The International Monetary Fund approved the provision of financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 17.5 billion for a period of four years, AFP reports with reference to the head of the department Christine Lagard. As Kristin Lagarda explained, a new agreement with the Government of Ukraine is aimed at economic stabilization in the country.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed the withdrawal of weapons in Ukraine. It is reported by Reuters. At the same time, Stoltenberg noted that in the alliance they do not know anything about the place of weapons. In addition, NATO Secretary General once again called on the parties to the conflict to comply with the Minsk agreements. Stoltenberg also said that the alliance is disappointed with the decision of Russia to refuse to participate in the joint advisory group in DOVS.

Researchers managed to manage the development of working individuals of one of the types of ants, changing the size of insects almost doubled. It is especially interesting in this case that the change was achieved not by editing information in insect DNA, but by chemical impact on DNA. The study allows you to better understand how public insects epigenetic by reach the variety of forms in one family, despite the fact that genetically they are identical to each other.

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The Russian authorities have the right to place nuclear weapons throughout the country, including in Crimea. This was stated by the Director of the Department for Non -Proliferation and Control of the Arms of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Ulyanov, Interfax reports. “In the fundamental plan we proceed from what the right is (the placement of nuclear weapons in the Crimea - approx.“ Polit.ru ”) we have.

The permanent representative of Russia under the European Union Vladimir Chizhov noted the ambiguity of assessments within the EU Minsk agreements, Interfax reports. “All my experience in the field of conflictology suggests that after difficult and, we will directly call a spade a spade, bloody conflicts, the peace process inevitably encounters trials. There are always people who are not averse to letting him down.

The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights proposed a number of new measures to prevent election violations. This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the HRC mission on electoral rights Ilya Shablinsky. “In particular, it is proposed to abandon the legislative norm allowing the removal of election commissions from the premises of election commissions, observers and media representatives,” Shablinsky said.

The government, manufacturers and retailers will today hold the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at which the interaction of retail chains with suppliers will be discussed, sharply aggravated during the crisis, the Kommersant newspaper writes. This is the first meeting at a similar level, thanks to which the reform of the entire retail market may appear.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the country does not intend to restore its participation in the Treaty on ordinary Armed Forces in Europe (DOVS) under any circumstances, Interfax reports with reference to the director of the Department of non -proliferation and control of the arms of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Ulyanov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin could cancel his visit to Kazakhstan in connection with the disease, Reuters reports with reference to an anonymous source in the government of the republic. “The visit is canceled, it seems that Putin is sick,” the source said. Earlier it was reported that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will join the negotiations of Vladimir Putin and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The State Duma has submitted a bill on urgent measures to support the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. The author of the initiative was a deputy from the Communist Party Alexander Potapov, RIA Novosti reports. According to the document, it is proposed to allocate fuel, sowing materials and equipment for agricultural work in the affected areas to Donbass.

Before the next meeting of the joint advisory group (SCG) under an agreement on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS), the Russian Foreign Ministry said that he was refusing further consultations. Russia, thus, finally leaves Dovs.

March 11 marks 4 years since the accident at the Fukushima NPP in Japan. Stanislav Shabalev , Head of the Laboratory of Radio Ecological Fundamentals of Objects for the use of Atomic Energy and Radio Ecological Monitoring of OJSC Radiye Institute named after V.G. Khlopina ": My competence as a radiocologist includes a solution to certain problems related to security assessment.

On Tuesday, the Air Force fighters of the Italian Air Force rose over the Baltic Sea, due to the appearance of the Russian IL-78-78-refueling aircraft in the sky, according to the Twitter of the National Armed Forces of Latvia. “The Italian Typhoon fighters of the airspace of the Baltic of the Baltic NATO were raised to identify the IL-78 of the Russian Air Force over the Baltic Sea,” the message said. A similar case over the Baltic Sea occurred on February 9.

Scientists of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinsky House) found three previously unknown poems by Mikhail Lomonosov, TASS reports . The discovered verses were told by an employee of the Russian literature department of the XVIII century, the scientific secretary of the IRL RAS Andrei Kostin. All three works were created on the occasion of fireworks arranged in St. Petersburg, and published without the signature of the author.