Boris Titov. Photo: Deloros.ru Business Ombudsman Boris Titov will offer the State Duma to extend the validity of the economic amnesty for another six months, RIA Novosti reports. Titov noted that the amnesty should continue to act, for all crimes committed before July 1, 2013. Titov previously stated that about a thousand people could go out in 2014 in 2014.

Ekaterina Pavlova. Photo: Russian.china.org.cn Ekaterina Pavlova became the general director of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Interfax reports citing a representative of one of the shareholders of the radio station. Such a decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. Earlier, Pavlova served as deputy chairman for broadcasting "Voice of Russia".

Clashes in Kyiv on February 17. Frame of the video shooting In Kiev, on the corner of the institute and mulberry streets, in the same quarter from the building of the Verkhovna Rada, the clashes of demonstrators with the police began, UNIAN reports . The protesters throw stones towards law enforcement officers, in response, police shoot light -school grenades. A tear gas was used against the protesters. The protesters crawled out onto cars that blocked the Silkovaya street.

In the Moscow City Court, the trial of the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov and his assistant Leonid Defzzzhaev began, the Grana correspondent reports. The case of the preparation of mass riots is considered by a collegium of three judges under the chairmanship of Alexander Zamashnyuk. The court granted the defense of Razvozhaev for admission to participate in the process as a public defender of the journalist of the Novaya Gazeta Julia Polukhina.

Ilya Ponomarev presents the police with a deputy mandate. Photo by Lyudmila Barkova/Grani.ru The municipal election commission of Novosibirsk rejected part of the signatures in support of the State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who nominated his candidacy in the early elections of the mayor of the city. It is reported by "Interfax-Siberia." Early elections will take place on April 6.

Kyiv, undermining the armored vehicles of internal troops on Independence Square during the storming of the protest camp. Video by Sergey Polishchuk .

Sergey Shoigu and conscripts. Photo: mil.ru Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu promised that by 2020, a military appeal in Russia will halve. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". Shoigu explained such plans to the intention to increase the number of contractors in the Russian army to 499.2 thousand people. After 2020, it is not supposed to reduce the call, the minister added, "because we need a mobilization reserve." Now the annual recruitment for a call service is about 300 thousand people.

Maria Alekhina in Avtosak. Sochi, 02/18/2014. Photo: @tolokno Three Pussy Riot participants were detained in Sochi in the seaport area, including Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina. Tolokonnikova reported this on her Twitter. She did not specify the name of the third detainee. The police announced that the group members are suspected of theft. The detainees are taken to the OP "Adler". Tolokonnikova noted that Pussy Riot arrived in Sochi for promotions.

Evgeny Anisimov. Photo: Baikonuradm.ru The head of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the director of the South South South Cosmic Center, Yevgeny Anisimov, he left his post, Kommersant reports . The department explains the resignation with personal reasons. However, the newspaper sources say that he did not fit into the new head of the Federal Space Agency Oleg Ostapenko. The departmental commission will determine the procedure for transferring the affairs of his successor to the Tuesday.

Dmitry Kiselev about Viktor Shenderovich. Frame "Vesti of the Week" dated December 16 President Vladimir Putin awarded the TV presenter, general director of the Russian news agency today Dmitry Kiselev Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the IV degree. The corresponding decree signed on February 13 was published on the official portal of legal information.

Alexey Navalny next to the carcass of moose. Photo: kshepelin.livejournal.com The All -Russian Society for the Protection of Nature intends to submit an application to law enforcement agencies on the fact of illegal hunting for an elk to the leader of the Party of Progress, Alexei Navalny. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy chairman of the organization on legal issues Lyubov Duiko.

Alexey Yagudin and Pranker Vovan Pranker Vovan, known for his telephone conversations with the stars of politics, show business and sports, confirmed the rally of the 2002 Olympiad champion in the solitary skating of Alexei Yagudin. It is reported by "Soviet Sport". Earlier, Yagudin said that he received threats from "Evgeny Plushenko's entourage." At the same time, Vovan said that he later called back to the jagudine and admitted that it was a rally.

Detention on Bolotnaya. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru In Moscow, a participant in a single picket told the police about his involvement in the "illegal actions in relation to the police" on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the source, on Monday afternoon on the theater square, police officers decided to check the documents from the participant in a single picket in support of the "swamp prisoners".

Evgeny Vitishko in the Tuapse Special Reception, 02/16/2014. Hard video from the YouTube channel Ekovakhta Evgeny Vitishko, a member of the Ecological Watch Council in the North Caucasus, was not released from the Tuapse special receiver after 15-day administrative arrest. This was reported on the website of Ekovakhta. The location of the activist is unknown. Vitishko was to be released at 13:20.