The cross of the Order of Victoria, the highest military award of Great Britain, was first awarded to a soldier for participating in the Afghan campaign, according to the official website of the British Ministry of Defense. Among the 14 military personnel who were awarded on February 26 of various insignia, there was a 27-year-old corporal of the parachute-long regiment Joshua Lika.

Nine people died as a result of shooting in the city of Tyrone in the south of Missouri, USA. According to preliminary data, the 38-year-old local resident shot eight people, and later committed suicide, reports Fox News . The night before, in four different places of the city, eight dead and one wounded were found. Also in a parked car found the body of the alleged killer. The motives of reprisals are unclear.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry, wrote on his twitter that the construction of the Eastern Cosmodrome in the Amur Region enters the finish line.

UNESCO General Director Irina Bokova proposed convening the UN Security Council for an emergency meeting in connection with the destruction of the cultural heritage of Iraq by the militants of the Islamic State. The BOKOVK statement was caused by the publication of the video in which the Islamists with sledgehammer destroy the statues and dump them from the permits in the Museum of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

NTV will show the third part of the film “Anatomy of Protest”. Its announcement is posted on the TV channel website. "Anatomy of Protest-3" will be aired on March 1. The announcement of the film states that in the third part we will talk about “who feeds our opposition and what is the content of Russian supporters of the Kyiv authorities”. Judging by Tiser, the main characters of the third part will be Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, as well as Mikhail Kasyanov.

Andrey Lankov On February 26, a seminar was held in the Turgenev library named after Turgenev, which was performed by the famous Korea specialist Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov. His story was devoted to changes in the life of the DPRK that occurred in recent years. According to Andrei Lankov, these changes are unexpected, but logical, and now we can say that a new era begins in North Korea. The DPRK seems to many as a state like the USSR not even the Brezhnev, but the Stalin era, while very poor.

In Voronezh, a member of the Party of the RPR-Parnas, one of the organizers of the Vesna march, Alexander Boldyrev, was attacked. This was announced on his Twitter by the leader of the Voronezh branch of the People’s Alliance party Anatoly Kravchenko. Three unknowns, one of whom was a mask, splashed the activist with a green in the face when he and his son walked along the street.

The ex-head of the Bank of the EFK Alexander Gutelson, accused of fraudulent embezzlement of almost 2 billion rubles, said that the global financial crisis prevented him from returning the money, Kommersant reports. According to the investigation, from May 2006 to May 2007, Gitelson, being the head of the BEFK and Inkasbank banks, abducted more than 2 billion rubles belonging to these joint -stock companies with the help of false documents.

On February 26, a seminar was held with changes in the life of the DPRK with the participation ofino, Associate Professor University Kukmin Andrei Nikolayevich Lankov. Read the details in the report of Maxim Rousseau “ Kim Jong -un in search of a solution” and see Natasha Chetverikova’s photo report.

The Russian government announced their readiness to urgently consider the issue of providing state support for the mining and metallurgical company Mechel. This was announced to reporters by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, TASS reports. Dvorkovich noted that the official appeal from the company has not yet been received.

During the beginning of February, the dollar decreased in the price of 7.15 rubles (10.4%), the euro fell by 8.65 rubles (11.1%). According to experts, Bloomberg , strengthening the ruble may turn out to be the most significant since 1993. On the Moscow Exchange, the dollar by 20:50 Moscow time cost 61.96 rubles (+0.81 rubles), the euro was traded at 69.33 rubles (+0.72 rubles to the level of the previous closure). The ruble is strengthened against the background of expensive oil.

Sergey Kiselev Photo: Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru We publish a continuation of the decryption of the lecture “Paradox of Stem cells”, which took place on February 9 in the central house of a journalist on the stage of the ProScience stage of the theater. The lecture was led by the chief researcher at the Institute of General Genetics named after Vavilov RAS Sergey Kiselev. The evening was also attended by actor Maxim Sukhanov and journalist Nikita Belogolovtsev, who acted as a presenter.

The Google Corporation bought a top -level domain .App (from Application - Appendix), offering $ 25 million at an auction. About this writes The Business Insider . Thus, the .App domain has become the most expensive of the bidding. In 2012, the ICANN International Organization, which regulates the domain market, decided to expand the total number of ending of the top-level Internet addresses. New domains have been sold at auction since June 2014.

The State Council of Crimea from March 1 introduced a ban on nationalization. It is reported by RIA Novosti . In addition, according to the resolution, before the distinction between the property between the Russian Federation, Crimea and municipalities, all state property that once belonging to Ukraine, and the ownerless property, as well as the nationalized movable and real estate, become the property of the republic.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a telephone conversation with the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, the press service of the Ukrainian president said this. The heads of state discussed the state of the implementation of the Minsk agreements to achieve a peaceful settlement in the Donbass. Poroshenko said that the Ukrainian side is fulfilling the Minsk agreements, unlike the militias of self -proclaimed DPR and LPR, who do not observe the ceasefire.