The Boris Nemtsov Foundation has awarded politician Alexei Navalny a prize for courage in defending democratic values ​​in Russia. This was reported on the foundation's website. Alexei Navalny has not only demonstrated incredible personal courage, but has also made a huge contribution to exposing corruption and increasing citizen participation in the remaining procedures in Russia.

More than 10,000 people took part in the action in memory of Boris Nemtsov, which took place in Moscow on the sixth anniversary of the politician's assassination. This follows from the data of the White Counter movement, which monitors the number of people at mass events. According to the White Counter, from 11:00 to 21:00, 10.1 thousand people took part in the action on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge.

Designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev on his Telegram channel apologized to the wife of politician Alexei Navalny Yulia for publishing false information about her German citizenship. Dear Yulia Navalnaya! I publicly apologize to you for publishing a fake. You ended up in this story because you chose the path of publicity, and I do not make discounts for public characters. You came to my radar solely as the wife of a man with whom I have had public debates online and offline for many years.

Russian Alexander Bolshunov won the skiathlon at the World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany. This was reported by Sports.ru. Bolshunov covered the distance in 1 hour 11 minutes 33.9 seconds. Second place went to Norwegian Simen Kruger (1.1 seconds behind), and third place went to his compatriot Hans Christer Holund (1.7 seconds behind). Three more Russians also took part in the skiathlon. Ivan Yakimushkin took eighth place, Alexey Chervotkin came in 18th, and Evgeny Belov came in 23rd.

The Moscow Metro State Unitary Enterprise and the Mosgortrans State Unitary Enterprise have become victims in the case of blocking roads during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow on January 23. This was reported to MBKh Media by lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov. He represents the interests of the suspect, Libertarian Party member Gleb Maryasov, Novaya Gazeta writes . Moscow Metro and Mosgortrans estimate their damages at 1,541,148 rubles and 1,165,852 rubles, respectively.

Thousands of Muscovites laid flowers to the place of murder of Boris Nemtsov. Report "Medusa" On February 27, in Moscow and other cities (from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk and Novosibirsk), shares of the memory of Boris Nemtsov, who were killed in 2015 on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, were held. The procession this year did not take place due to the pandemic of coronavirus and the restrictions introduced, but several thousand Muscovites laid flowers at the site of the murder of a politician.

Here's what activist Konstantin Kotov, who was also there, and his lawyer said. A brief summary Activist Konstantin Kotov : I spent a little over a year and a half in IK-2 and was released in December 2020. It is a general regime colony, but in fact the regime there is quite strict: the administration has complete control over the prisoners.

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian refused to sign Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's proposal to dismiss Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan, who demanded the Prime Minister's resignation. This was reported by the press service of the President. The draft decree on the dismissal of the chief of the General Staff was studied by the presidential apparatus, and it was also discussed in detail with lawyers and independent experts.

Auckland, New Zealand's largest city with about 1.5 million people, will enter a seven-day quarantine due to one new case of COVID-19 infection. This was reported by Reuters, citing a statement by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Quarantine will begin on the morning of February 28. Residents of the city will only be allowed to go to the store for the necessary purchases and to work (in the absence of the opportunity to work from home). Public places will be closed.

On February 27, a journalist from Baza, Myaila Maciulite, was detained at the Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg. Baza herself reported this. The detention took place during a meeting between Maciulite and an acquaintance of a police officer who promised to give her some “important information”. The people who detained the journalist showed the documents of employees of the internal security department (SSD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa on February 27 in the cities of Russia and abroad are held in memory of the politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in 2015 on a large Moskvoretsky bridge. Every year, marches took place in Moscow in memory of Nemtsov (the first of them took place a few days after the murder of a politician). In 2021, the organizers abandoned this format (since the authorities prohibit mass shares due to pandemia) and asked the city hall not to interfere with the laying of flowers.

On the morning of February 27, owners of a jewelry store in the Slavic Bazaar Slavic shopping center announced a robbery. The owner of the store Evgenia Svishchenko described the situation as follows: I arrived at work for about 10 hours, went for coffee and heard the scream of our employee Victoria. It turned out that several people dressed in costumes (the so -called Kigurumi) of unicorns ran into the store. They beat the glass in the windows with a hammer and ran away.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny will serve his sentence in penal colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov in the Vladimir region. This was reported by the Yarnovosti publication, citing a source in the Federal Penitentiary Service. A source for Mediazona reported that the politician was in Vladimir Oblast on Friday, February 26, and that he was being taken to IK-2. Later, a source for TASS confirmed the information about Navalny's transfer to IK-2.

Vaccination of volunteers has begun in Moscow as part of the Sputnik Light vaccine study. This was reported by the press service of the City Hall with reference to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for social development Anastasia Rakova. Today, the first participants in the Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine study were vaccinated. As volunteers are screened, vaccination volumes will increase. Applications are being actively submitted now, and 490 people underwent a medical examination in two days.

Lev Gankin - about the album "Borline". Where does the border between sincere lyrics and producer perfectionism go? Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant On February 26, Zemfira released the first album in eight years - Boardine. It is available in Spotify , Apple Music , Yandex.Musica and other streaming services . There are 12 tracks in the album, including Austin, which recently released a video based on the game Homescapes, and Crimea, published in the spring of 2020.