In the Spanish city of Bilbao, during riots involving fans of the Moscow Spartak and the local club Athletic, a policeman died. According to El Mundo, the policeman who participated in the suppression of clashes had a cardiac arrest. El Pais cites a heart attack as the cause of death. He died in the hospital. Clashes involving several hundred fans of both clubs began before the match near the San Mames stadium.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia has banned the entry of 49 persons involved in the "Magnitsky list", which was approved by the Latvian Seimas on February 8. The list includes, in particular, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, State Duma deputy Andrey Lugovoy.

On February 22, the former deputy head of Alexey Navalny’s presidential campaign office in Moscow announced on Facebook that he’s filed paperwork at the Justice Ministry to register a new political party called the “Progress Party” — the same name as Navalny’s unregistered political party. But there’s a hitch: that former Navalny campaign worker, Vitaly Serukanov, doesn’t have anything to do with Navalny’s political party.

The Simonovsky Court of Moscow arrested the head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters, Leonid Volkov, for 30 days, finding him guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a rally. The meeting was broadcast by Mediazona. Volkov was accused of using tweets on January 22 and 28 to organize an uncoordinated rally in support of the January 28 "voters' strike" in Moscow.

Two journalists working in the State Duma, on condition of anonymity, told Dozhd about sexual harassment by LDPR deputy Leonid Slutsky . One of them said that Slutsky harassed her in 2017 in his office, where she came to ask him questions on the international agenda. Another said that she did not publicize Slutsky's harassment out of fear of losing the opportunity to work in the State Duma. Slutsky himself denies the accusations of harassment and has threatened the TV channel with a lawsuit.

The Argentine authorities announced that they were carrying out an operation jointly with Russia against drug traffickers who were going to deliver 389 kilograms of cocaine to the Russian Federation in diplomatic baggage. The investigation began after the Russian ambassador informed the Argentine secret services in December 2016 about the discovery of suspicious luggage in the building of the embassy school. In 12 suitcases, packages of cocaine with a total weight of 389 kilograms were found.

On February 22, Andrey Norkin, the host of the Meeting Place program on the NTV channel, had a live fight with one of the guests of the program, Ukrainian political scientist Dmitry Suvorov. The video of the brawl was published on the NTV website. The fight started over a discussion of the victims of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Lokomotiv Moscow defeated the French club Nice 1:0 in the 1/16 finals of the Europa League and advanced to the next stage. The only goal in the match was scored by Igor Denisov in the 30th minute. Later, the St. Petersburg "Zenith" came out in the 1/8 finals, beating "Celtic" with a score of 3:0.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How Pavel Grudinin became a "candidate from the people" The director of the Lenin State Farm near Moscow, the former Unicorn and the former deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma Pavel Grudinin, the most sudden candidate in the presidential election that will be held in Russia on March 18. He put forward the Communist Party - and actually replaces Gennady Zyuganov in the ballot.

Mikhail Orlov page on Facebook Designer Mikhail Orlov decorated the Barfly restaurant in Crimea. He was accused of the death of two visitors Mikhail Orlov is a musician and a designer from St. Petersburg. He is the author of interiors in St. Petersburg establishments Mari Vanna, “on the river”, Baranka and “Chipollino”, as well as in the Moscow Cafe Berlin and the New York Tonyʼs Kitchen. In 2014, Orlov moved to Crimea.

On February 21, Alexander Zenin, accused of organizing the murder of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava in 2005, was detained in St. Petersburg. This was reported with reference to sources Interfax and Fontanka . The name of the detainee has not been officially announced. The Investigative Committee reported the detention of a 33-year-old local resident, who is accused of murdering an anti-fascist in 2005 and inciting hatred and has been wanted since 2006.

The Museum of Fine Arts in the Belgian city of Ghent refused to exhibit 24 paintings from the private collection of Igor Toporovsky, attributed to Russian avant-garde artists. This is reported by the Belgian edition of VRT NWS. This decision was made after the expert commission assembled to assess the authenticity of the works on February 19 was unable to start work.

February 22. Party was again stolen from Navalny Today, the Ministry of Justice submitted documents on the registration of the Party of Progress . But this was not done by Alexei Navalny or one of his supporters. This was done by the former deputy head of his Moscow headquarters Vitaliy Seerukanov, who came into conflict with Navalny in December last year. “If a person behaves like a Murzilka, then this is always a Murzilka,” Serukanova commented on the Navalny action.

Russian politics is notorious for some jaw-dropping campaign promotions. In 1996, Grigory Yavlinsky released an 11-minute music video featuring a singing police officer, a tap-dancing professor, a pilot also singing, and a whole lot of other people dancing and singing. Four years later, he released another series of campaign ads depicting Russia as a post-apocalyptic hellscape , implying that his electoral defeat would bring internment camps, war, and bread lines.

In St. Petersburg, 34-year-old Rustam Klychev died in the temporary detention center, who spoke about the beatings of the police in Internet broadcasts a few hours before. Klychev was detained on February 21 for a certain administrative offense. From the police car, he twice went on the air of VKontakte and said that he did not understand why he was detained and showed a damaged leg. “So that later no one says anything that I come up with all this,” he said.