The Ministry of Internal Affairs is preparing a government decree fixing the grounds for verification for intoxication of citizens, Kommersant reports. In the case of approval of the document, the intoxication threshold of 0.16 ppm will act not only for drivers, but also for other citizens.

Employees of Moscow law enforcement agencies detained over 150 illegal migrants in the south of the capital. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the Federal Migration Service in the city. The migrant workers were detained at the construction site of the medical center located on the Kashirskoye Shosse. All of them were taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for further proceedings.

Viktor Yanukovych turned to the Russian security forces with a request to ensure his personal security from the actions of the “extremists” who seized power in the country. This was reported by Interfax , at the disposal of which the text of Yanukovych’s statement was received. Yanukovych called himself a legally chosen president of Ukraine and called for returning the situation in the country in the constitutional field.

The reason for the collapse of the Robinson helicopter near Irkutsk in August 2013 was the lack of flight experience at night, Interfax reports. Such conclusions came the commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee. The pilot did not have appropriate preparation and admission to flights at night. On August 6, 2013, the helicopter crashed into the high bank of the river in the Kirensky district of the Irkutsk region.

Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen turned to the Denmark authorities with a request to allow the retail trade in marijuana on the streets of the capital. It is reported by Politiken . Jensen said that he has no doubt that the harm from the use of hashish is completely comparable to the harm from the use of alcoholic beverages. He also admitted that he tried this drug at one time. The mayor presented his project, which provides for the opening of six points on the implementation of Cannabis.

On February 25, a ceremony of signing an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Finland in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy was held in Helsinki. On the Russian side, the document was signed by the Director General of Rosatom State Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko, from Finland - Minister of Economy Jan Vapaavoori. The signed agreement creates a legal basis for further interaction between Russia and Finland in the field of nuclear technologies.

At an extraordinary plenary session, the Crimean Parliament adopted a decision on the holding of a referendum on the status of Crimea in Ukraine, reports Interfax-Ukraine . The Crimean Parliament - the Supreme Council - decided to hold a referendum on May 25, 2014, as the Presidium of the Autonomy Parliament sought .

In Mexico, unknown activists began the campaign for the liberation of the most wanted drug lord in the world of Joaquin Gusman Loer, reports Associated Press . In several Mexican cities, the distribution of leaflets is organized in which Loer is called the Hero of the Sinaloa state and demand from the authorities to free the drug lord. In shopping centers and at gas stations there were posters of similar content. Who is behind this campaign is unknown.

The Russian authorities satisfied Viktor Yanukovych’s request to ensure his personal security, Interfax reports with reference to a source in Russia's power structures. “Due to the fact that President Yanukovych appealed to the Russian authorities with a request to ensure his personal security, I inform that this request was satisfied in the Russian Federation,” the agency’s source said.

The North Korean army conducted military exercises, during which four ballistic missiles of a low -range of action were launched. It is reported by NHK . The launch was made at 12:42 Moscow time from the southeast coast towards the sea. According to preliminary data, these missiles are about 200 kilometers. The South Korean military men said that Pyongyang most likely experienced missiles like Skad.

A group of scientists from the United States published in the journal Nature Climate Change a message dedicated to the study of the influence of coastal windows on hurricanes. The calculations conducted by Mark Z. Jacobson , Christina L. Archer and Willett Kempton , large arrays of wind turbines with a total capacity of 300 gigavatts located on the coasts, can significantly weaken the force of the force hurricanes.

Anna Sakoyan WhatsApp photo: Crackberry.com On February 19, 2014, it became known that Facebook bought a WhatsApp mobile application for $ 19 billion. In the following days, this event was massively discussed in the media and blogs from a variety of points of view. Now a little more about each of the news points. Facebook is the world's largest social network, which occupies first places in the relevant ratings (in second place by some margin - Twitter).

Fighters of the disbanded police special forces "Berkut" may be involved in the seizure of the building of the Supreme Council of the Crimea of ​​the Crimea. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the "Fatherland" Gennady Moskal.

NASA experts discovered 715 new planets outside the solar system, reports Associated Press . On February 26, NASA officially confirmed that thanks to the Kepler telescope, 715 previously unknown planets were found outside the solar system. Thus, the number of planets known to science in our galaxy reached 1700. All new planets are located in star systems resembling sunny: many planets turn around the same star.

The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the party "Fatherland" Vitaly Yarem agreed to take the post of first deputy prime minister of the country. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the head of the "Fatherland" faction Arsenia Yatsenyuk. According to him, if the parliament supports the candidacy of Yarema, he will head the entire power block.