The number of people who died as a result of an earthquake in the New Zealand city of Kraistcherch increased to 113 people, 228 are missing, ITAR-TASS reports today with reference to the data of the local police. The main hospital of Kraistcherch is full of people injured. According to the latest data, the number of wounded already exceeded 2.5 thousand people. International rescue teams, which include specialists from the USA, Japan and Taiwan, continue to disassemble the rubble.

South Korea sends through the border with the DPRK balloons that deliver clothes, medicines, as well as propaganda leaflets to the republic. According to Yonhap , these leaflets inform the DPRK residents about uprisings who swept through the countries of the Middle East. Listers warn the North Koreans about the consequences of the Kim Jong Ira regime, and also talk about unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, where the demonstrators managed to get rid of the many years of dictatorship of their leaders.

The network of special centers for the forced treatment of drug addicts who have committed crimes of small and moderate severity related to their drug addiction, ”suggests recreated by the Federal Drug Control Service. These closed-type centers with intensive supervision can be an alternative to a prison term for drug addicts, said Oleg Safonov, Deputy Director of the State Directorate of State Directorate of State Directorate, said ITAR-TASS .

The second in the morning of the Ministry of Emergencies flew out of the Libyan port of SIRT at 8.00 Moscow time, RIA Novosti was told in the information department of the Extraordinary Department. Il-76 took to the air 95 passengers on board. Before flying to Russia, the aircraft will land in Istanbul. After foreign citizens leave the plane, he will continue to fly to Russia. The first aircraft of the Ministry of Emergencies flew out of Sirte at 6:10 Moscow time.

Near the presidential administration, FSO officers detained a young man who brought a letter about the attack. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. A certain 19-year-old young man came to Ilyinka House 3 and handed over a letter in which it was written that in the near future a terrorist attack would occur in Moscow. He was detained and he said that his name is Dmitry Wise and he works as a courier in the Classic company.

Kirill Rogov Russia entered the third cycle of its post -Soviet history. Although the contours of this cycle are not yet clear to us, we are already in it, and it is its results that will be summed up around 2020, it is its results that will form the appearance of the country near this date. Polit.ru publishes an article by Kirill Rogov , in which the author analyzes the post -Soviet history that has passed twenty years and discusses what the third decade will be for Russia.

Russia entered the third cycle of its post -Soviet history. Although the contours of this cycle are not yet clear to us, we are already in it, and it is its results that will be summed up around 2020, it is its results that will form the appearance of the country near this date. Polit.ru publishes an article by Kirill Rogov , in which the author analyzes the post -Soviet history that has passed twenty years and discusses what the third decade will be for Russia.

Evgenia Chirikova, the main defender of the Khimkinsky forest, will not be taken away by children, Pavel Astakhov, Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation for Child Rights, assures. Earlier, a letter was sent to the guardianship authorities of the city of Khimki stating that Evgenia Chirikova contains his children in bad conditions.

Alexander Lukashenko said today that at the political level, Russia and Belarus resolved the basic issues of supplying Russian energy resources. It is reported by the Air Force . “I have a wish to the Minister of Energy, Alexander Lake, do not hide Semashko behind his back [the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government].

Nikolai Goryunov The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky, with all his shocking image, is a very experienced and prudent politician. No wonder he has been holding strong positions in the highest echelons of power for many years. Zhirinovsky always holds his nose in the wind and first turns in the right direction when the conjuncture changes.

All the highest police officials dismissed by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev wrote a statement of care of their own free will, they told Interfax in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. As Polit.ru previously reported , Medvedev fired seven generals and one colonel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On February 24, 2011, the Board of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society supported its colleagues from the Moscow Mathematical Society regarding the project of a high school standard. The resolution notes that the authors of the standard discredited themselves by the preparation of "such a illiterate and harmful document." This was announced by Polit.ru Secretary of St. Petersburg Andrei Lodkin. The discussion of the document took place from February 15 to 22.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed amendments to the Federal Law “On Compulsory Social Insurance” regarding the special procedure for calculating “maternity” money and childcare benefits under the age of 1.5 years. According to the law, in the case of a woman leaves for maternity leave or childcare, she will have the right to independently choose the formula for calculating the corresponding manual: according to a new or old scheme.

On February 11-14, 2011, the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) conducted a survey on a representative sample of 1600 Russians aged 18 years and older than 130 settlements of 45 regions of the country. The distribution of answers to some research questions are given as a percentage of the total number of respondents. The statistical error of these studies does not exceed 3.4%. 77% of Russians speak out against the new educational standard.

The Kennan Institute announced the acceptance of applications for the Styropendes named after Galina Starovotova for 2011-2011. Research projects can be in a wide range of topics in the field of protecting human rights, the confrontation of xenophobia, the development of democratic institutions and freedom of the press.