The delegation from the United States flew to Munich to calm the Europeans on the fourth point and discuss the first three Angel Merkel and Mike Pence. Photo: EPA A senior American team, which was landing on the outgoing week in Europe, tried her best to reassure the Europeans, frightened by Donald Trump's isolationist statements.

If Trump should be afraid of the conflict, then not with the liberal media, but with the intelligence community The Secret Service takes care of Trump, then still - a candidate for president of the United States.

Russia, which supplied the “vacationers” and volunteers to the Donbass, now officially recognized the passport of the self -proclaimed republics. Their owners will be able to live and work in our country Photo: TASS Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the “temporary recognition” of documents issued by the self -proclaimed republics of the “DPR” and “LPR” in Russia.

The national currency can go uphill for a long time, but the fall promises to be swift Photo: RIA Novosti Last week, the dollar exchange rate for the first time in 1.5 years broke a level of 57 rubles. The positive dynamics of the Russian currency is associated with a reduction in the level of oil production in the OPEC countries, which, according to the energy agency, is performed by about 90%.

As a desire to quickly condemn Navalny tore off the process of killing Nemtsov Temirlan Eskerkhanov. Photo: RIA Novosti On February 14, in the Moscow District Military Court - after almost a month break - the process on the murder of Boris Nemtsov continued. The process, recall, was postponed due to a hasty re-court in the Kirovles case (where the representative of the interests of Zhanna Nemtsova, lawyer Olga Mikhailov, defended Alexei Navalny).

Regions complain of a deficiency of antiretroviral drugs for HIV-infected patients. The Ministry of Health states that there are no problems with providing drugs in Russia Photo: RIA Novosti In Roszdravnadzor and the coalition, according to readiness for treatment, reports that antiretroviral drugs end in territorial AIDS centers.

The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, made an official appeal in connection with the decree of the President of Russia on the recognition of passports of the DPR and LPR at the state level. Plotnitsky said that Vladimir Putin’s decree is “another proof that the republic has taken place as a state” and that the LPR has come close to world recognition of its sovereignty.

On February 17, the most massive protest rally in recent years was in Minsk - “Marsh of Executed Belarusians” Photo: RIA Novosti Five thousand people in the October Square of Minsk - this was not in Belarus for a very long time. Perhaps, from the same on December 19, 2010, the day of the presidential election, when all presidential candidates, the leaders of their headquarters and activists were in prisons and received deadlines. Then, however, there were 50 thousand people in the square.

In Russia, the law on the protection of the president’s honor is still being discussed, and in Kazakhstan they are already being planted for unflattering words - addressed to Putin Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia, the law “On the Protection of the Honor and Dignity of the President” may be adopted. The advisability of introducing such a norm the other day was discussed by the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

In Russia, at the state level, passports are recognized that are issued to residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. The corresponding decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin is published on the Kremlin website. We are talking about passports issued to citizens of Ukraine by the authorities of the separatist-controlled republics.

The Norwegians staged a people's court over the government and said no oil production in the Arctic Photo: Tatyana Britskaya / "New Gazeta" Respectable Norwegians without any emotions expressed contempt for members of their own government, who rejected the “agenda” to the so -called “court of the century” - a performance set by Morten Trovik in border Kirkenes. “Strong employment of ministers is not a good reason for failure to appear in a people's court.

On the railway between Leuven and De Panne in Belgium, a passenger train derailed, reports . Interfax According to the National Society of Railways, about two dozen people were injured. Rescuers told . Reuters that one person died in the crash The train derailed at the exit from Leuven station. The cause of the accident has not yet been established. As seen in photographs from the scene, the train derailed and rolled onto its side.

Photo: Ivan Zhilin / "New Gazeta" On February 18, in the square near the monument to Catherine the Great in Sevastopol, a rally was held in support of the inhabitants of the Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics”. About 200 people took part in it. The event was originally positioned as “organized by ordinary citizens”, but most of the participants turned out to be members and supporters of the Communist Party.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia will not lift retaliatory sanctions against the European Union until the Minsk agreements are implemented, RIA Novosti reports . “We also want the Minsk agreements to be implemented, and we will not lift our sanctions against the European Union until the Minsk agreements are implemented, this must also be understood,” he said at the Munich Security Conference.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the improvement in the rating agency Moody's forecast for Russia's rating became possible due to the reduction of the economy's dependence on oil and gas revenues. It is reported by RIA Novosti. “We welcome Moody's decision to upgrade the outlook on Russia's sovereign credit rating from 'negative' to 'stable'.