The Housing Policy Committee supported a tough version of amendments in the LCD, which involves the transfer of hostels in apartment buildings in the category of non -residential premises. Experts are afraid that in case of their adoption, this part of the business will go into the shadow. Today the initiative is the second reading. The first took place in October 2015, after which there were debate for three years.

American diplomats have not yet gained access to the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund Michael Kalvi, who was arrested in the case of the theft of 2.5 billion rubles from the Vostochny bank. This is stated on the website of the US Embassy in Moscow. Diplomats noted that they have already expressed serious concern to this delay through diplomatic channels. The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the statement of American colleagues.

The Human Rights Council will collect proposals for improving the conditions of detention in jail and compliance with international standards of detention. About this with reference to a member of the Council of Alexander Brod reports RIA Novosti . According to Brod, members of the Presidential Council often face complaints of citizens who are in places of imprisonment.

The earthquake of magnitude 5.7 is recorded on the island of Hokkaido (Japan). About this, citing Russian seismologists, reports Interfax . The epicenter of the earthquake recorded at 15:23 Moscow time February 21 was coordinates of 42.92 degrees of northern latitude and 141.99 degrees of eastern longitude. He was located 29 km east of the city of Titose (Hokkaido, Japan). In terms of intensity of concussions in the epicenter, the earthquake is estimated as “very strong”.

On February 21, 1728, the Russian emperor Peter III was born. Personal business Peter III (at birth, Karl Peter Ulrich, 1728 - 1762) was born in the city of Kil, in the Duchy of Golstein. He was the son of Karl-Friedrich Golstein-Gottorp and Cesarevna Anna, daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. Mother died a week after his birth. His upbringing was engaged in the chief-chore of Otto Brumer.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal punishment for the creators and participants of organized criminal groups (organized crime groups) or communities (OPS), Interfax reports. The bill tightens the criminal liability for the creation of a criminal community and the leadership of such a community and provides for punishment up to life imprisonment. Recall that Dmitry Medvedev proposed increasing the sentence of participants in organized communities up to life in 2009.

Sources in the space industry report the beginning of a new set of astronauts in the Russian detachment. As RIA Novosti reports, this will be officially announced in the near future. The parameters - in what terms and how many candidates will fall into the detachment - will determine the Center for the training of astronauts. The order on the organization of work on a new set as a detachment of Roscosmos cosmonauts was signed a week earlier.

In the city of Bolshoi Stone in the Primorsky Territory, parents beat a fifth grader mocking their children. “In the fact of causing beatings, a 12-year student initiated a case on the grounds of a crime under Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings), ”the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported . Investigators intend to evaluate the actions (inaction) of the school administration in which the incident occurred.

Anton Petrunin Hostel / pixabay.com The Housing Policy Committee supported a tough version of amendments in the LCD, which involves the transfer of hostels in apartment buildings in the category of non -residential premises. Experts are afraid that in case of their adoption, this part of the business will go into the shadow. Today the initiative is the second reading. The first took place in October 2015, after which there were debate for three years.

A single list of citizens with game addiction will appear in Russia. This is written by the newspaper Izvestia . Currently, Russian legislation does not provide for the protection of people with game addiction. According to possible innovations, the preparation of which is engaged in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, persons who recognize their addiction to gambling will be able to send a statement to their profile companies to accept their bets.

The Association of Retail Companies (Acort ) sent a letter to the Ministry of Economic Development, which warns of possible interruptions in the supply of dairy products, Izvestia reports. The letter, signed by the Executive Director of the Acort of Evgeny Adashev, says that already in the summer of 2019, stores risk experiencing a shortage with the supply of milk, oil, cheese, cottage cheese and sour cream.

Anton Petrunin Testing of an unmanned car / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Vedyashkin Sergey Unmanned transport is included in the National Project "Safe and high -quality roads" and may appear on the roads in three years. In the meantime, companies have already begun to test cars, trucks, buses, trains and trams without a person driving.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine with the participation of NATO representatives is preparing a provocation in the Kerch Strait, Interfax reports. Lavrov said: “Now they are preparing another illegal attempt to break through without any requests, without observing safety measures, without a pilot.

The state and the only owner of Wildberries, Tatyana Bakalchuk, and the only owner of the dollars -respectively, the Option of Forbes magazine, another woman-millionaire appeared in Russia. Earlier, the only Russian woman whose fortune exceeded $ 1 billion was considered an entrepreneur, wife of the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkova Elena Baturina. However, in 2018, the state of Bakalchuk increased to $ 1.2 billion.

In the exposition of the Hever castle , 48 kilometers southeast of London, an extremely rare portrait of the Scottish Queen Maria Stuart, provided by a private owner from France, appeared . Earlier for many years, the picture was not publicly exhibited. The author of the picture is considered the court pictures of the French kings François Clouet or one of his students. The portrait was made in the late 1560 - early 1561.