On February 26, 1902, Nikolai Starostin, a legendary football player, founder of Spartak, was born. Personal business Nikolai Petrovich Starostin (1902-1996) was born in Moscow in the family of huntsmen of the Imperial Hunting Society. He was the eldest of the four brothers, each of whom later played in the Moscow Spartak. He studied at the Commercial Academy, he also learned to play football there. In 1922 he began a professional career in the Moscow Sports Society (later - Red Presnya).

In the Altai colony number five, the exemption procedure of activist Ildar Dadin began. This was reported by the Rain television channel with reference to the representative of the IK-5 leadership. According to the channel, the procedure takes from an hour to one and a half hours. In the near future, activist Ildar Dadin will be released.

Maria Blokhina Detention of Ildar Dadin Openrussia.org Opposition activist Ildar Dadin is still not free, although on February 22 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled his sentence and punishment of imprisonment for 2.5 years. At the moment, Dadin is in the correctional colony of the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai Territory.

Malaysian Health Minister Subrahmanyam Sathasivam confirmed that Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed by the VX nerve agent, the Associated Press reports . An autopsy confirmed Kim Jong Nam's death was due to "severe paralysis" caused by a highly toxic chemical known as nerve agent VX, the official said. On February 24, Malaysian police reported that Kim Jong-un's half-brother died from exposure to the nerve agent VX.

The US State Department called on Russia and militias of self-proclaimed republics of southeast of Ukraine to begin to observe the ceasefire in the Donbass, Reuters reports. “We urge Russia and the separatists to urgently begin to observe the ceasefire. You must remove all heavy weapons and give full and unhindered access to OSCE observers, ”the report said. The department also emphasizes that Washington condemns the attack on a special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine.

The Verkhovna Rada deputy from the People’s Front faction Anton Gerashchenko said Facebook on his page that a criminal case should be made against Nadezhda Savchenko after her visit to the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

The new chairman of the National Committee of the Democratic Party (NKDP) of the USA Thomas Perez said that he and his like -minded people will become the "worst nightmare" of the country's president Donald Trump. The politician wrote about this on Twitter . “Call me just Tom. But do not rejoice too much about this. Keith Alisson, I and all the democrats in our country will be your worst nightmare, ”wrote Thomas Peres addressed to Donald Trump.

The US Presidential Administration is considering the possibility of withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). This was reported by Politico with reference to two sources related to the former and current White House officials. According to the publication, the US authorities are dissatisfied with the position of the UN HRC in relation to Israel and the presence of the Council of States, supposedly violating human rights.

The presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev talked in an informal setting. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the head of the Russian state Dmitry Peskov. On February 26, the leaders of the two states spent a day at a ski resort near Alma-Ata. It is expected that on Monday Putin and Nazarbayev will hold an official meeting in the "southern capital" of Kazakhstan.

Ex-governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh returned to the Moscow SIZO Lefortovo from the hospital "Sailor Silence". This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission Eve Merkachev. According to Merkacheva, not only prison, but also invited civilian doctors examined the former head of the region in the "sailor" of the former head of the region.

The Japanese government is preparing to offer Russia a specific plan for joint economic activity in the southern Kurils. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.

In New Orleans (Louisiana), during the carnival procession of Krewe of Endymion, a truck crashed into a crowd of people in the city center. This was reported by the local publication Nola with reference to the city police. As a result of the incident, 28 people were injured. About ten more people are in serious condition, but nothing threatens their lives. In total, 21 people were hospitalized, including one child. The driver of the car was detained shortly after the incident.

In Moscow, about 800 thousand citizens and tourists took part in folk festivities dedicated to the “wide Shrovetide”. Such statistics were published by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the capital. The most popular are the sites in the city center, where the events took place throughout the last week. One of the most visited and spectacular was the so -called pancake - traditional English fun, whose participants ran to speed with pancakes right in the pans.

Ukrainian security forces hide weapons and equipment at the contact line from observers of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE SMM. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the People’s Police of the self -proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) Andrei Marochko. According to Marochko, observers of the mission did not find 140 units of weapons and equipment of Ukrainian security forces in places of storage.

The turning point in the history of doping among Russian athletes last Saturday, when the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) officially admitted that the report of an independent commission led by Richard McLaren, not enough evidence that Russian athletes violated the anti -doping rules. This follows from the open letter of the Director General of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Christophe de Cepper.