State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin called any talk about the alienation of Crimea an encroachment on the territorial integrity of Russia. This is how he commented on the words of US Presidential Press Secretary Sean Spicer about the peninsula, Interfax reports. “Crimea is part of Russia. Any conversations that lead to the alienation of our territory ... this is an encroachment on our integrity, on our territory, ”he said. “Some press secretary said something.

Human rights activist and publicist Irina Yasina - about why she prefers memoirs and diaries - fiction In recent years, I have not been interested in fiction - I have been reading memoirs, biographies, diaries more likely. Because life is richer and tougher than any romance than any invented work.

30 years ago, in February 1987, the release of political prisoners began in the USSR. Five years later, the last camp for “political”-“Perm-35” was closed “As for the political prisoners.

On February 17, in Moscow Multimedia, Art Museum, within the framework of the 10th International Biennale, opens an exhibition of Igor Mukhin, who recorded the time of change Igor Mukhin shoots reporting photos, shoots a lot and sometimes inaudible. But it was this quality that made him a kind of chronicle of the past era of the late 1980s-early 1990s, that cultural cut, which was thinned over time and almost completely disappeared.

Malaysian police have reportedly arrested a taxi driver who was driving the alleged assassins of Kim Jong Nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's older half-brother. writes about it Newsru.com . Two women suspected of killing Kim Jong Nam may be dead, Kyodo news agency reported, citing sources in Japanese diplomatic circles. “We have received information that there is a possibility that they are already dead.

The head of Karelia, Alexander Khudilainen, said that he had applied to President Vladimir Putin for early resignation, Interfax reports. Khudilainen explained that "today a lot of work is being done on the rotation of personnel at the regional and federal levels" and he made a "considered, balanced" decision not to go to the upcoming elections for the head of the region, TASS adds.