Новости за 22.02.2022

President Biden on Tuesday announced a fresh set of "full blocking sanctions" against Moscow, following Russian President Vladimir Putin's order late Monday evening to send troops into eastern Ukraine.

The Florida state representative who introduced the controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill added a new amendment on Tuesday that would require schools to disclose students' LGBT identities to parents, USA Today reports.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) will deliver the Republican Party response to President Biden's State of the Union Address, scheduled for March 1, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Tuesday.

"I call on everyone to protect Ukraine from Russian aggression. I call on you to fight for Ukrainian statehood, to support the armed forces … Together we can stand. With God's help, we will win this fight," Metropolitan Epiphanius, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), said in a statement posted on the church's website Tuesday.

After initial resistance toward doing so, the White House has decided to start referring to Russia's military movements in eastern Ukraine as an "invasion," The Associated Press, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal report.

Aaron Rodgers is expressing his gratitude to Shailene Woodley amid reports their engagement has been called off.

Are Americans ready to make a personal sacrifice for some greater good across the Atlantic?

Despite federal hate crimes convictions for all three men involved in her son's death, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery still carries anger toward the Department of Justice for attempting a plea deal with Ahmaud's killers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Tuesday that the Minsk peace deal no longer exists, BBC reports.

Politicians and policymakers can debate whether Russia has already invaded Ukraine or has merely initiated a "minor incursion" along a disputed border. But outright war between the two countries now appears far more likely than not — and that raises questions about diplomacy. Why has it failed? Was a better outcome ever possible?

Philip Crowther, a reporter for The Associated Press, went viral after sharing on Tuesday a montage of himself reporting from Kyiv in six different languages, Metro reports.

The three men involved in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, including the man who shot and killed him in February 2020, were found guilty on all counts in a federal hate crime trial, CNN reports.

The Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning whether a Colorado web designer may decline to provide her services for same-sex weddings. 

Vladimir Putin and Russia have ended the Pax Americana by calling what turned out to be America's bluff.

Ambassador Martin Kimani, who represents Kenya on the United Nations Security Council, offered a powerful plea for peace on Tuesday after Russia announced it would recognize and deploy troops to breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.

The European Union is readying an "immediate set" of sanctions punishing Russia for its recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine, two E.U. diplomats told The New York Times Tuesday.

The U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II has canceled her virtual engagements, as she is still dealing with COVID-19 symptoms. 

Members of the U.S. women's national soccer team are celebrating a major settlement in their equal pay case.

It has begun. The invasion that the Biden administration has been warning daily is imminent has commenced, with Russian troops entering the Donbas region of Ukraine to support its separatists — whose claims to independence President Vladimir Putin recognized minutes before.

Germany has made a big move in response to Russia's recent actions in Ukraine. 

"The Beijing Olympics are officially over," and "I'm so excited to be back, my heart is racing so fast I feel like I took pills from a Russian figure skater," Jimmy Fallon said on Monday's Tonight Show. Like fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, Fallon also cracked a few jokes about a Finnish skier who suffered a "frozen penis" on a race Sunday.

Late Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military forces into eastern Ukraine after delivering a genuinely deranged history lesson that blamed Soviet leaders Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev for creating Ukraine and claimed that the country has "never had a tradition of genuine statehood."

Sometimes when the Federal Reserve tries to squash a price surge, it also ends up crushing the economy and causing a recession. And if you're a first-term president when all that happens, you might not get a second term. Just ask Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.

Much of the world scrambled on Tuesday to condemn Russia's decision to recognize and send troops into two parts of eastern Ukraine that claim independence from Kyiv. Even countries with good relations with Russia, like Greece and Turkey, called Russia's incursion into Ukraine's sovereign territory unacceptable. China, cultivating a strategic alliance with Moscow, urged more dialogue between Russia, Ukraine, and Western democracies. 

Colombia's Constitutional Court on Monday decriminalized abortion for up to 24 weeks, making Colombia the latest in a string of Latin American countries to increase access to abortion. Argentina's Congress legalized all abortions up to 14 weeks in late 2020 and Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized the procedure last September. In Colombia, abortions were only legal in cases of rape, if the mother's life or health was in danger, or if the fetus was malformed.