French prosecutors charged 72-year-old actor Gerard Depardieu with rape and sexual assault against a 20-year-old actress in 2018, AFP reported , citing a source. The investigation into the case was closed in 2019 due to lack of evidence, but was reopened in the summer of 2020 after a complaint from the actress. On December 16, the prosecutor's office filed charges against Depardieu, BFM TV reports , also citing a source.

On the cover of the Tatler issue , released on February 23, the zoologist and TV presenter Nikolai Nikolaevich Drozdov and his wife, Tatyana Petrovna, appeared. The couple talked with the editor-in-chief of the magazine Ksenia Solovyova about his personal life and participated in the fashion-shooting.

More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar in the decade since it won the right to host the 2022 World Cup , The Guardian reported, citing data from the authorities of the countries in question. Between 2011 and 2020, 5,927 migrants from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka died in Qatar. In addition, 824 Pakistani workers died in the country between 2010 and 2020, according to the Pakistani Embassy in Qatar.

The human rights organization Amnesty International has rescinded its decision to grant “prisoner of conscience” status to Alexey Navalny, arguing that the jailed Russian opposition politician’s past statements about migrants from Central Asia and the North Caucasus constitute hate speech. Alexander Artemyev, the group’s Russia and Eurasia media manager, confirmed the determination to Mediazona on Tuesday, after American journalist Aaron Maté first reported the news from Amnesty’s UK division.

Human rights organization Amnesty International, which in January recognized Russian politician Alexei Navalny as a prisoner of conscience, has reversed its decision. this was the first to report Journalist Aaron Mate ; Amnesty International representative Alexander Artemiev confirmed this to Mediazone. The organization's legal and political department made the decision because of Navalny's statements in the mid-2000s, which human rights activists considered discriminatory, Artemiev said.

Of course, this is a kangaroo Peter Veth / Balanggarra Indian resident of the Kimberly region, Yan Vine, in front of the Kangaroo image, 17.3 ± 0.2 thousand years old. The oldest rock image for the continent was dated due to the fact that in the lower and overlying layers of the breed on the rock there were traces of aspen nests.

Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (which Russia’s Justice Ministry has designated as a “foreign agent”), is trying to put a positive spin on the European Union’s decision not to sanction prominent businessmen Navalny’s associates say are partly responsible for the opposition politician’s imprisonment.

A court in Malta has sentenced Vince Muscat, one of three men accused of murdering Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017, to 15 years in prison. According to the Times of Malta, Vince Muscat confessed to the journalist's murder at a hearing on February 23. The court ordered the defendant to pay 42,000 euros in legal costs. Muscat made a plea bargain with prosecutors to provide information about the murder.

Eighteen European companies have stopped activities related to the Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 , and therefore will not be subject to US sanctions, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on February 22. The list of companies is mentioned in a State Department report prepared for the US Congress, writes the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

Marion Sutton / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta on February 22 at the sea spit Farwell sleeps on the southern island in New Zealand in shallow water about 50 ordinary grinds, or black dolphins, mammals, whose length can reach five-and-eight meters. Two hundred people, mostly volunteers, helped the dolphins return to the depths, but many of the animals died. On Monday, nine individuals died , on Tuesday night - another 17.

More and more Russians are relying on Internet social networks for information, though most still get their news from television programs, where the state dominates. According to a poll conducted last month by the Levada Center independent polling agency (designated as a “foreign agent” by the Russian Justice Ministry), 42 percent of Russians named social networks as a source of information, while 64 percent said they follow the news on TV.

The government of Ukraine has filed an interstate complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over political assassinations, according to a statement on the ECHR website.

The Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region opened a criminal case after Novaya Gazeta distributed video footage of the torture of two prisoners in Yaroslavl Colony No. 1. The case is being investigated under the article on abuse of office, TASS reports, citing the press service of the regional Investigative Committee. The Yaroslavl Region Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service began an investigation into the Yaroslavl Correctional Colony No. 1 after the video was published.

The director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation ( FBK ) Ivan Zhdanov said on air at Ekho Moskvy that he does not consider the European Union's decision not to impose sanctions against Russian oligarchs due to the persecution of Alexei Navalny a failure.

Interview with Vladi and Shyma - about propaganda, “foreign agents” and charisma in raep Semyon Katz for "Medusa" "Casta": Zmey, Shy, Vladi, Hamil In recent years, the Casta group released two albums at once: “The flaw is clear” (2019) and “The Osminoga Cherni” (2020) - in each of them there was a place and personal experiences of the group members, and the “social” rap about events in Russia and abroad. The Casta concert in Minsk was postponed for the second time (now it is waiting in April).