Nadezhda Sergeeva. Photo: rusbob.ru The Russian Bobsleist Nadezhda Sergeyeva, who took 12th place in the competitions of doubles at the Olympics in Pyeongchang, passed a positive doping test. This was reported in the Federation of Bobsleya and Skeleton of Russia. "The test of the Russian national team of Russia Nadezhda Sergeyeva on February 18 gave a positive result to the heart drug, which is included in the list of prohibited. A few days before on February 13, its test was clean.

Meme from the case of Alexei Sverdlov Rosfinmonitoring included a legal student from Krasnoyarsk Alexei Sverdlov, accused of the “extremist” article of the Criminal Code for the reposts of memes on the VKontakte social network, in the list of extremists and terrorists. This was reported by the ATS-INFO with reference to the human rights project "Open Russia". Both bank accounts were blocked. It is included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring under the number 6105.

The flag of the European Union The European Union extended a number of restrictive measures for Belarus for another year. This is stated in a press release from the EU Council. "The Council decided to extend restrictive measures against Belarus for another year, until February 28, 2019.

One hundred years ago, on February 23, 1918, the appeal of the Council of People's Commissars "The socialist fatherland is in danger!", written by Leon Trotsky, was published, as well as the "Appeal of the Military Commander-in-Chief" Nikolai Krylenko, which ended with the words: "All to arms. All to defend the revolution.

Leonid Slutsky. Photo from personal twitter Journalists of the "rain" who published an article on sexual harassment by the deputy from the LDPR Leonid Slutsky should be deprived of accreditation. This was stated by the Vice Speaker of the State Duma from the party of Zhirinovsky Igor Lebedev. "Yesterday's accusations from rain journalists against the Deputy of the State Duma of Leonid Slutsky in harassment I consider it a rude violation of ethics, criminal law and insult.

Leonid Slutsky. Photo from personal twitter Three journalists of the parliamentary pool, on the basis of anonymity, told Rain about harassment by the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs, deputy from the LDPR Leonid Slutsky. One of the journalists said that the deputy was molesting her in his Duma office when she took from the Slutsk interview. “He led the inner part of his palm against my pubis and ran upwards. This happened last year.

Logo "Yandex. Zen" The company "Yandex" refused to delete, at the request of Roskomnadzor, the channel of the blocked publication Mikhail Khodorkovsky "MBH-Media" in its Yandex.Zen service, Rain reports with reference to the company's press service. In Yandex, they insist that by law they are not obliged to respond to the requirements of the censorship department - they relate only to the owners of the channel themselves.

Coal loading in the North Korean port. Photo: sdlanouunas.ru The United States, in the framework of counteracting North Korea nuclear and missile programs, imposed sanctions against transport and shipping companies, courts and one individual. This was reported on the website of the American Ministry of Finance. The sanctions list included 27 companies registered in the DPRK, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Panama.

Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Source: cnn.com The special prosecutor in the Russian intervention case in the 2016 US presidential election, Robert Muller, charged the former head of the election headquarters of Donald Trump Polum Manafort and his ex-adviser Rick Gates. The indictment is published on the website of the US Ministry of Justice.

Evgeny Prigozhin. Source: rupolit.net Moscow prepared in advance the attack of the mercenaries of the private military company Wagner on the Kurds in Syria. This follows from the reports of American intelligence on the words of negotiations between the St. Petersburg oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin, who owned PMCs, with high -ranking Russian and Syrian officials, reports The Washington Post.