Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday expressed doubt about the legitimacy of the new authorities in Ukraine and called their recognition by Western countries “an aberration of consciousness,” RIA Novosti reported . “Strictly speaking, today there is no one to communicate with there; the legitimacy of a number of government bodies that operate there raises serious doubts,” the agency quotes the words of the head of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers as told to journalists.

The Russian Foreign Ministry sent a note of protest to the Bulgarian authorities demanding a thorough investigation into the act of vandalism against the monument to the Soviet army in Sofia, said .

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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained on Monday at the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow during the announcement of sentences for those involved in the Bolotnaya case, said that he was released from court. According to Navalny, he was brought back from the police department to the Zamoskvoretsky court, but the judge did not accept the documents drawn up against him. The oppositionist added that his phone was returned to him and that he had already left the court.

On the day of the sentencing of those involved in the “Bolotnaya case” in the center of Moscow, the police detained more than 400 opposition activists The verdict of the defendants in the criminal case for mass riots On May 6, 2012, on Bolotnaya Square, opposition activists decided to protest at an action unauthorized by the mayor’s office on Manezhnaya Square in the center of Moscow. From the very morning, Manezhnaya was cordoned off by law enforcement officers.

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Police officers are detaining people who came to the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Monday, where the announcement of the verdict of eight defendants in the “Bolotnaya case”, previously found guilty of participating in mass riots and using violence against government officials on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, resumed.

Large plots of land in the security zones of the Moscow region, in the privatization of which the Accounts Chamber identified violations, belong to the structures of AFK Sistema, Gazprombank, Onexim and the former manager of Sibur, the reported on Monday. Vedomosti newspaper In February, the joint venture reported violations found in transactions with land near Moscow with an area of ​​3.5 million square meters. m.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Monday, February 24, announced the verdicts of eight defendants in the “Bolotnaya case”, found guilty of participating in mass riots and using violence against government officials on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012. The court sentenced Alexandra Dukhanina to three years and three months probation. All other defendants received real sentences. The court sentenced Sergei Krivov to four years in prison.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Monday, February 24, decided to release political prisoners, Interfax-Ukraine reports . The list of political prisoners includes 23 names, including businessman Dmitry Pavlichenko and his son Sergei, convicted of the murder of the judge of the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv Sergei Zukov. 316 deputies voted for the decision to release political prisoners.

The next issue of the Itogi magazine dated March 10 will not be published due to financial problems, Interfax reported on Monday, February 24, citing a source familiar with the situation. According to the agency's interlocutor, editorial staff were also told on Monday that "the magazine's future prospects are very vague." He also added that after March 10, the magazine will not resume its work.

The Cyprus police detained Elena Rybolovleva, the ex-wife of businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev (No. 14 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes reported , worth $9.1 billion), with whom the billionaire has been in divorce proceedings for several years, the Cyprus Mail on Monday. According to the publication, Rybolovleva flew to Cyprus on Monday morning from Switzerland.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed deputy from the UDAR faction Valentin Nalyvaichenko as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and deputy from the Svoboda faction Oleg Makhnitsky to the post of prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine reports on Monday, February 24. 333 people’s deputies voted for the decision to appoint Nalyvaichenko, and 312 out of 373 registered in the hall voted for Makhnitsky.

Companies controlled by entrepreneur Denis Katsyv, which in the United States are suspected of laundering $230 million stolen from the Russian budget, have withdrawn their petition to reject the application for confiscation of their assets in the United States and advocated for a speedy consideration of the case in court, RAPSI reports on Monday, February 24, citing case materials. The motion to dismiss the application to confiscate the companies' assets was filed in December 2013.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) found no grounds for organizing an unscheduled inspection of cable and satellite television operators, which turned off the broadcast of the Dozhd TV channel in late January - early February, the Presidential reported Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC).