US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFol said that after the Sochi Olympics, he intends to return home. He wrote about this on his blog on Livejournal. “This is my last blog as an ambassador of the United States in the Russian Federation. Soon after the Olympics, I plan to return to the family in California. After more than five years of work in the administration of President Obama, it was time to return home, ”said McFol.

The message about the fall of the aircraft on the border of Kolyma and Chukotka turned out to be a trick of the radio hooligans, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the Russian Office of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Bugakov, the message about the fall of a small aircraft came to employees of the administration of the settlement of Markov on Chukotka on February 3. Rescuers flew out to assist the victims in the crash, but the search for several hours did not give results.

The Central Bank recognized systematically significant and transferred to the special regime of the supervision of Gazprombank, Promsvyazbank and Raiffeisenbank, Izvestia reports. According to the publication, by orders of January 30, 2013 No. 102, No. 103 and No.

The French prosecutor's office began a preliminary investigation against the Closer tabloid after the friend of France President Francois Hollande actress Julie Gaea accused of an encroachment on private life, reports Le Monde . The actress went to court due to the publication of the pictures in which she is driving her car.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the opening of the 126th session of the International Olympic Committee in Sochi, RIA Novosti reports. The session will last until February 7 - the day of the opening of the Olympic Games. According to Putin, at the end of the Games, Olympic objects and their infrastructure will form the basis of the first International Center for Winter Sports in Russia. There will be training in Russian national teams.

The senior sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, wounded by a student of Moscow school No. 263, came into consciousness, Interfax reports. According to the deputy mayor of Moscow on the social development issues Leonid Pesatnikov, the pressure and pulse of the injured policeman is normal. With further positive dynamics by the end of the day on February 4, or the next morning, Krokhin will be removed from the artificial respiration apparatus.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Muhammad Javad Zarif assigned the difficulties in relations with the United States to Washington, accusing the American side of intentionally distorting the text by Iranian nuclear dossier. It is reported by IRNA . According to Zarif, such actions on the part of the United States led to the inability of Iranian banks to open letters of credit for the supply of food and medications.

The authorities of North Korea accused the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe of militarism for trying to amend the Constitution of the country and compared it to Adolf Hitler. It is reported by France Presse . So, the DPRK leadership interpreted Tokyo's concern about the nuclear program of Pyongyang as a possible preposition for the beginning of armed expansion by Japan.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has developed a bill “On Amendments to Article 1157 of the third part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation”, which limits the circle of persons in favor of which can be abandoned, Kommersant reports. The bill was prepared by the Ministry of Justice in the execution of the Resolution of the Constitutional Court of December 23, 2013, which states that the legal regulation of the aimed refusal of the inheritance must be specified.

The Ukrainian customs service detained the Polish container with humanitarian aid for the participants of the Euromaidan, reports Polish Radio . The organizers of the supply of humanitarian aid claim that during the preparation and sending of the goods, all the requirements of Ukrainian legislation were complied with, but ten tons of the humanitarian cargo were blocked at customs. The container contains warm clothes, sleeping bags, dressings.

In Kyiv, an activist of the Opposition Party "Big" Albert Padyukov was hospitalized with severe stab wounds as a result of a street attack. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the chairman of the executive committee of the metropolitan branch of the Oleg Garyaga faction. According to Garyaga, Padyukov was attacked when he returned home from the picket of the Desnyansk administration.

The lawyers of the Primorsky partisans announced the injustice of the conclusions of the jury and the intention to appeal the decision of the jury and the court, the Interfax reports. According to the lawyer of one of the defendants, the announced verdict is unreasonably harsh. There is no evidence base, the jury conclusions are based on the recognition of the client of a lawyer who subsequently refused to recognize, the defender said.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a bill providing for the creation of a military police in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is reported by Interfax . The text of the document regulates the powers of this body, which, in particular, will carry out the functions of inquiry. In addition, the military police will protect the rights of military personnel and civilian personnel of the army, as well as the protection of military facilities.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the Railways claim against Apple to recover two million rubles of a fine for violation of exclusive intellectual property rights, RIA Novosti reports. It is reported that the decision can be appealed within a month. We are talking about using the Russian Railways trademark in the Apple Store online store by placing the image.

Viktor Kruglyakov, the head of the Moscow City Duma Commission, proposed excluding mathematics from mandatory items when passing the exam, Interfax reports. The official recalled that the Russian language is taken into account everywhere, and mathematics is not in all universities. At the same time, the official of grade, according to the results of the 9th grade, urged the official. Currently, mathematics and the Russian language remain obligatory for passing the exam.