Sebastiano Ricci. Christ on Mount Ultrasound (1730) Seven artistic paintings confiscated by the Nazis, and after the Second World War, who fell into the French museums, by decision of the Ministry of Culture of this country will be returned to the heirs of their Jewish owners . Six paintings (from the collection of textile tycoon Richard Neumann, who fled after Austria’s Anschlus), the Nazis placed in the Linz Museum.

Anna Politkovskaya Convicted for complicity in the murder of the observer of the Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya, former policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was in the hospital. This became known today in the Supreme Court, where they had to consider the complaint about the verdict. As the lawyer specified, Pavlyuchenkov has epilepsy. The consideration of the case was postponed to February 28. Protection asks to mitigate the verdict of the Moscow City Court and appoint a conditional term.

Georgia will not give Russia businessman Givi Targamadze. The Russian Investigative Committee today accused him of the preparation of the riots in absentia , which the Russian authorities consider the events of May 6 in Bolotnaya Square. Extradition is impossible, since it contradicts the Georgian Constitution, ”the head of the press service of the prosecutor's office of this country Hatun Paychadze told Interfax. But the court in Georgia can theoretically take place.

Afghankes joined the World Council against domestic violence, February 14, 2013 Today in Kabul, public activists went through a march as part of the World action “We will collect a billion!”, Directed against violence against women. Similar events will be held in several Afghan cities as part of an international campaign, which passes - by no coincidence coincidence with Valentine's Day - February 14. Movement "We will collect a billion!" The American screenwriter Eva Evsler founded.

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In Kiev, it is believed: most likely, the Ukrainian authorities will refuse the Russian Philip Galtsov to obtain refugee status and can give him to Russia. 19-year-old Galtsov ( we already wrote about this ), I recall, left his homeland, because he fears that he can be arrested on charges of organizing the “Million Millions” on May 6.

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The terrestrial and flight staff of the Spanish airline Iberia intend to hold a five -day strike next week . Today, 415 flights are announced - about 40% of all flights that the airline should be carried out from February 14 to 18. The routes will be indicated in the near future, ”said the company representative of the company Haime Herra . According to him, mainly passengers of internal lines will suffer from the strike.

Exploded police car in the village of Khasavyurt, February 14, 2013 A burned car at the site of a double terrorist attack in Makhachkala. Hello! Today begins with messages from the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, where three police officers died during an explosion of the car, and six more were injured. The authorities call the incident a terrorist attack.

From the news of the RS that sounds on the air: the US Minister Leon Panetta , leaving the Minister of Defense, announced the establishment of a new medal. The medal “For outstanding warfare techniques” will award specialists responsible for cybersecurity and operations using unmanned aircraft - drones. According to Panetta, the award will note the actions of those whose achievements had a direct impact on the course of military operations without the presence on the battlefield.

Mikhail Sokovnin in Shchelykovo, 1970. Photo: Konstantin Dorrendorf Poetry, on the one hand, is a certain common cultural shrine in Russia, but on the other, a thing is complex and incomprehensible, and it’s stupid to pretend that this is not so.

It was quite ordinary, and therefore, filled with dramas and incidents, the day. There were no deaths without deaths ( the writer Friedrich Nezonsky and the philosopher Ronald Dvorkin died) and the tragic events (athlete Oscar Pistorus was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend ). Civil activist Philip Galtsov asked for political asylum in Ukraine .