The Russian authorities mobilized the hacker group Apt 28, also known as Sofacy, Strontium, Pawn Storm and Fancy Bear . According to media reports, earlier these hackers were involved in the hacking of computers of the Democratic Party of the United States and political parties in France and Germany. According to The Financial Times , the main intelligence department (GRU) of Russia is directly led by the grouping activities.

French fans of Barack Obama launched a campaign in support of the nomination of the former US president, a candidate in the election of the head of state, which will be held this spring. According to ABC News , posters with a photograph of Obama appeared on Parisian streets and call to go to the Obama2017.fr website and sign a petition to support his nomination with a candidate for president of France. “He has the best resume in the world for this work,” the authors of the site say.

In Tver, a children's clinical hospital caught fire. Fire area - 1.6 thousand square meters. meters, evacuation was carried out. The fire was assigned the fourth complexity number. According to preliminary data, there are no victims, TASS reports rescuers. About 4 in the morning reports on the localization of a fire: by this time, more than 230 people and almost 70 units of equipment were attracted to extinguishing. The fire occurred around midnight in the old building of the hospital complex.

US President Donald Trump said that he wants to expand the United States nuclear arsenal to show the country's leading position. He reported this in an interview with Reuters . In addition, Trump is dissatisfied with the RSMD agreement with Russia - on the restriction of missile weapons. Trump said that the United States is behind with its nuclear potential, and its growth will help to return leadership positions.

The court of St. Petersburg authorized the arrest of 42-year-old Andrei Mikhailov in the case of the murder of 27-year-old Igor Buyakov at the concert of the Punk group The Exploited at the Cosmonaut club, which took place on February 18. The arrest was announced on Twitter by the head of the international human rights group, Agora Pavel Chikov, citing lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, representing the interests of the family of the murdered. The detention of Mikhailov became known on February 23.

The leader of the French National Front party, Marine Le Pen, refused to interrogate to investigators who suspect the country's presidential candidate of fictitious hiring of two people as assistants to the European Parliamentary and inappropriate use of the European Parliament, Reuters reports. As the lawyer Rodolf Boslu, representing the interests of Le Pen, explained, his client "will" come to investigators for any call after the completion of the presidential election in France.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) adopted applications of Russian athletes Angelica Sidorova, Kristina Sivkova and Alexei Sokirsky, athletes will be able to perform at competitions under a neutral flag. This was reported in the press release of the organization . The unanimous decision on the admission of these athletes was made by a special commission, which includes Robert Hersh (chairman), Sylvia Barlag and Anti Pikhlakovsky.

The Russian owner of the English Chelsea Roman Abramovich is interested in selling part of the shares of a football club of the Chinese investment company HNA Group, reports The Sun. It is emphasized that the chairman of the club Bruce Buck has already held two rounds of negotiations with company representatives. We are talking about the purchase from Abramovich 20% of the club’s shares, the amount of a potential transaction can be about 240 million pounds.

The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Nadezhda Savchenko and the head of the Ukrainian Center for the Liberation of Prisoners "Officer Corps" Vladimir Ruban arrived in Donetsk to visit Ukrainian prisoners of war. This was reported by the Donetsk news agency with reference to the Ministry of State Security of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

The American magazine The New Yorker announced the cover of the new March number: it posted images of the presidents of the United States and Russia, as well as the name of the publication that is written in Russian-"New Yorker". On the cover presented, Vladimir Putin is depicted in the image of Eustas Tilly, who looks at the monocle in a flying butterfly with the head of the new US President Donald Trump.

A terrible incident occurred in the capital of Udmurtia: a pensioner from Izhevsk killed a sign of a bakery that fell under the weight of snow. During the incident, an elderly woman asked for alms. According to another version, Izhevsk was crushed by snow. The death of a pensioner was informed "Interfax" in the press service of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Udmurtia on Friday, February 24.

The Israeli authorities rejected the request of the Human Rights Watch human rights organization to extend the work visa to its regional director Omar Shakir, while accusing the organization of the propaganda of Palestinians, Interfax reports.

The Schiludo volcano in Kamchatka on Friday afternoon, February 24, threw a column of ash to a height of five kilometers. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. The emission of the ash was recorded by the Kamchatka response group to volcanic eruptions (Kvert), the department said. "The height height of the ash was up to 5000 meters," the Ministry of Emergencies noted.

Forward of the Russian national team and Novosibirsk "Siberia" Maxim Shalunov can join the Chicago club at the start of the NHL playoffs. Such an opinion to the Athletic portal was expressed by an agent of 24-year-old player Shumi Babaev. Shalunov was chosen "Chicago" in the draft in 2013 under the 109th number. Maxim conducted training in the team training camp, but did not get into its composition, speaking in the farm club (2013/14).

The Vienna Land Court refused at the request of the city prosecutor’s office, which asked to leave the Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash, who was first released on the eve without making an additional collateral, but later again detained due to the US offense for the extradition of the billionaire.