"Europeans are waiting for what grenade Donald Trump will be thrown into the Russian-Ukrainian pond. European diplomats will be careful and try to maintain the status quo." So the expert of the Brussels Center of Ceps Michael Emerson answered the question of Bloomberg about what the future is waiting for the sanction of the European Union against Russia this year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Alexei Tsydenov temporarily acting heads of Buryatia. This was reported on the official website of the president. Earlier on Tuesday, the governor of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn announced his early resignation. The term of powers of Nagovitsyn expires in May. In a statement by the president, he asked to use his potential in a public office.

Attention: all the opinions collected in this review only reflect a public discussion, and should not be considered readers as medical recommendations! A very resonant document was issued this week by the RAS commission to combat pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research - on Monday, a memorandum "On the pseudoscience of homeopathy" was published on the commission: Homeopathy as a type of alternative medicine has existed for more than 200 years.

In Syria, the regime of President Bashar al -Assad regularly, starting in 2011, has been committing mass killings of prisoners in the Military Prison of Cityednaya, located 30 kilometers north of Damascus. This is stated in the newly published special report of the human rights organization Amnesty International, which is commented by one of its compilers, Daine Senaan working in Beirut.

Opposition activist Mark Halperin, detained on Tuesday in the morning, was released for freedom after interrogation and is in the status of a witness. This was announced by his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina. Reportedly, a non -disclosure subscription was taken from the activist. In which case, Halperin is a witness - it is still unclear. Information that a criminal case for "extremist calls" had been instituted against him was not yet confirmed. Halperin was detained on Tuesday morning FSB officers.

About the situation with human rights in Russia - politician Konstantin Borova, journalist Alexander Ryklin, editor Maxim Tersky, volunteer of the Nemtsov - bridge memorial Andrei Margulev, legal analyst Damir Gainutdinov.

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Activist Mark Galperin in Tuesday in the morning was detained by employees of the Federal Security Service. Lawyer Sergei Badamshin said that he was taken away for interrogation in the case of public calls to carry out actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of Russia. The lawyer explained that it was excited on the fact of placing the Halperin videos recorded on Red Square, and the activist goes through it as a witness.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow placed the journalist Aigul Makhmutov, who was judged by extortion several years ago, under house arrest. The court took place on January 23, but the media became known only now. According to Novaya Gazeta , Makhmutov was registered in the apartment of the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva, but actually lives elsewhere. Due to the court ruling, she has to be under the arrest in the apartment of a human rights activist.

The campaign of the aircraft carrier cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov and the group of ships he headed in the zone of operations of Russian aerospace forces in Syria cost the Russian budget in the amount of at least seven billion rubles, RBC reports . The publication calculated the probable costs of conducting the operation based on export prices for aircraft, fuel, as well as the cost of the content of crews and equipment, which was called military experts.

US Minister of Internal Security, John Kelly, took responsibility for the very quick execution of the decree of President Donald Trump on restrictions on the entry of foreign citizens into the United States. Speaking on Tuesday at the hearing in Congress , Kelly said that he would like to postpone the introduction of the decree in order to have time to discuss him with the congressmen.

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