The launch of the first satellites under the OneWeb program on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana was postponed from February 19 to February 22, said on Twitter. company founder Greg Wyler The launch was postponed after the discovery of defects in the Soyuz rocket with the Fregat upper stage.

The Governor of the Vladimir Region promised before the elections that he would not allow to build a landfill for Moscow garbage. Five months later, he seems to have changed his mind Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS On February 2, a meeting of the Ecological Council under the governor of the Vladimir region was held in the city of Alexandrov. Somehow, by the way, someone Denis Kuznetsov spoke on it. The man was called the representative of the plant near Moscow.

The St. Petersburg City Court reduced from 75,000 to 15,000 rubles compensation for a lawsuit for the protection of honor from the ex-head of the Great Fatherland party, Nikolai Starikov, against Andrei Pivovarov, chairman of the Open Russia movement, the press service of the city courts . reports a lawsuit against Pivovarov Starikov filed in February last year. He disputed his Facebook post on September 13, 2017.

The investigation did not demand a measure of restraint for Svetlana Prokopyeva, a columnist for Ekho Moskvy v Pskov, limiting herself to making a commitment to appear from the journalist. Charges have not yet been brought, Prokopyeva remains in the status of a suspect. Recall that Svetlana Prokopyeva, in the recent past - the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Pskovskaya Guberniya", is charged with part 2 of Article 205.2 on the public justification of terrorism.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decided to close its field office in Moscow from March 29, said the organization in a statement. The last day to visit and accept applications will be February 28th. After that, the functions of the Moscow bureau will be performed by the division in Athens.

In Pskov, the Justice of the Peace of Court District No. 32 fined the Ekho Moskvy in Pskov radio station 150,000 rubles for statements by journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva about an explosion in the reception room of the FSB department in the Arkhangelsk region, MBKh-Media . reports The editorial office was fined under the article on abuse of freedom of the mass media ( Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), part six of which refers to the release of materials justifying terrorism.

On February 7, the film “Plant” Yuri Bykov, the author of hard social ribbons “Fool” and “Major”, is released. Shot from the film "Plant". Kinopoisk.ru "Plant" is an action -packed thriller on the eternal theme of the confrontation of the poor and the rich. Heroes are workers, and this, let's say, is very rare for modern Russian cinema. For six months, workers of the city -forming vegetable plant for the production of frames for reinforced concrete slabs live without salaries.

As a VKontakte blocking in Ukraine led to an absurd criminal case against the Perm programmer Fedor Vlasov. He faces 20 years in prison Photo: RIA Novosti For the fourth month, in the Moscow Wolodnik pre -trial detention center, the Perm programmer Fedor Vlasov, the developer of the popular mobile application Kate Mobile, which allows the use of the VKontakte social network, the owners of smartphones with a small amount of memory.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region opened a criminal case on the beating of a prisoner Furkhat Yuldashev in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in the city of Rybinsk. about this The lawyer of the Public Verdict, Eldar Luzin, spoke in the telegram channel of the fund.

In the Murmansk region, the VIP-hunters leased deer pastures and wintering places for pregnant female moose Photo: RIA Novosti Sami-a native people living in the Murmansk region-turned to the President of Russia with a demand to protect their original lands from VIP hunters. The telegram is sent to the Kremlin January 28, a copy to the governor.

sources report citing sources Several high-ranking employees of the departments of the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Karachay-Cherkessia were summoned to Moscow for interrogation in the case of the arrested Senator Rauf Arashukov, RBC and Lenta.ru . According to RBC's source, four people were summoned to the Central Office of the Investigative Committee, including the first deputy acting.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced the leader of the hacker group Yuri Lysenko to 13 years in prison for creating a criminal community and stealing money from various banks, reported RBC . Later, the representative of the injured party corrected the amount of the stolen money, which appeared in the media, by more than 10 times (from 880 million rubles to 7.3 - for more details, see "Clarification").

In Saratov, two FSB officers forced a student of the Institute of Urban Studies, Architecture and Construction of the SSTU Mikhail (last name not given) to create a patriotic page on Vkontakte. about this , he also provided the publication with recordings of conversations with alleged law enforcement officers.

A court in Naberezhnye Chelny recognized the association of football fans Avtograd Kru of the local KAMAZ team as extremist and banned it in Russia, reported . the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court Avtograd Kru has been operating since 2008 and did not have official registration. This association consisted of 15-20 people. The prosecutor's office insisted that they all adhered to right-wing nationalist views and the ideology of fascism.

On February 6, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg registered a lawsuit filed by the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Maxim Reznik against the acting head of the city Alexander Beglov, the press reports . service of the St. Petersburg courts The conflict between the deputy and the interim took place on January 23, when Alexander Beglov left the meeting of the St. Petersburg parliament, having heard criticism from Maxim Reznik, who spoke on the podium.