Activist Mark Halperin, detained earlier in the morning, was questioned in the FSB as a witness. This was announced by his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina, Interfax reports. “The brand was interrogated as a witness, after which they released,” the defender said. The lawyer did not say in what case the activist was questioned, since a non -disclosure subscription was taken from her.

The head of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn resigned, RIA Novosti reports . “Just at a press conference, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn announced his resignation. He said that he would try to be useful to Buryatia in the future, there will be no run for the next term, ”said Alexander Maltsev press secretary. As RIA Novosti notes, the decision "was unexpected." On February 6, the sources of the agency in the republic reported that Nagovitsyn did not plan to leave his post.

To establish the cause of the Tu-154 fall in the Black Sea, a mathematical model of the “last flight” of the liner was created, Kommersant learned . According to the publication, civilian experts from the Interstate Aircraft Committee (MAC) “Elementarily lacking material for study”, and “Completely” the specialists created a mathematical model of the Tu-154 flight.

The head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu announced the beginning of a sudden verification of Russian aerospace forces. He announced this at the meeting, Interfax reports. “When checking, special attention must be paid to the state of combat duty, the deployment of air defense systems for wartime and the readiness of aviation groups to repel aggression,” he said.

The dissertation council of Moscow State University will not consider the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky in essence. This was announced by the dean of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University Ivan Tuchkov, Interfax reports.

The Russian economy by 2050 will be the sixth in the world, follows from the report of the audit PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) “Peace in 2050”. In the previous forecast, released in 2015, PWC suggested that by 2050 the Russian economy would be in eighth place. As indicated in the company's report, in 2016, Russia in terms of GDP also took sixth place.

The new leadership of the American Pentagon provided the US Congress with its draft budget, which involves an increase in military spending by $ 30 billion. This is reported by the Associated Press with reference to the document. According to the agency, the Pentagon is going to spend this money on new armored vehicles, jet fighters and improvement of the training of the military.

The Kremlin is ready to wait for an apology from the journalist Fox News, who called Russian President Vladimir Putin “killer”, until 2023. This was stated by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “We have a different understanding of good tone and rules of education. But we are very kind and very patient. We will put a note in the calendar for 2023 and return to it with this issue, ”Peskov said.

Jewish settlements on the west coast of Jordan are legalized. What will this lead to? Eviction of the inhabitants of the village of Amon. Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters The Israeli Knesset adopted a resonance law that allows the stability of the land on the western bank of the Jordan River, belonging to the Palestinians.

Alexander Lukashenko at the celebration of Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus. Minsk, July 3, 2015. Photo: Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters “Evil Lukashenko is furious of Belarus,” the Russian group “Splin” sang fifteen years ago, and now some other musicians have to re-attach an old song in a new way.

The Israeli parliament in the second and third reading adopted a law on the legalization of Jewish settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River, reports The Jerusalem Post. Of the 120 deputies, 60 people spoke, “against” - 52, notes the publication. According to the document, only Jewish settlements already built on the initiative of the state in the Palestinian Arabs fall under the law and will not be destroyed. The bill does not apply to all other situations.

The owner of Tesla and SpaceX, Ilon Musk, joined the expert legal opinion submitted by technological companies regarding the Decree of the President of the United States Donald Trump, Reuters reports. Earlier, Musk agreed to join the advisory council under Trump and supported the discussion directly with the president, the agency notes.

The colorful figure of Donald Trump is overshadowed by truly deep and significant processes, the personification of which he became due to random circumstances. Trump is not the reason for the split in American society, but its consequence. So the disease manifests itself with a rash on the skin. This disease is a much more serious challenge to the existing world order than the richest political imagination can still imagine.

The researcher of one of the research institutes of the Ministry of Health of Russia Denis Roshchin was fired after his participation in the preparation of the memorandum of the inadvertency of homeopathy. This was reported by "Health Mail.ru" with reference to the publication that has at the disposal of the dismissal order, where it is said that Roshchin resigned of his own free will.

Amendments to the law on compulsory motor third -party liability insurance, which will make repairs in a priority way to compensate for damage, will not enter into force on March 1, 2017. About this writes "Kommersant". According to the publication, one of the high -ranking officials of the Central Bank of Russia (Central Bank) informed the head of the Anatoly Aksakov committee on financial markets. The reason was the disagreements that arose between deputies and the Central Bank.