On February 15, the Ministry of Culture issued five new protocols on an administrative offense to the Pioneer cinema for showing the film The Death of Stalin, lawyer Yuli Tai, who represents the interests of the cinema, told Kommersant. According to the lawyer, the Ministry of Culture regarded each of the five screenings of the film that took place at Pioneer on January 25 and 26 as a separate offense.

About 300 Russians were killed or injured in an attack by an international coalition in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on February 7, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the situation. The wounded were taken to military hospitals in Khimki and the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, to the Moscow Burdenko hospital, and to the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, five sources told Reuters. None of the hospitals confirmed this information.

On February 14, the human rights activist Sergey Kovalev announced that he was ending his cooperation with Ksenia Sobchak’s presidential campaign, just a day after the collaboration was announced. Kovalev accused Sobchak's film crew of “arrogant behavior.” The television star’s campaign initially accused the liberal political party Yabloko of pressuring Kovalev into leaving, before later issuing a rather reluctant apology.

The Navalny campaign says it managed to “break” the Russian government’s ban on his website through the “brilliant work of their technological team.” “It was pretty easy,” says Leonid Volkov, who managed Navalny’s presidential run last year.

More than ten foreign embassies in Moscow on February 14-15 received envelopes with an unknown white powder. Interfax, citing a source, reports that it turned out to be a substance for persecuting insects. The examination showed that the composition of the powder includes the pesticide fipronil, used in agriculture and veterinary medicine, the source said. He also noted that all the letters were signed by the same sender, without giving details.

On February 15, theatrical figures held one-man pickets in support of the former director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, accused in the case of the Seventh Studio. The pickets are timed to coincide with Malobrodsky's 60th birthday. According to Novaya Gazeta, the actions were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Khabarovsk, Pskov, Yekaterinburg and Tel Aviv (Malobrodsky has Russian and Israeli citizenship). Join me. Too bad I can't stand next to you.

The head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters, Leonid Volkov , said that the website navalny.com, blocked in Russia, can be accessed despite access restrictions, since "their 'blocking' mechanism breaks down without much difficulty." Some Twitter users have confirmed that a number of providers site began to open. Volkov later stated that the site might not open again due to a DDoS attack.

In Moscow, publisher, poet and TV presenter Alexander Shatalov died at the age of 60. This was reported by Eduard Limonov, whose books were published by the Glagol publishing house founded by Shatalov.

On February 14, a resident of Vladivostok, Kristina Podleskikh, said on Twitter that her younger brother Murad had made valentines for all her classmates, but did not receive a single postcard in response. In addition, classmates also laughed at the fact that Murad did not get a valentine. “Absolutely all the children in the class received valentines, except for Murad. He got very upset.

Honored Teacher of Russia Viktor Makarenko, who was dismissed from the Taganrog Metallurgical College after a complaint to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, returned to work. This is reported by the Rostov edition "Bloknot" with reference to the Deputy Minister of Education of the Rostov Region Andrey Fateev and Viktor Makarenko himself.

At the basketball match on all lovers, February 14, Roki - the symbol of the Denver Nuggets NBA club - tried to give one of the fans of the plush bear. The girl did not accept the gift. Then Rocky brought a larger bear, and then completely huge, to abandon the fan literally did not have the strength.

Berlinal shown a puppet cartoon about dogs, garbage and Japan 20th Century Fox At the Berlin Film Festival, the premiere of Wes Anderson’s animated film “The Ostrov Island” was a story about a boy who is looking for his dog on the garbage island, where all dogs were sent from the city. The characters - they speak English and Japanese - voiced Brian Cranston, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko and others.

February 15. Blocking the Navalny site and three billboards in London Main In Russia, access to the website of Alexei Navalny was blocked -after the publication of the investigation about how Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko rested on the yacht of billionaire Oleg Deripaska in the company of Nastya Rybka from the Ecort Services Industry. For the first time, the Foreign Ministry commented on information about the death of Russian mercenaries under the American airstrike in Syria .

Experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) deciphered information from the An-148 voice recorder that crashed on February 11. This was stated by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov. “The interpretation and preliminary analysis of the recording confirmed the information recorded by the parametric flight data recorder,” said .

Boris Grebenshchikov criticized the film "Summer" by Kirill Serebrennikov, which tells about little-known facts from the biography of the leaders of the "Kino" and "Zoo" groups Viktor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko. The founder of "Aquarium" got acquainted with the script of the picture and called it "a lie from beginning to end." Grebenshchikov told reporters about this in St. Petersburg at the presentation of his solo album "Time N", coming out on February 16.