The High Court of London yesterday sentenced former head of Mezhprombank Sergei Pugachev in absentia to two years in prison for contempt of court. The ex-senator from Tuva, whose extradition Russia is seeking, was found guilty on 12 counts. Last summer he defied a court ban on leaving the UK and went to France. Based on the verdict, the French authorities cannot extradite the former banker.

The press conference held on February 11 at the Russian State Library (RSL) became a demonstration of intentions. The leadership of the library expressed their readiness to conduct a dialogue with the scientific community and with its help, perhaps, to receive support for wounds and Ministry of Defense, and scientists - to help the library avoid mistakes in the modernization process. Both sides also in categorical formed against the idea of ​​building a new RSL building in Kommunarka.

At his historical meeting at the Airport of Havana, Patriarch Kirill and the Pope Francis presented symbolic presentations to each other, and also signed a pre -agreed declaration , which, in particular, refers to the inadmissibility of “justification of criminal acts with religious slogans”.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, said that the governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili suggested that he head the new government of Ukraine. This happened shortly before their public conflict in December 2015, Avakov said to the Mirror of the Week . “Saakashvili a couple of days before he publicly call me a thief and treated to a glass of water for rudeness, sat in my office and suggested:“ Let's agree.

In the building of the capital's shopping and entertainment center, Afimall City did not find an explosive device, a source in emergency services of the city told the Moscow agency. Earlier, according to him, an ownerless object was found in Afimall City. People were evacuated from the shopping center. Also today in Moscow, the White Dacha and Atrium shopping center were evacuated . In total, 7.5 thousand people were bred due to the threat of the explosion.

Natalia Demina Finally launched renovation of the RSGB photo by N. Demina The press conference held on February 11 at the Russian State Library (RSL) became a demonstration of intentions. The leadership of the library expressed their readiness to conduct a dialogue with the scientific community and with its help, perhaps, to receive support for wounds and Ministry of Defense, and scientists - to help the library avoid mistakes in the modernization process.

The small rocket ship "Green Dol" and the sea miner "Carpet" of the Black Sea Fleet left Sevastopol "To perform tasks as part of a constant grouping of the Navy in the Mediterranean Sea," the representative of the Black Sea Fleet Vyacheslav Trukhachev told RIA Novosti . As a source in the power structures of Crimea previously told the agency, the Green Dol carries on board the Caliber cruise missiles.

The head of the Kremlin administration, Sergei Ivanov, spoke out that the Moscow metro station under construction on the Khodynsky field began to be called CSKA - in honor of the same basketball, hockey and football clubs. He told about this on the air of the TV channel Match TV . On the eve of the fans of the basketball CSKA, they hung banners at the Euroleague match with the Greek Olympiacos, in which they called to name the metro station in honor of the club. “I saw these banners.

In the village of Krasnodar Territory from the explosion of the combat cartridge to the manual anti-tank grenade launcher RPG-7, a local resident died. This was reported by the regional department of the TFR. It was established that in the evening of February 12, a 35-year-old man was in the economic building near his house. In it, he disassembled the found combat cartridge from the RPG-7. At some point, the cartridge detonated, the man died on the spot.

In a fire in the hospital of Irkutsk colony No. 6, two women were killed, serving the term of imprisonment. This was reported by Gu FSIN in the Irkutsk region. A fire in the women's department of the hospital occurred this afternoon. 21 convicts were evacuated from the building, the evacuated were not injured. “The bodies of two more convicted women were found later. According to preliminary data, they suffocated from smoke, ”the report said. The fire is currently extinguished.

Gleb Korepanov Pavel Klimkin and Arsen Avakov. Frame Radio Liberty The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that the governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili before a public scandal erupted between them, proposed distributing leading posts in the government between them. Avakov said this in an interview with the Ukrainian publication "Mirror of the Week".

The World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada) doubted the objectivity of the investigation of the Russian Prosecutor General, in which the department did not find confirmation of accusations of doping by Russian athletes. It is reported by Insidethegames.biz . “The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia submitted an internal government report without any request to WADA or in the VADA independent commission to receive information or evidence,” the VADA press service said.

In the weekly poll , Polit.ru, dedicated to the most memorable people of the week, the largest number of votes are gained by physicists who discovered gravitational waves (29.1%), and the chairman of the PARNAS party Mikhail Kasyanov (25.5%). The survey is conducted in our VKontakte group.

February 13 (1), 1873, opera singer Fedor Chaliapin was born Personal business Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938) was born in Kazan in a poor family of a former peasant from the village of Syrtsovo Vyatka province Ivan Yakovlevich Chaliapin, who worked as a scribe. He went to work early: he was a student of a shoemaker, a woodcarker, a cocker with papers, a joiner, a turner. At nine, he began to sing in the church choir.

The Russian leadership believes that a new Cold War has come between Russia and NATO, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. His words are given by Interfax . “It remains unfriendly and closed, according to our assessment, the political line of NATO in relation to Russia. We can say more sharply: we rolled up during the New Cold War, ”the prime minister said at the Munich Security Conference.