The militants in Darfur captured 52 UN peacekeepers, most hostages from Senegal, Reuters reported on Monday. “We hold (in our own), Yunumid military personnel, because they penetrated our territory without permission and since they were accompanied by three Sudanists, whom we suspect of work on the special services,” the agency quoted the representative of the militants. Circumbles, as well as the requirements of the bandits, are not yet reported.

The habit of building your own business mainly at the expense of borrowed funds, which many sinned before the 2008 crisis, cost more than one Russian entrepreneur. Someone managed to adapt their business to new economic realities and keep an honest name, while others, without returning borrowed money, use various “holes” in the legislation and still fight “annoying” creditors. Rosbalt tells about this. "One of these stories was told to the publication in Sberbank of Russia.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, accepting credentials on Monday of the Japanese ambassador Tikakhito Harada, suggested that Japan build a nuclear power plant in the republic, BelTA reports. “If you decide to build a nuclear power plant somewhere, Belarus should be on the list of the first,” the Belarusian president said. - You must build a beautiful, good nuclear power plant with us, and the Japanese can do it, in my opinion, no worse, but much better than those who can do it.

Russians are the main buyers of exclusive real estate in the most prestigious resorts on the southern coast of Spain, where the cost of villas ranges from 5 to 7 million euros, Deutsche Welle reports with reference to the Confidencial newspaper. As noted in the article, it is the Russians who save the local real estate market, which is experiencing a deep crisis. In a short time, they acquired several thousand units of expensive property.

The opposition rally, held last Sunday during the day on the roads of Moscow, complicated the situation with traffic jams. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs blames the participants of the action, the organizers - traffic cops who staged an accident, and Mosvodokanal.

Putin’s thoughts about defense, obviously, were inspired by officials from the Ministry of Defense and the lobbyists of the “defense”. The army will be cut to the teeth, but only in order to maintain sovereignty, and the call will remain. “Defense” will be a driver of an innovative economy. In the first I even believe, in the second - with difficulty.

The issue of Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article by Vladimir Putin "To be strong: guarantees of national security for Russia." The author of the article sets the task of “learning” to look beyond the horizon, evaluate the nature of threats at 30-50 years ahead ”, calling this“ a serious task that requires mobilizing the possibilities of civil and military science, algorithms of reliable, long-term forecast ”.

The nearest opposition action "Living Ring" on the garden ring and "Seeing the Putin winter in the form of a flash mob" will be held on February 26. One of the organizers of the rally "For honest elections", coordinator of " Left Front " Sergey Udaltsov previously reported that the action It will begin at 16:00 in Moscow time And numbers Not Must exceed thousand Human . Participants in the action, holding hands, are going to close the circle on the garden ring.

The criminal case was instituted on the fact of the explosion in the bakery on the territory of the military unit in the village of Gorki-25, near Moscow, as a result of which two people were killed and 13 were injured, the RIA Novosti website reports. On February 19, in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region, an explosion of a gas cylinder occurred in a closed military village of Gorki-25.

The Moldavian parliament adopted in the first reading the law on the protection of his sky. In case of its entry into force, unwanted aircraft, including “side” with supply for Russian peacekeepers in the region, will be lost.

We publish the speech of journalist Grigory Okhotin, who was supposed to be uttered on February 20 at a meeting of a public colleague for complaints about the press.

Recently, people have come to you at every rally and offer to sign up for observing presidential elections. And there is a feeling of brotherhood! It seems that observation (behind the voting observing commissions), and on the other hand, eliminating the observers from the observation, becomes a national idea and a national game. On the one hand, it all, of course, is very pleasing to me, since it indicates a real waking up (from the word to wake up, and not wake up) of civil society.

The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will take the guitar aboard the International Space Station and will perform several songs in orbit. One of them was written by his brother and is dedicated to those who rise on rockets into space. In addition, he plans to conduct about 100 experiments, he will control the Canadarm-2 remote manipulator, and in his free time he intends to record the Cosmic Songs on the CD, the Voice of Russia reports.

Russia invited Ukraine to resume negotiations on reducing gas prices. Moscow took this step after discounts - on average by 10 percent - have achieved European companies, Kommersant writes. According to the newspaper, for Ukraine we are talking about the same 10 percent and only if the entire previously contracted fuel is purchased. As the sources of the publication told, negotiations that were frozen in mid -January may resume this week.

OJSC Togliattiazot made a statement that the media organized a campaign to discredit the joint -stock company, and inaccurate data on its activities and the management of the company were given. The press service has spread " Interfax ". The press service of Togliattiazot calls the data given in the media with the false and defamable company reputation.