The Board of Directors of Aeroflot OJSC published a list of candidates for the board of directors. This was reported on the official website of the airline. In the list of 14 candidates, of which 11 will be elected at the upcoming next meeting on June 24, there is no surname of the opposition public figure and blogger Alexei Navalny, but the one -year -old son of Egor and the co -owner of Aeroflot Alexander Lebedev appeared.

The police accused the former prefect of the Northern District of Moscow Oleg Mitvol in pressure on the investigation, after he stated that the search was carried out in violation of the law, the press service of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate reports. “Stormy information activity that Oleg Mitvol developed in the media around him searches pursues one single goal - to put pressure on the investigation and, thus, try to evade responsibility,” the police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that increases social payments to non-working parents, raising children with disabilities, Interfax reports. The amount of such payments is 5.5 thousand rubles. According to the agency, they have been charged from January 1, 2013 along with a social pension for a child, which is also increasing. Vladimir Putin reported this on Tuesday at a meeting of the Council for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy.

The new novel by Viktor Pelevin “Batman Apollo” can be purchased in bookstores in March 2013, according to the website of the publishing house “Eksmo”. The new novel tells about the protests that took place in the spring and summer of last year in Moscow. In addition, it will be possible to learn about the similarity of Dracula and Krishna and the personality of Batman Apollo. The thickness of the book was 512 pages, and its circulation - 150 thousand copies.

The Nigerian government demanded 500 thousand dollars from Russia for withdrawing an arrest from the detained Russian ship Myre Seadiver, whose sailors were previously released, Interfax reports with reference to Russian ambassador to Nigeria Alexander Polyakov. It is not yet known whether Moscow has made any decision on this subject. On October 19, the Nigerian authorities detained the Myre Seadriver ship, on board of which there were fifteen Russian sailors.

The Russian press enthusiastically discusses the Berlin meeting of US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting in the capital of Germany, which takes place on February 26, can launch the discharge and a decrease in the intensity of discussion regarding the deployment of the global NATO missile defense system.

On Monday, February 24, more than two hundred “thieves in law” gathered to celebrate 40 days from the death of the Patriarch of the criminal world of grandfather Hassan. The commemoration took place southwest of Moscow, in the Korston hotel complex, reports Moskovsky Komsomolets . In the morning, authorities from all over Russia and the CIS countries began to come here. Among the guests there were especially many Slavic and Belarusian "thieves in law", the newspaper notes.

Numerous protest of hackers under the slogans “Kaspersky Go Home” and “Save Hacker's Jobs! Stop Kaspersky Lab! ” I took place in Barcelona at the pavilions of the exhibition of the World Mobile Congress passing there, CNews reports.

Greece police put on the wanted list of two women who are suspected of organizing the escape of the participant of the anarchist group “Conspiracy of Fiery Males”. As the sources in the police say, one of the women is a Russian woman, the other Romanian, RIA Novosti reports citing the ERT TV channel. The escape of the Panayotis of Versi, convicted of the abduction of a famous shipowner in 2009, was supposed to occur on February 24, but the police managed to prevent it.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin dismissed the heads of the districts of the district of the airport Nikolai Titov and the Timiryazevsky district Sergey Yuryev, RBC reports. The relevant orders have already been signed. According to the documents, officials were dismissed "on their own initiative." Titov was appointed head of the council in October 2011, Yuryev in August 2012. At the same time, Sobyanin made one personnel appointment, reported Vesti.ru .

The meeting in Berlin of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the new US Secretary of State John Kerry, who will take place today, February 26, may be a breakthrough for the Russian-American negotiations on the missile defense , Kommersant writes. According to the newspaper, the presidents of Russia and the USA can exchange political declarations at the highest level on the principles of cooperation in the field of pro.

The Ukrainian design bureau (GKB) South agreed with the Russian version of the causes of the Zenit missiles under the Marine Start program, according to which an emergency run occurred due to the failure of the on-board power source (BIM), developed and produced by partners from Yuzhmash, Interfax reports. At the same time, the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau noted that the work of the Zenit accident commission, created by the South and Yuzhmash GKB, has not yet been completed.

The Titan Forestry Company signed an agreement with the WWF and Greenpeace of Russia on the moratorium on cutting 70 thousand hectares of valuable forests that will become part of the Dvinsko-Pinezhsky designed reserve in the Arkhangelsk region, WWF reports.

The largest film company “Lenfilm” will be named after film director Alexei German Sr., RIA Novosti reports. According to the director of the film studio Eduard Pichugin, the studio employees made such an initiative. On February 25, the proposal was unanimously supported by the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture and the owner of the studio - the Federal Property Management Agency should be announced on this issue.

Five Russian citizens convicted of theft in the Finnish city of Rovaniei were expelled from Finland to Russia. One of them, a 27-year-old man, was caught from a coat of 239 euros stolen from a store. Four more Russians, two women and two men 25-30 years old, trained theft of things in the local Rinteenkulma shopping center. They found stolen things worth several hundred euros, unwell Yle.fi. Most of the stolen things managed to return the owners.