Journalists from a number of leading English-language media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times and the BBC, were barred from attending a press briefing at the White House. Correspondents from BuzzFeed, Politico, The Daily Mail, The Hill, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Daily News were also excluded from the event. Reporters from The Associated Press and Time magazine boycotted the event in protest.

A trailer for the television series "Gogol" with the participation of Oleg Menshikov has been published on the Internet. According to the plot, the young and still unknown Nikolai Gogol (played by 28-year-old actor Alexander Petrov), together with the investigator Yakov Guro (Menshikov), sets off from St. take place there, namely, to investigate the murders of girls. “Gogol will not only have to fight evil spirits, but also write one of the most amazing books of Russian literature,” says .

In the United States, participants in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at which US President Donald Trump spoke on February 24, were handed out flags with the Russian tricolor and the president's name. As three of those present told Politico journalist Tim Alberta, the flags were handed out by an unidentified person as Trump was taking the stage. They mistook the man for a conference employee.

Arizona resident Brianna Olivas reported that her iPhone 7 Plus exploded. She tweeted a video of a smoking iPhone; On the video you can see that his body has melted. “My iPhone 7 Plus exploded this morning. I didn’t even use it [at this point], there is no explanation,” she wrote. According to Olivas, the iPhone stopped turning on the day before. Apple support tested the smartphone and said that everything was fine with it; after that, it worked properly for a while, reports Mashable.

In Yekaterinburg, on the afternoon of February 24, an unknown man opened firing and blew up a grenade near a residential building. According to the police, one person suffered as a result. The incident occurred at the house 31 on Stakhanovskaya Street.

Among the customers of the service are Uber, 1password and Avito Photo: Max Whittaker / Techcrunch (CC by 2.0) Head of Cloudflare Matthew Prince On February 23, the largest Cloudflare content delivery network has announced a serious vulnerability. As it turned out, the service that should protect sites transmitted information about users in open form, and anyone who knew about vulnerability could receive it.

In Vienna, a court ruled to release Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash, who has been in custody since February 21 after being detained at the request of Spain. The prosecutor's office asked to detain Firtash as part of the case on his extradition to the United States. The court did not find grounds for detaining the businessman, since in 2014 he paid bail in the amount of 125 million euros; moreover, he cannot leave Austria because his passport has been confiscated.

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On February 19, The Good Fight began on CBS, a spin-off of The Good Wife, which was closed after seven seasons. The show is written by the same writers, Robert and Michelle King, Writers Guild of America Award winners. Meduza watched the sequel to one of the best TV legal dramas and was satisfied.

The Russian football club "Rostov" will meet with the English club "Manchester United" in the 1/8 finals of the Europa League. This became known following the results of the draw on Friday, February 24. Rostov will host Manchester on March 9, and on March 17 they will play with the English club at the Old Trafford stadium. Also, the Russian club Krasnodar made it to the 1/8 finals of the Europa League, according to the results of the draw, it will play with the Spanish Celta.

Photo: AFP / Scanpix / Leta February 24 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow was buried by Vitaly Churkin, a permanent representative of Russia at the UN since 2006. The diplomat died in New York on February 20, the day before his 65th anniversary. He felt ill in the workplace; According to preliminary data, the cause of death could be a heart attack.

On the cover of the next issue of The New Yorker magazine, which will be released on March 6, 2017, the name of the publication will be written in Cyrillic - "The New Yorker". The main material of the issue will be the article "Trump, Putin and the New Cold War" by Evan Osnos, David Remnick and Joshua Yaffa, dedicated to Russian interference in the US presidential elections and Russian-American relations. An early look at next week's cover, “Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley,” by Barry Blitt.

The International Association of Athletics Federation has approved the applications of three Russian athletes to perform internationally under a neutral flag. They are pole vaulter Angelika Sidorova, runner Kristina Sivkova, and hammer thrower Alexei Sokirsky.

The Public Monitoring Commission for Russia’s Altai Territory will hold an unscheduled inspection of colony number 5 in Rubtsovsk, where imprisoned political activist Ildar Dadin has been serving his now overturned sentence. According to the chairman of commission’s chairman Alexei Belous, Dadin is still in detention despite the fact that Russia’s Supreme Court overturned his verdict on February 22.

Russian diplomat Vitaly Churkin was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. The farewell ceremony for Churkin, who has served as Russia's permanent representative to the UN since 2006, was attended by many high-ranking politicians and diplomats, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov offered his condolences to the diplomat's widow, Irina, and presented her with the Order of Courage, which Churkin was awarded posthumously. Vitaly Churkin died on February 20 in New York.