The Donald Trump administration shake one scandal after another. This week, Michael Flynn, a national security adviser, was forced to resign - he was convicted of contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak in December 2016, when Flynn officially had no right to conduct any negotiations.

The court of South Korea arrested the vice president and the actual head of Samsung Lee Jae Yen. It is reported by Yonhap. The agency added that the court did not satisfy the petition for the arrest of the president of the company Pak Sanjin. According to investigators, Samsung transferred 22 billion won ($ 18 million) to the accounts of the company of the Presidential President Choha Song Sil. The country's authorities, in turn, helped corporations in the merger of two branches.

The Kremlin commented on information about the supposedly given to the Russian state media disposal to less praise US President Donald Trump, Gazeta.Ru reports . “Ducks fly,” said Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, a press secretary of the Russian president. Bloomberg on February 16, citing sources, said that the Kremlin ordered the State Unitary Enterprise to be less “seriously” to talk about Trump.

Winston Churchill. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty images Winston Churchill, without a doubt, was an outstanding figure of his time - an influential politician and a military, talented speaker, recognized master of word (Nobel Laureate of Literature) and an artist. Finally, he was the first British prime minister to appoint a scientific adviser to himself.

Former State Duma deputy from Fair Russia Oleg Mikheev, who was put on the wanted list of fraud, is in Moscow. This was reported to RBC by the press secretary of the Volgograd branch of the party Natalya Anokhina. “Oleg Leonidovich and I recently spoke viber. He literally told me the following: “Tell everyone unequivocally that the case was unlawful, was carried out illegally, and now it is completed illegally.” He is now in Moscow. He said that he wants to find him, ”said Anokhina.

The Commission on the Forever Activities of the Government approved the bill on the maintenance of a pension for membership for members of the chamber who have not worked in it for five years, they write that they familiarized themselves with the imprisonment of the project “Vedomosti”. Under the new legislation, senators and deputies have the right to receive a monthly surcharge for a pension only if the term of their authority has been at least five years.

The leading Russian manufacturer of Pharmstandart, which produces, among other things, Arbidol, became the investor of Genotek, which is engaged in DNA research. This was reported in the Genotek press release, which was received by Republic. The volume of investments is $ 1 million. The received funds will be aimed at developing the pharmacogenetic direction of the Genotek center.

The ex-head of Karelia, Alexander Khudilainen, did not want to leave his post and “asked for help” from the director of the foreign intelligence service Sergei Naryshkin, the sources of Kommersant said . According to the interlocutors of the publication, Naryshkin “contributed to the career” of Khudilinen, but could not help, since the presidential administration was “tuned” to the new governor.

The Russian Ministry of Defense refused to purchase awards “For the Liberation of Palmyra” and “For the Monking of Palmyra”. About this writes "Gazeta.ru". Earlier, the military department announced a tender for 20 thousand medals to the "participant in the military operation in Syria." Then the Ministry of Defense called this figure a mistake, indicating that we are talking about two thousand awards.

The expert group under the Open Government approved the idea of ​​checking the work of the Yarovaya Laws as part of a pilot project. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to one of the invited to the upcoming meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, where this issue will be discussed. As the interlocutor of the newspaper said, experts recommended supporting the MTS proposal for a pilot project for data storage. On whose networks such a project can be created is not specified.

The United States is currently not ready to cooperate with Russia at the military level. This was announced by the head of the Pentagon James Mattis, he is quoted by Interfax . “We would like to cooperate with Russia politically, but so far we would not want to interact with it military terms,” he said. Mattis added that "Russia must live in accordance with international law." The leaders of the two countries continue to negotiate and try to find a compromise on this issue, he said.

Malaysia police detained another suspect in the case of the murder of the half -brother of North Korea Kim Jong -un - Kim Jong Nam. It is reported by Sinhua. According to the police, we are talking about the 26-year-old citizen of Malaysia, a friend of the woman previously detained in the case of a woman (who had an Indonesian passport with him). His name is not called.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after his appointment avoids publicity, writes New York Times (NYT). Tillerson, who, as the newspaper notes, has no experience in the government (previously headed Exxonmobil Corporation) misses “important events”. So, he was not at the meetings of US President Donald Trump with the Prime Minister of Israel and the head of the Canadian government.

The soloist of the Hands Up group Sergei Zhukov will be delivered by the supplies of lamb and marble beef to restaurants and hotels. It is reported by RBC. According to SPARK, Zhukov is the founder and general director of MitmitMit LLC, registered in December 2016. Its main activity is wholesale trade in meat and meat products.

78% of Russians spoke out for the abolition of a visa -free regime with Belarus. This is evidenced by the results of the survey conducted by the VTsIOM . Only 16% of respondents believe that the border between countries should be preserved only as a formality. More than half of the survey participants (56%) do not support oil and gas discounts for allied states even in exchange for support on their part. Most Russians (60%) against the sale of Belarus of oil and gas at a price below the market.