On February 16, the rain-master art cafe (Izmailovsky Val, 2, next to the Semenovskaya metro station) will be a charity concert "Rock Against torture" in support of the politicalese Ildar Dadin, against violence in prisons. Start at 19:00, the entrance is free. Participants: Alibi Group, Arkady Kots, Oleg Mokryakov, Vasily K and Intellectuals. The concert is organized by civil activists with the support of the Human Rights movement.

Valery Parfenov and Alexander Sokolov in court. Photo: andreychernuhin.livejournal.com On February 16 at 12:00 in the hall of 338 of the Moscow City Court the next meeting in the case of the "Army of the will of the people" will be held under the chairmanship of the judge of the Tver court, Alexei Krivoruchko. The interrogation of the "classified witness" is planned. Hearing on the merits of the "Avn case" began on November 23 .

The march of the memory of Boris Nemtsov. Photo from the page of the promotion on Facebook The Moscow City Hall agreed on the application for the march of the memory of Boris Nemtsov, but invited the organizers to change the route. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the metropolitan department of regional security and counteracting corruption Vladimir Chernikov.

Alexander Tkachev. Photo: mcx.ru Further strengthening the ruble to the dollar will be a blow to the domestic economy and will negatively affect the export potential of Russia. As TASS reports , the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev stated this. "The fact that the ruble has strengthened and strengthened today is, of course, a serious minus for our export positions and not only for agriculture - both for industry and for many other sectors of the economy," Tkachev said.

James Mattis. Photo: Greatagain.gov NATO countries should build partnerships with Russia, but negotiations are necessary from the standpoint of strength. This, as reports CNN, said US Secretary of Defense James Mattis. He made a corresponding statement at a meeting of the Minister of Defense of the Alliance countries in Brussels.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service Attempts from outside interference in the internal affairs of Russia continue in order to destabilize the socio-political situation. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at the College of the FSB, Interfax reports . Western countries constantly provoke Russia and seek to draw it into confrontation, the president said.

Zakhar Prilepin. Photo: zaharprilepin.ru The Security Service of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin. This was reported on the official page of the SBU. “The SBU opened criminal proceedings against Politruk Prilepin,” the report said.

Jens Stoltenberg. Photo: NATO.int NATO advocates establishing constructive relations with Russia, but at the same time will strengthen the restraint measures. This was stated by the Alliance Secretary General of Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference following a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers. “We must combine a dialogue with reliable deterrence. This is the lesson that we endure.

Maria Maksakova. Photo: video-duma.ru The ex-deputy of the State Duma, Maria Maksakov, will be expelled from United Russia. According to TASS, the secretary of the Moscow party department Andrei Metelsky announced this. According to him, the reason for the exclusion was Maksakova’s dual citizenship. "We received information about dual citizenship, this does not correspond to the status of a party member, according to our charter, and contradicts the charter.

The border of Russia and Belarus. Hard video from the YouTube channel Johnson Jr. The Kremlin does not consider the introduction of a visa regime with Belarus. According to TASS, this was stated by Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the publication of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. One of the points of the published survey concerned the border regime between Russia and Belarus and the abolition of the Minsk visas for citizens of 80 countries.

Frame of the program "Vesti Week" TV channel Russia 1 " The presidential administration demanded that the state media release less materials with praise by US President Donald Trump. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources familiar with the situation. As the agency notes, the Kremlin’s order reflects his “growing anxiety” that the new US administration will be less friendly than Moscow initially suggested.

Revan Suleimanov. Photo: krymr.com The Kiev District Court of Simferopol, which was controlled by Russia, extended to the "Ukrainian saboteur" to Redwan Suleimanov the term of detention in the pre -trial detention center until March 20. It is reported by "Crimensos" with reference to Emil Kurbedinov, a political prison lawyer.

Alexey Nikitin with a bag at the Primorsky Kraisud, 02.16.2017. Photo: primamedia.ru The judge of the Primorsky Chisud Yevgeny Gavrilov refused the prosecutors to arrest the previously justified defendants in the case of the Primorsky partisans Vadim Kovtun and Alexei Nikitin. This was reported on his Twitter by the author of the project "Primorsky partisans.info" Julia Zhukovich. The accusation achieved that both defendants were sent to a pre -trial detention center for six months.

Oleg Mikheev. Photo from a personal site The ex-deputy of the State Duma, a member of Fair Russia, Oleg Mikheev, was put on the federal wanted list. According to Kommersant, this was announced by the head of the press service of the Volgograd Regional Court, Alexander Chernov. The indictment in the criminal case of the leader of the Volgograd branch of "Fair Russia" was approved by Deputy Prosecutor General Victor Greenin in December 2016.

Epiphany bathing in Gorno-Altaysk. Photo: Listock.ru The Gorno-Altai Goroddel of the Investigative Committee opened the case of extremism on the fact of publishing a commentary on the article on the Epiphany bathing on the website of the Listov newspaper. This was reported on Wednesday by the regional prosecutor's office.