More than 500 people were evoked from riot-hit Libya. Aircrafts of Russian Ministry for Emergency situations made 7 flights to the area of turmoil taking people from Libyan capital Tripoli and seaport town Sirt to Moscow and Istanbul. All the flights were escorted by psychologists from MES crisis center.

Aircrafts of Russian Emergency situations Ministry landed in Moscow and Istanbul today, having evoked Russian and Turkish citizens from Libyan Sirt. A group of Russian, Serbian and Turkish citizens is still in Libya waiting for the ferry boat which will take them from Sirt and Ras Lanuf to Istanbul.

Russian tour operators announce resuming sales tours to Egypt although recommendation of Foreign Ministry Affairs not to go to Egypt is still active, and there is no air connection with Egypt. They are going to follow their European colleagues who canceled all the restrictions for voyages to Egypt.

The UK government signed a space science research agreement with Russia on February, 22.

Moscow conceptualist Andrey Monastyrsky will represent Russia at the 54th Art Biennale in Venice with his installation the Empty Zones.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has visited London for talks with his British counterpart Foreign Secretary William Hague. They arranged about special hot line to tie London with Moscow in order to upgrade communications between the two countries.

British journalist Luke Harding, correspondent of Guardian in Moscow, expelled from Russia last week after he had reported on Wikileaks cables containing criticism of Russia's leadership has been allowed to return.

This week the most popular Russian social network Vkontakte has reintroduced the “invite” system of registration for new accounts, which was turned down in 2006. To register on the site one should put a code, received from an inviting friend.

Russia won the team competition in the 2011 Winter Universiade which lasted from January 27th to February 6th in Erzurum, Turkey.

Luke Harding, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent, has been expelled from Russia after the newspaper's reporting of the WikiLeaks cables, where he reported on allegations calling Russia "virtual mafia state"and tying this fact with actual Russian PM.