In the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, who came to fight, was given the rank of major, TASS reports. "The head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko conferred the extraordinary military rank of 'major' on the writer, patriot, activist Zakhar Prilepin," a representative of the administration of the head of the DPR said.

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Evgenia Albats: You are not like other Russian Americans whom I had to meet in the United States and from whom I constantly get angry Philippics on social networks; You support the Democrats, actively participated in the campaign for the election of Barack Obama. The Russian Americans vote for the Republicans in vain, Obama is called only as a socialist, and in their speeches, open racism often shines.

British singer David Bowie, who died in 2016, was posthumously awarded five Grammy awards. His song Blackstar won Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song, while his self-titled album won Best Engineering, Best Alternative Album and Best Recording. Blackstar, Bowie's 25th and final album, was released on January 8, 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday. He died two days later of liver cancer. The album includes seven songs and combines various musical styles, including art rock and avant-garde jazz.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters, who flooded the streets and Square of Bucharest and other cities, have not seen such a Romania since the fall of the Chausko regime. What are dissatisfied and what the Romanians achieve - the New Times found out Thieves! Resigned!

Why does the presidential administration change the heads of regions? The specifics of the personnel policy in Kirienkovsky sorted to the New Times The team of the new Kremlin curator of domestic policy, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, began to operate. In the regions - the resignation of governors. So far, they are fired by those whose terms of work has already expired and who had to go to direct elections.

On February 9, Russian semi-official media, citing a "source in the leadership of the parliament," spread the news: Moscow had decided on a candidate for the post of Russia's new ambassador to the United States.

On the complexities of relations with Russia “Our ministers come to Moscow - they don’t want to talk to them. Caring attitude. I told Putin: if you treat our ministers like that, we won't visit you again. But nothing has changed, the ministers were sitting in the waiting rooms from morning to evening.” “Why should we be caught alive? Why take us by the throat? We can manage without Russian oil. It will be very difficult for us.

What is actually happening in the relationship of Moscow and Minsk The sharp disagreements between Lukashenko and Putin often went outside (in the picture: during a meeting in Minsk in February 2016), but now, it seems, we are talking about a long -term disgrace. Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS Alexander Lukashenko again did not meet with Vladimir Putin: a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in Moscow was postponed indefinitely.

Laureates of the 60th annual international photojournalism of World Press Photo photojournalism are declared. The main award of the competition was received by photographer Burkhan Ozbilichi for a photograph of the murderer of the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov. This was reported by AP. Australian photographer Warren Richardson was awarded for the best photo of 2016. He photographed how refugees pass the child under the barbed wire on the Hungarian-Serbian border.

The organizers of the march in memory of Boris Nemtsov sent an application to the Moscow authorities to host the event. Ilya Yashin, one of the organizers of the march, announced this on his Facebook. “An official application has been submitted to the Moscow City Hall to hold the Boris Nemtsov March on February 26,” Yashin wrote. The organizers intend to march along the same route as in 2015 - from Slavyanskaya Square along the embankment with access to the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

“Effective actions to prevent provocation became possible due to the availability of information on the preparation of a series of shares in order to discredit state power ordered and paid by the structures of Mikhail Khodorkovsky,” the Rosneft commented on the campaign near the central office of the company February 6, Monday The Kirovsky District Court of Astrakhan issued the first verdict under Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (failure to condemn the crime) from

NT was told by historian and political analyst Armand Gosh, Bucharest What is happening today in our country, like any other events of similar scale and severity, has a visible and invisible side. The visible is the dissatisfaction of public opinion by the new law, and even more-the haste with which the leaders of the Social Democrats wanted to hold it in order to protect themselves from possible troubles.

On February 12, 2007, the first issue of The New Times was released Our magazine has many parents. In the genesis - even Comrade. Stalin, by whose order in June 1943, the forefather began to be released under the logo “War and the working class”, and since 1945 the magazine received the name “New Time” and soon began to be published in eight languages.

On February 8, director Alexei Uchitel filed a statement with the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to protect the staff of the film "Matilda" from "threats and illegal actions of extremist persons", as well as from slander by State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya The conflict that has developed around Alexei Uchitel’s film Matilda, which has not yet been released, is about the famous ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya and her romance with Nicholas II,