4th CSO meeting. Frame of the video broadcast The Coordinating Council of the opposition called on the Western countries to arrest the assets of four Russian officials and to deprive them of the right to enter the United States and other states, where acts are expected to be adopted by the "Magnitsky Law". According to a member of the CSR, Sergei Parkhomenko, the corresponding statement was unanimously accepted at the Saturday meeting of the Council.

On February 16, a regular meeting of the Coordinating Council of the opposition will take place, which was supposed to be chaired by Sergei Udaltsov. A week ago, he was put under house arrest, and on the eve of the meeting, the CSO adopted a statement on this matter. In addition, the CSR, by a majority of votes, recently adopted a statement on the need to introduce a visa regime with the countries of Central Asia.

Daniil Konstantinov. Photo: konstantinovdaniil.ru From the leader of the nationalist organization "League of the Defense of Moscow" Daniil Konstantinov, the investigation lifted the charge of the threat of murder. “He received a decision to terminate the criminal prosecution of Konstantinov under part 2 of article 296 for the lack of a crime,” said Denis Zatsepin, lawyer of the politicalese political prisoner, on Friday evening on Twitter.

Photo: Saint-petersburg.ru Activists of the South Kalifornia branch of the American Union of Civil Freedoms and the city center of gays and lesbians called for the city council of Los Angeles to revise the twincoming ties with St. Petersburg, the Voice of America reports. The initiative is associated with the adoption of the law on the prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality in St. Petersburg. California is considered one of the most tolerant of the US states.

Lake Chebarkul. Photo from the site znak.com Divers did not find the wreckage of a meteorite in Lake Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, search work in the area is completed. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov said that information about the fall of a meteorite in Lake Chebarkul is one of the hypotheses.

Picket participants in the OP-2 Dzerzhinsk. Photo by Alexander Vasiliev In the suburbs of Nizhny Novgorod Dzerzhinsk, participants in the action were detained in defense of local school No. 15, which they want to close by giving the building of the Orthodox gymnasium.

State Duma. Hard of news Journalists of Novaya Gazeta handed over 137 thousand signatures for the early dissolution of the State Duma to the presidential administration. According to the publication, 131 thousand signatures were collected on the News website from December 24, 2012 to February 1, 2013, and 6 thousand on the march against scoundrels on January 13.

Konstantin Rubakhin. Courtesy Photo The activists of the movement in defense of the Hopra are searches in the case of the attack on top managers of Voronezhgeology allegedly committed by them. This was reported on Facebook by the Voronezh activist of the International Youth Human Rights Movement Victoria Gromova.

Grigory Pomeranz. Photo: Pomeranz.ru In Moscow, at the 95th year of his life, the philosopher Grigory Pomerantz died. This was reported in the joint blog of Gregory Pomeranz and his wife Zinaida Mirkina. Pomeranz is known as the author of philosophical works that spread in Samizdat in the 1960-70s and had a great influence on the worldview of the liberal intelligentsia.

Swamp on May 6. Photo: Grani.ru The Coordinating Council of the opposition decided to hold the next major protest in the spring. As a member of Kuso Ilya Yashin writes on his Twitter, it will take place on May 5 or 6 and will be timed to the anniversary of the action on Bolotnaya Square. "The formulation of our goal is the formulation of our goal - a peaceful anti -Criminal revolution," Yashin wrote.

120 years ago, February 16, 1893, Mikhail Tukhachevsky was born the youngest of the Soviet marshals. In June 1937, he was shot as the head of the imaginary "military-fascist conspiracy" against Stalin. The execution of Tukhachevsky and his comrades served as an impetus for mass repressions in the Red Army. Before the execution, Mikhail Nikolaevich demanded that he be shot not in the back of the head, but in the face. This request was fulfilled.

Maya Panjikidze. Screenshot video from the website of the State Department of the United States Georgia is going to participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Sochi. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country of Maya Pangidze on the air of the Georgian Maestro television channel. "Georgian athletes will take part in the Sochi Olympics, we do not intend to boycott it," said Panjikidze.

Head of the LDPR faction Igor Lebedev In the doctoral dissertation of the vice-speaker of the State Duma, a member of the LDPR Igor Lebedev discovered plagiarism.

16 people were detained in Moscow near the house of Sergey Udaltsov on his birthday. As the correspondent of the Grani.ru reports, about 70 people gathered in the courtyard of the house on the sunburned street. They hung several posters with congratulations on the trees, chanted "Happy Birthday!" And "Freedom!" Udaltsov, who was under house arrest, went out onto the balcony and silently listened to congratulations. By court order, he is forbidden to communicate with his associates.

Chulpan Khamatova with the children of Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Photo by Vladimir Telegin Actress Chulpan Khamatova took part in the action "Children of political prisoners of modern Russia." At the initiative of Maxim Gromov, she met with the children of the convicted members of the Pussy Riot group Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. The meeting report was published in his blog by photographer Vladimir Telegin.