The Russian activist Valentina Likhoshva was awarded the Torvald Stoltenberg Award. This has just been announced at the Kirkeness Conference, which is a key forum of international policy in the Barents Region. This year the conference is online. Valentina Likhoshva. Photo: Tatyana Britskaya / "New Gazeta" The award is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of dialogue in the Arctic and is considered the main international award awarded in the Barents region.

The environmental organization Greenpeace appealed to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Igor Krasnov, with a demand to check the Kozelsky landfill for pesticides and pesticides in Kamchatka for compliance with environmental legislation. The appeal is published on the website of the organization.

The Prosecutor General’s Office, during a scheduled inspection of the work of the Russian Environmental Operator (REO) and its founder, the Ministry of Natural Resources for 2019–2020, “revealed numerous violations of federal law.” It is reported by RBC with reference to documents. The agency found a two-fold excess of expenses for salaries of REO in 2019. According to the publication, 146.6 million rubles were spent on salaries in the REO instead of the agreed 79.45 million rubles.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Anton Khodko, a former investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to eight years in prison in the case of embezzlement of 50 million rubles from material evidence (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the telegram channel of the press service of the capital's courts.

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill that allows the Central Election Commission and regional commissions to require Roskomnadzor to block materials produced in violation of election law. “We are talking about planned, funded campaigning campaigns that were not paid for from the candidate’s electoral fund,” commented Maya Grishina, CEC secretary, on the bill.

The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in the Tyumen region conducted an audit after the publication of a video of the abuse of a prisoner. It is reported by the Internet portal 72.ru “No illegal actions were committed against convicts in the correctional facility. The participants in the shooting explained that the recording was made to prank a friend, ”commented the press service of the department.

Hermitage experts will conduct laboratory studies of new items from the exhibition "Faberge - Jeweler of the Imperial Court" after reports of fake exhibits. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky. “Now the center’s laboratory has been instructed to investigate the history of the new Faberge items that we presented at the exhibition, we have the owner’s permission for this,” Piotrovsky said.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation is not the body that should give an ECHR a response to the requirement to “free Navalny” Consideration of the appeal in the case of the detentions of Alexei Navalny in the European Court of Human Rights, 2018.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) will check complaints about price increases for Uber and Yandex.Taxi services in Moscow and the Moscow region. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the department for regulating communications and information technologies of the department, Elena Zayeva. The FAS said that the share of Yandex.Taxi and Uber in Moscow and the Moscow Region exceeds 50%.

Cyril successors began the correspondence campaign, lobbying for the canonization of two ideologically different church figures Photo: RIA Novosti The symbolic day - the cathedral of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian, who suffered from the Bogoborian power - chose the Pskov Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) to announce his historical initiative. This year, the cathedral was celebrated on February 7, and Tikhon served in the Pskov-Pechora Monastery.

In Syktyvkar, an elderly member of the rally died after the visit of the security forces Vladimir Baev. Photo: Dmitry Stepanovsky / 7x7 In Syktyvkar, three days after the visit of the police, pensioner Vladimir Baev died, who participated in promotions in support of political prisoners on January 23. The man - disabled person of the II group was 75 years old.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow upheld the decision of the RUDN leadership to expel activist Pavel Krisevich as legal. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest" with reference to the lawyer Tatiana Sustina. In November last year, near the FSB building, Krisevich staged a rally “in support of political prisoners” in the image of Jesus Christ: he was hung on a cross, doused with liquid and “set on fire”, throwing volumes of criminal cases into the fire.

In Minsk, the trial of Viktor Babariko began Photo: tut.by The trial of the presidential candidate and the former head of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko had just begun, and the general prosecutor of Belarus Andrei Swede has already commented: "A huge array of convincing evidence was collected that this is absolutely corruption - the criminalism of pure, no less, no less." At this time, Babariko had just sat on a bench in the cage of the courtroom.

We talk about the Stalinist repressions, which now and then offer to repeat. Video With each brutally dispersed rally, a night search and criminal case against civilians, a comparison is increasingly sounding with 1937. Comparison, of course, is exaggerated. But the big terror did not begin immediately.

The final essay was transferred to April, and it would be better to completely cancel. Why do you need a double exam Photo: Yuri Belinsky / TASS Since the 2014/15 academic year, the final essay serves as a admission to the exam. In this academic year, the pandemic made its amendments on the final tests: the essay was postponed from December to April. But graduates are not at all happy with such a turn of affairs.