Grushevsky Street in the morning of February 16. Frame of the video broadcast of the UKRSTreamtv channel On Sunday morning, Euromaidan activists freed the building of the Kyiv city state administration, Interfax reports. The Act on the transfer of the building of the Kyiv City Hall signed on Sunday the commandant of the Kyiv City State Administration Ruslan Andreiko and the ambassador of the Swiss Confederation Christian Schonenberg.

In St. Petersburg, assistants to the deputy of the local ZakS Vitaly Milonov Anatoly Artyukh and Alexander Mokhnatkin were detained for promotions in support of the Maidan. According to the correspondent of the "faces", the leader of the "People’s Cathedral" Artyukh and his companions tried to disrupt the agreed rally on the Marse field, they shouted homophilic curses and demanded to remove the flags. At the same time, an artyukh was a strong smell of alcohol.

Alma-Ata. Frame "Vesti" In the center of Alma-Ata on Sunday morning, a protest against the devaluation of tenge continued. The protesters gathered on the Republic Square near the Independence Monument, Interfax reports. In total, about 30 people participate in the action, but the number of protesters increases. The agency also reports the detention of three activists by police officers who are watching the rally. It is noted that the Independence Monument is now closed for repairs.

A year ago, on February 16, 2013, at the age of 94, the Russian philosopher and culturologist Grigory Solomonovich Pomeranz died. In December 1945, the front -line officer Pomerantz was expelled from the party for “anti -Soviet conversations”, and in 1949 he was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet activities and convicted of 5 years. Rehabilitation followed in 1956. Pomeranz became a participant in the dissident movement.

Tskhinvali. Frame NTV In the courtyard of the house of the head of the administration of the President of South Ossetia, Boris Chocheyev, an explosion occurred in the courtyard. According to RIA Novosti, about 7-00 Sunday near the building was blown up by a hand grenade. Neither Chopyev himself nor members of his family were injured as a result of the incident. The explosion also did not cause serious destruction.

Evgeny Vitishko. Photo: amnesty.org.ru The activist of the Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus Evgeny Vitishko, who replaced the conditional punishment with a real term in a colony-settlement, announced a hunger strike. This was announced on Twitter by the participant of Ekovakhta Alexei Mandrigel. In the past environment, the judge of the Krasnodar Kraisud Andrei Konnov rejected Vitishko's appeal .

15 years ago, on February 16, 1999, in the capital of Kenya Nairobi, the leader of the prohibited Kurdish labor party Abdullah Ojalan was arrested by Turkish special services. On June 29 of the same year, he was sentenced to death, replaced by a life imprisonment, which is serving on the island of Imrala. On March 21, 2013, Ojalan announced the need for the Kurds of the transition from the armed struggle to the political.

15 years ago, on February 16, 1999, six explosive devices were detonated almost simultaneously in different places in Tashkent. The targets of the attacks were key government facilities, including the building of the Cabinet of Ministers, where the terrorists blew up a car filled with explosives. At that time, a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers was to begin there, which was to be attended by the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.

Vitaly Klitschko. Photo: klichko.org The leader of the Ukrainian Party "Big" Vitaly Klitschko said at a press conference in Dnepropetrovsk that he refused a residence permit in Germany and is now a citizen of Ukraine, the UNN agency reports. "I don’t have a residence permit in Germany. Yes, indeed, I had the right to reside in Europe. Today I have no such right. Since the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine, I have been a citizen of Ukraine and today I am," Klitschko said.

Barack Obama. Photo of the press service of the White House US US President Barack Obama signed a law on raising a limitation limit for the federal government until March 2015, RIA Novosti reports. For granting the government to borrow money over a limit of 17.2 trillion dollars for a period of 13 months last Wednesday, the Senate of the US Congress voted, the law was previously adopted in the House of Representatives.

Oleg Tyagnibok, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vladimir Klitschko on Euromaidan. Photo of the press service of the party "Fatherland" The leader of the opposition parliamentary faction "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk confirmed that he rejects the proposal to head the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Interfax reports. “You heard about how Viktor Yanukovych offered me the post of prime minister. My answer to Yanukovych is as follows: I am not buying for posts, Mr. President.