Rick Gates In Washington, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered a closed hearing on Friday in the case of Rick Gates, a former assistant to President Donald Trump. This is stated in the message of the court, published on Thursday. The hearing will be devoted to the request of Gates’s lawyers that they do not want to deal with the case due to what they called "implacable contradictions." Gates was charged in October along with the former head of the campaign of Trump Paul Manafort.

One of the main events of the last week was information about the death of Russian contractors from the Wagner PMC in Syria as a result of an air strike, which was applied by the coalition, led by the United States.

The Telegram messenger launched the second secret preliminary sale of its cryptocurrency before the public placement of tokens (ICO). This was reported by The Verge with reference to four sources. According to them, accredited investors, including giants such as Sequoia Capital and Benchmark from Silicone Valley, have already received emails that notify the start of pre -sale. The amount of alleged revenue is not reported.

Dmitry Borisov was sentenced to a year of a general regime. Such a decision on Thursday was issued by the Tver District Court of Moscow. Borisov was found guilty under the article on "the application of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities." Borisov was detained in June last year. According to investigators, during the arrest at a rally on March 26 in Moscow, the activist inflicted two blows with his foot on the head of a policeman.

The Petersburger Rustam Klychev was beaten by the police, and he died. On the social network "VKontakte" he left this video show

Leonid Volkov (archive photo) The head of the Federal Staff of the opposition Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov was detained before the court. Navalny reported this on Twitter. So, Volkova was put in the cell. This means a court and arrest today. - Alexey Navalny (@navalny) February 22, 2018 Volkov is located in the Simonovsky court of Moscow. He will be judged by the fact that he retweeted a video in which they delayed Navalny on an inconsistent campaign on January 28.

Former Deputy Head of the Moscow Staff of Alexei Navalny Vitaly Seerukanov took part in the Congress of the Party of Progress and submitted documents for its registration to the Ministry of Justice. Seerukanov himself reported this on his Facebook. Information was also confirmed by political strategist Andrei Bogdanov. "Party of Progress" is the name of the party project Alexei Navalny, who, however, was deprived of registration.

The heroine of the new release of the "cult of personality" is a journalist and volunteer Victoria Ivlev. On Saturday at 18 hours 05 minutes, the author and the host - Leonid Velekhov.

On February 23, Russia celebrates the Defender of the Fatherland Day, a holiday that has remained since Soviet times. Why in Russia Putin is so appreciated by the heritage of the Soviet Empire and is the modern Russian army different from the Armed Forces of the USSR?

A resident of St. Petersburg Rustam Klychev got out of VKontakte from a police car and said that he had been beaten. Soon he died from suffocation in the police department. On the afternoon of February 21, the police detained the 34-year-old resident of St. Petersburg Rustam Klychev, who, according to the police, was drunk. Klychev published a video shot in a police car on his VKontakte page .

The film by Sergey Loznitsa "Victory Day" at the Berlin Film Festival +++ Literaryist Konstantin Azadovsky about the exhibition "Rilke and Russia"

US President Donald Trump acts on tragedy in Florida On Wednesday, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House, students of the school in Florida, where 17 people had a victim of the shot, called on the president to reform the system of sale and control of weapons in the United States.