One hundred years ago, on February 16, 1918, the Council of Lithuania, chaired by Jonas Basanavičius, adopted the Lithuanian Independence Act signed by all members of the Council.

Vladimir Putin and Ksenia Sobchak The judge of the Supreme Court Nikolai Romanenkov refused to satisfy the requirements of the presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak to recognize the illegal registration of Vladimir Putin as a candidate. This is reported by Interfax.

Evgeny Prigozhin. Source: rupolit.net The large jury of Colombia County in absentia charged in intervention in the 2016 presidential election against the oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin and 12 employees of the Internet Research Agency (Petersburg Trolls Factory). The indictment is published on the website of the US Ministry of Justice.

125 years ago, on February 16, 1893, Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky was born, shot in 1937 on false accusations of the leadership of a "military-fascist conspiracy." Stalin feared that in the event of a large war, Tukhachevsky, who was supposed to command the Red Army in the war with Germany, would turn into a new Bonaparte after the victory and seize power. Therefore, he preferred to destroy the talented commander.

Valery Dyakonov. Photo: ruffnews.ru The judge of the Krasnosulinsky District Court of the Rostov Region Denis Vovchenko refused to replace the conditional term with the real Valery Dyakonov, the coordinator of the protest shares of miners in Gukov. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The judge came to the conclusion that from the deadline of the conditional punishment of Dyakonov, who expired on March 13, the period spent by him under house arrest was not deducted.

Alexey Navalny. Photo from the site iphones.ru The Tver District Court of Moscow returned the case of an administrative offense to the police, instituted against the politician of Alexei Navalny after his detention on the "voter strike" on January 28. This was reported by the politician himself. Due to the blocking of the Navalny.com website, a copy of the message is published on its mirror available in Russia without anonymizers.

Airliner in the area of ​​Deir ez-Zora. Hard video Over the past week, about 300 people were killed and wounded in Syria working for a Russian private military company related to the Kremlin. It is reported by Reuters with reference to three sources familiar with the circumstances of what happened. According to the Russian military doctor, about 100 people were killed and about 200 were injured.

Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro young). Frame TVC The prosecutor in the debate of the parties in the Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow requested 10 years of strict regime and a fine of 700 thousand rubles for a thief in the Law of Zakharia Kalashov (Shakro) accused of extortion. It is reported by RBC. The state prosecutor also requested the terms from 7.5 to 9.5 years and fines from 300 to 700 thousand rubles for each of the 12 accomplices of the defendant.

Andrey Zakhtey in court, 12/05/2016. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru Judge of the Supreme Court of the annexed Crimea Sergey Togrebnyak sentenced the "Ukrainian saboteur" by Andrei Zachtei to six and a half goals of a colony of a maximum security colony. This is reported by Interfax. The court sought at this time for more than a year and a half, which the Ukrainian has been in custody.

The screensaver of the METARA virus Petya The Notpetya virus, Russia's attack was organized by Russia to destabilize the government systems of Ukraine. This is stated in a statement by the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders, reports Reuters. The attack, begun in June 2017 by the Russian military, "spread around the world, incurring the losses of billions of dollars in Europe, Asia and America," Sanders emphasized.

Drone. Photo: Af.mil The American strategic drone of the RQ-4 Global Hawk conducted two-hour air intelligence over the Donbass, according to the Twitter of the Civilmilair military aviation service. The aircraft moved near the Russian border at an altitude of about 16 kilometers. According to the map published on Twitter, he flew over the zone of armed confrontation towards the Rostov region.

Ekaterina Solonitskaya. Photo from personal Instagram Former wife of the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov Ekaterina Solocinskaya resigned from the post of head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris. She posted a statement about this on her Instagram.

Elena Gorban. Photo: Telegram channel "Prometheus" Moscow anarchists Elena Gorban and Alexei Kobaidze, the defendants in the case of an attack on the headquarters of United Russia, were released from a temporary detentional insulator on a recognizance not to leave. This was reported by "OTD-Info" with reference to lawyers Nikita Taranishchenko and Nikolai Fomin. On Thursday, investigators held a confrontation between Gorban and Kobaidze, lawyers said.

Frame from the film "Death of Stalin" The Ministry of Culture at once drew up five new protocols on an administrative offense against the Moscow cinema "Pioneer" for showing the film "Death of Stalin" without a rental certificate. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to lawyer Julia Tai, representing the interests of the cinema. Officials regarded each show of Stalin's Death on January 25 and 26 as a separate offense.

Oleg Sentsov. Photo: Grani.ru Ukrainian citizens Oleg Sentsov and Roman Suschenko, who are imprisoned in Russia, can exchange Russian Alexander Baranov and Maxim Odintsov in Ukraine convicted in Ukraine for the Stateismman and desertion. This was stated by the representative of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada on Human Rights Mikhail Chaplyga on the air of the Newsone television channel, Ukrainian Pravda reports . According to Chaplygi, now preparations for such an exchange are underway.