Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev has decided to liquidate the public organization "For Human Rights" due to the tightening of legislation on "foreign agents." Ponomarev said this on Dozhd. He explained that now the legislation on “foreign agents” also concerns unregistered organizations, which include “For Human Rights.” My organization, For Human Rights, has about a thousand experts working across the country. It’s a network organization, they don’t report to me.

The Russian Foundation for Basic Research ( RFBR ) has cancelled its competition for fundamental scientific research projects. The news was published on the RFBR website. In accordance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation dated February 12, 2021, the competition of fundamental scientific research projects ("a") has been cancelled. Based on this decision, further acceptance of applications for the competition has been terminated.

A vote to erect a monument on Lubyanka Square in Moscow may take place again in the future, but with more options. This RIA Novosti said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. I share the opinion of those architects and historians who believe that Lubyanskaya Square should be architecturally complete, that there should be some kind of dominant that would make it complete, instead of this asphalt.

The White House is preparing this week to impose sanctions against Russia due to the poisoning and imprisonment of politician Alexei Navalny. This is reported by CNN, citing two sources in the administration of US President Joe Biden. The imposition of sanctions will take place in coordination with the European Union. Who exactly will be on the sanctions list, CNN sources did not specify. One of them said that it would include both individuals and legal entities.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposed holding a referendum on the Constitution in October 2021. He announced this at a rally of his supporters in Yerevan, Panarmenian reports. Pashinyan announced the possibility of returning from a parliamentary to a semi-presidential form of government.

Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to a real term. What do we know about Alexander Nevsky as politics and man. Why Bellingcat can be blocked in Russia Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the most important news of the day. And on Mondays, also what happened over the weekend. But for starters - a little neural network magic.

Why are events in this country important for the whole world? Here are six reasons AP / Scanpix / Leta relatives pray at the woman’s body, which, according to her family, was shot by the military on March 1, 2021 in Mandalay In the last days of February, the police and the military in Myanmar for the first time massively used firearms against protests. On February 28, the police began to especially actively use not only rubber bullets and tear gas, but also combat cartridges.

The St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case for abuse of office against a local police officer who allegedly sold passenger data from the August 2020 flight where opposition politician Alexey Navalny fell ill from chemical nerve agent poisoning, says Kommersant.

The Corruption Foundation shot a 20-minute video of the IK-2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, which, as reported, was sent to serve the punishment of oppositionist Alexei Navalny. Alexey Navalny where is Navalny? Prison hell for the main enemy of Putin The video that is published on the Navalny website describes in detail what is happening with the convicts after arriving in the colony.

Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to real terms on charges of corruption and influence of influence. The correctional court of Paris appointed a 66-year policy of three years in prison, while two years he must serve his sentence conditionally and one-real (the court noted that Sarkozy could seek that he was not kept in prison during this year, but under house arrest).

The Leningrad Region Prosecutor's Office, following an investigation, came to the conclusion that the statements of Professor Vladimir Matveyev, who denied the Holocaust, rehabilitate Nazism, TASS reports.

Warning, optical illusion! Terrible, but with an animal. So: in the photo - a cat without a head. Rather, there is a head, but it lies in a neighboring basket. Everything is fine with the cat. How so? 🤔 one head in one head out. cat complete from r/aww The answer is simple: there are two different cats in the picture. One hid in a basket so that only the head sticks out. The second, on the contrary, bowed so that her head “disappeared”.

A new documentary looks back at the birth of Russia’s modern economy, arguing that liberals, not hawks, established Moscow’s global independence Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant “Fortress,” a new documentary series from the Russian streaming service “Start,” recounts former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin’s role in the Russian market reforms of the 1990s, the economic stabilization efforts of the early 2000s, and Russia’s response to the 2008 financial crisis.

During a press conference on Monday, March 1, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuted recent analysis from Bloomberg that listed Russia as one of the “five hotspots” where rising food prices could provoke political unrest. “With regard to this publication, we don’t agree with it. We have different data.

St. Petersburg activist and Russian-language teacher Daria Apakhonchich, who was declared a “foreign agent” in December 2020, has filed a lawsuit against the Russian Justice Ministry over the illegality of this decision. In a message to Meduza, the human rights group Agora said that the lawsuit was filed with St. Petersburg’s Leninsky District Court. Apakhonchich is being represented by Agora lawyer Alexander Peredruk.