In Russia - the new Black Monday. What happens to banks during a crisis Due to the war in Ukraine, the largest collapse in the history of shares in Russia, which is called the new “Black Monday”, occurred in Russia. Euro and dollar courses for the ruble reached historical maximums on Forex. The Central Bank increased the key rate more than half - from 9.5 to a record 20 %. In the near future, the government will present a plan of economics support measures.

In the Pokrovskaya IK-2, the sixth day of the meeting of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow in the case of Alexei Navalny , the accused, in particular, of fraud in the collection of money for the activities of the FBK (the Fund was recognized as an extremist organization). The broadcast is conducted by the Mediazon .

In Russia there is a system that is able to replace SWIFT, said the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina. According to her, thanks to this system, "financial infrastructure will work uninterruptedly." Elvira Nabiullina The head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation - We have our own system for transmitting financial messages (SPFS), which can replace SWIFT inside the country. Participants from abroad can join it.

The EU official magazine has published a new sanctions list. A press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, as well as Igor Sechin (Rosneft), Alisher Usmanova (Metalloinvest ", Mail.ru Group, Megafon), Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven (Alfa Groups) and other representatives of Russian business delits were introduced into it. The list includes TV presenters and journalists - Arkady Mamontov, Anton Krasovsky, Roman Babayan, Olga Skabeeva.

In the evening the day before, February 27, there was an unusual cluster of aircraft over St. Petersburg. The reader of Paper said that she saw in the sky several white stripes in the Grodno Lane. Readers of Fontanka observed aircraft in the area of ​​avenue of aircraft designers, Moscow gates and on Vasilyevsky Island. “Most of the objects flew out of the Gulf of Finland and flew towards the island and above it. About 25 objects in 30-40 minutes.

The Ukrainian authorities said that two Russian soldiers from the Leningrad region were captured. (In the published video, two young people in the form report that they serve in the military unit 02511 - it is located in the village of Kamenka near Vyborg. One of them is Gavrilovich Roman Aleksandrovich - says that he was forced to go to the war to Ukraine. The second - Vorobyov Denis (Vadim) Valerievich - agrees to fight on the side of Ukraine.

For four days in a row, anti -war shares were held at the Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg, and many inscriptions and stickers directed against hostilities appeared in the city center. City institutions make anti -war calls, and representatives of bookstores, restaurants, universities and charitable organizations sign open letters. Petersburgers also participate in charity initiatives, collecting humanitarian aid for forced immigrants.

More than 1 million people signed a petition against the war in Ukraine, published on the Change.org website. The authors of the petition require immediate ceasefire by the Russian army. “We consider all who made a decision on the beginning of hostilities in the east of Ukraine as military criminals,” the document says. The full text can be read at this link . The next purpose of the petition is to collect 1.5 million signatures.

Representatives of the Russian gastronomic industry published an open letter against the war in Ukraine. On his Facebook, this appeal was placed by journalist Dmitry Terozhny. “We know for sure that the Russian and Ukrainian people have nothing to share. Borsch and cutlets in Kiev-this is our common property as Gogol and Shevchenko. We ask all the persons responsible for making decisions, as soon as possible to stop the fratricidal war, ”the letter says.

The Petersburg "Yabloko" announced the intention to hold a rally of the memory of Boris Nemtsov. The party also applied for an anti -war rally. The Federal Yabloko on Twitter stated that the anti-war action in St. Petersburg was agreed on March 2, but the press service of the Petersburg branch of the Paper Party reported that they were still waiting for approval.

Russian athletes were removed from almost all world tournaments - a list of sanctions. Updated Here are what sanctions in the field of sports were introduced in relation to Russia because of the war in Ukraine: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) called on international sports federations to transfer or cancel all competitions planned in the territories of Russia and Belarus.

The euro and dollar courses for the ruble reached historical maximums in the Forex interbank market. This follows from Bloomberg data. At the peak, the euro amounted to 132.8 rubles, the dollar reached 117.8 rubles. At the opening of the main trading session of the Mosbirzhi, the dollar and the euro reached the installed ceiling of foreign exchange rates: 90 rubles per dollar and 101.19 rubles per euro. This is a historical maximum.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on retaliatory measures to the sanctions of the West - they relate to currency operations Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the measures of “impact (counteraction)” to the “unfriendly actions” of the United States and other foreign states, according to the Kremlin website. "Paper" retells the main thing. Exporters are required to sell 80 % of their currency revenue.

The host of the 78 channel Anna Zaslavskaya quit, as it cannot talk about the “military operation”. She reported this in her Instagram account. Zaslavskaya said that from February 28, the political program “Intervation”, whose co -hosting she was, will begin to go out without her participation. The girl clarified that the reason for her dismissal is a position on events in Ukraine.

A participant in the anti -war action on February 28 in St. Petersburg fell and lost consciousness during the detention. This was announced in his telegram channel, journalist Andrei Okun, who became an eyewitness to what happened. “The riot police warthed her, just flew, and she fell into the ground. <...> And they ***** dragged her such, unconscious! They said that they were fooling around, jerked her. She was never called an ambulance, they just *** took away, ”wrote the perch.