The UK will remain in the EU. EU leaders agreed on this, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. The summit participants unanimously supported the agreement with London. “An agreement was reached to keep the UK in the EU. End of drama,” she tweeted. EU leaders have reportedly agreed to put in place a so-called "safeguard mechanism" for Britain that would allow the country to limit EU migrants' access to many social opportunities.

French President Francois Hollande spoke about the existing risk of war between Russia and Turkey due to Ankara's actions in Syria. This statement was voiced by Hollande on the air of the French radio station France Inter, reports AFP. “Türkiye is involved in Syria. There is a risk of war with Russia, which is why the UN Security Council is meeting tonight,” Hollande explained.

The film is about how Arthur Harutyunyan, a history teacher from Ryazan village of Listenikovo, first ended up abroad and tried on the life of Thomas Mayer-Bandomer, a history teacher from the Bavarian town of Starnberg. Also read the report of Nikita Girin and Anna Artemyeva.

The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the information about the violation of the Estonian air border by a Russian military helicopter, reports . Interfax “On February 18, army aviation helicopters did not fly in the specified area,” the ministry’s press service said. Earlier today, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Department said that a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was in the country's airspace for about a minute.

The head of the non-profit organization "Civil Control", recognized as a "foreign agent", Elena Shakhova was summoned to Liteiny Prospekt to the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, reports . Fontanka.Ru She was invited to a conversation with the secret service in connection with the status of the organization, Shakhova explained. This is the first time that a representative of an NGO recognized as a “foreign agent” has been asked to appear at the FSB.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, refuted the plans of the republic's leadership to issue "spiritual and moral passports" to young Chechens. The fact that this information is not true, he wrote on his Instagram. “Some mass media write that in Chechnya some new “passports” are issued to young men. I want to remind you that in our country there is only one passport - a citizen of Russia! Everything else is fiction!” Kadyrov wrote.

Employees of the Federal Drug Control Service caught a gang of drug dealers thanks to SMS messages that they sent to the personal number of the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, reports . RAPSI According to the press service of the Moscow Region, the governor received a message from an unknown subscriber with a proposal to purchase narcotic substances. Vorobyov replied that he wanted to buy drugs. “After I received a message on my phone, I instructed to buy.

The Basmanny Court dismissed Parnassus's complaints about the refusal of the investigation to recognize the party as the injured party in the case of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, reports . Interfax Thus, the court recognized as legitimate the refusal of the investigation to recognize the opposition People's Freedom Party.

Kurdish militants have claimed responsibility for the explosion in Ankara that killed 28 people, according to Reuters. Members of the PKK-affiliated Free Hawks of Kurdistan said the bombing was carried out by a 26-year-old Turkish man from the city of Van. According to the militants, the terrorist attack in the Turkish capital was revenge for the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and, in particular, for the situation in Cizre in southeastern Turkey.

The Libération newspaper and the France 24 TV channel reported that on March 1, American General Jeffrey Miller was expected in the Paris Court of Appeal. Judge Sabine Heris plans to question Miller in a case of "arbitrary confinement" and "torture" against two French citizens. The information was spread by a well-known French lawyer in Russia, William Bourdon (he, for example, helped supporters of Alexei Navalny put legal pressure on Yves Rocher).

NASA, together with the Center for the Study of Potatoes in Lima, will conduct an experiment to grow several varieties of potatoes in conditions as close as possible to Martian, according to the portal Phys.org. Scientists are going to plant about 100 varieties of potatoes in one of the most uninhabitable corners of the planet - the Atacama Desert, located in Peru. There, biologists will build a greenhouse that will maintain conditions similar to those that exist on Mars.

The city authorities excluded one trade pavilion from the list of structures recognized as unauthorized construction, reports with reference to Sergei Shogurov, head of the Moscow State Inspectorate for Real Estate. RIA Novosti The reason for this was the fact that the owner of the premises shifted all the city communications that passed through the pavilion.

The prosecutor promised to appeal the decision of the Basmanny Court, which placed Dmitry Kamenshchik, co-owner of Domodedovo Airport, under house arrest. “The prosecutor has just told me that he will appeal the court’s decision on house arrest,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the victims’ lawyer Igor Trunov. Recalling, during the court session, the prosecutor noted that he considers the charge brought against Kamenshchik, as well as the detention of the businessman, to be illegal.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow placed under house arrest until April 18, the main owner of the Domodedovo airport Dmitry Kamenchik, who was accused of a terrorist attack at the airport in 2011. During the court, the Investigative Committee (SK) withdrew the application filed on the premises of the mason under custody and asked the court to limit himself to house arrest.

Photo: Ivan Zhilin / "New Gazeta" More than a hundred residents of Bakhchisaray came to the building of the city council to demand the resignation of the mayor of the city of Yuri Gulyaev, the head of the city administration of Vladimir Verkhovod and other officials who fell on a scandalous film about the corruption of local authorities. Ten deputies responded to the request of protesters and decided to hold an extraordinary session of the City Duma.