On one of the mines in the Belgorod region, the breed collapses, one person died, the press service of the regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports. The collapse occurred on the mine in the village of Yakovlevo. Two workers were able to independently get out of the rubble. On February 11, a methane explosion at a depth of 800 meters occurred at the Vorkutinskaya mine in the Komi Republic. At the time of the accident, 259 people were underground. 19 people died.

The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Vladimir Puchkov, was the first of the federal officials to be the winner of the Business Success 2012 contest for attentive attitude to small and medium-sized enterprises, Interfax reports. Vladimir Puchkov was chosen the winner in the nomination "Officer of the Year". He was handed a statuette in the form of a “golden jack” ─ a symbol of the effort that are made to raise a small business.

The American film director, Oscars, Stephen Spielberg, will lead the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, Agency France-Presse reports. “The director’s works cover a wide range ─ from entertainment films, to serious reflection on history, racism and the conditions of human existence,” ─ the press release of the Cannes festival said.

According to the results of the future electoral cycle, which will begin in 2016 with the State Duma elections, the current power will retain the majority, but it will be coalition.

Tyumen scientists have created a new type of environmentally friendly fuel, which will be cheaper than gasoline, the department of public relations of the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University reports.

The American Senate approved the head of the administration of the President of Barack Obama, Jack Lew as the head of the US Department of Finance, reports Reuters . For the candidacy of the 57-year-old democrat, Jack Lew voted 71 senator, including 20 representatives of the Republican Party, against ─ 26. Until recently, he served as head of the US Presidential Administration Barack Obama, who nominated his candidacy for the post of head of the Ministry of Finance.

The developers of the National Corps of the Russian Language announced the opening of a new historical corps within the framework of this project. This is the corps of Central Russian texts of the XV - early XVIII century, the volume of which was three million of usage. The corps included literary works, annals, lives, business letters, articles, household correspondence. At the moment, a search for accurate forms (without morphological marking) is available in the Central Russian Corps.

In order to make it profitable to replace the beef with cone and make cheap semi -finished products on its basis, the meat is taken from horses that were not originally intended for eating, the representative of the Konina supplier in the Russian Federation, who wished to remain unnamed, told Kommersant . “It can be old or already dead animals who have paid for themselves and who are given to the slaughterhouse for a penny,” he explained.

In the case of the plastic surgeon Vladimir Tapiy, who was arrested on suspicion of sexual violence against his children, new episodes appeared, according to Life News. Investigators found out that crimes were committed not only in Russia, but also during trips to resorts - to the Seychelles and to Turkey. In total, seven new episodes were identified.

In large Russian cities, an elite housing may appear on the site of investigative insulators and pre -trial detention centers, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko. According to him, the FSIN already in 2013 is ready to start working to move the pre -trial detention center and prisons beyond large cities.

The non -partisan head of the Trans -Baikal Territory Ravil Geniatulin was actually dismissed (officially - his powers expire on March 1). Instead of him, the deputy, Seser Konstantin Ilkovsky, was appointed temporarily acting governor. The governor of the Vladimir region, the Communist Nikolai Vinogradov, according to media reports, must share his fate in the coming days.

He passed for almost a year since Vladimir Putin again, for the third time, was elected President of Russia - time to evaluate the successes of the new/old president. And the Russians evaluate them in their own way. As the Levada Center survey shows, the dynamics of these assessments is not that very large-Putin personally does not lose in the eyes of Russians and does not add. Those who believe that Putin during his reign brought the country more good than bad - 65 percent.

Anna Sakoyan Silvio Berlusconi Photo: FrontIerenews.it On February 24-25, 2013, early parliamentary elections were held in Italy, the result of which caused a strong resonance at the international level and, as a result, gave rise to numerous issues, forecasts and interpretations. The media for the most part formulate the result of the vote as a “suspended” parliament, which, probably, will have to dissolve in the shortest possible time, after which there will be new elections.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denied the information that a boy who suffered in a ski resort in Italy is a Russian citizen, RIA Novosti reports. The Italian authorities officially informed the Russian consulate in Milan that we are talking about a teenager from the Netherlands. Currently, he is located in the hospital of the city of Sondalo, his condition does not cause concern.

The Krasnodar Ecologist Suren Gazaryan, who left Russia, is nominated for the Award of the International Non -State Organization “Reporters Without Borders”, which protects the freedom of the press, journalists and Internet users. On the eve of “Reporters without borders” on their website announced the launch of the campaign to support Netizen cyberDissants. On the Internet, the word Netizen indicates fighters for freedom of dissemination of information on the network.