Main News of February 13

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia has offered a new draft resolution to the United Nations on the crisis in Syria as a counter-proposal to another resolution it dismissed last week, Russia’s UN spokesman said

* Egypt's military leader Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was warmly received by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first trip abroad following his seizure of power in a coup last year

* Russia expects Ukraine to return to a process of integration with a Moscow-driven economics union stretching from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, a senior Kremlin official said

* China’s maiden lunar rover, which had earlier been declared lost due to technical problems, has unexpectedly revived itself, the country’s state media reported

RUSSIA

* The Russian president formally nominated an outspoken Kremlin critic as Russia’s next ombudsman, saying he expected her to watch Russia’s political life with “a critical eye”

* Russia introduced measures to restrict adoptions of children to people in countries that recognize same-sex marriages

SPORTS

* Four-time Olympic medalist Evgeny Plushenko announced his retirement from figure skating after withdrawing from the Sochi Olympics with a back injury

* Russian luge star Albert Demchenko is to retire after the Sochi Olympics, the sport's national federation announced, an hour after the 42-year-old collected a second silver medal at his record seventh Winter Games

* The International Olympic Committee asked organizers of the Sochi Winter Olympics to provide more details about the jailing of an environmental activist