Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly on March 1. This was announced by the co-chairman of his campaign headquarters, Alexander Rumyantsev, Kommersant reports . Rumyantsev expressed the hope that Putin in his message will take into account all the recommendations that the trustees have collected from voters.

The Supreme Court of Russia is considering the issue of mitigating the punishment for reposting prohibited materials, Interfax reports . The head of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, said that "the collegium of the Supreme Court is discussing this issue." So he answered the question of journalists about the humanization of the article of the Criminal Code, which provides for punishment for the dissemination of extremist and prohibited materials.

The head of the 8th Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, ordered to ensure the suppression of cellular signals (2G and 3G) in the territories of two Russian bases in Syria, RBC reports . The order of the General Staff is associated with drone attacks, and can also be explained by the desire of the military to stop information leaks, agency experts suggest.

On the night of February 20, Roman Rubanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport. “FBK director Roman Rubanov was just detained at Sheremetyevo, according to the same scheme as Kira and Ruslan were detained: first, a full customs inspection, and then a trip to the police department (we don’t know which one yet). They show the organization of the rally on January 28, article 20.2, ”Leonid Volkov, head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters, wrote on Twitter.

Ksenia Sobchak named the sponsors of her election campaign during a press conference on Tuesday, February 20. Sobchak's campaign was funded by the publisher of the magazine Inc.

US President Donald Trump accused his predecessor Barack Obama of ignoring Russia's interference in the country's 2016 presidential election. Trump wrote about this on his Twitter . “Obama was president before and after the 2016 election. Why didn’t he do anything about Russian interference?” — wrote the US leader. On February 16, the US Department of Justice accused 13 Russians of interfering in the presidential election.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on the reintegration of Donbass, reports on Tuesday, February 20, TASS . According to the leader of Ukraine, the document strengthens the legal framework for the use of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other power units for the defense of the country and at the same time establishes rules for protecting the rights and freedoms of the civilian population.

The son-in-law of Russian billionaire Herman Khan, Alex van der Zwan, has become a new defendant in the US election interference case, Bloomberg reports on Tuesday, February 20 . Van der Zwan was accused of lying about negotiations with former assistant to the head of the Donald Trump campaign headquarters, Rick Gates, regarding the preparation of a document for the trial of the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko.

In Spain, a trial of a criminal group of 27 people, consisting mainly of Russians, began. The investigation lasted 10 years. Here's what the New Times wrote about this case The arrest of the main accused in the Russian Mafia case, Gennady Petrov, Spanish gendarmerie during the Troika operation, Palma de Majorca, June 2008.

Why is the expiration of the next presidential term like the expectation of the end of the world? NT: *Talk about the surge of national identity. Do you think he is? * It seems to me that for the first time in 70 years, our people can choose, for example, a favorite beer variety and a favorite sausage variety. To date, this is the main surge in popular self -awareness.

An army of Russian bots is trying to embroil the Americans because of the shooting in Florida, writes The New York Times . Within an hour of the first reports of the school shooting in Florida, there were hundreds of messages raising the discussion about gun control in the United States, sent from Twitter accounts linked to Russia. Many bots were used during the 2016 US election campaign and also tried to manipulate public opinion.

The Investigative Committee of Russia did not allow the producer of the film "Dislike" Gleb Fetisov to go to the United States for the Oscars, TASS reports on Tuesday, February 20 . “Rejecting a film producer on a trip is beyond comprehension. Probably, this is dislike, ”TASS quotes the words of press secretary Fetisov. The film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev "Dislike" was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Language Film". Fetisov is suspected of embezzling funds from My Bank.

told TASS . A meeting of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky on violating anti-doping rules at the Olympics is scheduled for February 22, President of the Russian Curling Federation Dmitry Svishchev “Today, almost the entire staff of the Russian Curling Federation is flying to Pyeongchang for the CAS meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for Thursday.

The cryptocurrency of Venezuela was called El Petro, on Tuesday, February 20, its sale starts, TASS reports . In early January, President Nicolas Maduro announced that a total of 100 million digital currency units would be issued, of which 82.4 million would be available to investors in the first phase. One unit of cryptocurrency will cost the same as a barrel of Venezuelan oil, that is, about $60.

Roskomnadzor acknowledged that the Russian law on blocking VPN services is not in demand, RBC reports on Tuesday, February 20, citing a representative of the department's press service. So far, Roskomnadzor has not sent a request to any VPN service or anonymizer to block access to sites that are included in the register of prohibited information.