In Moscow, robbers armed with pistols committed a robbery on Cheburechny, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the metropolitan police, the attack occurred in the early morning of February 12. Two young people entered the room of Cheburechny and, threatening employees with weapons, took 160 rubles, five Cheburs and four cans of gas. The police managed to detain robbers in less than two hours. Pneumatic pistols were seized from the detainees.

The leadership of the International Union of Cyclists was aware that Lance Armstrong took doping, reports The Daily Mail with reference to the former Massagor of the US Postal team Emma O'Reili. According to O'raili, in 1998, doping commissars in her presence were twice the head of the US Postal team Johan Bruinelu that Armstrong failed a doping test and offered to meet to solve the problem.

As a result of the accident, a man died on the Moscow Ring Road, Interfax reports. According to the metropolitan traffic police, the accident occurred at the 55th km of the inner ring of the road. The BMW car crashed into a truck standing on the spot. The BMW driver died from injuries. The cause and circumstances of the accident are established.

Russian woman Elena Nikitina took third place in Skeleton competitions at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Interfax reports. The first place went to the British Elizabeth Yarnold. Silver turned out to be American Noel Picus Pis. The Russian national team has 12 medals at the Sochi Olympics: 2 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze.

The German national ski team member of Felix Neooreter got into a car accident when he was traveling to the Munich airport to go to Sochi to participate in the Olympic Games. It is reported by ARD . According to preliminary data, the 29-year-old athlete lost control on a slippery road and crashed into a chipper. He is currently in the hospital with suspicion of damage to the cervical spine.

A check from a grenade found on board the aircraft of the Ukrainian airline at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the Jerusalem Post reports. All passengers from the plane were evacuated. Their luggage was also removed from the side and checked. As a result, no dangerous items were found.

The First Deputy Mayor of Yoshkar-Ola Pavel Plotnikov became a defendant in the criminal case to exceed official powers. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office in the Republic of Mari El. According to investigators, in March 2009, Plotnikov, taking advantage of his high -ranking status, illegally transferred 355 city roads with a total length of 229 kilometers into the municipal unitary enterprise “City”.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the debtors will be sent by e -mail notifications. His words are given by RIA Novosti . It is also supposed to reduce the term for the prohibition of traveling abroad for such citizens. According to Medvedev, the notifications of the judicial acts should reach debtors as soon as possible. Currently, the Ministry of Communications is developing a state postal Internet system for sending letters.

One of the most authoritative organizations uniting Russian writers-the Russian Pen-Center-made a statement on a violation of the constitutional rights of citizens to freedom of speech and obtaining and disseminating information. The authors of the document list recent events that can be regarded as attacks on these rights and urge the state in the person of its relevant institutions to defend constitutional rights and freedoms.

This year, gas and electricity tariffs for the population will grow by 4.2%, Interfax reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development Sergey Belyakov. According to him, from this year, recalculating the amount of tariff indexation on actual inflation of 2013 will not be. Earlier it became known that the debts of Russians for housing and communal services, according to the results of 2013, reached 259 billion rubles.

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbangul Berdimuhamedov released 859 convicts, signing a decree on a pardon dedicated to the Day of the State Flag. It is reported by CA-News . Among these prisoners, both local residents and citizens of foreign states were also included. According to the text of the document, all of them will have to be released before the holiday. “We provide these people with a chance to return to a decent life and honestly ate aton their guilt,” the head of state said.

By May of this year, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) will prepare for the government a list of measures aimed at developing the economy. This was reported by Prime with reference to the meeting of the head of the RSPP Alexander Shokhin with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The head of the Sberbank CIB Sberbank investment unit Andrei Donskoy leaves his post. This was reported on the organization’s website . The date of dismissal is not yet known. As the head of Sberbank German Gref explained, the decision to dismiss was mutual. After the Donskoy’s dismissal, his post is temporarily occupied by the senior vice president of the bank, Alexander Bazarov. The reasons for dismissal are also not specified.

The last of the previously detained 234 participants in the Euromaidan in Ukraine was released from custody, the opposition “headquarters of the national resistance” said, the newspaper Today writes. According to the headquarters, the Goloseevsky District Court of Kyiv released the last activist of the Maidan - Dmitry Poltavtsu, detained on January 23 on Grushevsky Street for participating in the riots.

The Savelovsky court of Moscow rejected the lawsuit of the wife of singer Stas Mikhailov Inna to recover two million rubles from the magazine Caravan of Stories. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the press service of the court. The reason for the lawsuit was the publication in the February issue of the magazine for 2013 the article “ Game of one Gate”, in which the ex -husband of Inna revealed the details of their relationship.