On February 3, an aggressive man beat up Moscow resident Nina Koshkina in the subway. He harassed girls in the carriage, and when Koshkina decided to stand up for them, he broke her nose.

At the oldest public research university in Budapest, scientists tested whether cats need emotional support from their owners. The researchers also wanted to find out whether cats really do not show expressed affection for humans, The Times reports . 15 cats took part in the experiment. The animals were placed in an isolated room. The cats were indoors with either their owner, a stranger, both, or no humans at all. Thus, the study authors wanted to track signs of attachment in cats.

When 16-year-old Ilona disappeared in the Voronezh region in the 1990s, the suspect was quickly detained - before the disappearance the girl was pursued by a man who had previously been convicted of rape, and his guilt seemed obvious. But when girls continued to disappear in the town, it became clear that not everything was so simple. How they searched for a serial killer in Povorino - in the material from “Cold” .

During a speech at the Café Kiev conference in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that in recent years “the deepest barbarism” has been coming from Russia, Deutsche Welle reports . “We must admit, and I say this to ourselves and to our concerned public: this country, under this leadership, is now at the very bottom of the deepest barbarity.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, said that a new round of peace negotiations with Russia could take place at the end of this week, before February 28, Noviny.LIVE reports . Budanov was part of the Ukrainian delegation during the trilateral diplomatic meeting in Geneva, which took place on February 17 and 18 between Russia, Ukraine and the United States. He stated that the Kremlin continues to demand the territory of the Donetsk region.

The world's best action movie, according to Collider, a publication specializing in film, television and video games, was the film "Seven Samurai", released in 1954. The film, directed by Akira Kurosawa, takes place in 16th-century Japan. At that time there was a civil war in the country and bandits were active. According to the plot of the film, poor peasants hire seven impoverished samurai to protect the village.

The world's largest travel platform Tripadvisor has compiled a ranking of places that could become the most popular tourist destinations in 2026. The list includes 20 unique locations, including, for example, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic and a city in Colombia, the platform reports . The last, 20th place, was taken by the ski resort in the USA Big Sky. It is distinguished by its proximity to Yellowstone National Park, famous for its numerous geysers and picturesque landscapes.

In the US state of Pennsylvania, 18-year-old high school student Zachariah Abraham Myers was charged with more than 300 felonies, NBC News and CBS News reported. The materials say that a senior student from a school located near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania was arrested on February 20. He was charged with, inter alia, trafficking in minors, distributing sexualized child abuse material and extortion.

A resident of the Moscow region took his children tubing on snowy roads. However, at one of the turns, an eight-year-old girl sitting on a cheesecake fell under the wheels of a car, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region. The tragedy occurred in the village of Rumyantsevo, not far from the city of Mytishchi. The man tied the cheesecake to the bumper of the car and drove it behind him.

Those who recruit foreigners to participate in the war with Ukraine on the side of Russia were given a “black list” of 36 countries, “Important Stories” found out . According to journalists, the stop list of states where it is forbidden to look for mercenaries is distributed among themselves by recruiters who work in Arabic-speaking areas.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky gave an interview to a Belarusian publication for the first time since the beginning of the war. He said that he had always treated the citizens of Belarus with respect, but after the Russian invasion this attitude changed, Zerkalo quoted the Ukrainian leader as saying. “I have always had great respect for Belarus. But, honestly, after the start of the war... It was not just some kind of resentment.

In the early days of the war in Ukraine, Alexander Lukashenko apologized to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during their telephone conversation. The Ukrainian leader told the Belarusian publication Zerkalo about this. “He [Lukashenko] apologized, and he was very afraid that we would strike [in response].

Ukraine will face serious financial difficulties in the coming months if it does not comply with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This statement was made by the head of the Verkhovna Rada’s financial committee, Daniil Getmantsev, Forbes reports . According to the parliamentarian, the country risks being left without the next IMF tranche, which could lead to problems with financing budget expenditures. “We are on the verge of financial disaster,” Getmantsev said.

Telephone scammers have begun to take revenge on Russians who do not fall for their tricks, specialists from the Smart Business Alert (SBA) service told Lenta.ru. According to them, two techniques are most common. The first is SMS bombing, in which the user begins to receive messages and calls from different services en masse. To do this, scammers use weak protection of registration and feedback forms of some companies.

The number of Russians who consider themselves unhappy has decreased by 2.5 times over six years. This is evidenced by the results of a survey by the Center for Research on Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, published by RBC. According to the study, 89% of adult Russians today consider themselves happy. And this is two percentage points more than a year earlier. However, in 2019 there were only 79%.