The leader of the Republicans in the Upper House of Congress, Mitch MacConnell, announced that he would leave his post after the November elections of the US president. The senator, who turned 82 last week, said that he would continue to work in the Capitol, but will allow the “next generation of leaders” to head the Senate Republican Conference. Its next term in the Senate ends in January 2027. McConnell for the longest time in history served as a party leader in the Senate.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced pediatrician and author of the Telegram channel “Notes of a Children’s Doctor” Sergei Butriy to ten days of arrest under the article on incitement of hatred or enmity. The website of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction contains a doctor's case file . The surname there is misspelled - "Butria" instead of Butriy, but his acquaintances confirmed that this is him.

Update. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed that the Ukrainian military launched a missile attack on a concentration of Russian troops in Yelenovka using Ukrainian multiple launch rocket systems. According to preliminary data, 19 Russian military personnel were killed, including the deputy commander of the unit, and 12 military personnel, including the commander, were injured.

18-year-old arrested in St. Petersburg for taping a poem by Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko to his monument Mediazona Darya Kozyreva, an 18-year-old from St. Petersburg, has been arrested for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army after she taped a piece of paper with excerpts from Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko’s poem “My Testament” to his monument. Kozyreva was previously arrested for writing an anti-war message on a monument commemorating the brotherhood between St.

In Moscow, on February 29, traffic will be temporarily closed on several central streets due to Vladimir Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Sleep nineteenth: monuments. What memorials were important to us before the war? And how do we look at them now? After the death of Alexei Navalny, the inhabitants of Russian cities began to bring flowers to the memorials of the victims of political repression. Monuments began to protest in conditions when it is almost impossible to do it safely.

The new monetization program for Telegram channels, the launch of which was announced by Telegram founder Pavel Durov, will not work in Russia and other CIS countries. Two sources familiar with the company's plans told The Bell about this. The program will only operate in those markets where Telegram's advertising model, launched in 2021, has not yet been implemented, the publication's sources explained. "It's smart to open up new markets and countries.

Yulia Navalnaya demanded that the Russian authorities stop mocking the memory of her husband and not interfere with the organization of his funeral. “Two people are to blame for the fact that we do not have a place for a civil memorial service and farewell to Alexei - Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sobyanin. People in the Kremlin killed him, then they mocked Alexei’s body, then they mocked his mother, and now they mock his memory.

Vladimir Zelensky intends to discuss the initiative of Emmanuel Macron on sending the troops of European countries to Ukraine, when the French president will visit Kyiv on the next visit. The President of Ukraine stated this at a press conference in Albania following the results of the Ukrainian-Yugo-East Europe summit. Zelensky emphasized that any initiatives that increase Ukraine’s defense in the war with Russia will be good.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How long can Russia come after the capture of Avdeevka? And what tactics now does the Armed Forces (taking into account the deficit of weapons)? We speak with Dmitry Kuznets On February 17, the new commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrfa, announced the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Avdeevka. In the evening of the same day, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced its complete capture.

But the future of the post -war gase remains in question - Nobody does not like the plan of Netanyahu. Hazem Bader / AFP / Scanpix / Leta rally of relatives of Palestinians in Israeli prisons in Hebron on the west coast of Jordan. February 27, 2024 Israel and Hamas continue through intermediaries to discuss an agreement on a temporary truce in exchange for the release of hostages.

The self-proclaimed government of Transnistria, the Moscow-backed breakaway region in Moldova, has asked Russia for “protection” amid “increasing pressure from Moldova,” according to local media.

Russian indie rock band performs in occupied Ukraine just weeks after appearing on Kremlin’s music industry blacklist In early February, Meduza reported on a secret list of singers and bands that the Kremlin had banned from performing in Russia. The blacklist included artists who have spoken out against the full-scale war as well as some who have gestured at opposing the war in their statements and lyrics but have stopped short of explicitly criticizing it.

The Central District Court of Sochi arrested two-time Russian cross-country champion Nikolai Zimirev for 15 days on charges of demonstrating extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports “7×7. Horizontal Russia" with reference to the press service of the court. On February 17, police officers detained the athlete when he brought flowers to the monument to victims of political repression in memory of Alexei Navalny.

The cell hid for more than 30 years. She lived in the center of Berlin, in the Kroyzberg area Annette Riedl / DPA / Scanpix / Leta House in Berlin, where Daniel was detained to a cell. February 28, 2024 On February 26, the Berlin police detained a former participant in the German left -wing “Red Army faction” Daniel a cell hiding for more than 30 years, Deutsche Welle reports. The police received information about where the cell can be located in November 2023, BBC News said .