The Government of the Russian Federation is discussing the possibility of using maternity capital for one -time cash payments, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin. As the minister specified, answering the question of journalists, the corresponding decision on this score has not yet been made.

A number of Western European countries are trying to restore military contacts with the Russian Federation, the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Anatoly Antonov said, TASS reports. According to Antonov, over the past two months, the capital has visited several high -ranking delegations on a visit. The deputy head of the Ministry of Defense said that the restoration of military contacts was discussed in the negotiations.

Brazilian doctors, after tests of two patients infected with Zik virus, said they found an active virus in the samples of saliva and urine, reports Reuters . Now scientists have to check whether the pathogen can be transmitted, for example, through a kiss. Previously, it became known that the Zika virus can be transmitted sexually. The US resident was registered after sexual contact with a person who traveled through Venezuela and infected there.

On February 12, Cuba will witness a historical event. For the first time, the heads of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches will meet. At Jose Marty International Airport in Havana, Patriarch Kirill and the Pope will discuss persecution of Christians, the situation in the Middle East, as well as issues of bilateral relations. The first to announce the Vatican about the meeting today, then the Russian Orthodox Church confirmed this information.

In the news agency, TASS in Moscow conducts investigative actions, including searches. As the rain reports, this information is confirmed by the TASS communications department. The interlocutors of the TV channel clarified that searches are carried out against one of the employees of the news agency "in connection with its previous place of work." The name of the employee is not called.

Public discussions in the format of a round table for the justification of the license (they) for the implementation of activities in the field of atomic energy use “The construction of the storage of radioactive waste and the treatment of radioactive waste during their storage, processing and transportation for the“ CTR-III nuclear power plant ”are recognized as held. During their preparation and conduct, all the requirements of federal legislation were complied with.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation began an audit in relation to the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin under the relevant statements of the Corruption Fund of opposition Alexei Navalny. Navalny wrote about this on his blog.

The French law enforcement agencies prevented the attack that was going to arrange the Islamists who arrived in the country, AFP reports. According to France Prime Minister Manuel Valsa, the searches conducted as part of a state of emergency operating in the framework of the terrorist attack allowed plans to prepare a terrorist attack. “The criminal chains are broken. A large number of people were discovered and controlled, ” said the waltz, speaking on Friday in the National Assembly of France.

February 4, 2016 (Thursday) as part of the Public Lectures project Polit.ru ” with a lecture“ 50 Shades of Biotechnology ”was made by a popularizer of science, candidate of biological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute for Problems of Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Council of the Evolution Foundation Alexander Pancechin. Read the report of Maxim Rousseau “Three Whales of Biotechnology” and see the photo report Natasha Chetverikova.

The head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Ilarion, Metropolitan Ilarion, explained that the meeting of the Patriarch and Pontiff, as previously expected, will take place on neutral territory, and Cuba, by all sign, is such a place, Interfax reports. “Cuba satisfies all the signs of such a neutral territory. In addition, Cuba is a part of the region where Christianity is developing dynamically, ”added Hierarch.

The first issue of Playboy magazine without a half -naked model can be considered a betrayal of glorious ideals and a sign of the end of the world - although in fact, of course, nothing happened. There is a business, eroticism now go on the Internet, and not to a newspaper kiosk, so that the magazine has begun reorientation for adolescents, although not the most solvent, but a very susceptible audience to advertising.

Apparently, in the near future, another governor will leave his post. This time, RBC, citing anonymous interlocutors, escorts Andrei Shevelev, the head of the Tver region. The term of his authority formally ends only in July, but if in the Kremlin in any case they do not want to see him at the head of the region, then he should appoint a new acting governor to prepare for the elections early.

In early February 2016, there were several statements regarding the situation with sanctions against Russia and Russian counter -sanctions. In fact, these statements are in a wider context dating back to the summer-autumn of 2015, when some EU countries began to express dissatisfaction with continuing sanctions. At the end of January, Forbes argued that France was hinting that it would support the lifting of sanctions from Russia in July.

Simon Zhavoronkov USE Rosobrnadzor Schoolchildren on the exam, finally, can be prohibited by the use of cell phones. Rather, it is also forbidden to use them - but this stops few, now the state plans to use signal blockers everywhere, while passing the exams. Also, similar equipment may appear, for example, in theaters and even in churches.

The Russian government announced a tariff network indicating the maximum tariffs for travel on paid federal roads. The corresponding document was posted on February 5 on the official Internet portal of legal information. It says that on roads that are not built on the basis of concessions, it will be possible to drive for a maximum of 3 rubles/km (cars), 4.5 rubles/km (double -axle cars from 2 meters to 2.6 meters), 6 rubles/km (double -axle cars from 2.6 meters and above).