The European bank Revolut began checking previously approved money transfers from the CIS countries to Europe and blocking the accounts of Russians because of this, Oninvest reports . According to the publication, the bank has been checking old transactions of clients from Russia since the end of 2025. Revolut employees are asking them for information about the source of origin of the money that arrived in the accounts of Russians from banks in the CIS countries.

15 countries issued a joint statement marking the second anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny in prison. It was signed by representatives of Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand.

Investigators summoned 21-year-old Marat Nikandrov to the Moscow region department of the Investigative Committee for questioning, he told the publications “Rise” and “Caution, News” . The young man told Popodem that a criminal case had been opened against him under the article of failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent” and that charges had already been brought against him. “Caution, news” writes that Nikandrov has not yet been charged.

Photo: Martin Schoeller / Esquire, December 2011 In late November 2011, a week before the State Duma elections and large-scale protests against fraud that followed, Esquire Russia published its first issue featuring a Russian on the cover. It was the 35-year-old politician Alexei Navalny, by then already well known as an anti-corruption blogger and author of the phrase “the party of crooks and thieves,” which described the ruling “United Russia” party.

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court sentenced activist Sergei Mamaev to two years and eight months in prison in the case of involvement in Navalny’s headquarters (Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Journalist Alexey Seregin reported this. A criminal case against Mamaev was opened last summer. The activist has been in pre-trial detention since the end of July. The reason for the persecution was Mamaev’s posts about political actions initiated by the FBK.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya overturned the sentence of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of Chechen oppositionists Yangulbaevs, in the case of disorganization of the work of the FSIN institution (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code) and sent the materials for re-examination. Human rights activist Sergei Babinets drew attention to the decision of the appeal court.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Mariupol resident Ivan Kemichadzhi to five years and six months in prison in the case of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the court. According to the prosecution, the man justified the activities of the Russian Volunteer Corps, banned in Russia. It is unknown whether he admitted his guilt.

The prosecutor asked the 2nd Western District Military Court to sentence the four perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall to life imprisonment, reports Beware News. It is unknown what specific terms the other accused were asked for. According to Interfax, life sentences were requested for 15 defendants, the rest - from 19 to 22 years in prison.

The Central District Court of Tyumen sent 50-year-old Dmitry Gorin to a pre-trial detention center on a criminal case of inciting hatred on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the Tyumen region courts reported .

The Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced retired Rear Admiral Nikolai Kovalenko to four years and six months in prison in the case of the theft of 592 million rubles from the Ministry of Defense (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). A TASS correspondent reports this. He was also fined 500 thousand rubles.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article of abuse of power after the death of a man at the police department in Novoshakhtinsk. This was reported on the website of the department of the Investigative Committee for the Rostov region. According to investigators, the man was taken to the police department on suspicion of committing a crime, but the Investigative Committee did not specify which one.

On February 5, 2026, the Yakutsk City Court sent to pre-trial detention five employees of the criminal investigation department of the city police department No. 3, who were accused of abuse of power with the use of torture, which led to the death of a person (parts 4 and 5 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the court reported .

In Yakutsk, Viktor Savvinov, a participant in the war in Ukraine, was detained, who twice went to the front from the colony, deserted after being wounded and again killed a man. This was reported by the publications Echo of the Capital , SakhaDay and local journalist Ekaterina Chemezova . The man was detained on February 15. According to Chemezova, he committed the murder the day before. Details of the crime are unknown.

In four cities of Russia - Moscow, Volgograd, St. Petersburg and Ufa - police detained 12 people at places where rallies were held in memory of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the publications RusNews , OVD-Info and Slovo zashchita . In St. Petersburg, on Voskresenskaya embankment, a man was detained for taking photographs of a fenced memorial to victims of political repression.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow fined IT analyst Mikhail Klimarev under a protocol for participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) due to two mentions in the telegram channel of the publication Meduza. This is stated in the text of the decision dated February 12, to which Mediazona drew attention .