The Kostroma pensioner made a robbery on the Russian Post department, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Stepin, the attack occurred in the city of Nerekhta. Earlier, an incorrect man born in 1953 threatened the post office employees with a pistol, which turned out to be a toy. The pensioner managed to pick up 120 thousand rubles. The police detained the robber, the issue of arrest is being resolved.

On February 20, as a result of armed clashes in Kiev, three policemen were killed, more than 50 were injured, and 30 received gunshot wounds, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports . At the same time, starting from February 18, turned over 500 law enforcement officers to doctors. 110 of them were diagnosed with gunshot wounds, 63 employees of internal affairs bodies are in serious condition.

The Ural truck with military personnel of the 25th airborne brigade of Ukraine rolled over on the way to Kiev, the site of Dnepropetrovsk reports . Three military personnel died, nine were injured. The military prosecutor's office of the southern region of Ukraine confirmed these figures. According to eyewitnesses, in the area of ​​the village of Peschanka, the driver of a truck who was walking in a column could not cope with management.

The Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serving a 20-year imprisonment in an American prison, conducted a second medical examination. This was announced by his mother Lyubov Yaroshenko, Interfax reports. The results of the examination are still unclear. “Kostya (Yaroshenko) was talking to an English doctor, he was not provided with a translator. Based on the words of the doctors, he concluded that he had problems with the heart muscle.

Broker Andrew Green, who, as he claims, became the prototype of the hero Nicky Koscoff from the film “Wolf with Wall Street”, filed a lawsuit for $ 25 million to the creators of the tape, writes The Guardian . According to Green, it was he who became the prototype of the hero of Koscoff, who is ridiculed in the film because of the wig. In 1993-1996, Green worked at Stratton Oakmont as the head of the corporate finance department and a member of the board of directors.

In German Stuttgart (Federal Land of Baden-Württemberg), three former SS men were arrested, who were suspected of being guards at the Auschwitz concentration camp, reports DPA . Three men aged 88, 92 and 94 years went to the preliminary report. In their places of residence, searches were performed. According to the German prosecutor’s office, the detainees underwent a medical examination, after which the judge confirmed the possibility of their imprisonment in the prison hospital.

The daughter of the famous Russian entrepreneur Igor Artamonov Polina was discovered dead in her own room of the hostel of the elite London school. It is reported by Evening Standard . The girl was found unconscious in her own room, but the doctors who arrived at the place could not save the life of the 17-year-old Artamonova. The tests of her blood showed a strong content of alcohol and medicines, which allowed the forensic experts to put forward an assumption of suicide.

The fur coats with a total value of 19 million rubles were stolen from the Moscow store, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, unknown people penetrated the fur interior located on Bolshaya Dmitrovka on the night of February 20. The criminals carried out a fur coat and fur products with a total value of about 19 million rubles from the store. A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of theft.

Police in Kiev used military weapons in order to provide assistance to unarmed colleagues under fire, according to the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. According to the department, military weapons were used by law enforcement officers in the framework of the Law on Police. Unarmed police officers were fired by snipers and participants in the riots, clarifies the Ministry of Internal Affairs. To assist colleagues, armed police arrived at the scene.

Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to send with a mission to Kyiv the Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, ITAR-TASS reports. Lukin is sent to participate in negotiations with the opposition as an intermediary. Earlier, Putin held a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on the initiative of the Ukrainian side.

March 27, 2014 (Thursday), in the framework of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru, will be Varvara Yuryevna Vedenina - candidate of biological sciences, acting Head. Laboratory for processing the sensory information of IPPI RAS. Lecture theme: "Sexual selection: Theory against practice." Annotation: Why are males and females so different from each other? How do sexual differences appear in size, shape, color and behavior?

The Minister of Foreign Minister of European countries who arrived in Kyiv did not meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. It is reported by Reuters . It is reported that the head of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeyer, together with his French and Polish colleagues, Laurent Fabius and Radoslav Sikorsky canceled the meeting with both Yanukovych and the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition and left the country.

At least 64 people became victims of armed clashes between law enforcement officers and demonstrators in Kyiv on February 18. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Department of Health of the Kiev City State Administration. According to doctors, by 17:00 Moscow time on February 20, 551 victims applied to the city hospitals, 332 of which needed hospitalization. Meanwhile, representatives of the opposition claim that this figure is much higher in reality.

Two people became victims of an accident in the southeast of Moscow, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the capital’s traffic police, the accident occurred on the outside of the third transport ring in the area of ​​23/12 house on Avtozavodskaya Street. The Ford car driver made a collision with a truck that stood in the right row. As a result of the accident, the Ford driver and his passenger died, the truck driver was hospitalized with injuries.

Oleg Znarok, who heads Dynamo (Moscow), can replace Zinetul Bilyaletdinov as head coach of the Russian hockey team (Moscow), reports Sport-Express . The effect of the Bilyaletdinov contract with the Russian Hockey Federation ends on July 1, 2014, but the unsuccessful performance of the Russian hockey team at the Olympic Games in Sochi raised the question of the early retirement of the coach.