In Moscow, the Investigative Committee opened three criminal cases under the article “fraud” due to the theft of money allocated for the salaries of fictitiously hired janitors. It is reported by RBC with reference to sources. According to the publication, unidentified employees of the Sokolniki Zhilischnik District State Budgetary Institution, having fictitiously employed janitors, received “money for actually unfulfilled work” on their cards.

, was charged as part of the “Russian investigation” In the United States, lawyer Alex van der Zwan, son-in-law of Russian billionaire Herman Khan . He pleaded guilty. The charges are not related to alleged Russian interference in the election. Van der Zwan is accused of making false statements to FBI agents who questioned him about his ties to Rick Gates.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow found FBK director Roman Rubanov guilty of organizing an unauthorized rally on January 28 and arrested him for 10 days. The text broadcast from the meeting is carried out by Mediazona. The court agreed with the police's assertion that Rubanov organized the rally by retweeting a message from Alexei Navalny's Twitter stating the time and place of the event.

The Ministry of Defense of Latvia announced that a “large-scale information campaign” was launched against the country against the background of the case against the head of the Bank of Latvia, Ilmar Rimsevics. The campaign consists of numerous reprints .

On February 20, a fire broke out at a garment factory in the city of Ivanovo, as a result of which one person died and several were injured. According to the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo region, one woman died in the fire, three more people were injured, two of them were hospitalized. Also in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Interfax was informed about two employees of the factory who disappeared after the fire.

Having played a decisive role in turning back both Napoleon and Hitler, the Russian winter is a fearsome adversary. Invading armies know it. Communal services crews in Moscow know it, too. This winter has dumped an unusually large amount of snow on the capital, overwhelming cleanup workers and forcing Muscovites to get creative, if they want to make their local roads and street corners a priority for the plows and snow shovelers.

February 20. Children were raped in a boarding school near Chelyabinsk Yesterday it became known that in one of the boarding schools of the Chelyabinsk region, with the participation of its employees, children were subjected to sexual violence - three foster families who took the children from the boarding school told about this.

BEN CAWTHRA / SIPA USA / Scanpix / Leta Head of Oxfam Mark Golding (in the center), February 20, 2018 In 2011, seven people resigned from the large British charitable organization Oxfam, including the head of the Oxfam mission to Haiti Roland Van Hauermeiren. As the internal investigation established, Van Hauermeiren and other OXFAM employees used the services of Haitian prostitutes in the villa, which was rented by the organization.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on February 20 signed the law on the reintegration of Donbass, which refers to the "armed aggression of the Russian Federation." This is reported by the Ukrainian edition 112.ua. Poroshenko also instructed the Ministry of Defense to prepare proposals for changing the format of the military operation in Donbass, TASS reports .

On February 7, the U.S.-led international coalition launched airstrikes in Syria against a group of militants supporting the Bashar al-Assad regime. According to Russian and international reporters, the attack killed several Russian mercenaries fighting in the “Wagner” private military company. The exact number of Russians killed remains unknown, and unofficial estimates have ranged from a few dozen to more than 200 people. Photo on the front page: Ekaterina Chesnokova / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Meshchansky Court of the capital, which rejected the claim of the niece of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Marie Dupuy, against the FSB of Russia. Dupuis demands information about her uncle's fate after his arrest in 1945. In particular, she wants to access pages from the logs of the call for interrogations and the logs of prisoners and their belongings.

Art critic and curator Victor Misiano-about the sculpture of Nikolai Polisky, burned in Nikola-Lenivts Evgenia Novozhenina / SCANPIX / Leta On February 17, a 30-meter art object of Nikolai Polisye Gothic was burned in the Nikola-Lenivtsi Art Park in the Kaluga Region, a 30-meter art object of Nikolai Polisye Gothic, a construction of branches and garbage in the form of a Gothic building.

Boarders of a boarding school in the Chelyabinsk region are suspected of rape of pupils 31 Channel Chelyabinsk / YouTube building of the Lazurnensky correctional boarding school in the village of Cheremushki of the Chelyabinsk Region Chelyabinsk journalists said that in one of the orphanages they rape children On February 19, the Chelyabinsk edition of 74.ru said that in one of the regional orphanages (without specifying what kind of question) children are raped, and this happens constantly.

On February 7, the International Coalition, led by the United States, inflicted a airline in the detachment of supporters of Bashar al -Assad in Syria. According to Russian and world media, as a result, Russian mercenaries were killed, who fought in the ranks of the private military company Vagner. The number of dead, according to unofficial estimates, is from several tens to 200 people. Photo in the announcement: Ekaterina Chesnokova / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta

Singer Fergie was invited to sing the US anthem ahead of the NBA All-Star Game. The anthem turned out, according to many viewers, too sexy. Laughter erupted during the performance. Fergie had to apologize. In an interview with TMZ.com, the singer said: "I love the risk in creativity, but this obviously did not work out as planned." as the worst performance of the US national anthem in history Comedian Roseanne Barr performed at a baseball game in San Diego in 1990 .