The American coalition acted in "self-defense" during airstrikes on pro-government groups in Syria on February 7. This was announced by the head of the Central Command of the US Air Force, Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigan. He said that the American coalition, together with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), repelled "an unprovoked concerted attack." According to Harrigan, the enemy used artillery and tank shells, as well as multiple rocket launchers and mortars.

The state prosecutor demanded that Andrei Zakhteya, a defendant in the case of “Crimean saboteurs,” be sentenced to seven years in a strict regime colony, said on his Facebook page. Radio Liberty correspondent Anton Naumlyuk According to him, the session in the Supreme Court of Crimea was held behind closed doors. The announcement of the verdict is scheduled for February 16.

The city interdepartmental commission for the naming of territorial units, streets, metro stations, organizations and other objects of the city of Moscow refused to rename the postal address of the courtyard near the US Embassy to "North American dead end", deputy chairman of the commission Alexander Alexandrov told RIA Novosti.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has appointed the first government commissioner for gender policy. They became the head of the international women's human rights center "La Strada-Ukraine" Kateryna Levchenko, reports . Interfax “The main tasks of the government commissioner will be to coordinate work within all ministries and state bodies, to control the principle of gender equality,” wrote on her Facebook page.

The heads of the US security agencies - the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - said that American citizens should not use mobile devices from Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE, reports CNBC .

CONTINUATION Russian mercenaries injured in Syria are being treated in Russian Ministry of Defense hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Bloomberg reports , citing sources in contact with them. How many people were delivered is not specified. According to the agency, some of the victims died in hospitals. Russians injured in a massive strike in Syria by the US-led coalition on February 7 were taken to hospitals in Moscow and St.

The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, spoke about the reasons for not allowing a large number of Russian athletes to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. This is reported by TASS with reference to the bobsledder Maxim Andrianov, who was present during a conversation with the president of the organization. “Bach told us that there were special people who checked everything, for each athlete separately.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow dismissed the lawsuit filed by Muscovite Oleg Voronin against the Joint-Stock Company (JSC) TNT-Teleset, filed because of the apology of the TNT channel for an episode in the comedy show Comedy Woman about an Ingush girl. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by Voronin himself. The man demanded to recover from TNT two bitcoins, 10,000 ecu (cryptocurrency invented by Voronin himself) and 500 rubles for moral damage.

The Yalta City Court of Crimea sentenced designer Mikhail Orlov to three years in prison. He was found guilty of negligently causing the death of two patrons of the BarFly café in 2014. “The court concluded that it was Orlov who was the director of the cafe, although this fact is not confirmed either by documents or by witnesses. We will appeal the verdict,” Anna Yashina, the designer’s lawyer, told Novaya Gazeta.

Channel One, at the request of the Central Election Commission, will stop showing Oliver Stone's TV series Putin from Thursday, February 15, reports RIA Novosti . Earlier on Wednesday, the Central Election Commission suggested that the channel postpone the screening of the film until the end of voting in the presidential election.

The Moscow authorities have allowed a march in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov on 25 February. Ilya Yashin, chairman of the political council of the Solidarity movement, wrote about this on his Twitter. “The procession will start on Strastnoy and will pass along the boulevards to Sakharov Avenue,” Yashin specified.

In Krasnoyarsk, an investigator opened a case because of memes on VKontakte against 22-year-old law student Alexei Sverdlov, who had previously been an intern with him. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the human rights lawyer for Open Russia, Vladimir Vasin. Four months before the initiation of the case, Sverdlov's house was searched, after which the FSB department showed him screenshots of the page and offered to cooperate with the investigation. The student refused.

The Russian men's ice hockey team lost to the Slovakian team in the first match for the Russians at the Olympics with a score of 2:3. In the first period, Russians Vladislav Gavrikov and Kirill Kaprizov first scored goals against the opponent, but in the second half of the period, the Slovakian team equalized the score. In the second period, neither Russia nor Slovakia managed to score goals. However, in the third period, Slovak Peter Chereshnyak scored the winning goal.

Presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky showed "ordinary Russian life" Photo: Matvey Flyazhnikov / "New Gazeta" The last month before the election is an amazing time when you can go to the most cheap in the city of the Universal market and meet Grigory Yavlinsky’s counter. The bazaar opens the central part of the candidate's visit program.

In the Kolpashevsky district of Tomsk, police officers came to the call of a tenant of one of the private houses, because “something strange” was happening in the house, in particular, knives were flying. Law enforcement officers could not cope with what was happening and turned to the priests for help, reports . the city portal Tomsk.ru At about four o'clock in the afternoon on February 12, a call rang at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kolpashevsky district.