Putin and Lukashenko talked in Sochi *** hockey player Panarin, who supported Navalny, accused the girl’s beating almost 10 years ago *** 77 years of deportation of Chechens and Ingush

My neighbor Jonathan does not have a university diploma, but he is a well -read person, albeit little interested in international affairs, if they do not directly affect British interests. Writing off The Times , he, as a rule, only diagonally runs through the pages of world news. Therefore, I was surprised when the other day Jonathan turned to me with an unexpected request: to teach him to correctly pronounce the name "patient-philrants".

Russian federal and state media fell against the Russian star of the American National Hockey League Artemy Panarin. The beginning of this campaign was laid by hockey coach Andrei Nazarov, who accused Panarin of beating a girl at the Riga Ragistan Radisson Hotel in 2011. The accusations followed Panarin’s post in support of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

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But as for them to Alexander Lukashenko, when you can ski with Vladimir Putin!

The EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Monday came to the conclusion that Russia is not interested in cooperation with the European Union, and the Russian authorities lead the country on the way to authoritarianism. This was stated by the head of the EU foreign policy, Josep Borrel, following a meeting, at which the possible reaction to the persecution of oppositionist Alexei Navalny and the rigid suppression of the protest of his supporters was discussed in Russia.

Alexander Lukashenko is trying to demonstrate confidence. But will this help him in communicating with Vladimir Putin - has the situation in the dialogue of Moscow and Minsk changed? Vitaly Portnikov is talking with the Belarusian political scientist Pavel Usov and Ukrainian political scientist Evgeny Magda.

Activists of the Freaks in Pics art group decided in their own way to congratulate the ministers of the order on February 23 and hung a banner with the inscription "Protect your homeland, not the regime!". The banner was placed over the third transport ring - near the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. "The day of the defender of the Fatherland is considered the holiday of men who took part in the defense of the homeland.

A five-day mourning has been declared in the United States in memory of those who died from Covid-19

Detention in Yerevan on February 23 In the capital of Armenia, about 60 people, according to the latest data, were detained on Tuesday during the opposition campaign. In the morning, protesters against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gathered in the government quarter. Numerous police forces cordoned off several buildings and began to detain the most active demonstrators.

International human rights organization Amnesty International canceled the decision to recognize the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who is in custody, a “prisoner of conscience”. As the manager of the Organization for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Alexander Artemyev, told the Mediazona, the decision to cancel it was made after the legal and political departments of Amnesty International studied the statements of the Navalny mid-2000s and found “rhetoric of hatred” in them.