Researchers at the University of West Michigan and the University of Colorado experimentally found that a weak magnetic field can affect the speed of regeneration of flat worms. Representatives of the planaria family ( Planariidae ) usually live at the bottom of reservoirs. They are famous for their ability to regenerate. If you cut the planaria in half, then a whole organism will grow from each half.

The speaker of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaido, who declared itself the acting president of the Bolivarian Republic, said that Russia is beneficial for a change of power in Venezuela, reports Reuters .

US Secretary of State Mike Prooo said that the United States is suspended in the Central and SMSD missile agreement (INFMD) since February 2, Reuters reports. According to Pompeo, Russia has 6 months to save the contract. Recall that the United States has repeatedly accused Russia of violating the INFMD, Moscow rejected the charges. The UN General Assembly rejected the draft Russian resolution on the INFMD.

With the wanderer of the ruling Turkish party of justice and development, Yasin Aktai said that the UN delegation, located in Turkey, was considered by the hereditary prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Ben Salman Al Saud, the main suspect in the murder of the opposition Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, TASS reports. Recall, on October 2, 2018, Khashoggi went into the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, since then he has not been seen.

In January 2019, the Russians began to spend more at gas stations, in supermarkets and in catering establishments. This is evidenced by the statistics of one of the largest operators of fiscal data by the “taxa”, which Izvestia got acquainted with.

Levada-Center conducted a survey, the results of which are shown: the number of respondents who consider the path of Russia's development to be a record indicator over 12 years, RBC reports. 45% of the survey participants said that they did not agree with the current policy of the Russian authorities - against 42% in 2007. The same amount, 45% of respondents doubt that the country's leadership is conducting a faithful policy. Previously, there were 25%of them.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Union of Auto Stores (RSA) did not manage to introduce an insurance policy system using video recording devices from February 1. Such an assignment was given in November by Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov, it was assumed that in January the departments would integrate databases. But due to technical problems, the launch of the system was postponed indefinitely.

Heated in the case of the theft of Gazprom / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Nikerichev Andrey Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today there were details of the case of a multibillion embezzlement from Gazprom with the participation of Senator Arashukov’s father, Kuindzhi's stolen picture returned to the Tretyakov Gallery, and Google paid a large fine at the request of Roskomnadzor.

Andrei Krasov, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament to amend the Code of Administrative Offenses, providing for an increase in fines for non -fulfillment by citizens of military duties. Currently, the fine for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office is from 100 to 500 rubles. Krasov offers to raise them 10 times-up to 1000-5000 rubles.

In the XVII century, a significant cooling of the climate was noted. Residents of Europe remember harsh and long winters, frequent frosts in the summer. The years have repeatedly happened when, for example, the Bosphorus froze, and the Thames was covered with ice annually, heavy snowfalls were not a rarity in Italy and Portugal. Cold winters followed the crop failure and hunger, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in the 17th century.

The authorized representative of Russia in the contact group in Ukraine Boris Gryzlov said that the cause of the death of a citizen of the Russian Federation Valery Ivanov in a colony in Lviv was torture, Interfax reports. Gryzlov noted: “The death of Valery Ivanov is not an accident. The examination showed that the cause of death was torture. The life of the people held by Ukraine is in danger.

Military personnel of the consolidated detachment of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation pierced the duct in the collapse of rocky breeds on the Burea River (Amur tributary), the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Department reports . According to the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Dmitry Bulgakov, more than 10 tons of TNT were used to undermine.

The metropolitan police detained the suspect in the abduction of Yuri Vasilenko, who took place in the case of the murder of the former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, Interfax reports with reference to an informed source. According to the interlocutor of the agency, a resident of Kursk born in 1983 was detained. Yuri Vasilenko, whom the Ukrainian authorities consider criminal authority, was listed on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Voronenkov.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) evaluated the ratings of trust in politicians and the attitude of Russians surveyed towards parties. In general, Vladimir Putin leads in terms of approval among all Russian politicians. The second place in the list is Sergey Shoigu (13.5%), the third is Sergey Lavrov (12%). The approval of the activities of the head of state amounted to 61%.

Anton Petrunin Laptop work / pixabay.com On February 1, a record was opened in Russia in the first classes of secondary schools. This can be done personally, through multifunctional centers or through the portal "State Services". The latter turned out the overlays: in several regions, indignant parents of future first -graders began to complain about failures in the work of the site.