In Kiev, at the station Kyiv-Volyn trains collided. One of them was a truck. The result derailed nine empty freight wagons. It is reported , “Ukrzaliznytsya”. “As a result of accidents derailed nine empty cars (two tanks and seven grain) and the support is damaged a contact network”, — stated in the message. As a result of incident nobody has suffered. The circumstances and causes of the incident were not disclosed. Photo: DSNS of Ukraine / Facebook
Day: February 12, 2017
Federation of bobsleigh Russia threatens suspension
President of the International Federation of bobsleigh and skeleton (IBSF) Ivo Ferriani stated that it would apply sanctions against Russia if there is evidence of the involvement of Russian athletes for alleged public system use and concealment of doping, says Inside the games. Ferriani told about the rule that IBSF may disqualify the national Federation for the term up to two years, if during the year, at least four representative countries were caught doping. “We don’t judge. If we receive irrefutable evidence that the Russian athletes dope, then apply sanctions by 200%. If we have objective evidence that we will, no doubt, apply the rule,” said Feriani. Before that appeared information that the World anti-doping Agency (WADA) said that he had no doubt of the veracity of the facts of doping Russian athletes, stated in the report of the independent Commission under the leadership of Richard McLaren.
Lavrov expressed confidence in the future of coordinating the forces of Russia and the USA in Syria
Lavrov expressed confidence in the future of coordinating the forces of Russia and the USA in Syria Coordination between Russian and American military, in particular in the fight against ISIS, will begin to take shape, said Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Russian and American military will again begin to interact and coordinate, including in the fight against militants of the banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” (ISIS) in Syria. In an interview with NTV said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. “We are ready with him [President of the United States Donald trump] to cooperate, and as soon as circumstances permit, I am convinced that the interaction between the military, coordination between the military begins again to form,” said Lavrov, noting that “Americans still are famous for their pragmatism” and trump’s “absolutely sincere when every time confirms its resolve to defeat ISIL”. The Minister added that the dialogue
US returns stolen ancient Greek marble sarcophagus
US returns stolen ancient Greek marble sarcophagus ATHENS, 12 Feb — RIA Novosti, Gennady Melnik. The U.S. returned to Greece a fragment of an ancient marble sarcophagus worth half a million dollars stolen in the area of Thessaloniki in 1988 and was found in new York, informs television channel ANT1. On a marble fragment depicts a standing figure of a man, on horseback, on the top part there are images of animals. The sarcophagus was returned after only 28 days after he was discovered, said the Consul General of Greece in new York Konstantinos Kutras at the ceremony for the return of the artifact. “Cooperation of the Prosecutor with the Greek authorities, it was great, it was passed with incredible speed,” said the Consul General. For security reasons, Koutras did not say when the sarcophagus will be transported to Greece. There is evidence that some stolen Greek artifacts can be
The media learned of the decision of the Russian Navy to raise a sunken MiG-29K and su-33
The media learned of the decision of the Russian Navy to raise a sunken MiG-29K and su-33 The Russian Navy considers it inappropriate to raise to the surface sunken in the Mediterranean sea fighters of the aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”, the MiG-29K and su-33. On this edition of the RNS reported sources in the Ministry and the aviation industry. As said by interlocutors of the edition, “after the fall of carrier-based fighter aircraft close to the coast of Syria was considered the possibility of lifting from the bottom”. “However, after assessing all factors, this operation is considered unwise,” — said the source RNS. According to him, the depth at which are the fallen fighters, would be sent to the Mediterranean sea is a special deep-sea submersibles and ships for search operations. “It’s quite an expensive event. The costs are not justified”, — said the source. The source in one of
Tartan complained of ruined lives after winning the lottery
Jackpot of a million pounds does not bring happiness and ruined lives, said a resident of the Scottish Edinburgh, reports The Daily Mirror. The girl admits that may file a lawsuit against the organizers of the lottery, which allowed her to participate in minors. “Eighteen years is the minimum age to win the lottery,” she said. Jane Park won the jackpot of a million pounds, when she was 17 years old. Since then, she was buying expensive designer clothes and vacationing in luxurious resorts. And here she got bored with it. “I have everything but my life was empty,” says Park, noting that because of big money has lost all friends. She suspected all of them of commercialism, and new friends appeared. And now a resident of Scotland believes that it would be so much easier if she didn’t win anything. Photo: Jane Park /
On Board crashed in the Altai helicopter was a businessman, informed survivors of a plane crash – media
On Board crashed in the Altai helicopter was a businessman, a few years ago survived a plane crash. About it reports the portal “news of Mountain Altai”, citing a source. According to a source, the businessman Anatoly Bannykh survived in 2009 after the fall of helicopter Mi-8 at the mountain Black in Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic. Previously eyewitnesses reported that the helicopter Robinson with five passengers on Board fell into Teletskoye lake. The aircraft performed a tourist flight. On the fate of passengers and crew is not known. The Prosecutor’s office started pre-investigation checks. Photo: fahad.moon1692 / instagram
The LC informed about the probable death of the missing Ukrainian scouts
Members of the Ukrainian intelligence group, which yesterday, February 11, tried to infiltrate into the territory of the LC, most likely, were destroyed. About it reports “Interfax” with reference to border service of the unrecognized Republic. In the border service Agency said that any unauthorised entry into the territory of the LC is a violation of the Minsk agreements and stop the militias. “Such incidents occur periodically, we rebuff. Most likely, from this reconnaissance of the enemy turned out as well”, – stated the representatives of the border service. In the Council of Ministers LNR made this development: “Perhaps these intruders were applied to the total order, and if they offered armed resistance during the detention, was destroyed by return fire.” That group of scouts has gone missing in Lugansk region, previously reported in the APU. It specified that the missing soldiers “carried out a combat
Steinmeier elected President of Germany
Frank-Walter Steinbauergasse: Putin Steinmeier congratulated the elected President of Germany Former Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier became the 12th President of the country. On Sunday, 12 February, reports TASS. For his candidacy voted more than half of the delegates to the Federal Assembly, a body that is convened to elect a new head of state. Half of 1260 delegates submitted by the deputies of the Bundestag, the other nominated by the parliaments of the Federal States the electors. Steinmeier served as foreign Minister from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 through 2017. He helped to establish contacts between Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in August 2008. In February of 2014 was one of the guarantors of the signing of the agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine between President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders. Left the post of foreign Minister to participate in
The cause of poisoning of passengers at the airport of Hamburg called pepper gas
Substance that were at the airport of Hamburg, the passengers coughing and shortness of breath was probably pepper gas. On Sunday, February 12, a representative of the rescue service said at a press conference, reports TASS. According to the preliminary version, the unknown sprayed gas canister, which was subsequently discovered in the airport. Presumably, the substance spread through the air conditioning system. “In our assessment, we are not talking about a terrorist attack,” — said the rescuers. Total affected 68 people, nine were hospitalized. Police are investigating the incident. Earlier, on 12 February it became known about the closure of the airport Hamburg, Germany due to the leak of an unknown substance. The victims complained of cough, shortness of breath and eye irritation. After some time, air traffic was resumed, firefighters opened the access terminals.