Poster "Deserter-Fest" In Moscow, the police interrupted the antimilitarian music festival "Deserter-Fest" and detained about 70 of its participants and guests. It is reported by "OTD-Info". At about 19:00, the police blocked the entrance to the premises where the festival was held, and stated that they intend to check the documents from all the assembled. The reason was the complaint of local residents about suspicious people gathering in the basement.

75 years ago, on February 23, 1942, the Austrian Antifashist writer Stefan Zweig and his wife, who lived in exile in the Brazilian city of Petropolis, committed suicide, taking a large dose of sleeping pills. According to Erich Maria Remarca, the cause of suicide was that "Zweig was in a foreign land among strangers." Zweig was an enemy not Toko Nazi, but also of the Stalinist terror.

Oleg Melnikov. Photo from a personal page on Facebook In Krasnogorsk near Moscow, the police detained the leader of the “against slavery” movement Oleg Melnikov on suspicion of organizing illegal migration. This was reported by RBC with reference to Melnikov himself. Another activist and four migrants were also detained. The movement arranged a shelter in the storage room of the industrial zone. “Four people lived there who were released from slavery.

Ministry of Defense. Photos of faces The International Organization of Transparency International has published a report on possible corruption in the Russian Ministry of Defense. The document, in particular, refers to the conflict of interests and the conclusion by the department of state contracts with offshore companies. An example of the possible purchases of the Ministry of Defense of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft are given.

90 years ago, on February 23, 1927, the British Foreign Minister Joseph Ostin Chamberlain sent a note to the Soviet government, in which he demanded a rupture of diplomatic and trade relations to stop the "anti -British propaganda" and Soviet military support for the revolutionary Homintan government in China. Under the slogan "Our answer to Chamberlain" in the USSR, a fund was created to collect funds for defense and construction of the air fleet.

Alexey Petrenko. Photo: Wikipedia In Moscow, at the 79th year of his life, actor Alexei Petrenko suddenly died. This was reported on the website of the Union of Cinematographers. Petrenko was born in the Chernihiv region. After graduating from the Kharkov Theater Institute in 1961, the actor played in the theaters of Zaporozhye and Mariupol. In 1964, Igor Vladimirov invited Petrenko to the Leningrad Theater. Lensoveta, where the actor served until 1977.

Evgenia Chudvets. Photo from a personal page in VKontakte Deputy Prosecutor General Leonid Korzhinek submitted a cassation submission to the Supreme Court for the verdict of the teacher Evgenia Chudnovets, sentenced to five months of the general regime for repost video. This was reported by the press service of the supervisory authority.

Dot of the Second World War on the Kuril Islands. Photo: survincity.com Japan protest against Russia's plans for the deployment of a division in the Kuril Islands. This was stated by the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Yoshihide Suga, reports Reuters. Thus, Suga commented on the words of the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, who said in the State Duma that Russia plans to "complete the deployment of the division" in the Kurils in 2017.

Dmitry Firtash. Photo Newsru.ua The Land Court of the Vienna, having considered the request of Spain on the extraction of Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash, decided to free him without making an additional collateral. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Firtash's lawyers. At the same time, the businessman handed over his foreign passport.

Sergey Shoigu and Andrey Raskov. Photo: mil.ru The relocation of a large number of Russian military equipment to the territory of Belarus in the framework of the studies "West-2017" does not cause threats to the country's sovereignty. This was stated by the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense Andrei Raskov in an interview with the publication "Sat.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: rusila.su On the territory of Syria there are thousands of militants - immigrants from Russia and the CIS countries. This was stated by President Vladimir Paths to meet with military personnel - participants in the military marine campaign to the shores of Syria, Interfax reports . "Unfortunately, a huge number of militants - immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Russia itself have accumulated on the territory of Syria.

The memorial to the victims of deportation in Grozny. Frame of the video Ramzan Kadyrov called unacceptable attempts to heroize Joseph Stalin. The head of Chechnya wrote about this on his Instagram page on the 73rd anniversary of the deportation of Vainakhs. “Joseph Stalin (let him have been cursed thousands of times) wanted to erase our people and the memory of him from the face of the earth,” Kadyrov noted.