In Moscow, on the night of February 4, at the age of 89, Theodor Shanin, a sociologist, founder and president of the prestigious Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, died. In 2012, he was a guest in the program "Politics Time" in the program cycle for the 75th anniversary of the Great Terror.

Rasul Mirzaev in court The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow today will announce the verdict of the world of the world of the combat sambo Rasul Mirzaev, after which, according to the prosecution, the 19-year-old Muscovite Ivan Agafonov died. They quarreled in the Moscow Garage night club in August last year. Mirzaev hit Agafonov, he fell, later he felt ill, and a few days later he died in the hospital. Mirzaev appeared guilty of the police and was arrested.

In the American state of Texas on Monday afternoon, according to updated data, two people died and two more were injured as a result of shooting open at the A&M University campus. According to the local police, one of the dead is a policeman, the other is a woman who was in her car. According to some reports, fire was led from a house located next to the campus and the university stadium.

Vladislav Surkov, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, Valentina Matvienko, Vladimir Putin and Sergey Naryshkin (left to right) listen to the annual message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the George Hall of the Kremlin, December 22, 2011 Vladimir Kara-Murza: Deputy Prime Minister, head of the government apparatus Vladislav Surkov received new powers-he was instructed to oversee the interaction of the White House with religious

A demonstration was held in the center of Tel Aviv last night, the participants of which called on the Israeli authorities not to apply military strikes on Iran. Dozens of Israelis participated in the action, who gathered in front of the house of the country's Minister of Defense Ehuda Barack. In their hands they had posters with inscriptions condemning the possible infliction of attacks on Iran.

On the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia this morning, the captain of the internal troops died as a result of the attack, his colleague was injured and hospitalized. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia, unknown people fired at a car in which military personnel were heading to the place of service in Ingushetia. The search for attackers is being conducted.

The former valet of the Pope Benedict XVI and another employee of the Holy See will be put on trial on charges of kidnapping documents from the Vatican office and their transfer to third parties. According to the representative of the Vatican Federico Lombardi on Monday, a preliminary investigation in the case of Paolo Gabriela and his alleged accomplice, the programmer Claudio Sharpeltty, is still ongoing, but the charges have already been brought.

The authorities of Tajikistan officially confirmed the detention of the field commander Tolib Ayembekov and several of his supporters suspected of the murder of the special services of the republic Abdullo Nazarov. According to the BBC, Ayembekov is wounded and is located in the regional hospital under the escort.

The march of the Znamenoos at the closure of the London Olympiad. 12 August 2012 "What will they play at the closing ceremony ?" -The audience was worried on the last day of the 2012 Olympics. Why not be Damon Albarn? Ah, he is in a guide park. The atmosphere of jokes-pribauts, reigning at the games, did not dissipate to the very end. The very first scenes caused skeptical remarks in the spirit of the public: "What is this taxi from papier-mash?

In the court of Smolensk, on Monday, one of the witnesses in the case of the activist of the Other Russia opposition movement Taisiya Osipova said that the drugs discovered in her house were thrown by law enforcement officials. This was announced on his page on the social network Facebook by the husband of the defendant Sergey Fomchenkov. According to him, Witness Anton Mandrick was present during the search.

Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinejad Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinejad today arrived in Saudi Arabia on the eve of an extraordinary summit of the organization of Islamic cooperation in Mecca, which will be dedicated to the situation in Syria. This world's largest union of Islamic countries has 57 members. Tehran and Riyadh adhere to directly opposite views on the Syrian conflict.

In the United States, at the age of 90, Helen Gurley Brown died, who led one of the most popular women's magazines in the world for more than three decades - Cosmopolitan. Gerli Brown gained wide fame in the early 60s, after the publication of her book “Sex and a Lone Woman”. She herself said that this book was one of the first attempts to publicly talk about female sexuality. In 1965, Gurli Brown became the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and remained in this post until 1997.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia sent the Polish authorities the next volume of materials in the criminal case of the crash under the Smolensk Tu-154 aircraft in April 2010. This was announced today by Interfax by the official representative of the Russian department, Marina Gridneva. According to her, in total, 57 volumes of materials were transferred during the investigation of the plane crash.

Foreign Ministers of the countries participating in the organization of Islamic cooperation (OIS) at a meeting on Monday recommended to suspend Syria membership in the organization. This was announced to reporters in Jidd (Saudi Arabia), where the meeting of the ministers, General Secretary of the OIS Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, took place. Today the organization’s summit opens, which includes 57 countries of the Islamic world. The focus of the participants of the summit is the situation in Syria.