The players of the St. Petersburg Zenit and Krasnodar on Thursday were obtained by trips to the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Europa League following the return matches of the playoffs of the second most important European Cup. The Petersburgers were defeated by the Turkish "Fenerbahce", and the Krasnodar at a party coped with the German "Bayer". "Zenith" in St. Petersburg defeated the Turks with a score of 3: 1.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) refused to satisfy Ukraine's request , in which this country asked to take interim measures against Russia due to the detention of three Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait and the arrest of their sailors.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is awaiting explanations from the editorial office of the British newspaper The Times in connection with the activities of a correspondent of the publication in Moscow, who issued a tourist, rather than a journalistic visa. It is reported by TASS.

The journalist and writer, five-time laureate of the TEFI Award Leonid Parfenov since March 2019 will release his author’s program “The Peretnoy” on the YouTube video hosting. The premiere of the first series of an updated project in the documentary genre on historical events in Russia and the world will be released on March 18. The issues of the first block will be dedicated to the period from 1946 to 1951 of the last century. As before, each episode will cover one year out of five declared.

The volume of the shadow economy of Russia last year exceeded 20 trillion rubles. And amounted to about 20% of the country's GDP, follows from the preliminary assessment of the Rosfinmonitoring, which RBC got acquainted with. Rosfinmonitoring notes that the volume of the shadow economy in Russia is reduced, but other experts are not so optimistic.

CSKA Moscow basketball players beat the Spanish Gran Canaria in the home match of the 23rd round of the Euroleague regular championship. For the army team, this victory was the fifth in a row in the European Cup. The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 107:85 (29:20, 27:22, 27:22, 24:21) in favor of the home team. The most productive player of the match was army defender Sergio Rodriguez, with 18 points. “Congratulations to our players.

Yakov Kogan “Theoretically, you can never wash. It is legally, it is not prohibited by law. It’s not difficult. It is much easier than washing every day. And there are people who practice this. Say soap, it is a bastard, the protective layer of the skin destroys, and in this layer - our strength. The original power! Primitive. Chemistry again in this soap is one, dyes, flavors and enhancers of taste are solid, ”writes the artist and blogger on Facebook .

The Irkutsk shamans of the Huhe Munhe Tangeri Organization (Eternally Blue Sky) conducted a ceremony during which the carcasses of five camels were burned in order to "strengthen Russia." It is noted that it took place for the first time in modern history and was fulfilled "with respect to animals." The video recording of the rite appeared on YouTube on February 1, and on February 21, the initiator of the ritual, the deputy of the Supreme Shaman of Russia Arthur Tsybikov told Komsomolskaya

Two -time world and European skiing champion Yevgeny Medvedev won among the lonelines in the final of the Russian Cup, which takes place in Veliky Novgorod. In terms of two programs, the winner scored 222.90 points. The second was the world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (221.19), which before an arbitrary program took only fourth place. Victoria Vasilieva (208.75) closed the top three winners with a large margin.

Members of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization*, detained in Surgut on February 15, testified to lawyers about the torture, who were used by the employees of the Investigative Committee that day. The stories of the victims are published by Mediazon .

Police unions of the French city of Bordeaux sent a letter to the director of the Main Directorate of the National Police Eric Morvan in which they reported the “critical” state of law enforcement officers after 3 months of protests in the country, and also demanded to accelerate the adoption of the law against aggressive demonstrators, TASS reports.

Roskomnadzor should create a monitoring center and public communication network by July 1, 2019. This is written by "Vedomosti" with reference to the relevant government decree.

“In his current message, Putin proposed ending all regulations in the field of control and supervision from January 1, 2021. Over the remaining two years, completely updating the regulatory framework together with business,” writes the former Minister of Economy on his Facebook page. “Putin spoke about the fight against unnecessary business inspections (specific initiatives change) in 11 of his 15 messages. These initiatives, as a rule, do not solve real business problems.

"The main mistake of our authorities is how one American professor said, to the PEF:" You need milk, but you do not need a cow. "The authorities all the time talk about what to do with" milk ", as if we have a lot of it, but the authorities are habitually to give a shit," writes the analyst and publicist on Facebook .

The Russian skier of Sergei Ustyugov was disqualified after the semifinal sprint race at the World Cup in Zeefeld. He was punished for conflict with Norwegian Johannes Clebo. According to the International Sports Federation (FIS), Ustyugov eventually received two yellow cards. The first - for creating obstacles to the opponent during overtaking, and the second - for unsportsmanlike behavior. The ninth result of the racer was canceled.