The Donald Trump administration prepares a large -scale deal with Alexander Lukashenko, which involves weakening sanctions against Belarus in exchange for the release of political prisoners. According to The New York Times, Christopher Smith told the deputy assistant to the US Secretary of State for Eastern Europe during a meeting with Western diplomats in Vilnius.

Yaroslav Shirshikov. Photo: it's my city Yaroslav Shirshikov, who was sentenced to five years in the colony for “justification of terrorism”, will undergo an operation to remove the left eye to a left -wing eye. This is stated in a letter that the convict wrote from the pre-trial detention center, it was published in his Telegram channel. “I will definitely get out of prison, but definitely not all. They remove my left eye.

Minister of Economics of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko wrote about the arrival of the delegation of the Ukrainian government in Riyadh. She announced the preparation of the visit of Vladimir Zelensky to Saudi Arabia, during which it is planned to sign “important economic agreements” with the countries of the Middle East.

Representatives of the United States and Russia in the coming days will meet in Saudi Arabia and will begin negotiations on the end of the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports with reference to an unnamed American legislator and another source familiar with these plans. According to the agency, Secretary of State Rubio, adviser to National Security President Mike Walz and special representative of the White House in the Middle East, Steve Vitkoff will go to Saudi Arabia.

The Trump administration began mass reduction in the department of sanitary supervision of the quality of food and US medicines (FDA), reports Associated Press. Recent employees of the department involved in the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products received notifications of dismissal.

The United States interviewed its European allies about the conditions for their participation in ensuring the security of Ukraine. As Reuters became known , Washington sent them a diplomatic document containing six points with questions about the possible contribution of European countries to the post -war system of the world guarantees.

Peter Morocco, director of the US State Department of the State Department, under the last administration of Trump in 2018, secretly met with Bosniy Serbian separatists under US sanctions. This became known from the investigation of Propublica, based on an interview with seven active and former American officials.

The US Department of Justice fired several immigration judges. This became known to NBC News from the statement of one of the dismissed judges in LinkedIn and information from two sources familiar with the situation. According to these data, five assistants to the main immigration judges of the middle level and 13 candidates for the post of new judges received the dismissal notifications on Friday.

On February 15, the presidential early elections were held in Abkhazia. As the chairman of the local Central Election Commission Dmitry Marshan said on the morning of February 16, the second round of elections was appointed, in which the acting President Badra Gunba and Minister of Economics, Deputy Prime Minister Adgur Ardzinba, was held.

In Ukhta, the Komi Republic, the police detained a local resident who brought flowers to the memorial to the victims of political repression. According to the Komi Politzek Telegram channel, the detainee managed to inform his wife that he was being taken to the department to establish an individual. This is the first message about the detention of a person who put flowers on the anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny.

Sandy village. Deepstate map The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces were repelled from the Russian troops of the village of Peschanno in the Donetsk region, said Viktor Tregubov, an official representative of the operational and strategic group of troops, on the air of the Kiev television channel. “A number of counterattacks of Ukrainian forces had a certain success. In particular, it has already been reported and we can already talk about the liberation of the village of Peschanoy.

The Moscow Cinema "Illusion", located on the Kotelnicheskaya embankment and belonging to the Russian State Film Fund, began to demonstrate a video between the sessions, designed to explain to visitors why Ukraine should be considered a "neo -Nazi state." It is twisted in a lobby and repeated every 15-20 minutes, they write "Caution, News." It shows the marches of Ukrainian nationalist movements, football fans with fireplaces, people with torches, as well as Vladimir Zelensky, speaking speech.

US citizen Kalob Bayers, detained in Russia for marmalade with cannabis, was released from custody. This was announced in his Twitter account, journalist Alexander Roslyakov with reference to the mother of American Tonya Shuler. Bayers is currently at the US Embassy.

A single picket of a resident of Perm. Photo: Telegram channel "Perm 36.6" On December 16, on the first anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny, who was killed in a colony, people in different cities of Russia have flowers in memory of him - as a rule, among the monuments to the victims of political repression. From different cities they report detentions: people are forced to write explanatory and, as a rule, release.