In Armenia, there is a new round of political crisis caused by defeat in the war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno -Karabakh. The General Staff of the country's Armed Forces demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan, he in response declared an attempt by an armed coup. The journalist of the “present time” Igor Sevryugin talked about what was happening with Armenian and Russian political scientists.

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How did the telegram of the American diplomat George Kennan 1946 become one of the most important documents about the nature of the Soviet threat? Does this document remain a source of knowledge about the Kremlin of the Putin era? Program guests are historians James Hershberg, Svetlana Savran and Sergey Radchenko.

In Pskov and Sochi, local authorities did not allow the memory of the policy of the politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed on February 27, 2015 on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge in the center of Moscow. Officials refer to measures aimed against the spread of coronavirus. In Sochi, for the first time since the murder of Nemtsov, it was denied memory shares. Officials referred to a formal mistake in the filed notice.

On Thursday evening, the American army inflicted air strikes on several objects in Syria used by two paramilitary groups supported by Iran. According to the press secretary of the Pentagon John Kirby, several buildings were destroyed as a result of the attack next to the checkpoint on the border with Iraq. Anonymous sources in the Pentagon report that these premises were used to store smuggled weapons used by the Rights.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexei Danilov Ukraine introduces a new package of sanctions - against ten citizens close to the former President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled from the country. This is the last of a series of decisions of the administration of the current Ukrainian leader in relation to persons who have ties with Russia.

Iskander complex in the exercises The day before, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, commenting on the statements of Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan about the Russian missile systems Iskander, showed the frames of the application of this complex in Syria. Conflict Intelligence Team claims that one of these personnel was hit by a national hospital in the city of Azaz in the north of Syria. CIT refers to Obretix Twitter user, whose blog is devoted to the analytics conflict in Syria.

The US Senate began investigating events on January 6, when the angry crowd of Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building. The first to the lawmakers were officials, now the former ones who were responsible for the security of the congress. See also a shaman from Qanon. As a conspiracy theory influenced American politics Despite the fact that the capture of the Capitol was on the air on the eyes of the whole of America, much remains unclear.

In relation to a policeman who hit a resident of the Leningrad region, Margarita Yudin during a protest in St. Petersburg on January 23, they will not initiate a criminal case. This was reported by "Team 29" with reference to the human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. The human rights activist demanded to hold a policeman to justice.

The writer Alexander Ilichevsky, author of the novels “Matisse”, “Persian”, “The Device of Newton” and others, tells about his experience. Laureate of the Russian Bouquer Prizes, a large book, etc. In recent years, he works as a physicist in the radio therapy department of the Jerusalem hospital. Oral novels. Five years in the profession is not a term, but there are enough impressions.

According to the February study of Levada Center, 41 percent of Russians do not want to see Vladimir Putin as president after 2024. Half of those who do not want Putin’s re -election, they say that the president has sat down, was tired of his retirement. Corruption only 8 percent of respondents explain their desire to change the head of the country. A study, questions for which were formulated jointly with “ open media” , was carried out from February 18 to 24.

Alexey Nechaev One of the largest Russian sports sites Sports.ru changed the owner. This was reported on Friday by the editors of the site. The report said that the co -owners of the site German Tkachenko (he owned 67.75% of the shares), Dmitry Navosha, Dmitry Stepanov and Yuri Dud sold their shares of Faberlic founder Alexei Nechaev.

Promotion in memory of schoolgirls stolen in Nigeria, in Abuj, in 2014 In Nigeria, hundreds of girls disappeared after the raid of a large group of armed people to school in the north of the country early in the morning of February 26. The school in the state of Zamfara was the last of the places of such mass abductions of schoolchildren who occur from time to time in the country.

Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow The Moscow authorities decided not to erect a monument on Lubyanskaya Square. Voting on the portal "Active Citizen" at the choice between the sculpture of the founder of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky and Prince Alexander Nevsky was stopped. This was announced in his blog by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. The head of the city stated that while Lubyanka would remain in its former form.

Alexey Navalny was sent to the colony. Protests in connection with his arrest are suppressed. Thousands of people were arrested or fined. The authorities continue to tighten the legislation, trampling the freedom of citizens. “ The first open clash of the national leader of Vladimir Putin with the public leader Alexei Navalny ended with a complete defeat of the latter ,” the political scientist Vladislav Inozemtsev concludes.