The process of transferring hostages Hamas Palestinian group, recognized as terrorist in the USA and the EU, returned six hostages to Israel on Saturday. They were exchanged for more than 600 prisoners from Israeli prisons. Among the liberated is the 27-year-old Eliya Cohen, 22-year-old Omer Shem-Tov and 23-year-old Omer Wenkert. All three were stolen from the music festival during the attack of Hamas to the south of Israel in October 2023.

Sergey Lukashevsky The historian Sergei Lukashevsky, before leaving Russia, led the Sakharov Center. The state of civil society in Russia today is almost comparable to dissident: how can the experience of the past help us today? Sergey Lukashevsky reflects on this in a conversation with Radio Liberty. - 35 years ago, the drawings of Euphrosynia Kersnovskaya, made in the Gulag, were published in the perestroika “light”.

Editor -in -chief of the magazine "Thunderstorm" Leonid Spirin In January, against the editor -in -chief of the Storm journal "Thunderstorm" Leonid Spirin opened a criminal case under the article on the "discredit" of the Russian army. He is put on the wanted list. The magazine itself , which also talks about repressions against students and propaganda in universities, was announced in Russia as a “foreign agent” in 2023.

War in Ukraine. An illustrative photo The city of Konstantinovka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, was subjected to a new strike of Russian troops on Saturday. According to local authorities, at least seven air bombs were dropped into the city. According to preliminary information, at least two people were killed, four were injured. There may be people under the rubble, there is a search operation, said the head of the regional military administration Vadim Filashkin.

At the ceremony in Berlin, awards of the 75th International Film Festival were awarded. For the main prize of Berlinal - "Golden Bear" - 19 films competed. The jury, led by director Todd Hinse, awarded the drama of the Dreams of the Norwegian director Dag Johan Höogerud, the final part of the trilogy, which also includes the films "Love" and "Sex". "Dreams"-a film about his first love: 17-year-old heroine ardently falls in love with her French language teacher.

Istvan Tibornz The son-in-law of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Istvan Tibornz is negotiating the purchase of the Russian division Raiffeisenbank. In the preparation of the transaction, in addition to direct participants, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Central Bank are involved. This was written with reference to sources of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. It is claimed that the buyer could be proposed by the Austrian bank by the Russian side.

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At the site of the attack In the city of Muluz on north -east of France on Saturday day, as a result of an attack with a knife, one person died, two policemen were serious wounded, three of their colleagues - lung injuries, AFP reports. The suspect is placed in custody. According to the investigation, this person, who is 37 years old, was in the list of persons suspected of terrorism. According to a number of sources , he is from Algeria.

Show more To curtail “Since no one believes anyone, and from anyone it will be possible to expect any dirty tricks, the deglobalization process will continue. All these wonderful speeches about import substitution and food, technological safety will be conducted not only in Russia. ” Maxim Blanus discusses what will happen to Ukraine, Russia and the world, if the war ends right now - in the new episode of the podcast “ survived ”.

Vladimir Zelensky President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is not yet ready to sign an agreement with the United States for mineral mining, France-Presse agency said on Saturday with reference to a source in the Ukrainian leadership. The adviser to the US President on National Security Michael Waltz was a day earlier, on Friday, he said that Zelensky "soon" would sign a deal.

Riots in Sofia, February 22 In the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, several thousand supporters of the ultra -nationalist party "Renaissance", which is called the pro -Russian, tried to storm the representative office of the European Union. They set fire to the front door of the building. There were clashes with the police. According to the Bulgarian Service of Radio Free Europe in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, at least six people were detained.

Stockholm The Migration Service of Sweden decided to deport a 33-year-old anti-war activist and scientific researcher from Russia Daria Rudnev from the country. Sveriges Radio drew attention to the Mediazona . Sweden security service (säpo), as noted, She came to the conclusion that the further presence of Rudneva in the country "poses a threat to security." She herself claims that the charges are completely groundless and unfair.

In Irkutsk, hundreds of people took part in a rally against the introduction of new electricity tariffs. The event agreed with the mayor, took place in the city center, on the area near the circus, the editors of Siberia. Real. The organizers of the action read out an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. They demanded to cancel the differentiation of the tariff depending on the level of consumption.

Ivan Paukov Passing noisily along the metal body, the longest branches burst into the open windows of the car for a few seconds, and if you don’t dodge, they can hit you in the face before disappearing. It's not painful at all, rather fun. And if you have time, you can even grab a trophy - a fragrant young cone.