Forty years ago, on February 25, 1977, a fire broke out on the 13th floor of the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, as a result of which 43 people died, another 52 people were injured of varying severity. To save people, 8 fire ladders were initially involved, but they only reached the seventh floor. Then, a "chain" of several attack ladders was stretched up to the 12th floor. As a result, 43 lives were saved.

Vladimir Putin and Francois Fillon. Photo: kremlin.ru The financial prosecutor's office of France began an investigation in the case of illegal payments to the wife of presidential candidate Francois Fiion. It is reported by Le Parisien. Fiion is suspected of paying his wife and children for work that they did not actually do. Before that, a preliminary police investigation was carried out in the case. The forensic investigation has great powers compared to the police.

A meeting of the Armed Forces in the Dadin case. Photo: Daria Kostromina/Grani.ru The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia until February 27 to give an answer on a complaint to the defense of Ildar Danin to illegally retain him in the Altai colony. This was stated by one of the lawyers of the political prisoner Ksenia Kostomina, TASS reports .

Sean Spicer. Short of broadcasting To journalists of a number of leading American media, as well as the BBCs, were banned at the Friday briefing of the press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer. It is reported by the BBC. Representatives of the CNN TV channel, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, as well as Buzzfeed News and Politico, could not visit the briefing.

Petro Poroshenko. Photo: President.gov.ua President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko approved the country's information security doctrine. The document is published on the website of the head of state.

At the site of the attack in Homs. Syrian television frame In Homs, the third largest city in Syria, explosions occurred near the buildings of state security and military intelligence headquarters. The organization of Islamists' Jabhat Fatam Esh-Sham (former Jabhat al-Nusra ”) took responsibility for the attack by the Islamist attack, BBC reports . Five fighters of the organization took part in the attack.

Doping control procedure. Photo from the site www.paralymp.ru The insufficient number of evidence in the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency under the leadership of Richard McLaren is explained by the destruction of many doping industry of Russian athletes. This was reported by the portal of INSIDETHEGAMS with reference to the WADA statement.