Open Art LGBT Festival in Moscow, January 28-30, 2022 (Archive) The past 2022 was the most unfavorable in Europe for representatives of the LGBT community for at least twelve years-human rights activists engaged in LGBT+rights have reached this conclusion. Representatives of LGBT+ in the European Union are faced with an increasingly hostile and toxic environment, the annual report of the organization ILGA-EUROPE is noted. In a number of European countries, negative trends are noted.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sent for coercive treatment to the psychiatric hospital of Blogger Polina Morugin, known on the network under the nickname Polina Feis. At the same time, she was exempted from criminal liability in the case of insulting the feelings of believers, which was instituted in January because of a photograph of Murugin without clothes against the backdrop of the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fili.

An illustrative photo The FSB of Russia detained 34 people in Moscow, North Ossetia and Ingushetia. They are suspected of embezzlement from the Pension Fund. The detainees are former and current employees of the Pension Fund and the Russian Post. Presumably, since 2019, they managed to steal more than 2 billion rubles. As indicated in the FSB, accomplices illegally formed the recalculation of pensions to the residents of Ingushetia.

According to the International Press Institute (IPI), the rights of journalists in Russia and Ukraine were violated more than 900 times over the year. This statistics included the murders of journalists, attacks on them, as well as censorship, violations of freedom of speech and the persecution of the media. Radio Liberty talked with an IPI employee Karol Luchka.

Good morning! In Belarus, the Minsk apartment of Sergei and Svetlana Tikhanovsky was put up for auction. From the description of the lot, you can find out that in the kitchen there is a Gorenje plate and a water purification system. In parallel wars, the news is the following: On Saturday, Russia fired at Ukraine with Caliber missiles, it was reported to the defeat of a military facility in the Khmelnitsky region. Two people are injured.

Russian exile, chief Nazi Denmark, favorite of the royal family. Says historian Oleg Bayda Ivan Tolstoy: A year ago, a book was published in Moscow, which failed to make a worthy of sound because of the collapsed events. Today we will try to catch up. Says historian Oleg Baida, teacher of the University of Melbourne.

Presidents of the United States and Ukraine in Kyiv February 20 We had to talk about the results of the Munich Conference, but the event of the day today was the unexpected visit of US President Joe Biden to Kyiv. Ukraine will receive military assistance for another half a billion dollars, Biden announced in Kyiv. Later this week, the United States will announce new sanctions against Russian elites, the White House website said in his appeal.

Two hundred athletes signed a letter to the International Snow Sports and Snowboard Federation (FIS) with a demand to take measures in connection with climate change. “We are already faced with the consequences of climate change in our daily life and in our profession. ... We need progressive actions,” the letter says. The athletes appreciated the current efforts of FIS as insufficient.

Last week, the State Duma of Russia adopted a bill on "protecting the Russian language from excessive use of foreign words." After Putin sign it, in Russian official documents and official correspondence, as well as on packages, in instructions, advertising, media, cinema and public speeches, their use will be prohibited or limited.

The next day, " The Day After - a photograph with a familiar posture recently caught the Internet - the 1983 television movie of the American director Nicholas Meyer . The plot is based on the conflict between the Soviet bloc and NATO, which grew into a full -scale nuclear war. The audience of the premiere on the ABC channel was a record for that time 100 million people. The film received many awards. I clearly remember how I watched him at home, in Moscow.

The Russian government has simplified the procedure for obtaining visas for citizens of North Korea, Iran and a number of states, most of which are located in Asia. Now they will be able to receive entry documents at once for six months on the basis of booking a hotel or a “other place of accommodation”. In total, the order of the government applies to nineteen countries.

The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva arrived on Monday, February 20, on a visit to Ukraine. The president’s office said that she first visited Irpen, destroyed during the Russian occupation, but now quickly restored, after which she met with Vladimir Zelensky. The Ukrainian government is counting on a new long -term IMF program of more than $ 15 billion.

What else brought the visit of the US president to Kyiv. On the air of D. Gudkov, I. Eidman, V. Fesenko. This material (information) was produced, distributed and (or) sent by foreign agent Sokolov Mikhail Vladimirovich, or concerns the activities of foreign agent Sokolov Mikhail Vladimirovich. 18+

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“The Putin’s aggressive war is failing,” said US President Joe Biden, who visited Kyiv on Monday.