Russian Embassy in Bulgaria Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Grashev informed the country's foreign minister about evidence of intelligence activities of a citizen of the Russian Federation who enjoys diplomatic immunity, the prosecutor’s office said. According to her, this is an adviser to the Russian Embassy. He received information from the Bulgarian stock general.

The Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny called on citizens to go out for protest against the war with Ukraine. The appeal on his behalf appeared in his social networks on March 2. “If - to end the war - we must score prisons and autosaks, we will seize prisons and autosaks with ourselves,” it said there. He himself is already serving a term in the colony. See also in Spain the pilot Kuzminov was killed.

Sergey Tsivilev during the demolition of the "winter cherry", Kemerovo The governor of the Kemerovo region Sergey Tsivilev instructed his subordinates in the "official materials of the government" to write the name of the region as "Kuzbass". This is stated in the telegram channel of the head of the region.

Tikhon Dzyadko The editor -in -chief of the Rain television channel Tikhon Dzyadko said that he decided to leave Russia for a while. According to the journalist, some editorial staff made a similar decision, according to the journalist. Dzyadko noted that after blocking Roskomnadzor at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Channel website and accounts in social networks, as well as threats to some journalists, the personal security of employees is at risk.

"I was struck that people are handing themselves up and their acquaintances. These are some random girls with discos with a dose of LSD, poor saleswoman ... In fact, everyone testified against themselves simply because they were intimidated at the first stage not to torture and beatings, but only talking about them." Poet and human rights activist Alina Vitukhnovskaya - in the third episode of the podcast Viktor Kulganek

The queue in the bakery. Moscow, 1991 Interview with economist Mikhail Burnstam The sanctions against the Russian Central Bank, recently introduced by the governments of several Western countries, cut off the Russian authorities from access to most of the Russian currency reserves and deprive them of the opportunity not only to support the ruble, but also to ensure the normal functioning of the Russian economy.

Physicist Andrey Gam 163 Nobel laureate subscribed under an open letter in support of Ukraine "in the face of Russian aggression." Among them are only one native of Russia - physicist Andrei Gam, living abroad. The letter is published in Russian. The invasion of Ukraine in it is compared with the attack of Nazi Germany on Poland in 1939 using "similar tricks and false provocations" and the Soviet Union in 1941.

Kharkov, Kherson, Chernigov undergoes massive blows. Missiles fall into residential quarters. Hundreds of victims of civilians, dozens are killed. The Ukrainian authorities cannot yet name the exact numbers, many people still remain under the rubble, rescuers continue to disassemble them.

After the attack on Ukraine, Russia was subjected to unprecedented sanctions. Most of the state reserve in Western banks are frozen, payment systems were disabled, aircraft were recalled, and sports and cultural contacts were torn. How will the sanctions hit the population, business and elites? Will they shake the regime?

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Sumy, February 25 We publish the diary of the famous Ukrainian film critic Natalia Serebryakova, living in the city of Sumy, which has been attacking Russian troops for several days. February 24, Thursday Until the last day, I did not believe that it was possible - Russia would attack us. Although Alena’s friend spoke about this back in November, when her brother, living in Britain, said that there were rumors about the preparation of a large war in Ukraine. I waved away from these thoughts.

Roman Abramovich The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich put up for sale the English football club Chelsea. The businessman said that the money proceeds from the sale of the club will go to the charity fund, which will be established to help the victims in Ukraine. “I always made decisions, guided by the interests of the club. Therefore, in this situation, I decided to sell the club, because I believe that this is responsible for the interests of the team,” the Abramovich statement said.

Sergey Khestanov, Dmitry Gudkov, Nikolai Petrov: How will the sanctions hit Russia? Sergey Medvedev: After the attack on Ukraine, Russia was subjected to unprecedented sanctions. Most of the state reserve in Western banks are frozen, payment systems are disabled, sports and cultural relations are torn. Russia is subjected to visa blockade, in transport, diplomatic, financial and economic isolation. How will the sanctions hit the Russians, on the elites, on the stability of the regime?

Putin forbade to export more than 10 thousand dollars from Russia in cash, the Government of the Russian Federation imposed restrictions on the exit of foreign investors from Russian assets. And the war continues: On Tuesday, shelling of the residential areas of Kharkov continued, a missile blow was delivered on the central square of the city. A television tape was fired in Kyiv. The authorities of Chernigov and Zhytomyr reported the strikes in residential areas.