The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the BBDO Moscow advertising agency announced on February 19 the launch of the “Click on Assistance” project, the purpose of which is to convey to the wide audience the problems of protecting white bears and finding funds for the protection of animals. On Allforbear.com, any user can add another ice to the virtual habitat of white bears with one click of mouse. At the same time, a blue cell of water, turning into an ice floe, will receive the name of its creator.

The winner of the musical television project of the First Channel “Voice” Dina Garipova will introduce Russia at the Eurovision-2013 contest. This was announced by the director of public relations of the television channel Larisa Krymova, RIA Novosti reports. It is known that Garipova will perform with the song What if. The first channel, which is the broadcaster of Eurovision-2013 in Russia, was supposed to independently determine the participant of the competition.

The “support of Russia” hastily prepares an appeal to the first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov with a request to urgently collect a small business commission to him to decide how to live on. The situation that has developed in this area of ​​the economy explains the Russian Newspaper , otherwise you can’t call a disaster.

In accordance with the decision of the government until 2020, 11 new reserves, as well as 18 national parks and one federal reserve, will be created. In addition, the territory of the twelve already existing reserves will be increased, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on February 19 in his video blog . In Russia, more than 212 million hectares of protected protected areas.

The Syrian authorities estimated the damage from the civil war, which lasted since 2011, in one trillion of Syrian pounds (about $ 14 billion), SANA state news agency reports with reference to the statement of the Minister of Local Self -Government Omar Galyavindzhi. Data on the scale of damage was presented by the government commission to restore the destroyed areas. The amount of damage is compiled taking into account the events of what happened before January 10, 2013.

The Belarusian and Russian sides agreed on the conditions for the unification of MAZ and KamAZ enterprises in the Rosbelavto holding. This was announced by the chairman of the State Committee for Property of Belarus, Georgy Kuznetsov, Interfax reports. “We agreed with the assessment of KamAZ, Russians - with the estimate of MAZ, we bring 75% of the shares of MAZ to the holding, and we reserve a block -package,” Kuznetsov explained.

From today, the owners of plastic cards issued by Russian banks can transfer the necessary amounts from the card account to their wallet in the largest service of electronic payments in the Yandex.Money Runet, the Yandex press service reports. To replenish Yandex-Kosel, it is now not necessary to attach a card to it, look for an ATM or set up an Internet banking to it.

Russia will not support any pressure measures on Pyongyangs that will harm trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, Interfax reports with reference to the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov. “Any pressure measures to the DPRK should concern exclusively the spheres of non -proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile launches.

Ilya Karpyuk Maxim Kuzmin Photo: Facebook/Alan Shatto The Texas Children's Protection Service officially confirmed that she received a report on the violent death of the three -year -old Maxim Kuzmin, who, after adoption, received the name Max Alan Shatto. Speech, according to the representative of the department, is about cruelty to children. In addition to the service of children's protection, the police officer is investigated by the child’s death.

The Federation Council will prepare a draft state program that will endow the leading engineering universities of the country with the status of immunity, Yuri Solonin, deputy chairman of the Education Committee on Education of the upper house, told Izvestia . This is done in order to free the leading technical universities of the country from inspections for efficiency and possible mergers with weak institutions.

On the White House website on February 19, the collection of signatures under the petition on the recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the fact of the occupation of Armenia 20% Azerbaijani territories ended. At the end of the signature collection, the petition collected 100 thousand 533 votes. Thus, the required number of votes for considering the document by the US Presidential Administration was gained.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed placing the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in Moscow, Interfax reports. The head of state emphasized that the transfer of a book assembly in the United States, which is insisted by the Hasida movement "Khabad Lyubavic", is unacceptable.

The company "Mosstroy", in which the Moscow government and Sberbank belongs to 50%, received the first mansions for the implementation of the project of a comprehensive reconstruction of the center of the capital entitled "The New Form of Moscow", RBC Daily reports. According to the publication, the Moscow authorities in exchange for the additional mining of shares of a joint venture transfer 13 real estate objects with a total area of ​​8.6 thousand square meters. m.

In the first month of 2013, the production of vodka, according to Rosstat, fell by 30%, and individual plants almost completely stopped work. The decline is recorded in all main federal manufacturers. Less "green brand" (the Polish Central European Distribution Corporation, the Topaz plant), "white" ("synergy"), Putinka ("Crystal") began to be produced.

20-year-old Adam A Lans A , who shot 26 people at the Sandy Hook school, wanted to kill more people than the Norwegian terrorist Andres Breivik, CBS reports. According to a law enforcement source, Lanza, inspired by cruel video games, wanted to arrange correspondence “competitions” with a Brayvik, whose victims were 77 people. As the source in the police explained, Lanza chose the Sandy Hook school, since it was a “lightest target” with a “big cluster of people”.