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The United States announced on Tuesday that three Venezuelan diplomats were sent. They were given 48 hours to leave the country. The decision was a response to the expulsion of three US consulate officers from Karakas. Venezuela authorities accused Washington diplomats of recruiting participants in the presidential government of Nicholas Maduro. The United States called the accusations "unfounded." The protests have been continuing in Venezuela since February 12 .

"Anti -Maidan" in Sevastopol The Foreign Minister Lavrov promised that Russia would respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but publications appear that in private conversations, Russian delegates promise to quickly consider the request for the accession of Crimea, dissatisfied with the change of power in Kiev, to Russia.

In Ukraine, a group of intellectuals of the Lviv region has supported the Russian language.

Alexey Navalny at the building of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow Alexei Navalny, detained yesterday during an unauthorized action in support of the "prisoners of Bolotnaya" on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, was left for the night in the Tverskaya police department. The opposition wrote about this on his Twitter. He thanked everyone for his support and asked to come to court today. Navalny is accused of disobedience to the legal request of the police officer.

Mark Zuckerberg In Israel, the German newspaper Zyuddeche Tzaitung, which published a caricature of the founder of the social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was accused of anti -Semitism. Tsuckerberg is shown in the figure in the form of a long -nosed octopus, which holds computers and smartphones in his tentacles. A smiling octopus has curly hair and thick lips, a hat on his head. On the hat Facebook logo.

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Drawing Victoria Lomasco Exhibition "Draw a court - 2" will be held in the memorial in support of "Prisoners of May 6" At the exhibition “Draw the Court - 2”, court drawings are presented with socially significant processes that have passed over the past years in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The focus of the organizers is on political processes. The exposition is divided into two parts, which are conditionally called "campaign" and "historical".

Today in Georgia it is considered the anniversary of the beginning of the "Soviet occupation." President Margvelashvili laid a wreath to the Memorial of Junkers who fell in battles with units of the Soviet Army, and called on compatriots to take an example from them in the future. The day of the Soviet occupation began to be celebrated as a date of national value since 2006.

The United States confirmed their support for the desire of Georgia to join NATO and maintain their territorial integrity. This is stated in a statement by the White House, published after Monday in Washington, a meeting of US President Barack Obama with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.

Boris Nemtsov at the Tverskoye police department (Moscow, February 24, 2014) Oppositionists Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny Tverskaya Court of Moscow sentenced the ten and seven days of administrative arrest, respectively. They were accused of disobedience to the legal order of police officers. Nemtsov and Navalny - among 420 people - were detained on Monday on Manezhnaya Square, where the action took place in support of the "Prisoners of Bolotnaya" .

Fighters of special forces "Berkut" in Kyiv, February 18, 2014 The acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that 35 fighters of the Kyiv Berkut fled from the base, capturing weapons. According to him, they were frightened by the beginning of the investigation on the facts of the use of force against demonstrators in Kyiv. Avakov did not comment in more detail. Such information is transmitted by the TSN agency.

The deputies of the Icelandic Parliament - Alting - voted to stop negotiations on joining the European Union, and also refused to hold a national referendum on this issue, - reports Radio Liberty Sergey Dzhanyan. Iceland applied for EU membership in the summer of 2010 after bankruptcy of the country's largest banks, hoping in this way to straighten the catastrophic state of its economy.