The mayor of Yekaterinburg, the founder of the City without drugs, Yevgeny Roizman, was questioned as a witness in the criminal case of the Vice President of the Yevgeny Malenkin Foundation, ITAR-TASS reports. The interrogation concerned the episode about the illegal circulation of technical means that allowed to conduct hidden audio and video recording. As Roizman explained to reporters, during a search in a “city without drugs” they found a watch that had a recording device.

Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko described the decision not to replace Evgenia Plushenko with Maxim Kovtun as the right one, Interfax reports. Replacing Plushenko with Kovtun, declared by a spare member of the Russian Olympic team, was possible after the team tournament. However, after discussing this possibility with the coach and doctors, Plushenko said that he would be able to speak further.

In Denmark, they can kill another giraffe living in captivity, according to the British newspaper The Guardian . The decision to euthanize the seven -year giraffe Marius can be made by the leadership of the Yullands Park Zoo in the west of Denmark. This zoo takes part in the European breeding program. Now this zoo contains two giraffes-samks, and the program obliges the female giraffe to settle there.

The pastor of one Protestant community in Virginia allowed his flock to come to worship in the bare form and holds worship in the costume of Adam. At the same time, the argumentation of the pastor is not at all fundamentalist, but quite modernist. This can be heard from the Orthodox: they say, too stringent requirements for the appearance of parishioners in the church. There was also fundamentalism there, a reference to Adam and Eve.

In all schools of the second largest population of the city of Kyrgyzstan, Osh is prohibited from the celebration of St. Valentine's Day or the Day of all lovers, Interfax reports. Compliance with the ban is given to the personal responsibility of the directors of Osh schools. In school premises, in particular, it is forbidden to hang mailboxes on February 14 to send valentines.

People's Artist of Russia, an actor of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Georgy Martynyuk died on Thursday, February 13, after a long illness, the theater press service reports . The actor was 73 years old. The civilian memorial service will take place on February 17 and will begin at 10:00 in the theater. Martynyuk was born on March 3, 1940 in Orenburg. Since 1962 he worked at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where he played more than 60 roles.

In the north-east of Moscow, an unknown native of Dagestan was shot dead, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The wounded man was discovered by passers -by on Milashenkov Street in the Butyrsky district of the capital. Arriving doctors established a 46-year-old man in the head, in serious condition, he was taken to the hospital, where he died, without regaining consciousness. It is known that the deceased is a resident of the Botlikh district of Dagestan.

The Federal Service for Supervision in the field of transport called the reason for the distance from the rails in the Chelyabinsk region the unsatisfactory maintenance of the railway track, the press service of the Rostransnadzor reports. This version is considered by the department as preliminary. The investigation continues. On February 12, 31 cars with coal came off the rails in the Chelyabinsk Region on the stage of the ridge-Ural Railway in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The social network VKontakte and the torrent tracker Rutracker.org are included in the list of violators of intellectual property rights prepared by the US trade representative.

At least 13 people became victims of bad weather in the United States, The Chicago Tribune reports. Strong snow and ice storms fell to the southeast of the United States. Due to the unprecedented cold weather, a state of emergency has been announced in the state of South Carolina. Flights were canceled in a number of other states, a motor transport message was partially blocked. More than 500 thousand buildings were left without electricity.

On February 20, 2014 (Thursday), as part of the Moscow International International Festival of Visual Anthropology “Camera-Mideman”, a show of the film “Ritigance of Newmbus Ntobo: Women's Wedding” about how families from the same women are obtained in Tanzania. Polit.ru acts as an information partner of film screenings and lectures. The poster of film lectures and shows of the films of the festival of visual anthropology in 2014.

The Russian biathlete, the silver medalist of the Olympics in Sochi Olga Vilukhina will not participate in an individual race. In the application published on the official website of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia, there is no surname. Earlier it was reported that Vilukhina can skip an individual race at a distance of 15 kilometers due to a cold. The Russian team in the race will be represented by Olga Zaitseva, Yana Romanova, Ekaterina Glazyrina and Olga Podchufarova.

Russian skaters Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar said they were considering participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea, Interfax reports. Athletes emphasized that they are going to relax for some time, but return to the ice for the competition in Korea. In any case, they plan to take part in the team standings. Trankov explained that how he and his partner are ready to help young athletes.

Forward of the Russian national hockey team Ilya Kovalchuk scored the third goal of Slovenia at the Olympics in Sochi. The score is 3: 2. Kovalchuk received a program at the 38th minute from Evgeny Malkin and Alexander Radulov. A minute later, the striker of Slovenia Ziga Elich, who became the author of the first goal against the Russians, scored a second puck. The first goal for Russia at the Olympic Games in Sochi was scored by Alexander Ovechkin.

Alexey Muravyov "Adam and Eve" Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto The pastor of one Protestant community in Virginia allowed his flock to come to worship in the bare form and holds worship in the costume of Adam. At the same time, the argumentation of the pastor is not at all fundamentalist, but quite modernist. This can be heard from the Orthodox: they say, too stringent requirements for the appearance of parishioners in the church. There was also fundamentalism there, a reference to Adam and Eve.