In St. Petersburg, the trial in the case of the publisher and the former deputy of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma Igor Rudnikov continues . He is accused of extorting 50 thousand dollars at the head of the Investigative Committee of the IC of Russia in the Kaliningrad region Viktor Ledenev. Rudnikov’s colleagues call the accusations absurd and associate the case with the fact that his publication criticized power and wrote about corruption.

How much money does Vladimir Putin have only himself know The US Congress will consider a bill ordering American intelligence to collect data on financial assets of Vladimir Putin and its allies. The document developed by the democrat Valdiz Deming and the Republic of Alice Stefanik is posted on the Deming website. According to the authors of the bill, the Russian government uses corruption to withhold power and weaken other democratic regimes.

Anna Korsun, known as Maruv In recent years, the Eurovision Contest rarely does without scandals in the post -Soviet space. In 2016, part of the Russian audience was unhappy with the song performed by the Ukrainian singer Jamala. In 2017, the reason for the new exacerbation was that Russian woman Julia Samoilova was not allowed into Kyiv (in 2018, when Samoilova fell in Lisbon, the anger of the public fell upon her).

The Moscow City Court left Michael Kalvi, the founder of the Baring Vostok Foundation, TASS reports. The entrepreneur is accused of fraud. According to investigators , Kalvi organized a fraudulent scheme for the prediction of 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. Kalvi rejects the accusations.

The head of the U.S. International Affairs Committee, Democrat Eliot Engel and Republican Senator Michael McColus, submitted a resolution on the sanctions for the murder of the Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov for consideration of the congress. According to the authors of the document , the Russian authorities hide the details of the crime.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that Jehovah Sergey Loginov, who announced torture in the building of the Investigative Committee, be sent for a medical examination of the follower of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported on the website "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia." 57-year-old Loginov is the only one of the seven who informed about the torture of the followers of the religious organization, which is under arrest.

In terms of gender equality, Russia occupies 116th place in the world. The study "Women, Business and the G.2019" was conducted by the World Bank. In total, experts analyzed the situation with women's rights in 187 countries. For evaluation, they used indicators such as wages, employment, conducting their own business, asset management, pension support, freedom of movement, as well as marriage and the presence of children.

One of the probable uniform candidates for president of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko The Ukrainian edition of Depo.ua, citing its sources, reported that several opposition politicians agreed to nominate a single presidential candidate of Ukraine, the elections of which will be held on March 31. According to the publication, this candidate will be the leader of the Civil Position party Anatoly Gritsenko.

Conference in the Vatican, February 24, 2019 “We need actions, not words,” Pope Francis asked Catholic hierarchs during the opening of a four -day conference in the Vatican, dedicated to the problem of sexual violence in relation to minors. In recent decades, this topic has become one of the most serious tests for the Catholic Church. But to the slogan "Actions, not the words" Australian justice listened faster than the Church.

The Russian Soyuz-SB launch vehicle, which launched on Thursday from the Cosmodrome Kuru in French Guiana, brought six OneWeb British company satellites to the land orbit. This was announced by the service launches by Arianespace. The British satellites brought to the calculated orbit was brought by the Frigate acceleration unit.

Reduced art object "Glory to work" in Perm In Perm, unknown people changed the art object "Glory to the work" to "Glory of the chest". The composition is located near the local Museum of Contemporary Art, whose representative announced the replacement of letters. The museum reported that they know all street artists in the city and they have suspicions who could redo the art object.

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All you need to know early in the morning of February 28 Good morning! In Karelia, the municipal deputy Igor Nekin wrote on the snowdrift “Putin, help to remove the heap”. He was immediately called to the police , but not in connection with a violation of spelling rules, as one might think, but regarding the “discrediting of power”. “Kuchya” at the same time where it was, and remained there.

Tatyana Golikova Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation “If in the 2000s the birth of the first children under the age of 25, inclusive, was 25% of all born, then in 2017-45%. The age limit of the first births moved to a piece of 26-35 years, which means that the potential of the second and subsequent births is reduced” Source: TASS Yes, but ...