Deputies with the filing of Alexander Lebedev discussed the fight against illegal financial practices Photo: RIA Novosti On February 21, a peculiar literary debate was held in the State Duma on the books of our colleague Alexander Lebedev.

As participants in the events in the Crimea and in the Donbass lost curators, money and freedom Chapter "Raccoon Corp." Roman Telenkevich and Alexander Borodai A series of five years begins: first Maidan, then Crimea, then Donbass. Officially, Russia took part only in “ensuring security during the referendum” on the peninsula. But, of course, there was also a “unofficial” part of the work that “patriotic businessmen” financed, and carried out members of various military-patriotic organizations.

The meat of animals who died from an unknown disease on farms of the Krasnodar Territory goes for sale. The authorities are silent Dead cows For eight months in the Kurganinsky and Caucasian districts of the Krasnodar Territory, coarse cattle have been massively sick and die from an unknown disease. Quarantine on "infected" farms has not yet been declared. What animals die from and whether the disease is dangerous for people is not established. Milk received from sick cows goes to sale.

Olga Shumyatskaya would be glad that her thoughts, smile, breath were preserved in the memory of people who will read the book of her poems Photo: "New Gazeta" In Ole Shumyatskaya, two qualities, especially valued by me in the writer: talent and modesty, intertwined, intertwined and glued to each other. Separately, they are often found. Together - very rarely. So rarely that they gain the status of jewel.

The mother of a girl who died of dehydration in Kirov in a locked apartment was arrested for two months, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia for the Kirov region. The department noted that the woman could face life imprisonment. The agency reports that the body of a three-year-old girl was found by a grandmother who came to congratulate her granddaughter on her birthday on February 20.

“Zenit” and “Krasnodar”, having defeated the sum of two matches of Istanbuls and Leverkuzins, continue their European Cup voyage Photo: RIA Novosti Only two Russian clubs, following the results of last year's autumn battles, made their way to the playoffs of the Europa League, receiving the rivals of Fenerbahce and Bayer. “Only one of two will fall in the 1/8 finals,” the experts said. But the result was doubly joyful. True, there was no luck.

The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Irkutsk Region has stopped investigating the case of police torture of Marina Ruzaeva, a mother of many children from the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye, the reports Public Verdict Foundation . This is the fourth termination of the case. Pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Samoilov, as well as two operational officers, Alexander Korbut and Stanislav Golchenko, were accused of the crime.

Confrontation in Kyiv through the eyes of photojournalists of "new" 5 years ago - February 22, 2014 - it became completely clear: Euromaidan won. Government buildings were controlled by protesters, Maidan self -defense units occupied the residence of Viktor Yanukovych “Mezhigorye” and did not find the current president there.

Rosneft demanded that the editors of the Italian newspaper La Stampa "immediately" refute the information about involvement in the financing of the election campaign of the right-wing political party "League of the North". According to the company's press service, the information published in the material is not true and "is a lie aimed at damaging business reputation." In case of refusal to refute the published data, Rosneft intends to defend its rights in court.

UPDATED The National Administration of Penitentiary Institutions of Moldova stated that the information about the attack on Platon is erroneous.& Businessman Veaceslav Platon, who is serving time in prison No. 13 in Chisinau, could have been stabbed on the night of February 21-22. This was told to the Moldovan publication Jurnal.md by Plato's lawyer Alexander Botnariuc.

In Cairo, they found four of the five people detained in August last year in Cairo, the fate of which has not been heard since. They are in prison "Torah". This was told to Novaya Gazeta by the wife of one of the detainees, Khadishat Pugoeva, on the eve of the incident, reported . Kavkaz.Realii The publication notes that Ismail Chemurziev, Ilez Aushev, Ali Dzeytov and Ramazan Pliev are accused of involvement in extremist activities.

The Department of the Federal Security Service in the Republic of Crimea opened a criminal case on the forcible seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code) against eight defendants in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) from Bakhchisaray. Prior to this, they had already been accused of participating in a banned organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Dmitry Skurikhin, an Open Russia activist, for three days for participating in an uncoordinated “March of Maternal Wrath” (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the movement reported on its Telegram channel . The court session was held without a defense counsel. According to the authors of the channel, this happened due to the fact that the court was reported at the last moment.

The Investigative Committee (IC) for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug has begun checking reports of torture of Jehovah's Witnesses (an extremist organization banned in Russia) detained in Surgut. “We still have no official statements about torture. But, given the excitement that arose after the publication of this information in the media, it was decided to conduct a pre-investigation check, ” told Interfax.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to work out a ban on cages and transparent fences (“aquariums”) in courtrooms by April 1. In July 2018, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko demanded that the building envelope be removed from the courts. In her opinion, exceptions can be made only for especially dangerous criminals.