Rustem Vaitov on appeal. Photo by Anton Naumlyuk The defendant of the first (Sevastopol) case of the Crimean Muslims Rustem Vaitov, sentenced to five years of general regime, was delivered to serve the deadline for IK-1 in Kurgan. It is reported by "Crimean" with reference to the mother of the convicted person Zarem Vaitov. “Yesterday I called a woman from the mound. Kurgan is a place where he arrived finally. He arrived earlier, but they called yesterday. Colony No. 1.

70 years ago, on February 17, 1947, Voice of America radio began regular transmissions to the Soviet Union. The employees of the Russian Radio Service were mainly emigrants of the "second wave" who left the USSR after the Second World War. Among them was the famous Soviet spy-defector Alexander Barmin. "Voice of America" ​​became one of the main sources of objective information about events in the USSR and the world for Soviet citizens until the era of perestroika and glasnost.

Patriarch Cyril. Photo: Patriarchia.ru The return of the Isaacievsky Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year of the century of revolution will become a "symbol of reconciliation of our people." According to Interfax, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill stated at a meeting of the Supreme Church Council.

The detention of Ildar Dadin. 2014 photo: E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations at rallies), the possibility of a revision of which was mentioned in the decision of the Constitutional Court, most likely remains unchanged. According to Kommersant, the Ministry of Justice said that the agency would prepare changes to the article only in the case of the corresponding order of the government.

Alexey Teacher. Photo: Rockfilm.ru The Ministry of Culture refused to accept the film of the Rock studio Alexei Teacher "Treasure Yermak" due to the inconsistency of the declared scenario, Interfax reports . The department allocated a subsidy of 35 million rubles for shooting.

Man with a smartphone. Photo: AndroidinSider.ru Almost all information transmitted through the networks of operators in the future can be unsuitable for analysis and use in the work of state bodies. According to Vedomosti, this is stated in the conclusion of an expert working group under the leadership of the Minister of Open Government Mikhail Abyzov regarding the "package of Yarova".

Isaac's Cathedral. Photo: Cathedral.ru The decision to transfer the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church was made too hastily. This was stated by a senior federal official on anonymity, reports Interfax. “It was not agreed with President Vladimir Putin, although now the head of state is aware of the current situation,” the source noted.

Alexander Zakharchenko. Frame of the press service "DPR" The militants are ready to capture the areas of Donbass controlled by Ukraine by military means if it is not possible to make it political methods. This "head of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko stated at a press conference in Lugansk, Interfax reports .

Photo by P. Kravchenko 125 years ago, February 17, 1892, Joseph Slip, the Supreme Archbishop of Lviv, the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, the Cardinal, the Cardinal-priest, was born. In 1945, he was arrested and received an 8-year camp. At the end of the deadline, he lived in exile in Krasnoyarsk. He repeatedly came to Moscow and Kyiv, where he was engaged in journalistic activities and tried to go to work at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Sergey Glazyev Vladimir Putin "in no way" shares the position of his adviser Sergei Glazyv regarding the elected president of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Interfax reports . Vladimir Putin does not share Glazyev’s position regarding Steinmeier, said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “You know that the president congratulated his colleague, sent him a greeting telegram warm enough.

German soldiers in Lithuania. Photo: Bundeswehr.de Lithuania’s police are investigating the circumstances of the distribution of knowingly false information in the media directed against the Bundeswehr's military personnel deployed in this country. It is reported by Spiegel Online. On Wednesday, unknown people sent the Lithuanian politicians and the media by e -mail reports that in the city of Ionava, German soldiers raped a minor. Some local media published this information without checking it.

Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo: government.ru Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich asked the operators in the implementation of the provisions of the Yarovaya Law "to prevent tariffs by more than 5 percent. This was reported by Interfax with reference to one of the participants in the meeting dedicated to the adjustment of the law. According to the operators, the implementation of the law in its existing version will not allow to maintain rising prices in the framework of inflation.

Maxim Oreshkin. Photo: minfin.ru The tendency to strengthen the ruble exchange rate, which has recently established on the market, is seasonal and does not require special actions by the authorities. According to Interfax, this was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin.

Sergey Dubinsky. Photo from a personal page in "Odnoklassniki" The defendant of the report by the International Expert-Journalist of the Bellingcat group with the call sign is gloomy, responsible for the delivery to the east of Ukraine "Buk", completely denies his involvement in the tragedy. He stated this in a commentary to the Russian BBC service. Journalists contacted gloomy e -mail, whose address appeared in the Bellingcat investigation.

Vitaly Portnikov Former State Duma deputies Denis Voronenkov and Maria Maksakova have become almost the main characters of the Russian media in recent days - unless, of course, Donald Trump and Michael Flynn. Voronenkov was put on the federal wanted list after he received Ukrainian citizenship and testified to the involvement of the former President Viktor Yanukovych to attack Russia on Ukraine.