The self -propelled artillery installation burned down while following the landfill of the Russian military base in South Ossetia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the headquarters of the Southern Military District. On February 25, while following the landfill of the artillery unit of the 4th Russian military base, the SAU engine was ignited. “As a result of the fire of self -propelled guns, a detonation of powder charges to an artillery shot occurred.

The regime of a counter -terrorism operation (LO) was introduced in four settlements of the Kizilyurt district of the Republic of Dagestan. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the operational headquarters in the republic. “Who was introduced in the settlements of Sultan-Yangiurt, Nechaevka, Kirovaul, Chontowea,” the representative of the department said.

Moscow turned to the OSCE representatives with an appeal to urgently instruct her mission in Ukraine to monitor the withdrawal of weapons with the parties to the conflict in the Donbass, provided for by the Minsk agreements. This was stated by Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with the head of the Senate of France Gerard Larsche, RIA Novosti reports.

The United States considers the issue of tightening sanctions against Russia in the coming days. Today, Secretary of State John Kerry announced this position of the American authorities, emphasizing that the head of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov may enter the new sanctions list, TASS notes.

The Federation Council ratified the agreement on the creation of the BRICS countries Bank. It is reported by RIA Novosti . It is planned that the BRICS development bank will begin its activities by the end of 2015 and will work in full force after 4-5 years. In the summer of this year, the first meeting of the BRICS board of directors will be held in Ufa, at which decisions will be made on the candidacy of the chairman and deputy chairman of the Bank of BRICS.

The European Commission made a proposal for a separate accounting for gas supplies to the Donbass and the Ukrainian “Naftogaz”. This was reported by TASS , referring to the vice president of EX Marosh Shefchovich. “At the moment, we have conflicting information from both sides regarding gas supplies to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. At the moment, the issue of supplies to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the question of separate accounting for costs. This is my proposal.

A two -time Olympic winner in kayaking rowing, Australian Naitan Bagheili admitted to the production of methamphetamine, reports The Guardian . The 39-year-old athlete was charged with drug production. The athlete himself admitted that he was really involved in the opening of two underground laboratories for the production of amphetamine. Recall, Baghely was arrested in November 2013. Together with him, his brother Drew is accused of drug production.

The preliminary results of the autopsy of the former son -in -law of the President of Kazakhstan Rakhat Aliyev confirm the version of suicide. This was stated by the deputy head of the prosecutor's office of Vienna Herhard Yarosh, Interfax reports. “According to preliminary results, there are no signs of guilt of third parties,” Yarosh said.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine announced violations by Gazprom under a contract for the supply of gas to Ukraine, Interfax reports. Naftogaz also emphasized that the supply of Russian gas to Europe through a special operation zone in eastern Ukraine are impossible.

The special monitoring mission of the OSCE in Ukraine recorded the withdrawal of several columns of heavy armament of the militias, this was reported in the daily report of the mission published on the organization’s website . The report specifies that the equipment was discharged from the demarcation line in Makeevka and near Ambrosievka.

Researcher from the University of Oslo Christian Stenset and his colleagues studied changes in weather conditions in Europe on annual rings of trees and compared the results obtained with data on 7700 outbursts of plague in Europe, starting with an epidemic of black death in the XIV century, ended with the great London plague of 1665.

More than 200 arsenals for modern weapons will appear in the east of Russia. Arsenals will be located in the territories of the Far East and Transbaikalia, Interfax reports citing a statement by the head of the press service of the Eastern Military District Alexander Gordeev. The construction of arsenals has already begun.

In Kyiv, a correspondent of the Russian NTV television channel Andrei Grigoryev was detained. Information about this was published on the television company. It is reported that Grigoryev was in the center of the Ukrainian capital, where the action of the Right Sector of the nationalist organization prohibited in Russia today takes place today. People who asked him to present documents approached the journalist.

Dmitry Leontyev Photo: Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru On March 23, as part of the Proscience Theater, psychologist Dmitry Leontyev will talk about the psychology of choice. The topic of the speech: “How a person chooses. The look of a psychologist.

An interesting fact was recorded by attentive observers at the parade on May 9 last year: Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu suddenly appeared with a new order, blogger Sergei Sigachev reports on his page in LiveJournal. The Order of Andrew the First -Called with swords after restoration in 1998 was never awarded to anyone in the military version. This fact was publicly captured in the media, but there is no presidential decree on the award of Shoigu by this order in the public domain.