Director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofya Apfelbaum received the award of the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin. “The award <…> is associated with outstanding artists. This time my candidacy is a person who is in serious condition. He is an amazing person, honest, high professional. This is a beautiful woman who is known to all those present. This is Sonya Apfelbaum, ”Kalyagin said.

YouTube asked the owners of the Navalny Live channel to remove the broadcast of the program Navalny at 20:18 on February 8, a fragment of which is devoted to the FBK investigation about businessman Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. Oksana Baulina, the producer of the Navalny Live channel, posted a screenshot of a letter from YouTube on Twitter. Roskomnadzor added the following URL to the prohibited list of materials.

A Russian court sentences a college student to 2.5 years in prison for reposting ‘extremist’ images that he says were part of his thesis research By nearly all accounts, Alexander Kruze is a model citizen. When he finished high school, instead of grabbing an academic exemption from the military, Kruze deferred his college enrollment and served in Russia's armed forces. When he returned to civilian life, he resumed his education, studying criminal law at an institute in Voronezh.

Google has reportedly sent a message to the owners of the “NavalnyLive” YouTube channel, demanding that the administrators delete a video where Navalny accuses oligarch Oleg Deripaska of meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko aboard the former’s yacht in August 2016, possibly to discuss Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential election.

A passenger plane flying from Moscow to Surgut urgently returned to Vnukovo after smoke occurred in the passenger cabin, Interfax reports, citing a source in air traffic control services. According to the interlocutor of the agency, there were more than 130 people on board the liner; none of them were hurt. “The crew managed to resolve the situation on board on their own,” the source said.

The wife of the eldest son of the President of the United States, Vanessa Trump, was hospitalized on February 12 after she opened an envelope with an unknown white powder. This is reported by the Fox News channel with reference to the New York police. Vanessa Trump has opened a letter that was addressed to her husband, Donald Trump Jr. This happened at about 10 am local time (18:00 Moscow time) in the couple's apartment in Manhattan.

Relatives and acquaintances of three of the four Russians, whose death in Syria was previously reported by the research organization Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), confirmed to RBC information about their death. CIT stated that it had found confirmation of the deaths of Alexei Ladygin from Ryazan, Stanislav Matveev and Igor Kosoturov from the city of Asbest in the Sverdlovsk region, and Vladimir Loginov from the Kaliningrad region.

The court recognized as a man a resident of Yekaterinburg, Yulia Savinovskikh, from whom the guardianship authorities took the children after the operation to remove the breast. A fragment of the court decision was posted on Facebook by the lawyer of the Savinovskys, Alexei Bushmakov. As the lawyer told Novaya Gazeta, this is an excerpt from the February 5 court decision.

The social network "VKontakte" has a community "I see rhymes" , the authors of which compose poems with words or phrases that they see around them. For example, from a photo of a signboard with the inscription "Beer and fun", this is born: And from the text on the flushable toilet paper roll, this is: Other verses are no less absurd:

February 12. An-148 disaster and Russian mercenaries in Syria Disaster An-148 Yesterday, upon departure from the Moscow Domodedovo airport , the An-148 Saratov Airlines passenger aircraft , which executed the flight to Orsk. On board there were 65 passengers and six crew members, they all died. Both black boxes were found at the crash site, but their records have not yet been deciphered. Sources in the investigative group and experts put forward different versions of the disaster .

Russian presidential candidate from the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a demand to clarify the situation in connection with reports of the death of Russian mercenaries in Syria. According to Yavlinsky, now the world media and numerous sources on social networks are reporting a large number of deaths as a result of an airstrike in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor area, which was carried out by an international coalition led by the United States.

Student Alexander Kruse from the city of Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region received 2.5 years in a colony-settlement for reposting four pictures on his VKontakte page, which the examination later recognized as extremist, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports, citing Kruse himself and the materials of his criminal case. affairs. A criminal case under the article on inciting hatred or enmity against Kruse was opened in July 2017.

In Syria, near the city of Hisham, not far from Deir ez-Zor, an activist of the Other Russia, Kirill Ananyev, was killed. Alexander Averin, coordinator of The Other Russia, told about this "Mediazone". According to Averin, Ananyev used to fight in the Donbass on the side of the pro-Russian separatists, and then left for Syria. He has been a member of Eduard Limonov's NBP party banned in Russia since the early 2000s.

NASA ISS lives thanks to NASA An international space station in low earth orbit has been used since 1998. The station was built by the whole world: in addition to the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, as well as the European Space Agency took part in the project. But it is NASA that remains a key participant in the project. The American space agency annually spends $ 3-4 billion on the ISS-money also goes on flights, the creation of new equipment and research in zero gravity.

On February 12, Ukraine deported Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the Movement of New Forces party, to Poland, Oleg Slobodyan, assistant to the head of the Ukrainian State Border Service, said on Facebook. Saakashvili was detained by the servicemen of the State Border Service along with the police and the migration service.