On February 6, as part of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru, the Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexander Igorevich Bufetov , a leading researcher at the Steklov mathematical Institute, a leading researcher at the IPPI RAS, a professor at the faculty of mathematics of the Higher School of Economics, director of research of the National Center for Scientific Research in France (CNRS), performed. The theme of his lecture “Case mathematics. The history of probability theory.

Moscow police officers began to search for a man who escaped from police officers suspected of storing drugs. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city. The incident occurred in the evening on Thursday February 6. In the territory of the Southeast District of Moscow, law enforcement officers detained a 30-year-old man who found a “bundle with a white powder substance”.

The Google Internet search engine created a rainbow dudl (title picture of the site), dedicated to the beginning of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The image shows various winter sports against the background of rainbow colors. At the bottom of the picture, the search engine publishes an excerpt from the Olympic Charter: “Sports is one of the rights of man.

The passenger of the flight Kharkov-Stambul tried to send the plane in Sochi due to the fact that there was supposedly there was a bomb on board, reports Associated Press with reference to an employee of the Turkish Ministry of Transport. According to Khabib Soluk, the plane landed safely at one of Istanbul airports. Representatives of the competent authorities convince the passenger who raised the alarm to surrender.

Andrey Vinokurov On February 6, the State Duma Committee on Constitutional and State Law discussed amendments to the law on the election of State Duma deputies, offering a return to a mixed system, when half of the deputies are elected in single -mandate districts. The approval was received by proposals for serious filters for parties that do not have representation in the regions in legislative assemblies, and restricting the electoral rights of convicts on grave and especially grave articles.

Ilya Karpyuk Nursultan Nazarbayev Photo: Akorda.kz President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev publicly reflected on the renaming of his country. This happened at a meeting with the public of the city of Atyrau, which took place in an intellectual chemical and biological school. The logic of the head of state was quite peculiar.

The police of the American city of Miluoi found a streamed violin stolen 10 days ago in the attic of the house of one of three suspects in theft, Fox News reports. According to police, a violin, the cost of which is estimated at $ 5 million, was found in a suitcase. It is in excellent condition and will soon be transferred to its owner - the musician of the symphony orchestra of Miluo Frank Almond.

In a number of Russian regions, weekly epidemic thresholds of the incidence of influenza and SARS among children are exceeded, a significant threshold for incidence is expected in the second decade of February, Interfax reports with reference to the acting head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova. According to her, in the whole in Russia there is a slow increase in incidence, but there are no grounds for a sharp surge yet.

American actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will come to Sochi to the Olympics, Interfax reports with reference to representatives of the Russian travel company, which issued them a ticket. As stated in the travel agency, the couple will stay in Sochi for several days. Their visit will be private. Pitt and Jolie should fly to the capital of the Winter Olympiad on February 7, on the day of its opening.

The US authorities expressed their readiness to provide serious material assistance to Ukraine, provided that a number of necessary reforms are conducting. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the performance of the Deputy Secretary of State for Europe and Asia Victoria Nuland at a press conference in Kiev.

Over 300 students of the US Women's Free Arts College of Free Arts signed a petition demanding to remove an excessively naturalistic monument depicting a man-lunatic dressed in panties, writes Metro . In a man made in the style of hyperrealism, his mouth is slightly ajar, and his hands are extended forward. At the same time, he is indistinguishable from an ordinary person who went out into the street.

The Moscow authorities promised to stop all unauthorized measures in the event of the opposition of “festivities” in support of the Rain TV channel on Saturday February 7. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the capital's regional security department Alexei Mayorov.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation refused to initiate a procedure on deprivation of deputy inviolability against the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications of Alexei Mitrofanov in connection with information about his involvement in the extortion of 200 thousand dollars from the capital's businessman. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the deputy prosecutor general Viktor Green.

The writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was summoned to the Investigative Committee on suspicion of gay propaganda, the Russian BBC service reports. According to the writer, the investigators were interested in the book of Vera Timenchik “The Family and Others”, published as part of the project “Another, another, about others”, which oversees Ulitskaya. In the book, said Ulitskaya, “There is a small insert” that there are homosexual families in the world. “In this text, this is just a statement of fact.

February 6, 2014 (Thursday) as part of the Public Lectures project Polit.ru ”, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Alexander Bufetov, lectured on“ Case mathematics. The history of probability theory. " Alexander Igorevich spoke about one of the great achievements of mathematics of the twentieth century - the formation of probabilities as a strict mathematical theory, the main role in which was played by Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov .