Photo: Harry Kerr / Bips / Getty images From Hollywood films about spies, we know well: being an agent under the cover is an exciting and dangerous activity. Surveillance, chases, shootings, tricks, acting, adrenaline and constant danger that you will be revealed, make espionage of one of the most interesting professions in the world. But the story of the former Soviet agent in the United States Jack Barsky debunk this myth.

In the United States, a migrant from Mexico was arrested, which the child illegally arrived in the country and after he received permission to work as part of a program of deferred deportation for children (DACA). It is reported by Reuters . The US immigration and customs police officers detained 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina in Seattle.

The cost of the third runway (VPP-3) in Sheremetyevo increased by 60% to 55 billion rubles, Vedomosti write with reference to a certificate prepared by the Federal Air Transport. “An increase in costs to 55 billion rubles is associated with the coating of inflation during the construction period, a change in a number of technical solutions, with the inclusion of work on the reconstruction of the main gas pipelines and the preparation of the construction territory,” the department explained.

Hotel in Kazan. Photo: Stefan Wermuth / Reuters The reaction of the Russians to the crisis dulled, but almost no one believes in its soon completion, it follows from the January survey of the Levada Center. Most of the population has come to terms with the lack of good news. And every fifth Russian sees in the future only “very long” economic difficulties.

The former head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) Andrei Belianov said that he was ready to do any work that Russian President Vladimir Putin will entrust him. It is reported by RNS. “I will work where the president will put, I can do everything: I can wash the toilets, I can be a governor. I am a serving person, I serve the state all my life, and as you understand from newspapers, not very poor, everything is in order with me, ”he explained.

The deputies of the Moscow City Duma approved a bill providing for a restriction of the sale of wipes. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The document prohibits the sale of vaypes to minors and limits their use in public places. The bill also limits the advertising of wipes and establishes the requirements by which it will be possible to classify electronic cigarettes, determine poor -quality products and control its circulation.

Malaysia rejected the request of North Korea on the transfer of the body of Kim Jong Nam, the brother of the head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un. It is reported by Reuters . As the source of the agency in the government of Malaysia said, so far no decisions, whether the body will be transferred to the DPRK will be transmitted. According to the New Straits Times, the Malaysian forensic experts finished opening the body of Kim Jong Nama.

Ukrainians Evgenia Panov and Andrei Zakhetey, who are accused of preparing the “sabotage” in the Crimea, was transferred from Lefortovo to the peninsula. This was announced by RIA Novosti by lawyer Ilya Novikov. He suggested that the criminal case is close to completion, the defendants would be familiar with his materials in the Crimea. As Novikov said “Mediazone”, information about the translation of Zakhtei and Panov is unofficial.

The American White House and Russian officials communicate in the “ordinary working” mode, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to Peskov, "representatives of the American embassy here communicate with Russian officials, they go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." American diplomats “communicate with representatives of the regions, they travel around Russia,” added a press secretary of the Russian president.

The Bank of Russia overpaid 500 billion rubles, deciding not to liquidate, but to heal domestic financial institutions in a problem situation. This conclusion was reached by analysts at the Fitch Ratings rating agency, Bloomberg reported. The publication of the agency is given by Finanz. According to Fitch, the state’s spending on the reorganization of problem banks amounted to 1.1 trillion rubles.

The economic decline in 2015-2016 in Russia will end soon, which "seems almost inevitable." This is stated in the new analytical review “Comments about the state and business” (KGB) for the period 7-14 of February 7-14, prepared by the Center for Development of the Higher School of Economics (HSE). HSE experts indicated that the combined leading index (soy), calculated by the development center, has sharply increased and reached 8% in January 2017 - in almost seven years.

Russia took 114th place in the ranking of countries in terms of economic freedom, which was calculated by the American research center Heritage Foundation. The study is published on the organization’s website. The rating, which included 180 countries, headed Hong Kong. The first five also included Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland and Australia. The authors of the study described their economies as free.

Former US Presidential Advisor Michael Flynn, who resigned due to contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, during a telephone conversation on December 29, 2016 spoke about the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, and not about the abolition of sanctions. Flynn told about this in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The conversation was, in fact, this:“ I know what happened. We will study everything.

In Moscow, a car of lawyer Mark Kaversin, representing the interests of the defendant about the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov Zaura Dadaev, was fired from a traumatic pistol. This was reported by the Moscow Agency. “Yesterday morning, near my office in the area of ​​the Culture Park, unknown from the injuries fired at my car and defeated the glass roof,” said Cavez.

At the end of 2016, Facebook announced that they began cooperation with the teams of independent facts from different countries to help users separate fake news from the present. In February, French journalists spoke about their participation in the project: in April 2017, the president will be elected in France, and many are afraid that information stuffing will help to come to power by ultra -right.