The main events on February 27 Oleg Orlov put on handcuffs after the sentence is announced, photo: Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA-EFE Human rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced to 2.5 years in a colony in the case of re -“discrediting” of the army. Nikita Crane, accused of burning the Qur'an, was sentenced to 3.5 years in a colony. In the work of messengers in Russia, a mass failure occurred. The State Duma said that this happened because of Roskomnadzor.

Psychologist Marina Ivanova and priest Andrei Kordochkin understand Illustration: "New Gazeta Europe" In 2005, Putin argued that the question of the Molotov -Ribbentrop Pact was closed and it makes no sense to return to him. He referred to the decision of the Congress of People's Deputies of 1989, according to which the pact is legally insolvent and did not reflect the will of the people, being the personal agreement of Stalin and Hitler.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained Alexei Navalny's lawyer Vasily Dubkov. Sources told Novaya-Europe about this. According to preliminary data, a protocol on “violation of public order” was drawn up against Dubkov. Why exactly the lawyer was detained, Nova-Europe’s interlocutors did not specify. SOTA sources report that Dubkov was taken to the police department in Shcherbinka.

We recall Boris Nemtsov The rally participants hold portraits of the murdered Boris Nemtsov, Moscow, March 1, 2015. Photo: Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA On the night of February 27 to February 28, 2015, a politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin by six shots. He was one of the organizers of the anti -crisis march “Vesna”, scheduled for March 1 in Maryino (the authorities agreed just such a route).

Photo: Navalny ’ s team Photo: Navalny’s team Roman Vidyukov, the chief investigator in cases against Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Fund (ACF), has been promoted to deputy head of Russia’s Main Investigation Department, ACF director Ivan Zhdanov said on Tuesday.

Soldiers of the Russian sabotage and assault reconnaissance group (DSRG) “Rusich” published a video recording of the alleged execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war. The footage is available on their telegram channel. “Well done... Our campaign to destroy prisoners is bearing fruit,” the message under the video says.

Looking back at the life of Boris Nemtsov, the man who might have been president Boris Nemtsov attends an opposition rally in Moscow, June 2012. Photo: EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV Today marks nine years since Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow just outside the Kremlin walls. Since then, the bridge where Nemtsov was killed, now unofficially referred to as Nemtsov Bridge, has become an impromptu memorial to one of Russia’s most beloved opposition leaders.

Memories of the Belarusian elections that were not 30 years old Alexander Lukashenko votes in the parliamentary elections in the polling station in Minsk, Belarus, February 25, 2024.

After Telegram, YouTube and other services crashed, some blocked sites in Russia began to open without VPN. this . reports RBC For example, Twitter and Instagram began to open for users, although both social networks have been blocked in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war. At the same time, the Globalcheck service shows that the availability of these social networks is 0%. They opened using a VPN.

Yemen's Houthis have damaged four undersea internet cables between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa, Globes reports . According to the publication, the Houthis damaged the cables of AAE-1, Seacom, EIG and TGN. The attack caused major disruptions to internet communications between Europe and Asia, with the Gulf countries and India hit hardest.

Berlinal shown a Ukrainian documentary, which is based on intercepted recordings of the phone calls of Russian soldiers The road to Volchansk, a frame from the film "Peaceful people". Source: Filmscosmos.com On February 17, the premiere of the documentary film of the Ukrainian-Canadian Director Oksana Karpovich was held in the FORUM program of the Berlinale International Film Film. The official name of the film in Ukraine is “peaceful people”.

Funeral homes in Moscow have been warned against organising Alexey Navalny’s funeral, according to the late politician’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh on Tuesday. Yarmysh said that she had been informed about the effective ban by one of the mortuaries she contacted. Several other funeral agencies had told her that their premises were fully booked, Yarmysh said, adding that some had simply ended the call after hearing Navalny’s name.

this The Synod of the Ecumenical (Constantinople) Patriarchate restored priest Alexei Uminsky to the rank of archpriest, religious scholar Ksenia Luchenko reported . According to her, Uminsky will serve in one of the parishes of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Europe. In early February, Patriarch Kirill approved the decision of the church court to deprive Uminsky of the rank of archpriest.

Funeral agencies were prohibited from organizing the funeral of Alexei Navalny. According to the politician's press secretary Kira Yarmysh, one of the agencies told her about this. According to her, several other agencies said that the premises were occupied, some refused to conduct a dialogue after mentioning Navalny’s name. “Since yesterday we have been looking for a room where we can say goodbye to Alexei.

Former prisoners describe the brutal conditions of a Russian punishment cell Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova for Novaya Gazeta Europe While the circumstances around Alexey Navalny’s sudden death in an Arctic penal colony earlier this month remain unclear, the brutal conditions he experienced in the facility’s punishment cells where he spent over 300 days undoubtedly affected his health.