Photo: Reuters The presidential elections in Armenia, held on February 18, ended with the victory of the current President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. According to the Central Election Commission, 58.64% of voters (861,160 people) voted for Sargsyan; the head of the Heritage party, Raffi Hovhannisyan, who came in second place, received 36.75 percent of the votes.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Like Dagestan a month ago, Ingushetia is full of rumors about the ambulance of leadership. PublicPost found out why they could resign the President of the Republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Evkurov took the post of head of Ingushetia at the end of October 2008. In politics, he was then quite a newcomer, but he was not the worst military career -Yevkurov rose to the Colonel of the Guard, held the post of deputy head of the intelligence department of the Volga-Ural Military District.

Well, I finish the Dresden notes 2012 a post about trams. Unlike dogs, trams came across quite regularly and in all its glory, it turned out to take them in different types.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Russian Education Minister Dmitry Livanov signed 11 orders depriving academic degrees of individuals who defended their work in the dissertation council at Moscow State Pedagogical University. The minister announced this on his Twitter . On February 11, the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) under the Ministry of Education and Science recommended depriving academic degrees of ten people who did not write their dissertations independently.

The Moscow City Hall rejected the application to hold a March for the rights of Muscovites, the organizers of the event reported on Twitter. “They called from the mayor’s office regarding the Social March on March 2. They are proposing to change the route. From Pushkinskaya Square on one side of the boulevard to Sakharov Avenue,” wrote assistants to the leader of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov.

About 8.5 million people in Russia use drugs, said the head of the State Drug Control Agency, Viktor Ivanov. According to the State Statistics Committee, as of January 1, 2013, the country's population is 143,369,806 people.

A large-scale combat readiness test, the largest in the last 20 years, is being carried out in the Central Military District (CMD).

Russian billionaire, president of the Interros holding and general director of MMC Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin decided to give part of his fortune to charity, BBC News reports. Potanin joined the Gates couple's Giving Pledge foundation along with 12 other philanthropists, including Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson. Thanks to the next expansion, the total number of Giving Pledge supporters will reach 105 people, Forbes notes.

Photo: Denis Panteleev/RIA Novosti A representative of the Chelyabinsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anzhelika Chirkova, reported on February 19 that a substance was seized from a resident of the Chelyabinsk region, which he tried to sell, passing it off as a fragment of a meteorite that fell in the Urals. The seized fragment was sent for examination to determine its exact composition and determine whether it poses a health hazard.

In the photo: Governor of the Novgorod region S.G. Mitin Well, the political solitaire came down. The Governor of the Novgorod Region S.G. Mitin actually announced the beginning of “repressions” against officials that were objectionable to him: http://www.pryamayarech.ru/news/5421 - The heads of municipalities will fall under the blow. The whole current situation was predicted by me in the material of October 19, 2012: http://ev-chuprunov.livejournal.com/76209.html .

Former deputy head of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Fadeev, now an adviser to the head of Sergiev Posad for relations with law enforcement agencies, was detained on suspicion of large-scale fraud with land, the Kommersant newspaper reports. As part of this case, in addition to Fadeev, the registrar of the city department of Rosreestr Vera Yagodkina, her husband Vadim Yagodkin and their daughter Yulia Yagodkina were detained.

The fall of a meteorite is a sign of the end of the world, said the representative of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith in the region, Bishop Alexander Pashchenko. “I am sure that this is a sign of God, this is a sign,” the bishop said in a statement. “The terrible tsunamis of recent times, the changes in the Sun that scientists are shouting about, the fall of a meteorite - all this is the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus,” the statement says.

The presidential administration continues to discredit people who have entered the streets of Russian cities in protest against the dishonest elections of 2011-2012. To this end, the sadly known “swamp business” was fabricated, the continuation of which was the appearance on the NTV channel of the pseudo -documentary film “Anatomy of Protest - 2” and the arrest of his defendants: activists of the left front Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvodvozzh, as well as our comrade Konstantin Lebedev.

The inter-fleet group of the Russian Navy remains in the Mediterranean Sea for combat service, the Press Service and Information Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense told Interfax on Tuesday. The agency's interlocutor said that following the results of the exercises held from January 19 to 29 in the Black and Mediterranean Seas, the leadership of the military department decided to extend the service of Russian ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

Penza police detained a local resident who, in circumvention of the law, organized the night sale of alcohol via the Internet, the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Tuesday. Reports of the sale of alcoholic beverages via the Internet at night were received by Department “K” of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Penza region. The advertisement contained contact numbers through which one could order alcohol for delivery.