OPINION Russia's last politician: Navalny's death is an important milestone, which shows that Russia cannot get rid of Putin's madness on its own 18 February 2024 Vladislav Inozemtsev Founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Society Studies (Moscow) Russian opposition icon Alexei Navalny's death in a remote Arctic prison has elicited a plethora of emotional responses.

France is developing a chick drone. Their first recipient will be Ukraine, said the head of the French Ministry of Defense Sebastian Lekornny in an interview with the newspaper Journal Du Dimanche. According to him, he initiated a project for the development of drones immediately after taking office of the Minister of Defense. Now the project is at the experimental stage. Ukraine should receive drones in the coming weeks. It will also allow their combat tests.

Russia brought 12 million tons of grain to Poland, while Ukraine is only 4.3 million tons, it follows from the publication of the Center for Combating the Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. At the same time, we are talking about grain, which is transit through the territory of the country.

The EU authorities will impose the first fine in history for violation of the laws of the European Union regarding access to the streaming of music to Apple, reports with reference to the sources of the Financial Times. The company will have to pay about 500 million euros, it is expected that a fine will be announced in early March. Apple is accused of providing their own streaming platform (Applemusic) advantages over competitors' services.

The PARTY AMORE Party, dedicated to love, openness and sexuality, which took place in Tula, dispersed the police, writes OVD-Info from the words of its participant. Fighters of the Sobr in masks broke into the cultural center "Printing House", forced the people who were there to lie on the floor, after which they beat them. The participants of Amore Party were threatened by sending to the war to Ukraine, they were forced to squat and sing the anthem of Tula.

The Russian military shot six prisoners of Ukrainian troops near the Garage No. 1 premises in Avdeevka (in the Zenit fortified area in the south of the village), writes the Deepstate Telegram channel (Ukrainian project supporting the regularly updated control map in Ukraine and publishes reports on the front on the basis of the situation on the basis of the situation on the basis open sources and information from the Ukrainian military - The Insider).

The situation on the battlefield in Ukraine can be “resolved in three months”, the head of the diplomatic service of the European Union Josep Borrel at the Munich Security Conference, the broadcast of which was conducted on the event’s website , made such a statement. So he answered the question about the presence of funds for the end of global conflicts, including in Ukraine.

Armenia is not an ally of Russia on the issue of Ukraine, said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with representatives of the Armenian diaspora in Germany in Munich. “As I previously noted, Armenia is not an ally of Russia on the issue of Ukraine, and this is our honest position. We regret that we cannot influence this situation. The people of Ukraine are a native people for us.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken asked China and India to try to influence Russia on the issue of placing nuclear weapons in space, reports The New York Times. Earlier it was reported that, according to the information of the American special services, Russia is developing a technology for output to the orbit of a nuclear charge.

In less than a day, over 12 thousand people applied to the Investigative Committee with a request to issue the body of Alexei Navalny to his relatives, the Human Rights Project "OTD-Info" said. The project called on the in the evening of February 17 to send appeals through the Dyatel service. “Only solidarity will help to achieve justice for Alexei Navalny and his family.

Priest Grigory Mikhnov-Vitenko, who was going to conduct a memorial service for Alexei Navalny, was hospitalized with a stroke. At that moment, he was in the 43rd police station. This was announced by Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. On February 16, Mikhnov-Vitenko wrote on his Facebook account that he wanted to spend a memorial service along Navalny in St. Petersburg near Solovetsky Stone on Trinity Square.

In Moscow, the volunteers of Nemtsova Most Boris Kazadaev and Ilya Skushev were detained after they found photos of Alexei Navalny, the Human Rights Promotional Center of the OVD-Info reports. According to the OVD-Info, the police stopped Kazadaev and Snoshev near the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, where the spontaneous memorial is the policy of Boris Nemtsov, shot in 2015. In the backpack of one of the volunteers, the police found Navalny's photos, after which both were detained.

The United States began to develop a plan for a response to the threat of national security, which may come from Russia, said Mike Turner, chairman of the House of Congress Representatives, on the air of NBC News. According to him, representatives of the committee met with the assistant to the US President in National Security Jake Sullivan, and he began to develop a plan that should help solve this problem.

The report of the Pentagon Inspector, widespread in the US Congress, states that Ukrainian gunners are conducting “very intense fire”, as a result of which ammunition trunks quickly wear out, Business Insider reports . According to the text of the report, the intensity of fire depicts the reserves of ammunition delivered at the expense of international partners and produced in Ukraine.

In Moscow, the Interpoles Meeting will host, to which the terrorist groups of Hamas and Islamic Jihad are also invited, said Putin’s special representative in the Middle East and African countries Mikhail Bogdanov TASS. In addition, 12 more Palestinian organizations were invited to it.