The US Senate voted in favor of a bill that provides for the imposition of sanctions against countries that do business with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is reported by RBC . In November, Washington already imposed anti-Syrian sanctions for the supply of fuel to the Syrian government, which included the Russian companies Promsyreimport and Global Vision Group, as well as about 20 tankers.

Recently, I have a feeling that Putin has announced some kind of strange contest among his corrupt associates. Every week you open the Internet and read: "the head of the Russian Post bought an apartment for a billion." “Sechin bought a record five-story apartment of 1229 meters.” "Miller bought an even bigger apartment than Sechin's - 1396 meters." I read this and am both angry and sympathetic at the same time. I'm angry - it's clear why.

Political scientist Georgy Satarov in a polemic with participants in the discussion NT proposes not to consider the problem 2024 - the problem of Putin or the elite surrounding it Georgy Satarov. I agree with Tatyana Stanovaya ( “Leave or stay” ) - Putin has no good moves in solving the “Problems of 2024”. And partially agree with its justification of this thesis.

The FSB now monopolizes crimes for words Justification of terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) is a new Article 282. I spoke about this many times. There will be more cases of incitement to extremism and justification of terrorism. The FSB eliminated competitors in the face of the CPE and the TFR (investigating cases under Article 282) and now monopolizes criminals for words. Source

If the textbook has become a victim of a new ideological campaign, then things are bad. The urgent need for import substitution arose due to the previous ideological campaign, when textbooks written by real scientists were also banned! Experts from the Ministry of Education and the Russian Academy of Education came to the conclusion that a textbook on economics for grades 10-11 "does not contribute to love for the motherland." Where did vigilant experts see the lack of love for the Fatherland?

Under this article, a criminal case was opened against a journalist from Pskov for materials about an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Svetlana Prokopyeva, a journalist from Echo of Moscow in Pskov, former editor-in-chief of Pskovskaya Guberniya, has opened a criminal case under part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism).

Tatyana Navka, the Olympic champion in ice dancing in pairs and the wife of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, found a foreign account. As follows from bank documents, she did not close the account in Switzerland after marrying a high-ranking official, Dozhd reports , citing an investigation by the Dossier Center. Navka and Peskov deny that she has accounts abroad. “This is not true. I don’t have a valid bank account abroad,” Navka told Dozhd.

President Vladimir Putin proposed extending the capital amnesty for a year for those who register a business in special regions of Russia. At the Business Russia forum, he also proposed exempting foreigners who control companies from personal income tax for a year, provided that they become tax residents of Russia, Kommersant reports . The capital amnesty was carried out in 2015–2016. Putin proposed to extend it, and on March 1, 2018, the second wave of amnesty began.

Danish citizen Dennis Christensen was sentenced by the Orel Railway Court to six years in prison in a penal colony for organizing the activities of an extremist organization. He led a cell of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia*. The prosecution demanded 6.5 years in prison for the defendant, as a result, the judge sentenced the Dane to 6 years, they write Oryol News . Dennis Christensen was arrested in May 2017.

Today, a press conference was held in Moscow by the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, at which he spoke on very many issues, from the events of 2014 to the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine. The press conference began with a question about Euromaidan.

Portuguese bank Novo Banco blocked an attempt by the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to transfer $1.2 billion to Uruguayan banks. This was announced during a speech in parliament by the deputy of the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic Carlos Paparoni, reports Reuters . Opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president of Venezuela, plans to meet with business leaders to discuss an economic recovery plan.

Moscow is discussing the issue of conducting an experiment on electronic voting during the September elections to the Moscow City Duma. This was reported to Vedomosti by Alexei Venediktov, a member of the Moscow Public Chamber, and confirmed by several sources. It is assumed that in one of the districts voters will be able to choose their own voting method — traditional or electronic-remote. "One of the options for identifying voters is through the State Services website.

US President Donald Trump said he will hold a two-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at which he will once again try to convince the head of the DPRK to give up nuclear weapons, February 27-28 in Vietnam.

During his annual State of the Union address to Congress, President Donald Trump said the United States was "focused on developing a modern missile defense system." According to him, during his two years in office, the US "began a full-scale restoration" of its armed forces. For these purposes, the Pentagon was allocated $700 billion in 2018, and $716 billion in 2019. "As part of the build-up of military power, the United States is developing a modern missile defense system.

At the end of 2018, the share of high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries in Russia's GDP decreased to 21.3%, in monetary terms it amounted to almost 20 trillion rubles. However, according to the May 2012 decrees, this figure was supposed to grow to 25.6% last year, writes RBC .