Michael Flynn, an adviser to the White House on National Security, discussed the issue of sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak a month before the inauguration of Donald Trump, at the end of December 2016, reports Washington Post with reference to officials of the American government.

Representatives of Transparency International intend to apply to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to check for the presence of signs of an unresolved conflict of interests by the head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergei Dankvert, who owns assets in the field controlled by his department. About this, the deputy director of the organization, Ilya Shumanov told the "Center for the Office of Investigations" (CUR).

Vladimir Putin will not have unexpected rivals in the election. But it looks like this is the last time Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Photo: Ilya Talev / RIA Novosti The Kremlin will not persuade the leaders of the parliamentary parties in Russia not to nominate in the presidential election, putting it in return for the younger, “fresh” candidates, RBC wrote .

British and American researchers from the University of Reading studied astronomical observations of the sun over the past 400 years, compared them with the latest data and concluded that we are on the verge of the next minimum of solar magnetic activity. Its fall will be the deepest over the past centuries. The authors published a special explanation on the university’s website in order to warn the public against hasty assumptions about the influence of solar activity on global warming.

The inconsistency of the movements of the Turkish troops could cause an erroneous air strike of the Russian Air Force, which led to the death of the three Turkish military in Syria, Kommersant writes with reference to sources in the military administration.

The Russian military intervened and stopped clashes between the Syrian government forces and units of the rebels in the north of Syria. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources in the command of both sides of the conflict. The incident occurred near the city of Al-Bab; In this region, both the rebels and the government are fighting separately from each other with the “Islamic state”.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation demanded to cancel the verdict to the activist Ildar Dadin. The broadcast of the meeting was conducted on the court website. “The judicial acts issued in relation to Ildar Dadin are subject to revision,” the court’s decision said. The court previously recognized the constitutional article on multiple violations at rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Turkish military personnel who fell under the shelling of the Russian Air Force, for ten days before, did not change their deployment. It is reported by Reuters . In addition, the Turkish army said that the military who fell under the shelling a day before the incident reported on their location to the command. Their coordinates were also transferred to the Russian military attache in Ankara and to the Khmeimim base.

The Chechen military who went to Aleppo as part of the military police battalion of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation must “establish contact” with the population of Syria. About this the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov is a story on the air of the Truth Gurnov television program on NTV, RIA Novosti reports . “They have not only theory, but also practice. They know how to identify, know how to find a common language with the people.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Ekhu Moscow due to the presence of an American company in his capital. About this, the editor -in -chief and co -owner of the radio station Alexei Venediktov told RNS . “The previous interpretation of the law suggests that foreign co -owners of the media can have up to 20%, the American company has 19.92%in Echo of Moscow. This letter indicates a new interpretation of the law.

Employees of the FSB Office in St. Petersburg detained on the Belarusian border the senior officer for particularly important cases of the West Department of the Main Directorate of the Main Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Fedosov. It is reported by Fontanka . According to the publication, the policeman was detained on February 9 at the entrance to the territory of Russia through a checkpoint in the Pskov region.

The Court of Appeal of the Ninth District in San Francisco supported the suspension of the migration decree of US President Donald Trump, reports Reuters . “The US government took a position based on which we should not evaluate their decision. We are disagreeable, ”said in court.

The National Union of Soyuzmoloko milk producers (includes Danone, Pepsico, Valio, Hochland) asked the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev to remove the restrictions on the import of raw milk from the regions, as this would increase prices for products. This is stated in the letter of the Union, which was studied by Kommersant.

The cost of building a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico will be $ 21.6 billion. Reuters reports this with reference to the internal report of the National Security Department. A total of about three and a half years can take a total of a total of a total. Earlier in the Congress, the cost of the wall was estimated at $ 12 or $ 15 billion.

Parade on Red Square in November 1941. Photo: TASS East and West: who is the leader and why? How did the current proportions of the world order develop and how long will they remain? Another attempt to answer these questions can be found in the book of an authoritative archaeologist and historian, professor of Stanford University, Ian Morris, “Why is the West Rolling ... at least yet.