The Avtodor State Corporation and the Moscow Region on February 7 signed an agreement on the construction of the Central Ring Road - TsKADA. The road should take a distance of 50 km from the Moscow Ring Road and will become its alternative. The temporary acting governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov said that the road will cost 300-350 billion rubles, the first section should be launched already in 2016, and it is planned to complete the construction in 2025.

A team of scientists from the USA, Denmark, Australia and China, having examined the DNA of the rock pigeon (Columba livia), found that the center of origin of most pigeon breeds is the Middle East. They reported this in an article published in the journal Science . The researchers sequenced the specimen genome of this species, as well as a number of genomes representing individual populations and breeds.

Dmitry Vinogradov, who shot his colleagues in Moscow last November, was recognized as sane. This was reported on Friday by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

The apartment in New York, which last week was assigned to Russian Senator Vitaly Malkin, did not belong to him and never belonged. According to the news-RF publication, the senator lawyers are already considering the possibility of applying to the court with claims to the media who have spread unverified and inaccurate information.

The spoiled picture of Eugene Delacrois “Freedom on the barricades” is completely restored. The traces of the marker, with which the fabric on the eve was painted by the unknown, are cleansed, Interfax reports with reference to the leadership of the Paris Louvre. “The integrity of the picture was not violated in any way, since the inscription did not penetrate deeply. She remained on the surface of the varnish, not saturated with the lower layers, ”the agency was told in the museum.

The Presnensky court of Moscow granted the claim of the partnership of housing owners (HOA) against the daughter of singer Joseph Kobzon Natalya Rappoport and ordered her to pay more than a million rubles, Interfax reports.

On February 8, the Day of Russian Science is celebrated. Nikolai Kuzelev , Deputy Director for Science of the Scientific Research Institute of Introscopy of the MNPO "Spectrum", Professor MIFI: The Day of Science, which we celebrate on February 8, makes it possible not only to congratulate all scientists and specialists on the holiday. On this day, you are especially extinguished about the place, position, prospects of atomic science.

The Football Police will appear in Russia, however, so far only in Moscow. More precisely, on the eve of the renewal of the Russian football championship, an event was held with the participation of representatives of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow and the football Premier League, where they said that the department for work with football fans was created on the basis of the 20th Criminal Investigation Department of the GUVD. The news in a certain sense is positive.

In the territorial waters of Cameroon, the unknown persons captured the Esther-C ship, on board of which there are two Russians, the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports. The Esther-Ts vessel under the British flag was captured on the evening of February 6 between the Cameruns port of the Dual and the Ecuatogvinean Malabo. Currently, employees of the Russian Embassy in Cameroon establish the identities of captured sailors.

The leadership of the Bolshoi Theater can sue the artist of Ballet Nikolai Cescaridze for his statements in the press. Now lawyers are studying them, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the theater press secretary Katerina Novikova. Earlier, in a conversation with the BBC correspondent , Tsiscaridze said that the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater was trying to discredit it and called on the authorities to consider the issue of their dismissal.

Extradeed yesterday to Moscow from Poland, the main accused in a loud criminal case of roofing by law enforcement officers of the underground casinos in the suburbs, the former first deputy prosecutor of Mosoblast, Alexander Ignatenko, according to his loved ones, glad to return to his homeland. For 13 months spent in Polish insulators, he lost his health, appetite, weight and even Russian speech skills, one of the friends of the ex-prosecutor told Kommersant .

The ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov spoke about the “possible mutual assistance” between him and the leader of the Civil Platform party Mikhail Prokhorov in the elections to the Moscow City Duma in 2014. The ex-mayor stated this " Kommersant ". When asked how he will help, Luzhkov replied: "Not with money for sure." “I have such a good feeling to Prokhorov. He helped a lot when I was the mayor, and without any material interest,” Luzhkov noted.

February 8 is Russian Science Day. Ivan Grachev , Chairman of the Energy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation: The nuclear industry is one of the industries that have retained scientific potential. I often communicate with the older generation, and in the nuclear field there are really high-class scientists.

Russian ballet artist, People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Tsiscaridze accused the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater of attempts to discredit it and called on the authorities to dismiss all theater leaders, BBC reports “The government must dismiss the entire administration, because this cannot be behaved like this. It is impossible to slander an innocent person, to force to bear responsibility for what he has nothing to do with it, ”said Tsiscaridze.

Today, February 8, 2013, the III All -Russian Festival of Science starts in Moscow. By tradition, the festival opens on the day of Russian science. Both of these events will be celebrated by the performance of the astronomer, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, senior researcher at the GISH of Moscow State University Vladimir Surdin .