Senior Justice Department officials in May 2017 seriously discussed convening a cabinet meeting to remove President Donald Trump using the 25th Amendment , former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CBS News' Scott Pelley in an interview set to air Sunday. The discussions began after FBI Director James Comey was fired , Pelley said.

In the south-east of Moscow, a mass brawl broke out near a cafe, Interfax reports, citing sources. According to Ren TV and the telegram channel 112 , the participants in the conflict were armed with "knives and pistols." Ren TV, citing eyewitnesses, reports that from 70 to 100 people participated in the conflict. The police said they would take more than ten people to the police station. "112" reports ten victims.

How an indigenous, female opposition candidate became Russia’s most popular mayor Alexey Vasiliev for Meduza On September 9, 2018, the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk was the only regional capital in Russia to elect an opposition mayoral candidate. Forty-eight-year-old Sardana Avksentieva defeated Alexander Savvinov of the nationally dominant United Russia party to become the first woman ever to lead the city.

The Council of Deputies of the urban settlement of Vidnoye in the Moscow region removed the former presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin from the post of chairman. United Russia Igor Korshakov has been appointed the new head of the council, RBC reports.

US senators voted to appoint 68-year-old William Barr as Attorney General, who served in 1991-1993 under President George W. Bush. Barr received 54 votes in favor and 45 against. US President Donald Trump fired former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November. It is believed that their relationship soured due to the "Russian investigation", from the supervision of which Sessions removed himself. Trump said the Attorney General should drop the investigation.

Leon Neal / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Airbus on February 14 announced that he would soon stop the production of the aircraft, which became its hallmark: the largest passenger a380. The reason is banal - the famous two -story plane that began to transport passengers just 12 years ago, no one wants to buy. Why didn’t the project take off, which until recently was considered a breakthrough in civil aviation? Why do you need such a large plane at all?

A march in memory of Boris Nemtsov will take place in Moscow on February 24, one of the organizers, oppositionist Ilya Yashin, announced following talks with the Moscow mayor's office. The regional security department confirmed the march to TASS. Participants will march from Strastnoy Boulevard along the Boulevard Ring to Academician Sakharov Avenue.

In the months since Russia’s nationwide gubernatorial elections on September 9, 2018, Moscow Oblast has emerged as one of the regions with the most widespread record of election fraud. As early as December, news emerged of massive “carousels,” or systems by which voters circulate among precincts and vote multiple times in each, in the city of Balashikha on Moscow’s outskirts.

On the evening of February 14, the same entry began to appear in various communities on the VKontakte social network. It says that advertising has appeared in messages on the social network. This happened as a result of the actions of hackers who discovered a vulnerability in the social network.

In the summer of 2018, a decorative figure of a swimmer, wearing glasses and a special cap, was dug into the lawn near the Pioneer pool in Moscow. In winter, the swimmer was not covered with anything, so he was up to his neck in dirty snow. A photo of the installation was published on Facebook by the Moscow Activist project - and this is what it looks like!

Peter Nicholls / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Bellingcat investigative group and The Insider reported that the real name of the third suspect in the attempt on the Skripals , the alleged employee of the GRU Sergey Fedotov, Denis Sergeyev. Scotland-Yard has not yet announced the involvement of this man in Salisbury-the name of Fedotov was called the journalists.

Updated . Two people died in a gas explosion, writes with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Interfax In Krasnoyarsk, a gas explosion occurred in a three-story residential building. According to preliminary data, the body of one deceased was found under the rubble, Interfax reports with reference to the regional Ministry of Health. There is no information about other victims yet. 12 people were evacuated from the house, Interfax reports.

On February 13, Kailey Kuoko, who played Penny in the “Big Bang Theory”, posted on Instagram a new video with dancing for the filming group under the song “Larger than Life” of the Backstreet Boys group. Thus, the actors decided to note the completion of the series (season 12 was the last ). The post can be flipped through. Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper), Kunal Nayyar (Rajesh Kutrappali), Simon Helberg (Howard Volovitz) and many others participated in the flash mob.

As a bill that would fine Russian citizens for insulting state symbols, agencies, and officials continues to make its way through Russia’s State Duma, a faction of the country’s Communist Party has responded by proposing fines for government officials who insult their voters. Deputy Sergei Kazanov, one of the project’s co-authors, said fines of 10,000 – 30,000 rubles (about $150 – $450) would make for an appropriate punishment in such cases.

In Moscow, pretrial detention centers No. 4 and No. 5 have been checked due to calls about a bomb threat, Interfax reports, citing a source. TASS also reports on the inspection of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 4. According to the agency, the detention center is being inspected by dog ​​handlers. Also, checks due to the threat of an explosion were carried out at the Yaroslavsky and Kievsky railway stations. They continue to operate in the normal mode.