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Why did the permanent president of Kazakhstan need early presidential elections? Argue political analyst Arkady Dubnov, journalists Yerzhan Karabekov, Ilya Azar.

Alexey Navalny The Moscow authorities proposed to transfer the procession on March 1 from Tverskaya Street to Maryino. According to Interfax, the representative of the Solidarity movement Sergei Davidis, the city hall proposes to hold an event from the intersection of Novomaryinskaya and Belorechenskaya streets to the intersection of Lublinskaya and Port. The oppositionist considers the received proposal unacceptable and offensive.

New Prime Minister of Moldova Kirill Gaburich The Parliament of Moldova approved on Wednesday a new government led by Prime Minister-38-year-old entrepreneur Kirill Gaburich . “For” the deputies of two pro -European parties voted - liberal -democratic and democratic, as well as the Party of Communists, who declared themselves a “constructive opposition”. The opposition party of socialists and the liberal party did not support the new office.

Jan Probstein. Distributed land: a book about Russian poetry. - M.: Agraf, 2014. - 400 p. In Russian poetry - and not only the last two centuries that the book is dedicated to the author, poet, translator and literary critic Jan Probstein are interested primarily “metaphysical and existential”: living and pronouncing the foundations of being and personal existence.

The President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation Valentin Balakhnichev resigned due to another scandal with doping Snob.ru Observer Ivan Davydov writes that it is difficult for him to believe, but he has not even passed since the start of the Olympics in Sochi. Rather, it’s hard to believe that she was once at all, this Olympics. That the opening ceremony was not without a certain sophistication caused universal delight. That we followed the victories and failures of athletes.

Barack Obama acted as a sponsor of the conference to combat violent forms of extremism Washington opens a conference on the prevention of violent forms of extremism In Washington, on February 18, a conference on the prevention of violent forms of extremism opens. The sponsor of the conference, or the “summit”, as it is officially called, was the President of the United States Barack Obama.

Federica Mogherini The Supreme Representative of the European Union for International Affairs Federic Mogherini called the “obvious violation” of the ceasefire, the offensive of the separatists supported by Russia to the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve. “Separatists should stop all military operations,” Mogherini told Wednesday, shortly after the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko announced the final operation to withdraw government forces from Debaltsev .

Human rights activists, politicians, economists, figures of science and culture, concerned about the state of human rights in Russia, as well as citizens who suffered from the arbitrariness of the authorities, speak of rights and freedoms.

The Russian government allocated funds for the preparation of a sports reserve in the regions of Russia for national teams. The document on the allocation of subsidies to the constituent entities of the Federation is published on the official website of the Cabinet of Ministers . Within the framework of the state program "Development of physical culture and sports", funds in the total amount of 613.8 million rubles will be sent to the budgets of 80 regions.

NATO Secretary General performs in Riga on February 18 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking on Wednesday (February 18) before journalists at an informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Riga, said that Russia had used modern weapons in Debaltsev. According to him, the situation in the east of Ukraine is "difficult and worsening", the ceasefire is not respected.

Exactly a year ago, fierce clashes of demonstrators with police special forces began on the Kiev Maidan. Petro Poroshenko confirmed that Ukrainian troops are withdrawn from the village of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region. Today is the day of solidarity with the convicted year ago by the Kuban ecologist Evgeny Vitishko. New Year is on the lunar calendar

Secondary Minister of Defense Ursula von der Layen Sweden and Finland plan to expand their cooperation in the field of defense and create a joint naval group by 2023 to respond to an increase in tension in relations with Russia in the Baltic Sea region. Sweden Minister of Defense Peter Khaltvist believes that closer military cooperation will force a potential aggressor to be careful. He rejected the assumption that these actions could angry Russia. “In this case, this is their problem.

The Tagansky magistrate today will consider an administrative case against the Museum and the Public Center named after Andrei Sakharov. A public organization faces a fine of up to half a million rubles. The center was forcibly included in the register of foreign agents based on the results of the inspection of the Ministry of Justice, which took place in December.