Russian President Vladimir Putin at the awards ceremony for young scientists in the field of science and innovation in the Kremlin spoke about how he sees the future of the country. “The fundamental foundations on which our country stands have so deep, so strong roots that its wonderful, beautiful future is inevitable,” the head of state said.

An explosive device was found in the center of the capital and the largest city in the Netherlands, Reuters reports citing the Kingdom police. Explosives were found in the hotel-restaurant on the Leiden Embankment. According to eyewitnesses, unknown people threw a hand grenade into the room, but it did not work. The sappers who arrived on the call neutralized the explosive device.

Two groups of researchers who presented their work at an astronomical conference in Pasaden, independently, came to the conclusion that the number of so-called “scheduled planets” in our galaxy was half as before. Planets are called planets that are not related to any star or brown dwarf. For their designation, the terms “planets-stripes”, “interstellar planets”, “plano”, “single planets” or “freely flying planets” are also used. The reasons for their appearance are unclear.

At the Fleminil nuclear power plant in France, an explosion thundered, Agence France-Presse reports. According to media reports, the explosion was heard in the machine room. Reported of several wounded. Details are clarified. The cause of the explosion is currently unknown.

The lower house of the British Parliament, the House of Commons, approved the bill submitted by the government on the launch of the British exiting procedure from the European Union, Reuters reports. For the beginning of the procedure, 494 members of the House of Commons voted, 122 parliamentarians opposed. In accordance with the legislative procedure, the bill will now consider the House of Lords. The document provides for the "soft and ordered" exit of Great Britain from the EU.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson abandoned American citizenship, writes The Guardian . The publication found the name of the current minister in a list of more than five thousand people who left American citizenship in 2016. This list is compiled by the US Ministry of Finance. What exactly the decision of Johnson is connected is not specified.

On February 9 (January 28), 1844, Anatoly Koni, an outstanding lawyer, speaker, state and public figure was born. Personal business Anatoly Fedorovich Koni (1844–1927) was born in St. Petersburg in the family of the famous playwright and theater critic Fedor Alekseevich Koni and actress Irina Semenovna Yuryeva (on the stage - Sandunova). Until twelve years, the boy was brought up at home, then he graduated from the three -year German school of St.

About 20 aircraft of the aerospace forces imitated an air raid on Moscow as part of a sudden check of the capital's capital system, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said on February 9. About 20 diverse aircraft were raised into the air, including Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters, Su-34 bombers, combat-combat Yak-130, transport An-26, An-12, Mi-8, Ka-52 helicopters, which were control goals for air defense units and acted from different directions.

The Rosneft Security Service, together with the units of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, stopped an attempt by activists of the Levoradical Organization "Another Russia" to hold a promotion near the central office of the company in Moscow.

The resort city of Eilat in Israel was subjected to missile shelling from the Sinai Peninsula. It is reported by Haaretz . According to the publication, at least three missiles were released around the city. Several of them were successfully intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system. There is no information about the dead and injured as a result of shelling.

The two-time Olympic champion in Biathlon, the Frenchman Martin Fourcade, who previously insulted the Russian biathlete Alexander Loginov, during the World Cup race in the Austrian Hochfilzen, came to the Russian ski, which is why he fell. This was reported by the TV channel " Match TV ". The famous commentator Dmitry Guberniev called the "pig" on the live air of Martin Fourcade for his actions. Loginov himself reacted more carefully to this incident.

In early February, the focus of the state bodies suddenly turned out to be garbage. It is likely that the “garbage reform”, which started on January 1, 2017, came across the first obstacles, now you have to urgently decide something. On Wednesday, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill, which should increase competition in the “garbage market”. For this, as conceived by the authors of the document, excess state regulation in the field of waste management must be eliminated.

The Central Bank intends to facilitate for law enforcement agencies access to banking secrets to combat assets from banks, the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina said in an interview with TASS . “When we identify fraudulent actions in banks, the withdrawal of assets, we transfer materials to law enforcement agencies.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov denied the reports of the Japanese media that the Kuril Islands would allegedly be transferred to Japan for temporary use, TASS reports. “The origin of this information is not clear, this is not true,” Peskov told reporters on February 9.

Law enforcement agencies of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic established and went on the trail of the murder of the murder of the commander of the Somali battalion Mikhail Tolstoy (Givi), Interfax reports with reference to sources in the power structures of the DPR. The interlocutor of the agency said: “The murder customers are installed, they are in Kyiv. We also went on the trail of the performers - Ukrainian saboteurs.