The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow examined the administrative case of the director of the Fund for the Combation of the Corruption of Roman Rubanov. He was detained late in the evening of February 19 at Sheremetyevo Airport and taken to the police station. A protocol was drawn up on Rubanova on a violation of the rules for organizing mass events-due to the action on January 28 in support of the "voter strikes". The judge decided to arrest Roman Rubanov for 10 days .

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Roman Rubanov The director of the Corruption Fund Roman Rubanov on the evening of February 19 was detained at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo on suspicion of organizing the action in support of the "voter strikes" on January 28. This was written on Twitter by the head of the Federal Staff of Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov.

Rakhmat Akilov at a court session in Stockholm, February 14, 2017 The citizen of Uzbekistan, who committed the attack in Stockholm, Rakhmat Akilov pleaded guilty. At a meeting of the Swedish court, he stated that he had a deliberate collision with passers -by with the aim of murder in order to “contribute to support” of the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to Akilov, he wanted Sweden to stop sending soldiers and money to fight the IG.

Roman Rubanov The director of the Corruption (FBK) Fund Roman Rubanov drew up a protocol on an administrative offense for organizing an unauthorized rally on January 28. This was reported to Interfax by the lawyer of the fund Ivan Zhdanov. Rubanov was detained the night before at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo and delivered to the police department, where he is still located. In Sheremetyevo, 7 police officers detained me. They say organized some kind of inconsistency event.

The episode of hostilities in Africa, February 19, 2018 Syrian state television showed a report on the entry into Afrin of Proper Forces. The Afrin region in the north of Syria is controlled by Kurdish detachments. The report says that the actions of the troops faithful to Assad are aimed at fighting the Turkish army fighting in Africa against the Kurds. According to Reuters, the Syrian units in camouflage demonstrate state flags, soldiers wave their weapons.

In Chelyabinsk, after a police visit, three activists disappeared. This was reported by the publication "Mediazon". The names of two missing are not called, but it is known that this is an anarchist and his friend. The third disappeared - activist Dmitry Semenov. He helped the Ukrainian anarchist Alexander Kolchenko convicted in Russia in the case of the Crimean Terrorists.

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The diplomats of the European Union intend to extend sanctions against the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, but to abandon the sanctions imposed on his two partners - one of which was a trusted owner of real estate near Kiev, who became a symbol of abuse of the Yanukovych authorities after he was suspended from power in 2014.

The representative of the Russian Embassy in Washington, commenting on the registration by a foreign agent of RIA Global, which produces content for the Sputnik news agency, said the US journalists are worsening in the United States. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

Jared Kushner Special prosecutor Robert Müller expanded the scope of the investigation of the son -in -law of the US President and his closest adviser Jared Kushner. This was reported by CNN TV channel with reference to informed sources. Muller is currently interested not only in Kushner’s political and financial contacts with Russia, but also his negotiations with foreign businessmen, including from China and Qatar, after Trump’s victory in the elections. Mobile application Radio Liberty.

Four years ago, on February 20, 2014, during mass protests in Kyiv, disagreements with the decision of the Ukrainian authorities not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union took place of dozens of demonstrators. Despite the fact that a lot of time has passed since then, so far none of those who pressed the trigger have been convicted, and high -ranking officials of that time, the main defendants in the so -called affairs of Euromaidan, are on the run in Russia.

Ksenia Sobchak at a press conference in Moscow called the sponsors of her election campaign. These are businessmen Vladimir Palikhat, Alexander Roslyakov, Sergey Adonyev, Vadim and Yana Raskovalovs, Anatoly Tsybulevsky, as well as Alexander Fedotov. Sobchak noted that this is not a complete list of her sponsors, but only those entrepreneurs who agreed to be publicly named. How much sponsors donated, Sobchak did not specify.

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