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting at the London School of Economics that Russia “overcame the inferiority complex” and “got rid of the ambitions of the superpower,” BBC reports. The Foreign Minister emphasized that he did not see obstacles to the rapprochement of Russia and Britain, and also called on London to participate in pan -European modernization, part of which, “as in the time of Peter the Great,” is modernization in Russia.

The leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPP) Hashim Tachi lost the presidential post to the leader of the Alliance for the New Kosovo (ANC) Bedget Pacolly. He also announced the creation of the ruling coalition. Tachi himself will take the post of prime minister, overwhelms RIA Novosti . On the eve of the DPK and ANC, in recent days, active negotiations on the division of power in the framework of the future coalition.

The investigation abandoned the petition for the arrest of Ivan Nazarov, one of the main suspects in the case of the underground gambling business in the Moscow region. This was announced by businessman’s lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky. “The investigator withdrew his petition to change the preventive measure. Accordingly, this was all over, ”said the lawyer of Interfax . At the same time, Dobrovinsky believes that Nazarov will be detained in the new case.

In 2012, the US government plans to allocate $ 65 million through the State Department for various programs in Russia, which is $ 7 million less than last year. This was reported to reporters on Monday by the representative of the US State Department, ITAR-TASS reports.

B.Nemtsov, V. Milov and V. Ryzhkov could not prove in court that V. Putin defame their honor and dignity. The defendant’s lawyer explained that the charges were not concerned about them personally, but of some “others”. The court agreed. There is a detail, namely, the motivating part of the court decision, necessary for appeal, will be reported later. There is an obvious beauty in this - a decision that is made, and why - they will justify later.

Suspects were detained in explosions in Makeevka, Donetsk region. This was stated in the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the near future, the fact of the detention should be commented by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, Lieutenant General Nikolai Kupyansky, Ukrainian Pravda reports. Recall that at the end of January this year, two explosions thundered in Makeevka.

The shares of the Russian automotive company KAMAZ jumped on February 15 by almost 7% after the media published information about the proposal of the head of the Rostekhnology state corporation Sergei Chemezov to exchange part of the shares of the Kamyshinsky Automobile Plant for a 100% package of the Belarusian MAZ. The increase in prices for the KAMAZ shares significantly overtook the average market indicators. The MICEX index by 16:00 Moscow time rose only 0.2 percent to 1712 points.

Return to publications Poems for occasion Projects archive Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, accompanied by the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office, arrived today at the Kyiv railway station in Moscow to see how security is carried out in railway transport, ITAR-TASS reports. It is reported that the visit to the Kievsky station was not planned in advance on the president’s schedule. The President criticized the security, RIA Novosti reports.

More than 100 people could become infected with the disease of the legionnaires after a party in the famous Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in Los Angeles, City-FM reports. Currently, the Los Angeles Health Department is being studied. Guests from 30 countries of the world got to the hospital. The disease of the legionnaires is a sapronous bacterial infection, proceeding in the form of severe pneumonia with pronounced intoxication, as well as with lesions of the central nervous system and kidneys.

The chairman of the Constitutional Court (KS) Valery Zorkin supported the initiative of the Council for the Development of the Civil Society approved by Dmitry Medvedev to conduct an independent examination on the affairs of the ex-leaders of the Yukos and on the fact of death in the pre-trial detention center of a lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

In New York, on the night of February 14, a jazz pianist-virtuoso Sir George Shirin G. He was 91 years old. According to the media, the musician died of acute heart failure. George Shiring was born in London on August 13, 1919 in a working family, he was the youngest of nine children from birth. The future virtuoso was blind. The piano playing the width began to study from the age of three, but he did not receive a higher musical education, but preferred to play in local pubs.

Alexander Lebedev refused to take part in the week of Russian business in London. He explained his refusal by a deterioration in the business climate in Russia - the entrepreneur wrote about this in a letter published in his blog . “Unfortunately, the reason for my absence is the deterioration of the business climate in Russia, including the attack of corrupt law enforcement officials on my business (NRB (National Reserve Bank - Polit.ru), Airlines, Potato).

The information and analytical channel "Polit.ru" invites you to a conversation from the cycle "from the first person." On February 22 at 20:00 in the lecture of the Polytechnic Museum, our guest is an art critic, historian and theorist of architecture, art critic, observer of the Kommersant Publishing House Grigory Revzin . Topic: "Moscow without Luzhkov" What will remain in the future Moscow from Moscow Luzhkovskaya?

In the north-east of Mexico, unknown people shot the bus passengers. According to RIA Novosti , at least 18 people were killed, among them three children. Unknown people stopped the bus that made a flight along the Matamoros -Syudad Victoria route. After they opened fire from automatic weapons and killed, according to preliminary data, 18 passengers, including 3 children. The motives of the crime are still unclear.