Picket in memory of Boris Nemtsov (Irkutsk, February 28, 2016) In Irkutsk time, he died on February 28 In the center of Irkutsk, civilian activists and representatives of political parties in the extra -parliamentary opposition held a rally in the memory of the politician Boris Nemtsov, since in the Irkutsk time he died on February 28. As the correspondent of Radio Liberty Ekaterina Vertinskaya reports, about forty people gathered for a picket on a pedestrian street of Uritsky.

In New York, at the building of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation, more than fifty people honored Boris Nemtsov’s memory with a minute of silence. The participant of the action curator of the Russian program in the Central Brooklyn library Alla Roilans brought a book in which everyone could leave the message of the mother Boris Nemtsova Dina Yakovlevna Aidman.

A fragment of a photo from an exhibition at the American Academy, Rome, 2014 The literary community is against the death sentence in Riyadh and antipolis censorship in Russia Readings in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayyad in Moscow (Sakharovsky Center) and in St. Petersburg (bookstore "Words Order"). Readings in protest against the arrest of the book of Polish publicist Yan Novaka-Searani and solidarity with Poland.

Grigory Yavlinsky performs at the Yabloko Congress (February 28, 2016) Independent politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov and Dmitry Gudkov proposed to nominate Yavlinsky as a single candidate from democratic forces "Yabloko" nominated Grigory Yavlinsky as a candidate for the post of president of Russia in the 2018 election .

Hillary Clinton and became the leader of the presidential race among the democrats The applicant for nomination for the president of the United States from the Democratic Party, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the primaries in the state of South Carolina . Having ahead of the chief opponent - Senator from the state of Vermont Bernie Sanders, she became the leader of the presidential race among the Democrats . Among the Republicans, billionaire Donald Trump leads.

About new standards for children with limited health and probability of their implementation Tamara Lyalenkova : Today we will talk about new federal standards for students with developmental features.

Blockchain: elections in Ukraine, citizenship in Estonia and Zevok German Gref Speaking at a business breakfast as part of the economic forum in Davos in January of this year, the head of Sberbank German Gref said : "Dear friends, I want to tell you that it is very important for us not to miss this." Gref spoke of a new technology that could become the largest revolution in the information sphere since the invention of the Internet, about the blockchain.

At least 40 people died in Somalia as a result of a double explosion in the city of Baidoa. It is reported that explosive devices have acted in suicide terrorist. The first device exploded in a car that was at the intersection, the second in a nearby restaurant. The police representative told Reuters that there were many people in the restaurant, so the number of victims could increase. He also added that another 25 people were injured.

Last Friday, Vladimir Putin, by his decrees, dismissed the chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev and appointed Sergey Gorkov to this position. On the same day, the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said : the VEB or, as it is also called, the State Corporation "Bank for Development" will receive 150 billion rubles from the budget for its pre -capitalization this year. The amount of the current times for the budget is very sensitive, although for saving the VEB is clearly insufficient.

Clement Slakonia In the song, on behalf of Putin, Slakonia sings how great it is to be the president of the largest country The Slovenian singer, actor and parodist Clement Slakonia performed a song about Russian President Vladimir Putin at the national selection for Eurovision 2016 in Slovenia. According to the online publication of Snob.ru with reference to Slovenske Novice , Slakonia conducted a national selection for Eurovision, which was held in Ljubljana on Saturday.

Building of the Severnaya mine administration in Vorkuta A three -day mourning has been announced in the Republic of Komi In Vorkuta at the Severnaya mine as a result of three explosions from February 25 to 28, 36 people were killed , another 14 were injured. After the third explosion that occurred on Sunday night, the technical director of Vorkutangol said that 26 miners, 26 missing miners on February 25, could not survive.

The "family" metaphor is equally important for both Russian and Ukrainian mentality, but the place of the chapter (head) in it is different. In the Russian version, citizens, subjects - the children of the king, the boss, are in his power, he is their "father's father." In the Ukrainian version, the boss is only the son of the people, and to decide people in a family, to flog him, to expel or bless it.

Literary solidarity. Readings in support of the Palestinian Ashraf Fayyad and in protest against the arrest of the book of Polish publicist Yan Novak-Yerandsky. Poets Evgenia Lavat, Maria Galina, Arkady Shtypel, Dina Gatina, Julius Gugolev, Tatyana Shcherbina, Gennady Kanevsky, German Lukomnikov, Sergea Stratanovsky, Valery Skobla, Tatyana Voltskaya. David Raskin, historian, poet. Konstantin Azadovsky, literary critic. Tatyana Kosinova, publisher.

Alexander Vuchich (more precisely, its silhouette) next to the flag of NATO The convergence of Serbia with NATO: reality or fiction of Russian propaganda? Will Belgrade get closer to NATO, inevitably dooming himself to the reproaches and wrath of Moscow? This question has become one of the points of the election polemic in Serbia, where this spring early parliamentary elections will be held .

The bombed Syrian city of Ash Shatadi (Khasaka Province) But in general, the parties state, the ceasefire is respected The Syrian opposition said that she would observe a truce, despite 15 violations of the ceasefire from Russia. The press secretary of the high negotiation council Salim al-Muslax expressed his intention to appeal to the UN and the country of the peace process in Syria on the actions of Russia, which inflicted several airstrikes in the area of the city of Aleppo.