Update. A court in Spain has overturned a decision to reopen the investigation into Mikhail Fridman's possible involvement in the bankruptcy of Zed WorldWide, RBC reports , citing court documents. A representative of Fridman told RIA Novosti that the case was not reopened: "There was a procedural error, but it has already been corrected.

Investigative reporters link the son of Russia’s deputy attorney general to a money-laundering investigation in Australia A new report by iStories , Transparency International Russia , and Australia’s ABC links Russian Deputy Attorney General Alexey Zakharov’s relatives to a suspect in a criminal case opened almost a decade ago in Australia, where officials worry that a handful of Russian business owners used local banks to launder millions of dollars in jade sales to China.

Social network Facebook has blocked Australian users and media outlets from sharing local and international news due to a law that, if passed, would force Facebook, Google and other platforms to pay media outlets for their content. Facebook said in a statement that media outlets and residents of Australia are prohibited from posting links to news, or viewing local and international news on the social network.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced former Interior Ministry investigator Anton Khodko to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of embezzlement of someone else's property on an especially large scale. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia. He was also sentenced to a fine of 500 thousand rubles and stripped of his special rank of Colonel of Justice.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia has launched an investigation to assess how the Yandex.Taxi and Uber joint venture affects taxi prices and commissions in Moscow and the Moscow region. This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced by the head of the department for regulating communications and information technologies of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Elena Zayeva: The share of Yandex.Taxi + Uber in Moscow and the Moscow Region exceeds 50%.

Twitter users urged Telegram founder Pavel Durov to pay attention to the fact that personal data of girls and women are published in the messenger channels, including feminist Daria Serenko, who participated in the women's "solidarity chain". Twitter users publish messages, accompanying them with the #DurovOtvet tag. On the evening of February 16, this tag was launched by a member of the Yabloko party from Nizhny Novgorod, student Dmitry Novikov.

We explain everything about bio -waters, Clubhouse and Vladimir Solovyov. The ECHR demanded immediately to free Navalny. In Spain, thousands of people took to the streets due to the arrest of the rapper Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", where we talk about the main news of the day. We try to start a letter with something good, and today it is news from the European Space Agency (ECA).

Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Why is the social network for voice communication Clubhouse good? Suppose that Alla Pugacheva can join the voice chat called “Talking about moderators” to a voice under the name “Talking only about moderators”. Well, or a parodist depicting Alla Pugacheva. Moreover, depicting so that not only the participants in the chat believed, but also the rapper Feduk joined the conversation (if, of course, he was real!).

The Hermitage will conduct research on the eggs from the exhibition "Faberge - Jeweler of the Imperial Court" after reports that there are fakes among them, said the museum's general director Mikhail Piotrovsky. Now the center’s laboratory has been tasked with researching the history of the new Fabergé items that were presented at our exhibition; the owner has given permission for this.

On the afternoon of February 17, Tinkoff Bank customers began experiencing massive difficulties when using the mobile application. Difficulties with the entrance, according to the site Downdetector, began around 15:00 Moscow time. Some users cannot log in, some do not see information on cards and accounts. The Meduza editor was initially unable to log into the app at all; on the second attempt, it accepted the password, after which it stopped responding.

The first trailer of Kriella with Emma Stone - the background of “101 Dalmatians” came out The Walt Disney Studios film company released the first trailer for the film Cruella (Cruella) about the villain Kruelle de Wil, known for the novel by Dodi Smith one Dalmatian and the Disney cartoon of the same name (and more than one!). Trailer in Russian Disney Russia Trailer in English Walt Disney Studios The events of the film unfold in London of the 1970s.

The Belarusian Supreme Court began the trial of former presidential hopeful Viktor Babariko (Viktar Babaryka) on Tuesday, February 17. The former “Belgazprombank” executive, who attempted to register his candidacy for a presidential run against Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, stands accused of corruption along with six other top managers from the bank. In turn, Viktor Kobyak, the co-owner of a company called “Aktivlizing,” has been charged with attempting to bribe the bankers.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Although now in Belarus is a reaction, the authoritarian regime will still have to change. Will Lukashenko leave? February 16 in Belarus was searches for journalists and human rights activists. They touched more than 30 people.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has demanded that Russia release opposition politician Alexey Navalny from custody immediately, Interfax reports citing his lawyer, Olga Mikhailova. A copy of the court’s decision was also published on Navalny’s website on Wednesday, February 17.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to the Clubhouse social network demanding to restore the account of Russian host Vladimir Solovyov, which was blocked on February 15 after user complaints. Roskomnadzor announced this on VKontakte. Such actions of the Clubhouse administration violate the rights of citizens to access information and its free distribution, the letter says. The agency also demanded to explain why access to Solovyov's account was limited.