Among the dead in Syria, the participants of the hoisted formation of Wagner was a resident of the village of Krylovskaya Krasnodar Territory Oleg Tereshchenko. This information was confirmed by the four of his acquaintances Ekhu . Prior to this, the media established the names of at least eight “Wagnerians” who died in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor during the strike of the US coalition on February 7.

Nikita Tregubov became the silver medalist of the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang in Skeleton competitions, the Russian Bobsley Federation reports . The first place was taken by the South Korean Yun Sun Bin from South Korea, and the third - the British Dominic Parsons. “Nikita - well done, he spent all four races stably in time and, due to this stability, took the second place.

The prosecution asked the court to appoint 10 years in a colony of maximum regime by criminal authority Zakharia Kalashov, by Sharko Young. This was reported by the Moscow Agency. Also, the prosecution asked Kalashov a fine of 700 thousand rubles. Kalashov is accused of extorting money from the owner of the Moscow restaurant Elements Jeanne Kim, as well as the entrepreneur Lev Garamov. In total, 14 people are held in the case of two extortions.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Svetlana Petrenko said that the data of the parametric and speech recorders of the An-148 aircraft, which crashed in the Moscow region on February 11, was introduced to the criminal case. According to Kommersant , Petrenko refused to discuss the content of the recording of a speech recorder, referring to the secret of the investigation.

The burial of a woman who holds the baby in her arms was found by archaeologists at the city of Nyivegin in the Netherlands Province of Utrecht. In the vicinity of the city, archaeologists have found many traces of the Neolithic population relating to the so -called swiftterbant culture. It existed in the country in 5300 - 3400 BC. e. Representatives of this culture settled along the banks of the rivers.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation asked the Supreme Court to refuse the lawsuit of the presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak against the current president Vladimir Putin with a demand to recognize the current head of state to be illegal to the presidency. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the department.

The founder of the Magnit food stores, Sergei Galitsky, concluded a deal with VTB on the sale of a bank of 29.1% of the company's shares. Galitsky reported this at the investment forum in Sochi. According to the businessman, which RBC cites, "the impetus was that investors do not quite see the future as the founder." “I should not stand across the process if investors want changes, they must get them,” said Galitsky. He added that the amount of the transaction amounted to 138 billion rubles.

The site of the sports arbitration court (CAS) published motivating parts of decisions to prevent Russian athletes for games in Pyeongchang. In the decision ( .pdf ) according to Pavel Kulizhnikov, Denis Yuskova, Alexander Loginov, Irina Starykh, Tatyana Borodulina and Dmitry Vasiliev, it is said that the CAS exit panel is authorized to consider only those disputes that arose no earlier than 10 days before the Games or during the Olympics (that is, after January 30).

"Kommersant" in the article "Hackers will be taken into account in capital" writes that cybersecurity adjusts banking standards. “ Tourists moved to regular flights”: the share of charter transportation in organized tours has decreased. “Factory was built by design financing”: infrastructure is being developed at the forum in Sochi. "Vedomosti": " Who makes money on the supply of wagons and buses to Moscow." The capital spent 175 billion rubles to update public transport under Sobyanin.

Russian skeletonist Nikita Tregubov became the silver medalist of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. Another, seventh in a row, the medal of the Russian team was won by the skier Denis Spitsov. There were other victories during the day. In an informal general medal standings, Russia took 13th place in the morning of February 16, and during the day it moved to the 15th. The first is still Germany: it has 15 medals, including nine gold, two silver and four bronze.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor) suspended the license of the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino. This was reported on the website of the department. A license of the Podolsk Social and Sports Institute was also suspended. In addition, for non -fulfillment of the regulations of Rosobrnadzor, admission to the Smolensk State Institute of Arts is prohibited.

The State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading the bill of the Supreme Court on the allocation of cassation and appeal courts into a separate structure. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. The draft law proposes to divide the country into nine judicial cassation districts with centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Kaluga, Kazan, Kemerovo, Pyatigorsk, Perm and Vladivostok.

Norwegian Anders Breivik, convicted of two terrorist attacks, wrote a letter to prison authorities in which he declared his remorse for his actions for the first time. As a result of his actions, 77 people were killed and 150 were injured, recalls the publication Verdens Gang . In his message, Breivik renounced nationalist ideology and said that he would have done anything to ensure that the events of seven years ago never happened.

After the deaths of Russian fighters from the airstrikes of the United States, the English -speaking media again became interested in the theme of Russian private military companies. The previous surge in interest took place last fall. Now commentators are most occupied by associations with the Cold War, inspired by these news.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the legal registration of the current President Vladimir Putin in the presidential election that will be held in March this year, TASS reports. The registration of Putin was disputed by the candidate for the elections of Ksenia Sobchak. In her opinion, the CEC did not have the right to register Putin, since he already held the post of president established by the Constitution “Two terms in a row”. Sobchak said she would appeal this decision.