The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II passed a positive test for Koronavirus. This was reported by the BBC with reference to the Buckingham Palace. The 95-year-old monarch experiences light symptoms of colds, but expects to perform duties next week, the report said. Elizabeth contacted Prince Charles, in whom the coronavirus infection was discovered last week. It is reported that she receives medical care.

Closing the Winter Olympiad - 2022 in Beijing, February 20, 2022 In Beijing, on Sunday, the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics was held . At the games, 109 sets of medals in 15 disciplines in seven sports were played. The Russian team took ninth place in the medal standings, winning six gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze medals. In the first place in the number of gold medals of Norway, in the second - Germany, in the third - China. The United States took fourth place this year.

On February 27, a referendum will be held in Belarus to adopt amendments to the basic law of the country. In short, then changes in the Constitution, if they are adopted, in what few doubts, provide Alexander Lukashenko for another 13 years in power. Among the proposed amendments is the consideration of marriage as a union of a man and a woman, as well as the rejection of a nuclear status and the status of a neutral state.

The former Minister of Defense of the country Murat Bektanov was arrested in Kazakhstan. He was charged with inaction during protests against the current government and unrest that arose in connection with them. The ex-minister was placed in the pre-trial detention center of the city of Nur-Sultan. Murat Bektanov headed the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan since August 2021.

Among the customers of one of the world's largest private banks, the Swiss Credit Suisse, for many years there could be autocrats who have fallen under sanctions businessmen, persons suspected of drug trafficking, smuggling by people, and war crimes.

The pathological lies of investigators began from the very beginning, when you come to court and the prosecutor says: "He tried to hide." How so, I came myself? Economist, former Yukos manager Vladimir Pereverzin - in the second episode of the podcast Viktor Kulganek The pathological lies of investigators began from the very beginning, when you come to court and the prosecutor says: "He tried to hide." How so, I came myself?

News Radio Liberty: Final release

Late in the morning of February 24, 1972, a catastrophic fire broke out on the Soviet atomic K-19 submarine . During the emergency surfacing of the vessel from a depth of 120 meters from burns and carbon monoxide, 28 people died. Two more died during a rescue operation. But 12 submariners, cut off with fire in the 10th compartment, were coarsely lucky. Despite the fact that they were walled up in the tail of the submarine, they were able to save them 23 days later.

The first train with “DPR” evacuated - in it, as is supposed, about 500 passengers - arrived in the Voronezh region. Many residents of the so -called "DPR" and "LPR" are taken to Russia on ordinary buses. They quickly volunteered to accept people from Donbass, as Russian officials of different levels said, either seven, or twenty -six Russian regions.

Mail.ru was fined 3 million rubles for the publication on the social network "Odnoklassniki" posts of opposition politicians Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin. The Moscow Court of Moscow found Mail.ru guilty of a failure of "information or Internet page, which contain calls for extremist activity." Bloking posts from the company demanded Roskomnadzor.

Guest of the next issue of podcast and radio programs of Mayrbek Vachagayev - North Ossetian historian Georgy Chopiev

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?

The police in Moscow detained human rights activists Lev Ponomarev* and Yuri Samodurov. They went to Pushkinskaya Square with single pickets against the war with Ukraine. It is reported by Sota. Shortly before the detention of human rights activists with a single picket on Pushkinskaya Square with a poster "Russian writers for the Russian Donbass", a member of the Writers' Union and poet Alexei Sholokhov came out. They checked the documents, but did not delay.

News Radio Liberty: accuracy, efficiency, impartiality

Guest of the next issue of podcast and radio programs of Mayrbek Vachagayev - North Ossetian historian Georgy Chopiev Guest of the next issue of podcast and radio programs of Mayrbek Vachagayev - North Ossetian historian Georgy Chopiev Next 01:05 - 01:32 27:30 min. Freedom time: Khinshtein against the "pigeon of Gennady". For which Eksmo were fined The schedule is completely