US State Department. Photo: Wikipedia The United States has prepared new sanctions against Moscow in case this requires the development of events in eastern Ukraine. According to Reuters, Secretary of State John Kerry stated this, speaking in Congress. The introduction of the sanctions by the head of the State Department has been dependent on compliance with or compliance by Russia with agreements concluded on February 12 in Minsk.

Ornella Muti. Photo: Ornellamuti.it The court of the Italian city Pordenona sentenced actress Ornell Muti by eight months of prison and a fine of 600 euros for fraud, reports IL Messaggero. However, the verdict will be canceled if the actress pays a penalty of 30 thousand euros of the theater in Portedon. On December 10, 2010, Muti was supposed to play the main role in one of the performances in the theater in Pordenon.

Logo '' of international amnesty '' The international human rights organization Amnesty International called on five permanent members of the UN Security Council to abandon the veto in situations of genocide and other mass atrocities. This was reported by "Vedomosti" with reference to the Secretary General of the organization Salila Schetti.

Andrey Grigoryev. Photo: ntv.ru The authorities of Ukraine expel two Russian journalists from the country. This was reported by "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to the representative of the SBU Elena Gitlyanskaya. As the Channel One specified , we are talking about the correspondent of this media Elena Makarova and her colleague with NTV Andrei Grigoryeva. According to RIA Novosti, Grigoryev has already arrived in Russia. For five years, both journalists are prohibited from entering Ukraine.

Montblanc handles. Photo: Montblanc.com Despite the unstable situation in the economy, Russian state -owned companies are not ready to abandon luxury costs. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to information about tenders.

Hypermarket "Auchan Altufevo". Photo: Auchan.ru The largest Russian retail chains have agreed to freeze prices for socially significant products for two months, Vedomosti reports . The Association of Retail Companies has sent a draft relevant agreement to the FAS. The association unites the largest Russian networks - Magnit, X5 Retail Group (brands "Crossroads", "Carousel", "Kopeika"), "Auchan", "Dixie", "Lenta" and others.

Dmitry Shipilov. Photo: Newkuzbass.ru The State Border Service of Ukraine refused to put into the country of the Russian blogger and journalist, the former political prisoner Dmitry Shipilov. This was reported by "New Region" with reference to the emigrant itself. Meanwhile, Shipilov filed a request for a political investment at the border post, and he had no right to refuse.

Federica Mogherini. Photo: eeas.europa.eu Moscow expects to split the European Union. This was stated by the head of the EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini in a speech at the Royal Institute of International Relations in the UK, the press service of the European diplomatic department (EEAS) reports . “Once again and again, Moscow (and not only Moscow) makes a bet on the split of our union,” Mogherini said.

Oleg Kozyrev. Photo with personal FB page In Moscow, three police officers who submitted a criminal investigation officer tried to watch the apartment of Blogger Oleg Kozyrev. Kozyrev reported this on his Facebook page. Visiters, one of whom was in uniform, and two in the civilian, said that the authorities gave them a written order to check the Blogger’s home for the presence of unregistered weapons there. Kozyrev refused to open the door, and after a while the security forces left.

Flags "Apple". Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Yabloko party will not participate in the anti -crisis march "Vesna", which is scheduled for March 1. This was stated by the executive secretary of the Party Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva, Interfax reports . According to her, Yabloko will hold alternative measures that do not require coordination with the mayor.

Anna Stepanova. Photo with personal FB page In Nizhny Novgorod, unknown people made an armed attack on the apartment of the leader of the regional branch of the RPR-Parnas Anna Stepanova. It is reported by Pravda PFO. The incident occurred about 4 in the morning of the midst.

Daria Polyudova in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar, 01/20/2015. Photo by Viktor Chirikov The organizer of the march for the federalization of the Kuban Daria Polyudova is released from the pre-trial detention center-5 in Krasnodar for a recognizance not to leave. This was announced on his Facebook page by activist’s lawyer Andrei Sabinin. On February 28, Polyudova expired the deadline for detention.

The logo of the anonymizer Tor The operational and analytical center under the President of Belarus and the Ministry of Communications and Information adopted a resolution on restriction of access to a number of Internet resources. The document was published on the official portal of legal information of the republic. Access is prohibited to resources containing information prohibited by law or court decision.

2011 photo: tsn.ua The ban on Russian films, the expulsion of enemy media, the arrest of a journalist on charges of Gosizmen, attempts by the SBU to make a black list of sites, a scandal with Savik Shuster ... How does Ukraine answer massive Russian propaganda? Is the battle lost for minds in the east and in the West? Is freedom of speech possible in war conditions?

The scene of the play "Tangaer" in the production of Timofei Kulyabin. Photo: Afisha.ngs.ru The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region began a pre -investigation verification on the fact that director Timofey Kulyabin, Wagner’s opera “Tangeyer” at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. This was reported by TASS with reference to the investigation department.