The French Foreign Ministry with the ambassador from Rome "for consultations" Luigi di Mao. Photo: EPA On February 7, the French Foreign Ministry announced that he was recalling his ambassador from Italy to Paris for consultations. The reason for the diplomatic demarche: the meeting of the Italian Deputy Prime Minister with the French "yellow vests".

The third suspect in the Skripal poisoning case, known as Sergei Fedotov, was involved in the 2015 assassination attempt on Bulgarian businessman Emelyan Gebrev with Novichok-type poison. This is stated in a joint investigation by Bellingcat , The Insider and the Bulgarian newspaper Kapital .

Agnes von der Muhl, spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, said Paris would support amendments to the EU gas directive that would complicate the construction of Nord Stream 2, reported Reuters about this, citing sources . wrote . Earlier , the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung The vote of the EU countries on the issue of changing the EU Gas Directive should take place on 8 February.

The idea of ​​deputies politically justify the entry of troops into Afghanistan is an attempt to protect the right of a narrow circle of people to decide the fate of the country Photo: RIA Novosti When rumors began to appear at the end of last year that a number of people were busy with a revision of a political assessment of the decision to enter the Soviet troops into Afghanistan, I first did not attach much importance to this.

The High Court of London rejected the appeal of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska over his share in Trekhgornaya Manufactory and recognized former Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Chernukhin as the real co-owner of the company. This was reported by Forbes with reference to the decision .

The commander of US forces in Africa, General Thomas Waldhauser, said that Russia is using harsh methods to ensure security in Central Africa. His words at a hearing in the US Senate Committee on Armed Forces are quoted by RIA Novosti and Interfax .

How Dmitry Kiselev went to visit Yuri Dudu Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" At the time, it was: in the recent past, the leading on the central channels called celestials, and many were revered by the most reliable sign of success and professional viability to get to them in an interview. And now the “celestials” themselves are running at the first call of fashion bloggers, because it is prestigious and attracts young.

The observer “Echo of Moscow in Pskov” Svetlana Prokopyev was searched and interrogated from behind the column about last year's terrorist attack in the Arkhangelsk UFSB Svetlana Prokopyeva. Photo from the archive The journalist faces a prison term for a public justification of terrorism. So the investigation interpreted her author’s column, which sounded at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov and later published on the “Pskov News Tape”.

a funeral was held for 25-year-old contract soldier Maxim Pletnev, according to the website of the city administration and In the city of Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory, on February 4 , the local newspaper Tikhoretskie Vesti. He died on a mission in Syria, the administration of the Tikhoretsky district told Kommersant, as well as relatives of Pletnev himself in a conversation with the Russian service of the BBC.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol extended until April 12 the arrest of the Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov, accused of illegal acquisition, storage and transportation of explosives and ammunition (part 2 of article 222 of the Criminal Code and part 2 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code).

IT security expert comments on censorship news On February 7, the media reported two news related to restrictions in Runet. The first is that Google began to delete links to resources prohibited in Russia as part of a “constructive dialogue” with Roskomnadzor (a quote for the press service of the department). They even called the figure: 73% of the links transferred by the Guglu by the Russian regulator, the IT giant experts blocked, having previously watched almost manually.

In Russia, the law of conservation of thought crime is open and is valid Alexey Andronov / Ura.ru / TASS Colonel Kvachkov is freed from the colony in connection with the partial decriminalization of the 282 articles of the Criminal Code. At the same time, Dennis Kristensen, a citizen of Dennis, was sentenced to 6 years in prison for participating in Russia prohibited in Russia “Jehovah's Witnesses”-and on the same 282th.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed Zarina Doguzova, an employee of the press service of the presidential administration, as the new head of the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism). This was told by RBC sources, and after the information was confirmed by TASS in the press service of the Cabinet.

Parents of the Suvorov cadets infected with echinococcosis are suspected of the Ministry of Defense of concealing facts Photo: Svetlana Bobrova/TASS The military investigative department of the RF IC for the Ulyanovsk garrison opened a criminal case in connection with the outbreak of echinococcosis among students of the Ulyanovsk Guards Suvorov Military School. The diagnosis is confirmed in 26 pupils. The causative agents of the disease are larvae of one of the types of string worms-parasites.

The Investigative Committee for the Rostov Region, after media publications, will begin checking regional guardianship authorities, which took 15 children from the Pokrov social rehabilitation center near Moscow on January 30 and February 4, according to the website of the department .