Jon Elswick / AP / Scanpix / Leta are now sure that some slogans and hashtags of the 2016 presidential campaign were invented by Russian citizens On February 16, the US Department of Justice officially accused 13 citizens of Russia of interfering with the presidential election.

The key figure in Alexey Navalny’s ‘RussiaGate’ investigation is Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko. Just who is he? Dmitry Astakhov / Russian Government Press Service / TASS / Vida Press On February 8, politician Alexey Navalny published his latest bombshell report , revealing that billionaire Oleg Deripaska hosted Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko, along with several “escort girls,” aboard his yacht in August 2016, off the shores of Norway.

The ex-wife of the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, will be dismissed from the post of head of the Rossotrudnichestvo office in France due to a loss of confidence. This was reported by the Dozhd TV channel with reference to an acquaintance of Solotsinskaya and an unnamed employee of Rossotrudnichestvo in Moscow.

Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has made its first charges, indicting 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations on Friday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

As part of the investigation into the Russian interference in the US presidential election, 13 Russian citizens were charged. The corresponding document is published on the website of the US Department of Justice. Among the defendants is businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is believed to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin is associated with the Internet Research Agency, a “troll factory” whose employees write paid comments in support of the Russian authorities.

A court in Nizhny Tagil commuted the punishment of former Moscow Region traffic inspector Artur Kositsyn, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for rape and other sexual crimes. Until the end of the term to which the former policeman was sentenced, five years and eight months remained. They were replaced with two years of corrective labor.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How did it happen that the Russians in Syria fell under the fire of the Americans? And died Alexey Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg are discussing the death of Russians who fell under the fire of the American military in the Syrian province of Deir Ez-Zor. Why did the mercenaries from the so -called private military company Wagner fought for the oil refinery controlled by the Kurds?

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On February 16, the article “Donald Trump, the Playboy model and the marital infidelity system” was published on the website of The New Yorker. This is a new journalistic investigation of Ronan Farrow - the author of a series of materials about harassment and sexual violence by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

February 16. Five-year-old Stella waves to metro drivers - this is the best story of the week ❤️ Five-year-old Stella from New York City waves to drivers of arriving subway trains every morning on her way to school as she stands at a station in the Bronx. On February 14, Valentine's Day, the lead car of the train stopped next to her. Engine driver Joe Moreno leaned out of the window and gave Stella a heart-shaped box of chocolates.

Some videos were not normally shown to YouTube users from Russia for several days: instead of a player with a video, a black rectangle was displayed. At the same time, the video played normally if they tried to access the site through a VPN or from another country. The failure of YouTube began to be massively reported on February 14, the day when Roskomnadzor threatened to block the service at the suit of businessman Oleg Deripaska.

Ildar Biktimirov, a resident of Yamal, is filming a fox that keeps him company while fishing. The fisherman shared his catch with the polar fox, whom he named Fluff. And the next time the arctic fox not only came for fish, but also brought with him a "girlfriend" - a fox.

Medinsky spoke to the students of VGIK Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Vida Press On February 15, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky spoke at VGIK with a lecture “Movement Up of Russian Cinema. Results 2012-2017 ”and answered the questions of students (the appearance of the official was mandatory for a lecture).

The prosecutor's office asks to sentence criminal authority Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy) to 10 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 700 thousand rubles in the case of extortion. For another defendant in the case, Kalashov’s assistant Andrey Kochuykov (Italian), the prosecution demanded a sentence of 9.5 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 500,000 rubles. For another ten defendants, the prosecution asked for terms of 7.5 to 9.5 years in prison and fines.

The website of the politician Alexei Navalny was blocked in Russia at the request of Roskomnadzor. The reason is the ruling of the lawsuit of the billionaire Oleg Deripaska, whom Navalny accused of bribing to the deputy prime minister of the government. Before Deripaska, another billionaire, Alisher Usmanov, tried to sue Navalny due to investigations. The stories of these lawsuits were completely different from one another.

Artem Korotaev / TASS / Vida Press The founder of the largest Russian retail chain "Magnit" Sergey Galitsky announced that he was selling his share in the company and ceased to engage in its development. Galitsky, one of the most successful Russian entrepreneurs, claims that investors see the prospects of the company not like him - and now it is time for him to leave the business. The largest shareholder of the network is the State Bank of VTB.