In Lipetsk, five suspects of the abduction of a deputy of the local city council Mikhail Pakhomov were detained. According to the Echo of Moscow, the police accidentally reached the alleged abductors: the traffic police inspectors near Moscow stopped the car in which the deputy’s things were found. All detainees are previously convicted non -working residents of Lipetsk.

Yesterday, commemorative events were held in Moscow dedicated to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the date of completion of which is considered to be February 15, 1989. On the occasion of the next anniversary of this iconic event in Moscow, solemn events took place.

There have been reports in the Moldovan press that a criminal case has finally been opened against the geography teacher, who promised to kill Russians several months ago. However, if you look at it, the sower of the “reasonable, good, eternal” just repeated what can be seen, heard, read in the Moldovan mass media.

In Moscow, in the 95th year of life, a philosopher, writer, cultural scientist Grigory Pomerantz died. As specified on the page of the Fund for Assistance to the writer, death occurred at about ten o’clock in the evening of Saturday. Photo: from the archive of G.S. Paran Grigory Pomerantz lived a long and eventful life. He was born in 1918 in Vilna, in the twenties, the family moved to Moscow.

The next meeting of the FSB blogger club took place. We talked about medicine. About Vyatka medicine and more. I decided to present the report of the meeting as my own opinion. I'll explain why at the end. Firstly. Personnel problem. Of course, everyone knows about it and everyone is talking about it, including in the Kirov government.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The head of the City Without Drugs Foundation, Evgeny Roizman, will be nominated as a candidate for mayor of Yekaterinburg or for the leadership of the City Duma from Mikhail Prokhorov's Civic Platform party. The magazine "Profile" writes about this, citing the words of Stanislav Kucher, a member of the federal civil committee of the party. The full material on Roizman’s nomination will be published on Monday, February 18.

Yes, yes, exactly flatulence of consciousness. What other way can you call the statement of Dmitry Medvedev, who proposed that the meteor shower that passed over the Chelyabinsk region be considered one of the symbols of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum? This is a continuation of the same series of political fireworks about half a million fines and a lifetime ban on violent fans from visiting stadiums, which Dmitry Anatolyevich unleashed at the end of last year.

Photo: ITAR-TASS A woman self-immolated in a residential building in northern Moscow, a law enforcement source said . According to him, the incident occurred in house No. 4 in Fourth Voikovsky Proezd. The woman, whose identity is being established, doused herself with flammable liquid and set herself on fire in the stairwell between the sixth and seventh floors. By the time firefighters and doctors arrived, she had died from burns.

Yesterday in my house in Alferovka - in the Novokhopersky district of the Voronezh region, the house where my father was born and where I spend every summer, a search was held . I was searched as a witness. Such a legal number. A witness in the already well -known case of the allegedly beating of the general director of Voronezhgeology LLC Yuri Kopeikin , who decided that in the area you can drill 150 wells up to one and a half kilometers with a depth without evaluating environmental impacts .

The media report that Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Alexander Levinthal has become the new rector of the Far Eastern State Humanitarian University. The introduction of the new rector of a large Khabarovsk university will take place on Monday, February 18, and Levinthal will begin his new duties on Tuesday. Alexander Levinthal will replace Mikhail Kostenko as rector of Far Eastern State Humanitarian University.

Photo: Reuters Text: Tigran Ovannisyan On February 18, the presidential election will start in Armenia. Seven candidates will fight for the post of head of state, including the current president Serzh Sargsyan. The election campaign was overshadowed by an attempt on a presidential candidate, a former dissident, the head of the opposition association "National Self-Definition" of 63-year-old Paruir Airikyan.

Dedicated to surviving the explosion in the sky over Chelyabinsk ... On the Internet there is a lively trade in fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Probably, once there is a proposal, there is a demand. However, the fact that the "alien" is really a meteorite, far from all eyewitnesses, of which there were hundreds of thousands, believed. Many are sure that Chelyabinsk was glorified throughout the world an alien flying saucer or a completely earthly rocket.

Photo: Reuters In Berlin, the winners of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival are defined. As reported on the Berlinal website , the Golden Bear for the best film went to the Romanian painting "Pose of the child" directed by Kalin Peter Nice. The film talks about the relationship of the mother and son, who faces imprisonment. The tape also received the Fipressi prize (International Association of Film Critics).

In the Urals, restoration work continues at sites damaged by the meteorite. According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, as of 06:00, glazing work had been carried out on 1,658 residential buildings, 34 medical institutions, 62 educational institutions, 4 social protection facilities. Window frames and glass were completely restored on an area of ​​37,800 sq. m. m. All 122 potentially dangerous objects were examined.

Photo: Reuters The Brazilian Carnival (Carnaval do Brasil) is held annually in Brazil 40 days before Easter and marks the beginning of Lent. In Catholic Brazil, carnival, which is supposedly derived from the pagan Saturnalia, is considered an act of farewell to the joys of the flesh. Carnival is the largest and most popular Brazilian holiday. The Belgian Carnival of Binche is the most popular folk festival in Belgium.