The Krasnodar football club played a 1:1 draw with the Turkish team Fenerbahce in the second match of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League and advanced to the next stage of the tournament. The scoring was opened in the 7th minute by Krasnodar striker Fyodor Smolov. At the end of the first half Brazilian Fenerbahce player Josef Souza equalized the score. The Russian club won the first meeting on February 16 with a score of 1:0.

NASA Trappist-1 advertising post Astronomers during the press conference on February 22 announced the discovery of seven planets at once, rotating around the star Trappist-1 and similar to Earth. They can have liquid water - and therefore life! NASA immediately released a colorful poster inviting space travelers to go to Trappist-1e, the fourth exoplanet of the system.

The short story of one terrorist - and one government mistake Photo: Site Intel Group On February 20, the Islamic State group distributed a message about the terrorist attack that a man named Abu Zakharia al-Britan in Iraq. It recognized a British citizen who spent two years in the American camp in Guantanamo, and then achieved compensation for torture and cruelty. The former Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair had to explain how it happened.

Photo: M. KornMesser / ESO One of the planets that rotates around the star Trappist-1. The version of the artist On February 20, NASA announced a press conference on “discoveries outside the solar system”. Conspirological theories about aliens immediately appeared. On February 22, it turned out that still the matter is not in aliens. Astronomers found planets similar to Earth, which rotate around the star Trappist-1 in the constellation Aquarius.

Oleg Melnikov, founder of the Alternativa anti-slavery movement, was detained in Krasnogorsk near Moscow on suspicion of organizing illegal migration. This is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to himself. According to Melnikov, the migration service officers detained him, along with another participant in the movement and four foreigners, in a warehouse in the industrial zone, where the activists had set up a shelter for migrants, writes RBC.

The parishioners of the Spassky Cathedral, located on the territory of the Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, turned to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with a request to rename the Ploshad Ilyicha metro station in honor of the icon painter Andrei Rublev. “The Monk Andrei Rublev reposed on January 29, 1430 and was buried in the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery in Moscow.

The developer Christopher Hesse created an online service , which with the help of machine learning can “finish” sketches consisting of several lines to color photographs. On the Hess website there are four neural networks trained on four types of objects - buildings, bags, shoes and cats. The first three are not so interesting, but cats are another matter! The user is invited to draw a cat in the left window, click “Process” and see how the neural network will try to “finish” the illustration.

In mid -February, Russia was again massively talking about “death groups” on the Internet and the game “Blue Kit”, where “tasks” are distributed to adolescents, which supposedly lead to suicide. The flurry of publications in the media on this subject causes a sense of confusion and anxiety for many parents. How not to succumb to panic and what if you notice your child’s interest in the game?

On February 21, several Aeroflot stewardesses accused the company of discrimination of employees in appearance. The flight attendants say that Aeroflot plans to send “young and thin” to the international flights, and those who did not fit into new parameters will put on short and frequent flights. Medusa has collected the stories of five stewardesses and stewards, who became the heroes and heroines of the world media, despite the fact that they do not comply with the standards too much.

Cressida Dick has been appointed Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard). She became the first woman in this position in the 188 years of the unit's existence. In addition to Dick, the chairman of the National Council of Chiefs of Police of Great Britain Sarah Thornton, Chief Constable of the Essex Police Stephen Kavanagh and Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Mark Rowley claimed the post, writes BBC. Cressida Dick is 56 years old.

For two weeks now, a story has been circulating in regional communities about a heroic dog that saved a schoolboy: allegedly, the dog saw that the child was locked in the door and barked. History wanders from one city public to another, and no one specifies exactly where it all happened. The South edition analyzed publications in different communities, suggesting that this is the same dog moving around the country and saving children on buses.

One of the leaders of the Alt-right Milo Yannopoulos justified pedophilia. He lost his job and a contract for a book Photo: Drew Angeerer / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The senior editor of the ultra -conservative American publication Breitbart Milo Yannopoulos announced on February 22 that he was resigned.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill obliging banks to use only Mir cards from January 1, 2018 for cash payments to pensioners and employees of budgetary organizations. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in December by a group of deputies headed by Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the financial market committee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law introducing liability for telecom operators for refusing to block sites with information prohibited in Russia. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. The law introduces a new article 13.34 into the Code of Administrative Offenses, which provides for liability for failure to comply with Roskomnadzor decisions to block or resume access to sites.

On February 22, in offices throughout Russia, men are congratulated on the upcoming Defender of the Fatherland Day. The Ekaterinburg Online edition conducted a live broadcast with photos of corporate events sent by readers. Employees of Yekaterinburg companies arranged costume parties for their colleagues, gave them tanks made of socks, and adjusted a field kitchen to their offices. But most of all we were impressed by the mermaid who appeared in the office of Bashneft Retail.