Congolese rebels demanded a million dollars for the Georgian pilot

The militant group M23 In the Democratic Republic of Congo rebels held captive Colonel of the Georgian armed forces in retirement and need for a million dollars. This was reported by “Rustavi 2”. According to the channel, 27 Jan rebels shot down two helicopters, one of which was piloted by Soso Israeli, and took him hostage. The foreign Ministry of Georgia stated that do not yet have any information on this incident. Earlier it was reported that two Russian pilots at the end of January died at the hands of the rebels. Two Mi-24 helicopter crashed during a patrol flyby in North Kivu due to the difficult weather conditions. At the crash site found the bodies of three people — one of the Congolese military and the two pilots — Russian citizens. According to some, the pilots fell into the hands of rebels from the militant group M23 (the”March 23

27 cars collided in Moscow

27 cars collided on 38-m kilometre of the Minsk highway in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reported with reference to press-service GU MVD of Moscow region.     According to the service Yandex.In the crash gathered an impressive tube. Judging by the comments of users, paralyzed all series on the road.       Probably some accident on the Minsk highway has provoked the ice. According to the interlocutor of the Agency, only two persons suffered. All the details of the incident are found out arrived on the scene, law enforcement officers. Photo: A Typical Odintsovo / Vkontakte

“Hotel ISS” lunar tourism: what Russian projects ahead of time

The famous ISS – the international space station, maybe living its last years in its current form. As reported in an interview with RIA Novosti General Director of Rocket and space Corporation Energia Vladimir Solntsev, at present already put forward proposals for a new object, created in the framework of the project of the Russian orbital station. Deployment in outer space is scheduled for 2024, while, interestingly, the component parts of the new station can become some deverbative your resourcemodel ISS.   However, it is already known that the “veterans” of the station’s functional cargo block Zarya, service module Zvezda, most likely, will cease to exist: both by the time of the planned commissioning of the new station will celebrate the quarter-century anniversary of its work in orbit.   Will the ISS history, and whether it will be as sad as the once famous story of the “World” – this

Nuclear sword: how the Russian rocket can “break” ABOUT US

Today the main striking force of any army in the world relies on the capacity of the rocket, which is equipped with nuclear weapons. The notorious arms race, which was conducted by and large between the US and the USSR came to some sort of balance of power when any of the warring parties could not be guaranteed to claim the absolute superiority in the event of armed conflict.   This was the so-called nuclear deterrent, supported by a Treaty limiting strategic weapons (start-1 and start-2) and guaranteed non-use of force can lead to a global cataclysm of nuclear war.   “The world is on the brink of nuclear cataclysm will never be sustainable if a significant strengthening of the capacity of one of the parties – the Director of the Center for analysis of strategies and technologies (cast) Ruslan Pukhov. After 1991, this fine line has shifted to the

Drunk resident of Ulyanovsk broke the jaw of the EMT

In Ulyanovsk, the ambulance attendant was injured by a drunken patient, when arrived on a call to a person who is unconscious. It is reported RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the regional Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR). The incident occurred on Wednesday, February 22, in the street Machine builders. “After 67-year-old man in a state of intoxication, were brought to consciousness, he attacked the employee of the ambulance and struck 22-year-old girl to nurse injuries,” said the investigators. As a result, the medic suffered a broken jaw and a hand injury. On this fact initiated preliminary examination. A man who allegedly attacked a paramedic, is the police. 15 February in the town of Belogorsk in Amur region man force held a paramedic ambulance, demanding to hospitalize his wife. Medic responded to a call about a head injury. After first aid she offered to

The Deputy public Prosecutor asked to cancel a sentence Chudnovets

Eugene Chudnovets The Deputy General Prosecutor Leonid Korzhinek has made to the Supreme court cassation representation on a sentence concerning the inhabitant of the Kurgan region Eugenia Chudnovets, convicted repost in the social network. About it “lente.ru” the press service of the Prosecutor General. As said the representatives of the Supervisory authority, the Prosecutor’s office puts the question is not about mitigation, but about the abolition of the sentence “and the termination of the criminal proceedings for lack of corpus delicti”. “This decision can take the Kurgan regional court, if the Supreme court agrees with the proposal of the Deputy attorney General and Institute the appeal proceedings”, — noted in press service. Previously it Korzhinek asked to cancel the verdict of the opposition leader, Ildar Dadina convicted of repeated violations of the rules of picketing. The wording was the same — lack of evidence. February 22, the Supreme court overturned

Unknown with a knife attacked a cameraman in Vladivostok

Unknown with a knife attacked a cameraman in Vladivostok Moscow. On 23 February. INTERFAX.RU — the operator of the state TV and radio company (STRC) “Vladivostok” Maxim Kalenich was attacked by the unknown armed with a knife for cutting paper, reports on Thursday television and radio broadcasting company. “On February 22 at approximately 21:30-22:30 p.m. when the operator GTRK “Vladivostok” Maxim Kalenich was heading toward the Pokrovsky Park, near the house on Partizansky prospect, 12, he was attacked. Unknown tried to stab him in the chest with a knife for cutting paper”, — stated in the message. It is noted that at the moment of impact, the assailant slipped and fell, and the knife blade broke, having to to only damage the breast pocket of the jacket and the business card of the employee. Kalenik believe the attack is not random and does not exclude that it can be connected

Armored breakthrough: what is IDEX 2017 brought Russia

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Angelina Jolie introduces the son of his homeland

Angelina Jolie introduces the son of his homeland Angelina Jolie treated their children fried spiders: actress introduces the family to the culinary traditions of the homeland of his eldest son Maddox. “Газета.Ru” — about how Cambodia has changed the lives of Hollywood stars and what else are treated in this part of South-East Asia. Eating spiders was, of course, only part of the visit to Cambodia for Angelina Jolie and her children. In the country she came to present his film “First they killed my father: a daughter’s Memories of Cambodia”. On a trip she took all of his children, who attended an audience with king Norodom Sihamoni and directly on the premiere show of the film. Lunch, the main delicacy which is fried tarantulas and Scorpions were part of acquaintance of children of the family Jolie-pitt. This exotic dish, as explained by the Director, it was one of the

Frightening images of cats flooded the social network

Frightening images of cats flooded the social network Network users drew attention to the draft Edges2cats, which by means of a neural network transforms the drawn cats in a realistic way. In Twitter there was a lot of frightening images of felines. Dear God.#edges2cats pic.twitter.com/4UpmSelqoN — TheDaggestOfNabbits (@DaggestNabbits) 22 Feb 2017 Some users managed to achieve decent results. “But it is pretty good,” said his creation is one of them. #edges2cats But it is pretty good pic.twitter.com/CmVs7Eqhoj — tuturu galleries? (@rorin_uuu) 22 Feb 2017 Edges2cats — a project created by developer Christopher Hesse (Christopher Hesse). The program works on the basis of machine learning from Google called TensorFlow and two thousand stock photos of cats. Demo version of the app was launched on 19 February. Anime was a mistake. #edges2cats pic.twitter.com/riZTn634Hd — D. Van (@devancheque) 22 Feb 2017 create the perfect #edges2cats pic.twitter.com/oHExGERKI5 — larva of the linguist (@jvarenikova) 22