At least six people died under Russian shelling in Ukraine on February 19. This was reported by the heads of regional military administrations. Three people died in the Donetsk region - in Avdeevka, Bakhmut and Bogdanovka. According to the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko, the Russian military also launched missile attacks on an industrial enterprise in Kramatorsk, the territory of a car service center and an adjacent three-story building in Yasnogorka and a former mine in Kleban Byk.

The leadership of the Far Eastern Institute of Management RANEPA It was forced to quit the sociologist Vitaly Blazhevich due to the commentary “Radio Liberty”, Siberia. Reals reported . On February 10, Blazhevich acted as an expert in the video about the conclusion of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal for 22 years. In it, the teacher spoke about the attitude of the resident of Khabarovsk towards Putin.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with LGBTQ+ activists and apologized for discriminatory remarks by a former aide who was fired in early February. In addition to the apology, Fumio Kishida also announced the creation of the position of advisor on the affairs of the LGBTQ+ community, to which he appointed Masaka Mori, a member of the upper house of parliament, an advisor on women's empowerment, and the former Minister of Justice of Japan.

The Russian branch of the Auchan chain of stores has been supplying goods to Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This was reported in a joint investigation by The Insider, Le Monde and Bellingcat. Investigators discovered that on March 15, 2022, employees of the St. Petersburg Auchan received a letter with instructions to prepare “humanitarian aid.” The attached estimate lists products intended for men , but there is nothing in it for women and children.

In Belarus, the Gomel Regional Court sentenced participants of the Workers' Movement movement to imprisonment for a term of 11 to 15 years in a colony, reports .

The Taliban have banned pharmacies in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif from selling contraceptive pills and injections, The Guardian writes, citing local residents. According to pharmacists, since the beginning of February, pharmacies have been prohibited from keeping contraceptives in warehouses.

Russia denounced the agreement with the Czech Republic on the consulate general in Yekaterinburg, according to the government order dated February 16. On February 24, 2022, after the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced the suspension of the activities of the consulates general in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.

Vladimir Putin personally signs decrees pardoning prisoners recruited by Wagner PMC, journalist Andrei Zakharov reported , citing police bases. According to Zakharov, he asked his source who has access to the IBD-F police database check two prisoners whose participation in the PMC was confirmed by the founder of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The police and the Ministry of Emergency Situations disrupted the “Accident” concert in Novosibirsk, reports the Sibirmedia telegram channel. Both group members were detained. Shortly before the start of the concert, the organizers moved it to another venue. Before the start of the performance, firefighters and police arrived at the new location. They stated that a fire allegedly occurred in a nearby branch of the Russian Post and the electricity was cut off.

“Conversations about important things” will be shown every Monday on the “Good Morning” program on Channel One, reports the official telegram channel of the project. The first broadcast took place on February 13. It was attended by actor Konstantin Khabensky, Sergei Lavrov, Yegor Creed and general director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev. Propaganda “Conversations about the Important” have been carried out in Russian schools since September 2022.

Roskomnadzor (RKN) issued a warning to the Tatarstan magazine and its founder Tatmedia due to the cover of their January number with cats and the signature “From Black to Beloy. From the old to the new. From the past to the future. " According to sources of 161.ru from the department, the RKN indicated in the warning that the cover was incurring “national and religious races”.

In Moscow, the apartment of Pussy Riot member Rita Flores was searched, after which she was taken to the Investigative Committee for the Meshchansky District. Then she stopped communicating. Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina told DOXA about this. Lawyer Daniil Berman, after Rita Flores’ message, went to the address reported by the Pussy Riot member. However, investigators from the Investigative Committee stated that Rita was not among those detained.

In Bulgaria, police discovered a truck with the bodies of 18 migrants from Afghanistan, writes the local news agency BTA. Among the victims is a 6-7 year old boy. In total, there were more than 50 people in the truck, who were hiding in a secret compartment under a load of wood. 34 migrants were rescued and were placed in hospitals and clinics in different parts of the country. Police have detained four people, including the truck driver, who may be involved in the deaths.

In Yekaterinburg, security forces conducted a raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque during prayer. According to local media, people in camouflage and with machine guns surrounded dozens of believers and shot several times in the air. Mosque visitors began to be detained immediately after Friday prayers.

An English teacher from Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, is being forced to admit to setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, which he did not commit, reports Taiga.Info. A 35-year-old teacher is accused of shooting at a banner advertising contract military service on charges of hooliganism . with a gun and threatening to kill a neighbor he met after the shooting. The teacher admitted what he had done.