State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin believes that in Russia a law is needed to protect the honor and dignity of the president. He stated this at a meeting at the Innopolis University in Tatarstan, answering the question of one of the students who drew attention to "Informationol" (quote) to Vladimir Putin. Volodin referred to international experience that such laws are not just necessary, they are everywhere.

Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Lyubimov The temporarily acting governor of the Ryazan region was appointed State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Nikolai Lyubimov. The corresponding decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin website. The former head of the Ryazan region Oleg Kovalev resigned earlier on Tuesday. He worked for the post of governor for nine years.

This forensic architectural model of the hospital allows you to restore in detail the picture of the systematic destruction of a medical institution on the territory of the Syrian rebels. The study was prepared for the report of the Atlantic Council "Break Aleppo"

Michael Flynn, President Trump's Assistance Assistant , announced a resignation on Monday late in the evening . President Trump did not respond to this news, but the White House handed over the resignation press signed by Flynn, in which he apologizes for the unintentional misleading of the Trump administration regarding his telephone conversation with the Russian ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak.

In Moscow, the court rejected the appeal of the extension of the arrest to Ukrainian journalist Roman Suschenko. Suschenko was detained in Moscow on September 30 last year. The Federal Security Service of Russia said that the journalist is an employee of Ukrainian intelligence, a criminal case was opened against him under an article on espionage. In Kyiv, the detention of Suschenko is called a provocation, and accusations of espionage are far -fetched.

Kuril Islands Tokyo protested Moscow in connection with the appropriation of the names of five previously nameless islands of the Kuril ridge. “This is unacceptable and contradicting the position of Japan,” the representative of the Japanese government said in a statement. This was reported by Kyodo . At the same time, Tokyo hopes that this “should not affect” the course of negotiations on the conclusion of a peace treaty.

FSB detention, archive photo The court extended the arrest of the employee of the FSB Information Security Center Sergey Mikhailov, his subordinate Dmitry Dokuchaev and an employee of the investigation department of computer incidents of the Kaspersky laboratory of Ruslan Stoyanov. This was stated by the lawyer of one of the arrested Ivan Pavlov. All three are accused of state treason. Pavlov did not specify how long the arrest was extended.

Archive photo In Saratov, a criminal case was opened against a local resident for a commentary on the VKontakte social network, which, according to investigators, offends representatives of the Russian nation and the persons of the Vatniki group. This was announced on Twitter by human rights activist Pavel Chikov. In Saratov, the Investigative Committee sent the case to the court under Article 282 - a humiliation of the dignity of the social group "Watniki". No Kidding!

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Vladimir Putin during a visit to Hungary. Early February 2017 The leader is not eternal, is the regime stable? Ilya Yashin discusses with Sergey Markov Today, the guest of the program "Facial to the event" is one of the leaders of the Movement "Solidarity" Ilya Yashin . His opponent is a member of the Public Chamber, a political scientist, a former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from United Russia Sergey Markov .

President of Putin President Dmitry Peskov repeatedly argued that the issue of sanctions was not at all the subject of the conversation of Flynn and Kislyak. Today he refused to comment on Flynn's resignation.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer US President Donald Trump made it clear that the Russian government should “return” the occupied Crimea and abandon violence in eastern Ukraine, where, with the support of Russia, separatists are fighting against government forces for almost three years. This was stated by the press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer. According to Spice, Trump adheres to an “incredibly hard line” in relation to Moscow.

The Great British government did not support the petition with a call to cancel the state visit of US President Donald Trump to the United Kingdom. The government said that they respect the views set forth in the petition, the BBC reports, but still waiting for Trump in the UK. The petition was signed by more than 1.8 million people. It says that Trump's visit will put the queen Elizabeth II in an awkward position.

Episode of protests in Bucharest, February 13, 2017 The Parliament of Romania decided to hold a referendum regarding the role of society in the fight against corruption. There is no accurate formulation of the issue for the referend yet, its date is also not scheduled. According to the law, the referendum should be preceded by a campaign for which a period of one month is assigned.

The fate of Little Aiman changed several times after Islamic militants attacked the village of Yezidov two years ago in Iraq