In Moscow, a group of activists and artists arranged a "patriotic installation" in a room taken for one day in the territory of the former plant. Video Yuri Timofeev.

Logo of the Standard & Poor's agency. Photo from the website of the agency The Standard & Poor's International rating agency reduced long -term ratings in foreign currency of a number of largest companies in Russia, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the agency’s statement. In particular, long-term credit ratings in the foreign currency of Gazprom, Gazpromneft, Rosneft, Transneft, Novateka, MTS, MegaFon, Russian Railways were reduced from BB+ with a negative forecast.

15 years ago, on February 5, 2000, there was a mass murder of civilians in the village of Novye Aldy and the surrounding areas of Grozny. According to the European Court of Human Rights, as well as a number of journalists and human rights organizations, it was committed by riot police of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and OMON of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Ryazan Region.

Pan Gi Moon. Photo: un.org UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon supported the proposal of the current chairman of the OSCE Ivitsa Dachich on the establishment of a temporary truce in the area of ​​the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve to evacuate civilians, Lenta.ru reports with reference to the UN press service. “The General Secretary is still seriously concerned about the situation in the east of Ukraine, in particular, the position of civilians who are without food and drink in the city of Debaltseve.

Leonid Levin. Photo: spravedlivo.ru The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin proposed introducing pre-trial blocking of Internet anonymizers and Tor networks. He stated this in the framework of "Infoforum-2015", TASS reports . “The question of pre -trial blocking of anonymizers and access to anonymous Tor types of type is noteworthy.

In the central market of Lugansk after shelling. Photo: xxivek.net Two local residents who fought in the Donbass on the side of Russia were arrested in the Kazakhstan regional center of Kostanay. This was reported by "Kostanay news." The names of the arrested are not disclosed - as claimed, in the interests of the investigation; Only their nicknames are given: ninja and a grater.

Vadim Yakovenko. Photo: moscow.sledcom.ru Vadim Yakovenko, head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, was dismissed from his position by Decree of President Vladimir Putin. The corresponding decree is published on the official portal of legal information.

Sergey Galitsky. Photo from a personal page on Facebook The owner of the Magnit chain of stores, Sergei Galitsky, urged the Russian media to stop “gear” because of the detention in the Blockade company’s store on suspicion of theft of oil. According to the Moscow Radio Says Moscow, he stated this in correspondence with its correspondent. The businessman said that an 81-year-old woman who turned out to be a blocker veteran who had died in the police department was not inspected in the store.

Mustafa Dzhemilev. Photo: S. Starostenko/Kommersant Soon a year as the Crimean Tatars live under the occupation mode: a ban on books, the defeat of the channel, searches, arrests, abduction of people. The leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev is not allowed into the Crimea. He told the "faces" how the peninsula turns from the resort into a military base, how the Crimean Tatars are humiliated and intimidated and how the current persecution differs from the oppression of Soviet times.

Angel Merkel and Francois Hollande. Photo: Bundeskanzlerin.de German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande prepared new initiatives to de -escalate conflict in the east of Ukraine, Reuters reports . On Thursday, they intend to negotiate in Kyiv with the President of Ukraine Porot Poroshenko. On Friday, Merkel and Oland will come to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin.

Nikolai Mitrokhin The final of the press conference of unrecognized DPR -LNR, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, which was held on February 2, turned out to be - primarily for the Western media - truly sensational. Both prominent figures of the "anti -fascist movement" coherently discussed the topic of the management of Ukraine "Jews", characterizing them with the word "miserable".

Konstantin Shirshov. Photo: kprf.ru The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Konstantin Shirshov, in May 2014, sentenced to five years of general regime, submitted a bill to the State Duma on a preferential test of the time spent by prisoners in the pre -trial detention center before the sentence entered into force. The document is published on the website of the lower house.

The flag of the European Union. Frame of Channel One The European Union considers the possibility of entering additional restrictive measures in relation to high-ranking Russian officials due to the situation in Ukraine. This was reported by RBC with reference to the German news agency DPA. According to the agency, the decision was made in preparation for the meeting of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, which is scheduled for February 9.

Andrey Stebenev. Photo from a personal page on Facebook (Andrey Steb) The Russian Lawyer Chamber of Moscow aroused disciplinary proceedings against Andrei Stebenev, former defender Svetlana Davydova, who provided her with the FSB. This was reported in his blog on the website of "Echo of Moscow" President of the chamber lawyer Henry Reznik. Colleagues accuse Stebenev of improperly providing legal assistance.

The "tiger" of the drunken special forces of the GRU in Rostov. Photo: 161.ru The garrison military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced to five years in prison in the colony-settlement of ordinary Alexander Kondratyev, TASS reports . He was drunk on a combat vehicle "Tiger" committed a number of accidents, the victims of one of which were two people.