Trading on the Russian stock market began today with a decline in the leading stock indices. As of 10:10 Moscow time, the MICEX index fell by 0.42% to 1,572.51 points. The RTS index dropped to 1,670.04 points, which is 0.25% lower than the closing level of the previous trading day. The RTS Standard index lost 0.54% at the opening, starting the day at 10,763.83 points. Photo: RBC The external background at the opening of today's trading is neutral, says ATON analyst Elena Kozhukhova.

Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said that, without waiting for the end of the election campaign, he is starting to create a new political party. Photo: RBC “I made the decision to create an independent right-wing party and now, during the election campaign, I am moving on to creating a new political force. You know my political program, I announced it. Mass party force for such a program is needed immediately, right now!” - wrote M. Prokhorov in his blog.

The Leningrad District Military Court sentenced the former head of the course of the engineering and technical faculty of the Military Engineering and Technical Institute, reserve captain Dmitry Nikitin.

The cost of construction of a new multi-level crossing in Gatchina is planned to be reduced by 3-5 times compared to the original price of 2.2 billion rubles. Nikolai Vinnichenko, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District, announced this to reporters following a meeting on the development of the transport system in the Leningrad Region.

According to experts, there is nothing to fuel the growth of the Russian stock market yet. Photo: AP On Tuesday, February 21, the joy of investors that March would not be the month of Greece’s divorce from the “European family” was not reflected in the dynamics of trading on the Russian stock market. The observed decline was also enhanced by the correction in oil prices.

On Tuesday, February 21, Yemen holds presidential elections for the first time in 30 years. The only contender for this post is Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. He has headed the interim government since the end of December 2011. The candidacy of M. Hadi was nominated by the ruling party, and the opposition supported her. Photo: AP The new president will be elected for two years.

Zelimkhan Mazaev, a suspect in the murder of ex-commander of the Vostok battalion Sulim Yamadayev, wounded himself with a traumatic pistol on February 20 near the Evropeisky shopping center in Moscow. Photo: RBC According to preliminary data, the shot occurred due to careless handling of the weapon. Z. Mazaev, who is wanted by Interpol, was hospitalized with a hip injury. Note that back in 2009.

The Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation advocates the creation of a single plastic identification card for a Russian citizen, which will replace the all-Russian passport. This was announced by the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky at a meeting with members of the Committee on Social Policy of the Federation Council. Photo: ITAR-TASS “We are talking more and more, louder and louder, that the internal passport has lost its meaning.

Finance ministers of the European Union (EU) countries have agreed to provide a second tranche of credit to Greece. Finance ministers of the European Union (EU) countries have agreed to provide a second tranche of credit to Greece, reports Reuters . As it became known from sources close to the negotiations, the main condition for the allocation of a second package of financial assistance to Greece is the achievement by 2012 of debt volume not exceeding 121% of GDP.

Employees of the interregional department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Northwestern Federal District identified the fact of illegal logging in the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, deforestation with a volume of 702 cubic meters.

In the Moscow region, the tenant of a bakery was detained, where on February 20, 2012. gas cylinders exploded. In the Moscow region, the tenant of a bakery was detained, where on February 20, 2012. gas cylinders exploded.

OJSC Rostelecom put into operation a new trunk communication line Kingisepp (Russia) - Stockholm (Sweden), testing of which was completed on February 15, 2012. This was reported by the company's press service. Rostelecom and TeliaSonera International Carrier signed an agreement on organizing a new line in the fall of 2011.

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow into the death of a three-year-old child who died as a result of an injury received during a walk in a kindergarten, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported. Photo: ITAR-TASS The department clarified that the case was opened under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence). The tragedy occurred the day before, on February 20, during a walk in the territory of kindergarten No. 1500.

The Moscow authorities have figured out what resources can be used to find additional parking areas in the capital. Photo: ITAR-TASS Currently, the possibility of constructing permanent parking lots on the site of pits dug during the construction of large engineering projects, such as automobile tunnels and metro lines, is being considered. During the construction of objects, workers will not fill them up, but will arrange parking space.

JSC IDGC Holding has put into trial operation a system for managing emergency restoration work during emergencies (AVR ES) on 35-110 kV lines. This was announced by the technical director of IDGC Holding Boris Mekhanoshin during a production meeting in St. Petersburg, the company’s press service reports.