Russia pulled about 70 percent of forces and funds necessary for a large -scale invasion of the country to the borders of Ukraine. About this with reference to not named by American officials is written by Reuters and Washington Post . According to sources of publications in American intelligence, the number of Russian battalion tactical groups near borders with Ukraine reached 83, and only a week ago there were about 60 of them. There are another 14 groups, it is claimed.

The teacher of the gymnasium No. 168 of the Central District of St. Petersburg Serafim Saprykin was forced to quit work after she read the verses of Daniil Harms and Alexander Vvedensky in a lesson for tenth graders.

The guest of the next episode of the podcast and the radio program of the Caucasus Chronicle with Mayrbek Vachagaev - Parisian historian Georgy Mamuli

The corridor on the Russian side of the border between the annexed Crimea and the rest of Ukraine Ukraine significantly weakened quarantine restrictions on the administrative border with the Crimea. Now residents of the peninsula that annexed by Russia do not need to take an express test on the Covid-19 when entering the "mainland". At the same time, the incidence of coronavirus in Crimea is growing rapidly. The authorities of Ukraine do not explain the reasons for the abolition of testing.

The skier Alexander Bolshunov became the first Russian champion of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. On Sunday, he won the Skiathlon - a ski race of 15 kilometers with a classic and another 15 -free style. This is his first Olympic victory in his career. In second place is also the Russian - Denis Spitsov. The day before, Russian skiers and biathletes won silver and bronze medals.

11 years ago, also, by the way, at the beginning of the year, I had a chance to visit California. Sanset Boulevard was in color. The letters Hollywood were in place. Locals made the impression of happy people. With one of them, I talked as a writer who is interested in the truth of life, and asked: why is it all so well for your first inexperienced look?

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Coronation of Elizabeth II (1953) Exactly 70 years ago, on February 6, 1952, the Queen of Great Britain and a number of countries of the Commonwealth, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, became Elizabeth II. On this day, her father, King George VI, died. The 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth was then on a visit to Kenya, who was a British colony. She returned to London already the queen. Now Elizabeth II is 95 years old.

The Kazakhstan blogger and political activist Yermek Narymbai, who in 2016, due to criminal prosecution at his homeland, left for Kiev, flew to Almaty on February 6 and was detained at the airport immediately after passport control passed. About 50 people came to meet Yermek Narymbai to the airport, but the police detained him before he could reach the meeting.

In St. Petersburg, police officers detained four people who tried to draw graffiti on the electric booth with the image of the comrade -in -arms of Alexei Navalny Lilia Chanysheva. This was reported by the OVD-Info (recognized as "Ino-agent") with reference to the lawyer of one of the detainees Sergei Podolsky. According to the defender, all four were delivered to the police department to draw up an administrative protocol on violation of the rules of organizing the action, writes North.

In February, the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Sholts, US Vice-President Kamal Harris, as well as about 35 more chapters of state and governments will take part in the upcoming Munich in Munich. The arrival of Harris has not yet been formally confirmed, but the organizers are counting on its participation, the DPA agency reported on February 6, citing the chairman of the Wolfgang Ishinger conference.

The city hall of Novosibirsk stopped the electronic vote at the choice of the city talisman one day before the end of the procedure, since the orangan was in the first place. Voting for the talisman of the Novosibirsk authorities declared in mid -January, offering residents to choose between five inhabitants of the local zoo: the Amur Tiger Max, the Snow Bars Sayan, the White Bear -Bear Shilka, Manul Aishoy and Orangutan Batu.

The former lawyer of the “Committee against torture” from Chechnya Abubakar Yangulbaev left Georgia, where he was since the end of December. Yangulbaev told the site of the Caucasus . Realiy that he received information about the monitoring of himself in the public places of Tbilisi. “I was informed about this, specialists in the field of security. I myself did not notice surveillance, therefore, it was conducted quite professionally. I did not experience fate and decided to leave.

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