Khalil Khalilov, 22, who killed five people near a church in Kizlyar, was a member of the "sleeping cell" of the Islamic State terrorist organization. This was reported to RBC by sources in the government of Dagestan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. IS claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters reported , citing the terrorist-controlled news agency Amaq.

Sotovik Sotovik / YouTube For the parishioners of the church in Kizlyar, they opened fire after service on the last day of Shrovetide. The abbot of the temple Father Paul told RBC that the service ended at about 16:00 local time. According to him, a “unknown man with a beard” fled to the parishioners leaving the church, shouting Allah Akbar. When he began to shoot, the doors were closed in the church so that the offender would not go inside.

The death toll in the attack on the parishioners of the church in Kizlyar increased to five people. The injured woman died on the operating table. Two more victims are in serious condition, the Ministry of Health of the Republic reported. The rector of the temple told RBC that the attack took place around 16:00 local time, when people began to leave the church after the service.

Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian Alexander Abramenko (left) and Russian Ilya Burov after the final of the air acrobatics competition at the Olympics in Pyeongchang. Abramenko won the gold medal, Burov won bronze.

The new generation’s mobile network 5G debuted at the Olympics in Pyeongchang: it is used not only to broadcast videos from cameras installed directly on the sleigh of bobsleists, but also, for example, to drive away wild boars. After the end of the games, the 5G network is curled; The widespread technology will begin only in two years. What is 5G? 5G is the fifth generation of mobile communications, the development of 4G networks.

In Kizlyar, a criminal opened fire on a crowd of people who had gathered for Maslenitsa. This was reported by the Interfax news agency , citing an unnamed source. Four people were killed and three more were injured. All the dead are women. The offender was killed by return fire, which was opened by law enforcement officers. An Interfax source said that the attack was prepared by two people - a married couple. But only the man fired - his wife ran away before he opened fire.

Activists of the OUN Volunteer Movement threw stones at the buildings of Rossotrudnichestvo, Sberbank and Alfa-Bank in Kyiv. According to Interfax-Ukraine, about 100 nationalists marched through the city center. First, they threw stones at Sberbank , breaking windows in it. Then they broke windows in the Rossotrudnichestvo building, after which they threw several stones at Alfa-Bank. The Kiev police reported that they were establishing the identity of the participants in the pogrom.

Employees of the Anti-Corruption Bureau detained the head of the Bank of Latvia, Ilmars Rimsevics. This information was confirmed by the Prime Minister of Latvia Maris Kuchinskis. According to the newspaper Diena, Rimsevics was detained as part of an investigation into a case of extortion of bribes as part of an organized criminal group. The investigation believes that the criminals extorted money from bankers, using political influence and threatening problems for their business.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially notified the Russian team in Pyeongchang of a possible anti-doping rule violation by one of the athletes. This was announced by the team's press officer Konstantin Vybornov. “We do not release the name of the athlete or female athletes, as well as the sport, until the results of the autopsy of the B sample, which will be known presumably within 24 hours,” Vybornov said.

Johan Nilsson / TT / Scanpix / Leta submarine "Nautilus" in the port of Copenhagen. August 12, 2017 The case of journalist Kim Vall, who in August 2017 was killed on board the Danish home-made submarine "Nautilus", became one of the most high-profile crimes last year. On February 15, the Wired publication published a material written by a colleague and friend Vall, journalist May Jong, from whom new details of the biography of the murdered and her alleged killer - the inventor of Peter Madsen.

The Sport-Express newspaper reported that traces of meldonium were found in the doping test of Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky. at the Pyeongchang Olympics Krushelnitsky won a bronze medal together with Anastasia Bryzgalova. Sport-Express journalist Dmitry Zelenov wrote that on Monday, February 19, Krushelnitsky's second doping test would be opened. There is no official confirmation of information about a positive doping test.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said that the church contributes to the “deliverance” of people from homosexuality. “Pastoral experience of working with people who have a homosexual orientation shows that in very many cases a person can either completely get rid of it, or build his life in such a way that it does not prevent him from being a full-fledged family man,” the Metropolitan said.

JERAMEY LENDE / Shutterstock.com Since the beginning of 2018, American media have been telling the stories of people who receive mysterious parcels through Amazon. They include goods that they did not order (including a sexual nature); Who sent them and why is incomprehensible. "Medusa" says that it is known about this mysterious phenomenon. On February 14, The Daily Beast has published the story of an American Nikki, who regularly comes strange parcels from the Amazon online store.

In the Kaluga village of Nikola-Lenivts, around which a large art park with sculptures and objects of contemporary art is broken, there is a tradition-every year a new art object is built here on the occasion of Shrovetide, and then it is solemnly burned. This year, residents of the village, led by the artist Nikolai Polisky, one of the founders of the art park, built the “flame of Gothic”-a 30-meter Gothic building from branches and wooden garbage. They burned him on February 17.

Russian skiers won silver medals in the relay at the Olympics in Pyeongchang. This is the third silver of the Russians at the Games. During the race, the Russians were in the lead twice. Alexander Bolshunov finished the second stage with a lead of 25 seconds. At the third stage, the Norwegians and the French pulled ahead, but then Denis Spitsov managed to catch up with them and get around. At the end of the race, the Norwegian skier Johannes Hesflot Klabo outstripped him.