Pentagon building. Photo: Defense.gov The United States did not change its position on the provision of military assistance to Ukraine and send Kyiv only non -lethal equipment rather than a system of weapons. According to TASS, this was stated by Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby. At the same time, he confirmed that "discussions about other types of assistance to Ukraine are ongoing." According to him, the US Ministry of Defense consider various requests from Kyiv.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia. Photo: minfin.ru The Ministry of Finance has prepared proposals for the 2015 sequestration. The costs laid down in the current budget are reduced by 1.3 trillion rubles, RBC reports with reference to two sources in the government. The ministry proposals have already been submitted to the government and will be considered at a budget meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.

West Alpha drilling in the Kara Sea. Photo: Rosneft.ru Rosneft turned to Rosnedra with a request to postpone the development of 12 shelf plots in the Barents, East Siberian and Okhotsk seas for one and a half to two years. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a source close to Rosnedram. The cause of the company calls the departure from projects of foreign partners and large volumes of investment.

Alexey Navalny under escort, 02/19/2015. Photo: @about_Friday The leader of the Progress Party, Alexei Navalny, was detained by the police in the office of the Corruption and drive Fund and the drive was delivered to the Presnensky district court of the capital to consider the administrative case of Sunday campaign in the Moscow metro to the "Anti-Crisis march" Vesna. This was reported in Twitter by the press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmy.

The Russian Air Defense Air Defense Project-C1 Air Defense System in Shakhtersk, 01/24/2015. Photo: @uknato The British Foreign Ministry has published photographs of the latest Russian PAPIR-C1 air defense systems taken in the Donbass (according to the NATO-SA-22 classification).

Supreme Court of Russia. Photo: vsrf.ru Four military sailors were sentenced to real terms under Article 275 of the Criminal Code (state treason) and deprived of military titles and awards. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a certain source "familiar with the situation." It is alleged that the sailors transferred top secret information to foreign states. The interlocutor of the agency called the names of the convicts.

Currency mortgages held a flash mob by the Delta Credit Bank building on Mokhovoy Street opposite the Kremlin. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". In the same building there is a reception of the Federation Council. To the entrance to the bank threw packs of unsubscribing from the Central Bank to complaints of mortgages. Initially, the action was supposed to be held at the Central Bank building on Neglinnaya, but it was blocked by the police.

Alexey Navalny under escort, 02/19/2015. Photo: @about_Friday The judge of the Presnensky district court of Moscow Irina Zubova sentenced the leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny to 15 days of arrest, the press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmysh said . It is found guilty of violation of part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the legislation on rallies).

Maryino. Photo: Wikipedia The organizers of the "Anti-Crisis march" Vesna ", scheduled for March 1, abandoned the proposal of officials to transfer the event from Tverskaya Street to the Maryino district to the southeastern outskirts of the city. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the organizing committee, the leading of the" daily journal "Alexander Ryklin. “We are going to insist on the center of Moscow,” said Ryklin.

The anti-aircraft missile system "Buk-M1". Photo from the site Mil.ru The adoption of the new state weapons program is transferred to 2018. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources in the government and the presidential administration. Initially, it was assumed that a document that determines the volume of weapons and the timing of their supplies in 2016-2025 will be presented to Vladimir Putin in December of this year.

Dispatching gas pipeline. Photo: utg.ua “Naftogaz of Ukraine” does not intend to pay for the supply of natural gas to Gazprom to the DPR and the LPR if the Russian holding presents the bill. This was stated by the head of Naftogaz Andrey Kobolev, reports Ligabusinessinform. “Such supplies are contrary to the letter and the spirit of our contract with Gazprom,” Kobolev noted. Therefore, Naftogaz will not pay such an account.

The funeral of Anatoly Sobchak. Vladimir Putin with his wife Lyudmila, the widow of Sobchak Lyudmila Narusova and the daughter of Ksenia. Photo: kremlin.ru 15 years ago, on February 19, 2000, in Kaliningrad at the age of 62, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak, a professor, doctor of legal sciences, the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg, died. In his team, Vladimir Putin began his political career.

Michael Fallon. Photo: gov.uk There is a real danger that Russia will try to destabilize the situation in the Baltic countries - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Michael Fallon, reports the BBC. The pressure that President Vladimir Putin is anxious on these states included in NATO, the minister noted. Russia can use tactics similar to the one that it uses in the east of Ukraine.

Tatyana Klag. Photo: echomsk.spb.ru The Radio station "Echo of Moscow" insists on conducting the audit "Echo of Petersburg". This was stated by the general director of the Moscow radio station Mikhail Demin, Interfax reports . Based on the results of the audit, a lawsuit will be filed in the court to compensate for losses. Earlier on Thursday, according to the results of the meeting of shareholders, Tatyana Kaglyak was elected general director of Echo of Petersburg.

Petro Poroshenko The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to turn to the UN and the EU with a request to deploy an international police mission in the country, RIA Novosti reports. The day before, the country's President Petro Poroshenko personally introduced this idea to a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council.