The Federal Tax Service confirmed joint searches with the FSB in large Russian agricultural holdings - enterprises are being checked for involvement in an illegal scheme to minimize tax liabilities.

The Ministry of Justice has included the For Human Rights movement led by Lev Ponomarev in the register of foreign agents. “The Ministry of Justice of Russia, in accordance with the Federal Law “On Non-Commercial Organizations”, has included the All-Russian Public Movement for the Protection of Human Rights “For Human Rights” in the register of non-profit organizations that act as a foreign agent.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, which negligently caused the death of a man. On the evening of February 11, in the courtyard of a multi-storey building in the village of Vinogradovo, two unknown men in masks beat him with bats, according to the UK . The victim died in the hospital.

Since January 28, when US sanctions against Venezuela came into force, the export of oil and oil products, according to Refinitiv Eikon, has decreased from 1.4 million to 1.15 million barrels per day. Prior to the entry into force of sanctions, the Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA supplied over 500,000 barrels of oil per day to the United States alone, and more than 300,000 barrels to India. The third largest market for the company was China.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, blamed the United States for its collapse. “The reasons behind the US decision to withdraw from the treaty are not the ones cited by American leaders, but something completely different: the US desire to free itself from any restrictions in the sphere of armaments and to gain absolute military superiority,” he wrote in a column for Vedomosti .

The United Grain Company (UGC) will be headed by Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Sergeev. As Vedomosti writes, citing sources, there is already a directive on his appointment. Sergeev is a member of the team of the current head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev: he worked with him for eight years at Rosselkhozbank. Before joining RSHB, Sergeev worked at VTB. On February 12, the bank became a shareholder of OZK , having received Ziyavudin Magomedov’s package for debts.

The international rating agency Moody's has raised Russia's economic rating, all three US credit rating agencies are again raising the country's investment grade, which means that US bonds can now return to Russia, says Forbes columnist Kenneth Rapoza (Kenneth Rapoza) The most important entity owned by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, the aluminum company Rusal, has received a reprieve from sanctions.

Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopieva shares her experience: what it's like to suddenly find yourself under a serious criminal article and go through a search Reality leans in like a green police shield and pushes against the wall. Stunned - this word is similar to what you feel when you start a search . Yes, it is you, and not someone else from the news. It's somewhere between shock and surprise. Events unfold faster than you can believe.

In connection with the mass poisoning of children in kindergartens in Moscow, the Anti-Corruption Foundation turned to the Investigative Committee with a demand to conduct an inspection and initiate a criminal case, said Lyubov Sobol. According to her, the check should take place on the fact of the production and supply of products that do not meet consumer health safety requirements, and a criminal case has been initiated under Art.

Most of the followers of "sovereignization" really do not understand how the Internet works, and base their conclusions on horror stories, outright lies and other incorrect premises. I will repeat very briefly about the “sovereignization of the Internet”; the main thing; There are a lot of questions, and I'm on the road right now and I can't answer them all.

Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin believes that the draft law on protecting the Russian segment of the Internet from external threats was adopted hastily. “A law on sovereign Runet was adopted in the first reading. Unfortunately, too hastily and without an open dialogue with IT and the industrial community. These industries are developing as global ones.

Employees of the "K" department of the FSB, together with the Federal Tax Service, are seizing documents at several enterprises that are part of large Russian agricultural holdings. Investigative actions are taking place in 13 regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tambov, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Voronezh, Moscow, Saratov, Penza, Leningrad, Belgorod, Lipetsk regions and in Mordovia, Interfax reports . According to the 78.ru portal , searches are being carried out at Volkhov Feed Mill OJSC.

After receiving information that a resident of the Central African Republic (CAR) was tortured by the Russian military, the UN launched its own investigation. According to a UN report, a man from the city of Bambari was detained by the Russians and mocked him for five days: they cut his back with a knife and even cut off his little finger, writes Daily Mail . The report, dated January 15, is accompanied by photographs showing scars on the man's back and his mutilated arm.

A group of State Duma deputies, including United Russia Anatoly Vyborny, introduced amendments on a multiple increase in fines for spreading fake news and insulting state symbols. We got acquainted with the document in TASS . So, for the dissemination of false information, citizens will face a fine in the amount of 30 thousand to 100 thousand rubles. (in the original version of the bill it was from 3 thousand to 5 thousand rubles), to officials - from 60 thousand to 200 thousand rubles.

NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller said that in Europe, in response to Russia's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), there are no plans to deploy new ground-based nuclear weapons systems.