The inscription on the building "Memorial". Photo: Memo.ru The relevant State Duma Committee on Public Relations recommended for the first reading the presidential bill on the procedure for excluding NPOs from the register of "foreign agents". This was reported by RBC with reference to the head of the committee Yaroslav Nilov. No comments on the project were made. The first reading of the document in the Duma is scheduled for the Friday, February 20 committee.

Anton Suphorov. Photo: News22.ru The trial in the case of the Barnaul oppositionist Anton Podchasov, accused of reprinting the Russophobia of Lent on a personal page in VKontakte, is scheduled for March 25. This is reported by Kasparov.ru with reference to the activist himself. Part 1 of Article 280 (public calls for extremism) and part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity) were charged with subchsov.

Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. Photo: kremlin.ru The new contract for the supply of Russian gas to Hungary will not contain the principle of "take or pay". This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a joint press conference in Budapest, the Kremlin press service reports . In addition, the possibilities for using the underground storage facilities of Hungary will be expanded.

Egypt. Photo from the site www.kydapoehat.ru The Ministry of Tourism of Egypt approved the decision to introduce ruble mutual settlements with Russia. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" Representative of the Ministry of Tourism of the country Muhamed Salem. According to him, after a visit to the country of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Egyptian authorities intend to do everything possible for the comfort of Russians.

Alexander Khinshtein. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru For persons who are convicted of "crimes of extremist and political orientation", a preferential offset of the time spent in the pre -trial detention center before the sentence enters into legal force. According to RAPSI, this was stated by one of the authors of the bill on the preferential standings, the unit-united Alexander Khinshtein. On Wednesday, this bill was adopted in the first reading.

Celebration of the ANSHLUS of Crimea on Red Square. Photo: Grani.ru The Cinema Foundation from March 2 will begin to accept applications for participation in the script competition of historical films. The corresponding order is published on the fund's website. One of 10 proposed topics is Crimea in the history of Russia.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service Western countries supply weapons to Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti, Vladimir Putin made such a statement. “According to our data, weapons are already supplied,” he said on Tuesday at a press conference following negotiations with the Prime Minister of Hungary, answering the question of Russia's reaction to the possibility of supplying weapons to Ukraine.

Lawyer Murad Musaev. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow began consideration of a criminal case against lawyer Murad Musaev, reports RAPSI. He is accused of bribery of the jury, considering the case of the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov. In addition to a lawyer, two jurors are also accused of the case. He is charged with Article 294 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of justice).

Arkady Rotenberg and Vladimir Putin in the gym The Taman federal roads, which is part of the Rosavtodor structure, signed a contract for the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait to the annexed Crimea on Tuesday. This was reported on the website of the department. As Interfax previously transmitted with reference to the notification of Rosavtodor on the public procurement website, the contract price is 228.3 billion rubles.

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo from the personal archive The story of the Debaltsevo boiler seems to end. The hopes that the Ukrainian General Staff has some plans or reserves hidden for the time being for a radical correction of the situation have disappeared.

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Photo: rada.gov.ua The Verkhovna Rada decided to suspend the accreditation of a number of Russian media under the authorities of Ukraine, UNIAN reports . Decisions on inclusion in the list will be made by the SBU.

Ilya Milstein Yes, it is time, it is high time to hold Russophobes at the place of their Russophobia. "Limit the departure from here." The news is like news, and it cannot be said that we did not wait for it. After all, after all, Russian orphanages were becoming at the list of Magnitsky disadvantages, then in response to sanctions lists, sooner or later it was necessary to come up with something the same, asymmetric.

70 years ago, on February 18, 1945, in the concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria, Lieutenant General of Engineering Troops Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev, one of the leaders of the camp underground, was killed. The Canadian Army Major Sedon de Saint-Claire recalled: “In January 1945, among the 1000 people from the prisoners from the Haminkel plant, I was sent to the Mauthausen destruction camp, Lieutenant Karbyshev General and several other Soviet officers were in this team.

Canada flag Canada announced the introduction of new sanctions against 37 individuals and 17 organizations from Russia and Ukraine, according to the official website of the Prime Minister of the country Stephen Harper. According to the head of the government, new sanctions were introduced in response to the actions of militants in Ukraine in recent weeks. In terms of composition, a new list is largely repeated by a similar list introduced earlier by the countries of the European Union.

A meeting of the UN Security Council. Photo: un.org The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on the situation in Ukraine, the UN news center reports . The document was adopted on the initiative of the delegation of Russia. In the preamble of the resolution, the member of the Albmizes expressed a firm conviction that the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine is possible only by peaceful resolution of the conflict.