On the day when Boris Yeltsin died, in London in the Hall of Queen Elizabeth II, a stone's throw from the Westminster Palace, was the Russian Economic Forum. They reported the death of Yeltsin so - one of the present, who took the microphone to ask a question, said: "The news had just come from Moscow - Yeltsin died ... But I did not take my word for this." And - continued his painful question about why the Western press writes so negatively about Russia and its businessmen.

On the morning of February 24, 52-year-old Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, was found hanged in a solitary cell in a Vienna prison. The Austrian authorities reported that Aliyev hanged himself and no traces of violence by third parties were found. This is confirmed by video surveillance and post-mortem examination data.

Late in the evening of February 27, unknown people shot the opposition policy Boris Nemtsov. According to his colleagues, he repeatedly received threats addressed to him.

On the day when Boris Yeltsin died, in London in the Hall of Queen Elizabeth II, a stone's throw from the Westminster Palace, was the Russian Economic Forum. They reported the death of Yeltsin so - one of the present, who took the microphone to ask a question, said: "The news had just come from Moscow - Yeltsin died ... But I did not take my word for this." And - continued his painful question about why the Western press writes so negatively about Russia and its businessmen.

At the end of February, Rosstat published data on foreign trade results for 2014 and the first months of 2015. The results reveal a complete failure of all the hopes placed by the Russian authorities on their latest global economic course. The "turn of trade to the East" did not turn into a flourishing of multifaceted commodity exchange, but by desperate efforts to increase the supply of cheaper Russian oil to this region.