The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed indignation in connection with the promise of the chairman of the National Front and French presidential candidate Marin Le Pen to recognize Crimea part of Russia in case of victory in the presidential election. This is stated in the commentary on the website of the department.

Roskomnadzor began determining the Moscow City Court on blocking the episode of the series "Sherlock", posted on the Internet to the official premiere, RBC reports with reference to the press secretary of the department Vadim Ampelonsky. “The appropriate links to the register have been made, the hosting providers are sent notifications about the need to remove unlawful content in order to avoid blocking.

The elected US President Donald Trump considers the Gallup poll , which testifies to his record low rating of approval before the inauguration. He wrote about this on his Twitter. “The same people who made fake pre -election surveys, and eventually mistaken, now make up approval ratings. All of them are false, as before, ”Trump wrote. According to the survey, Trump's approval rating is only 40%.

Having ordered a report on the allegedly available to the Russian authorities, Donald Trump, “worse than prostitutes”. As TASS reports , Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this. “Prostitution is a serious ugly social phenomenon, because young women are engaged in this, including due to the fact that they cannot provide themselves with a worthy life, and this is largely the fault of societies and the state.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov called on the border guards to be prepared for the Donbass Deconbass in 2017, UNIAN reports . According to him, this year is the task of reaching the international recognized state border of Ukraine in the Donbass, and later on Crimea. “This is not my propaganda statement or some kind of idea.

News 38 people died when Boeing crash under Bishkek 17 January 2017 According to the latest data, 38 people died as a result of the fall of a cargo Boeing near Bishkek, reports Interfax . The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan clarified that on January 17 the body of the 38th deceased was found, presumably a member of the crew of the aircraft. The board of the Turkish private airline ACT Airlines, which followed the Hong Kong - Bishkek - Istanbul flight, crashed when he landed at Manas Airport.

The Ministry of Health did not make a proposal to allow ambulance vehicles to hire cars that interfere with their passage, but such initiatives came from the public. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Health Oleg Salagai. “The ministry did not make such an initiative. Such proposals really sounded from the public, ”he said.

In Nigeria, a military aircraft mistakenly struck the refugee camp in the state of Borno. According to AP, citing local authorities, more than 100 people died. The blow was supposed to be inflicted on the camp of the militants of the Islamist group "Boko Haram". AFP with reference to “doctors without borders” reports 120 victims and 50 dead.

The documentary "too free man" about politics Boris Nemtsov will be released on February 23, the press release of the documentary cinema center said. Special scenes of the film of Vera Krichevskaya and Mikhail Fishman will be held until February 27 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Sochi and Yaroslavl. These are cities where Nemtsov left the greatest trace, noted in the Central House of Sciences. Meetings with the creators and some heroes of the film are also planned.

Designer Artemy Lebedev called for the head of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny to check all the activities of his design studio after a series of checks that the FBC has already conducted in relation to a couple of institutions that concluded a contract with Lebedev Studio. “Even from a couple of places comes news that requests from the FBK have not yet entered the press. Everything indicates that there are dozens of such requests. <...> I propose a challenge.

The police opened a criminal case of beating from hooligan motives against the artist-activist Peter Pavlensky, the press service of the capital's head of the police said, Interfax reports. “On the fact of applying by unknown from the hooligan motives of bodily injuries, a man near the house 12 according to Kazanny Lane on October 31, 2016 was opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings), ”the press service said.

The dissertation council of Moscow State University began consideration of the dissertation of the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky. This was announced by the head of the highest certification commission (VAK) Vladimir Filippov, reports RIA Novosti. “The dissertation entered the Moscow State University on December 21.

Two people, including a child, suffered in an accident involving seven cars in the center of Rostov-on-Don, reports Interfax-Yug with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “At the wheel of a foreign car that arranged a mass accident in Rostov-on-Don, a priest was supposedly intoxicated,” he said.

American diplomats in Russia, as well as Russian diplomats in the United States, "during everyday work they meet with a variety of people." According to RBC, this was stated in the US Embassy in Moscow, commenting on the statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the participation of American diplomats in opposition rallies.

The main military prosecutor's office of Ukraine received from the UN official photocopy of the statement of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych of March 1, 2014 with a request to introduce Russian troops into Ukraine. This was announced on his Facebook by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko.