Four Ukrainian soldiers died in the Donbass after the ceasefire agreement came into force, a military source told Reuters in Kiev. In addition, 21 soldiers were injured. Official representatives of the Ukrainian military command have not yet confirmed or denied this information. Since February 15, according to the Minsk agreements, a truce regime has been in effect in Donbass .

O'Key opened an online store, becoming the only Russian public retailer that decided to sell food online. X5 Retail Group's attempt to create a non-food online store did not bring it success O'Key grocery chain (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) No delivery yet O'Key began testing the service for issuing goods ordered in the online catalog about a week ago, said company representative Marina Kagan.

Photo: Transport Photo Images, www.pobeda.aero Pobeda Airlines began charging for heavy hand luggage. European carriers do not charge such fees, but their special rates are more expensive, experts say. Pobeda Airlines, a discounter subsidiary of Aeroflot, introduced a fee for hand luggage on its flights starting February 11, a Pobeda representative said. For one piece weighing up to 10 kg, a fee of 999 rubles is charged. (€13.5) when paying through the website, 1500 rub.

On Monday, shareholders of oilfield service company Eurasia Drilling will consider a deal to sell the company to Schlumberger. As RBC learned, among the co-owners of the contractor there may be structures of LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) On Monday at 15:00 Moscow time will be held in London, at which it is planned to approve the basic conditions for the sale of 45.65% of its shares to the American Schlumberger.

Two people - a man and a woman - died under the wheels of an electric train on the Planernaya platform in the Moscow region. reports this Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency's interlocutor, the incident occurred at approximately 18:40 Moscow time. People came onto the tracks from under the platform in front of the train, which was traveling from Moscow to Klin.

Putin fired Sergei Dubik, an ally of Dmitry Medvedev, who dealt with civil service issues and the fight against corruption in the Kremlin. The expert does not rule out that the head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, may take Dubik’s place. Sergey Dubik (Photo: TASS) President Vladimir Putin, by decree, dismissed Sergei Dubik from the post of adviser to the head of state, according to the official Kremlin website. The reasons for the dismissal are not stated.

The Russian Foreign Ministry was perplexed by the EU’s decision to impose new sanctions against Moscow, the department said in a commentary . “Such decisions, to which an adequate reaction will follow, contradict common sense and do not benefit the emerging opportunity to find a solution to the internal Ukrainian conflict,” the Russian department believes.

The Federal Migration Service of Russia has closed the entry of 1.2 million migrants into Russia, the head of the department, Konstantin Romodanovsky, said at a briefing at the Association of European Businesses. “We have blocked the entry of 1.2 million people who violated their stay in Russia. I urge you to look at this issue not only from the point of view of employers who attract foreigners to work, but also from the point of view of Russian citizens who experienced inconvenience.

Photo: Debut Prize/flickr.com The agreements reached in Minsk by the Normandy Four mean a tactical victory for Vladimir Putin. But Kyiv will almost certainly have the opportunity to evade their implementation. The results of the second Minsk agreements, concluded on February 12, became clear in the state of financial markets. The Russian stock market rose, but the Ukrainian one collapsed.

The fixation of official Kyiv on unity and conciliarity is hardly productive. This policy did not save the country from collapse, but in the search for peace it can do even more harm A year of conversations The new Minsk agreements do more than just provide for a ceasefire. Their most important part is devoted to the internal political structure of Ukraine.

One of the participants in the contact group, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, explained why at the negotiations in Minsk the leaders of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR initially refused to sign the peace plan. He said this in an interview with Inter . Initially, it was assumed that the contact group, together with Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, would sign the document, and then it would be handed over to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries.

Iranian authorities have denied a Wall Street Journal report that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote a secret response to a letter from US President Barack Obama about possible cooperation in the fight against the radical Islamic State group. “This statement by the American newspaper Wall Street Journal is an unprofessional ploy by the media,” said on PressTV .

The World Bank has suspended work on creating a network of paid parking lots in the center of St. Petersburg, which it carried out as part of an agreement with the city authorities, the St. Petersburg parliament reported. The reason is sanctions against Russia St. Petersburg (Photo: TASS) that the World Bank has suspended the development of a network of paid parking lots in the center of St. Petersburg Alexey Palin, Chairman of the St.

On the second day after the ceasefire was announced, more than a hundred shellings were recorded in Donbass – an order of magnitude more than after the first Minsk agreements. This delays the start of the second stage - the withdrawal of military equipment Debaltsevo, February 16, 2015 On the second day after the ceasefire was announced, fighting in Ukraine continued in the Debaltsevo region of the Donetsk region, adjacent settlements in the Lugansk region and Shirokino near Mariupol.

The Russian Ministry of Transport has created a special group that will deal with the issue of restoring the infrastructure of the Donbass railways. This is stated in the department’s response to a letter from deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports .