US President Joe Biden said that he still considers a "Russian invasion" of Ukraine likely, but, according to him, a diplomatic solution to the conflict is possible. Biden's speech was broadcast on his Twitter. Biden noted that the Russian authorities had approached him the day before with a request to continue negotiations, to which he agreed. " We must give diplomacy a chance ," the US president said.

The full speech of Alexei Navalny in a court in a new criminal case Alexei Navalny acts with a speech at a court session in the Pokrovskaya colony. Frame Today, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow at a visiting meeting in the Pokrovskaya correctional colony No. 2 began to consider a new case against Alexei Navalny. He is charged with fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and insult to the judge of Vera Akimova (part 1, part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code).

Ukraine has requested international assistance from NATO in case of "large-scale emergencies of a different nature that may affect the civilian population." This was reported on the website of the alliance. He gave a complete list of machinery and equipment that Ukraine requested, a total of 78 items. Among them are vehicles and special equipment for them, special tools and equipment, infrastructure facilities, personal protective equipment, medicines, communications equipment.

The prosecutor in the new case of politician Alexei Navalny received state protection. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Moscow City Court. “This is always done in the event of a security threat,” they specified. Today, the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow, at an off-site meeting in the Pokrovskaya correctional colony No.

The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow will hold the next off-site hearing in IK-2 Pokrov in the case of Alexei Navalny on February 21 at 10 am, Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports. The first hearing in the case of fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and insulting a judge (part 1, part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code) took place today.

The Duke of the York Prince Andrew and the American Virginia Juffre resolved a lawsuit about rape outside the trial. It is reported by The New York Times. Prince Andrew and 18-year-old Virginia Roberts (now Juffre). Photo from the archive of Virginia Juffre According to the court decision in Manhattan, the son of the British queen will pay a certain amount to the victim. Accurate payment data is not disclosed.

In Vladivostok, the Courier Delivery Club Oleg P. was removed from work for refusing to go to a 14-hour shift on the day of preparation for the funeral of the mother. He told the Novaya Gazeta about this. Oleg P. photo: social networks Delivery Club, like many other companies representing delivery services, operates through the contractor. In Vladivostok, such a contractor responsible for logistics is ICL. It was with her employee that Oleg tried to negotiate a ruin.

The websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as Privatbank and Oschadbank, were subjected to a DDoS attack. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Center for Information Security of Ukraine. At the moment, the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as Oschadbank, do not open.

The State Duma invited Putin to recognize the “DPR” and “LPR” and thereby destroy the Minsk agreements Plenary meeting of the State Duma. Photo: press service 351 Voice for the State Duma adopted an appeal to the President of Russia to recognize the self -proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR”. A project was adopted by deputies from the Communist Party, headed by Gennady Zyuganov (as we talked about in the New Year on January 21).

Representatives of the St. Petersburg police during a court hearing in the Dzerzhinsky District Court told which units worked during the protests in January 2021. It is reported by "Fontanka" with reference to the participants of the meeting. The court considered the claim of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region against the former head of Navalny's city headquarters * Irina Fatyanova.

The Voronezh garrison military court sentenced reserve captain Dmitry Prokhorov to four years probation in the case of driving Private Stepan Tsymbal to suicide. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court. Prokhorov was found guilty of abuse of office (clause “a” part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). The court did not find enough evidence that the captain's actions and the soldier's suicide were connected.

German Chancellor Olaf Sholts, following negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that if Russia recognizes the independence of the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics at the proposal of the State Duma, this will result in a violation of the Minsk agreements. “If the parliament accepts the proposal and this will become a reality, of course, this will mean a violation of the Minsk agreements.

The author of the popular Twitter account Gypsynkov, Mikhail Tsygankov, left Belarus. this . announced Andrey Strizhak, founder of the BYSOL Foundation, According to Strizhak, the blogger was able to leave Belarus with the help of the foundation's evacuation service. At the end of January, the telegram channel GUBOP, connected with the Belarusian police, published a video showing security forces breaking into Tsygankov’s apartment.

The prosecutor during the debate in the Simferopol District Court requested 11 years of a general regime colony for the freelancer of the publication “Crimea. Real”* Vladislav Esipenko in the case of the manufacture and transportation of an explosive device (ST, 223.1 of the Criminal Code, Article 222 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the publication itself. Detention of Vladislav Esipenko. Photo: TASS Esipenko will be announced on February 16.

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