The battle for Debaltseve, which turned the Minsk Agreement-2 into a farce, ended. On February 18, the Ukrainian authorities announced the withdrawal of their troops from Debaltseve-the hottest point of the last weeks in the southeast of Ukraine. Then the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic announced the full control of the city.

On February 24, neo -Nazis from the group “Bill Organization of Russian Nationalists” (BORN) will perform in court with the last word. Next is the jury verdict and the verdict. The New Times traced what questions the process of the gang answered and what remained a mystery On February 20, the debt of the parties in the case of the four participants of the BORN - Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, Mikhail Volkovov and Yuri Tikhomirov ended in the Moscow Regional Council.

Vladimir Putin, at the wreath of laying a wreath at the military memorial to Soviet soldiers, Budapest, on February 17, 2015 , on February 17, Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Hungary, laid a wreath to the Memorial of Soviet soldiers in the central cemetery of Budapest.

On February 18, the government agreed with the president for the next “pension reform”. Those of working pensioners who receive more than 83 thousand rubles. per month, pensions will stop paying The seizure of pensions, according to the estimates of the Ministry of Labor, will suppose allegedly only every fifty of 13 million working pensioners. But after a few years, inflation will make eighty thousand earnings completely ordinary, and the deprivation of pensions is more or less universal.

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Vladimir Putin, at the wreath of laying a wreath at the military memorial to Soviet soldiers, Budapest, on February 17, 2015 , on February 17, Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Hungary, laid a wreath to the Memorial of Soviet soldiers in the central cemetery of Budapest.

On February 17, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation officially confirmed that police officers will no longer be able to travel outside the Russian Federation-the CIS, Abkhazia and South Ossetia countries remain exceptions The press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said: the decision to make police officers by the deals "was perceived by employees with understanding." I am sure: the reason for the decision is a tense political situation that

The Moscow theater.doc noted a housewarming in the Fligel of the 18th century mansion on Spartakovskaya Street. The New Times Observer talks about the history of this move For twelve years from the date of its foundation, the first independent non -profit theater in Russia lived in the basement of a residential building in a three -breed lane. It was there that the new genre for Russia was born and grew up - “Documentary Theater”, combining art and journalism.

Increase Chronicles Replicas modality of power: to deprive, prohibit, refuse the budget replenish at the expense of pensions , the “Harbinsky case” from September 1937 is again under the stamp , the police are finally becoming non-traveling , “counter-revolutionary rebellion” overshadowed Putin’s visit to Hungary Current events of the chronicle of current events.

On February 24, the international human rights organization Amnesty International will present a report on the state of human rights in the world, including in Russia. The New Times found out what will be discussed in the report, with Anna Neistat*, director of Amnesty International on research Anna Neistat believes that what is happening in Russia is scary The conflict in Ukraine had tremendous consequences for Russia.

For ten months of armed confrontation in the Donbass, the adjacent Russian territory - the Rostov region - has turned into a real front -line zone. The New Times went through the trail of the unnecessary war In the summer, there was no one to get from Rostov to Donbass: the buses were canceled, trains - even earlier. Luhansk taxi drivers, having delivered refugees to Rostov, took to “give a lift” to the ATO zone for the ten.

On February 18, the Supreme Court refused to declassify the documents of the NKVD for the “Charbin case”, according to which 53,906 people were repressed in the late 1930s My grandfather Stepan Ivanovich Kuznetsov, who worked on the Chinese Eastern Railway (CVD), served 15 years on charges of espionage in favor of Japan. The beginning of mass repressions against the employees of the CRC and repatriates from Manchuria laid a letter signed by the head of the NKVD of the USSR Nikolai Yezhov No.

In Croatia, the first lady-president in the history of the country-Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovich took office. Her inauguration was attended by representatives of 88 states: Kolinda is well known abroad - before the elections, she occupied one of the high posts in NATO*, and in the middle of the zero years she was the head of the Croatian Foreign Ministry. But it is noteworthy, rather, another.

February 16, Monday The Moscow City Court canceled the decision on the arrest of Svetlana Davydova. Earlier, the Lefortovo court sent Davydov to a pre -trial detention center, but under the pressure of the public she was released home for a recognizance not to leave. A large mother from Vyazma is accused of treason. Alexandrina Markwo was arrested in absentia. The decision on the arrest of the head of the Bureau17 company was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

Go or not go to the anti -crisis march "Spring" on March 1, planned by the opposition? Will the next street action bring the results or will it end with the detention of the participants, with new repressions and disappointment?