The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, invited President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to personally take part in the summit of EU leaders, which will be held in Brussels on February 9-10. This was announced on Twitter by the representative of Michel Barend Leyts. "For security reasons, no further information will be provided," Leith said.

Salman Rushdi's page on Twitter 75-year-old writer Salman Rushdi published a selfie on Twitter in response to the publication of The New Yorker. The magazine released the interview of Rushdi on February 6 and, apparently, accompanied the material with the first photograph of the writer after the assassination attempt. “The photo in the New Yorker is dramatic and powerful, but like this, more prosaic, I actually look,” Rushdi wrote on Twitter.

Military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov is rumored to be Ukraine’s next defense minister Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov at a press conference in Kyiv. February 5, 2023. Earlier this month, Ukrainian media started foreshadowing the likely resignation of Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.

Russia's federal budget in January 2023 was executed with a deficit of 1.776 trillion rubles, which is 14 times higher than its volume in January 2022, Interfax writes , citing preliminary data from the Russian Finance Ministry. For comparison, last January the budget was executed with a surplus of 125 billion rubles. As RBC notes , the budget deficit in January was a record for this month.

The US authorities are going to impose a 200% duty on Russian aluminum this week, . Bloomberg reported, citing sources The US authorities have been discussing the introduction of duties for several months, but US President Joe Biden has not yet finally agreed to such a measure. In addition, according to sources, the White House fears that because of this decision, American industry, primarily aerospace and automotive, may suffer.

A Tbilisi court has dismissed Mikheil Saakashvili’s petition to be released from prison in the Republic of Georgia. Georgia’s former third president has been in custody in his country since the fall of 2021. Saakashvili’s legal team had submitted the pleading in December 2022. Georgia sentenced Mikheil Saakashvili to three years in prison on charges of complicity in the murder of the banker Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.

But the permutations have so far posted-supposedly because of the new Russian offensive at the front Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov at a press conference in Kyiv, February 5, 2023 Since the beginning of February, Ukraine and abroad have been discussing the possible resignation of 56-year-old Alexei Reznikov from the post of Minister of Defense.

The Tbilisi City Court refused to satisfy the defense's motion to release the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Channel One Georgia reports. The Tbilisi court has been considering the lawyers' motion since December 2022. The defense asked to defer the execution of the sentences previously handed down to Saakashvili or to release him from punishment. Mikheil Saakashvili has been in custody since the fall of 2021, when he illegally crossed the border and returned to Georgia.

In Turkey, the strongest earthquake in several decades. Already almost five thousand people have already in the list of dead. "Medusa" talked with people who saw everything with their own eyes Sertac Kayar / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta people disassemble the rubble after an earthquake in the city of Diyarbakyr in the southeast of Turkey.

Russia’s Justice Ministry has added “The Last Bell,” a hip-hop track released in 2009 by the Russian artist Oxxxymiron, to its list of extremist content. The song portrays a high school shooting reminiscent of the 1999 Columbine high school massacre in Colorado. Last October, a Moscow court ruled to classify the track as “extremist content” containing justifications and propaganda of terrorism.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Experts say that Russia will soon go on the offensive in Ukraine, but it seems that this operation has already begun. Dmitry Kuznets explains how she can end On February 5, the Financial Times reported about Russia's plans to start a large -scale offensive in Ukraine over the next 10 days. The unnamed adviser to the Ukrainian army told the publication that Kyiv has “very reliable information” about Russia's preparation for an ambulance.

Among its other heirs is the Israeli army and the people's ensemble from Kyiv The press service of the President of Ukraine / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny in the Verkhovna Rada, December 28, 2022 On January 24 , The New York Times reported that the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny inherited a million dollars from an American of Ukrainian origin of Gregory (Gregory) Stepanz and transferred the entire

A Moscow court has dismissed the journalist Alexey Venediktov’s appeal in the libel lawsuit filed by Evgeny Prigozhin after Venediktov described him as the “owner” of a private military company. Venediktov writes, on Telegram, that the court did not explain why it dismissed the appeal, given that Prigozhin himself has already admitted Wagner Group ownership, publicly conceding “victory” in the case to Venediktov. Prigozhin sued Venediktov for libel in June 2021.

Indigenous draftees from southern Siberia publish video documenting abuses by ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ militia A group of soldiers mobilized in Tuva, a region in Russia’s southern Siberia, have published a video documenting abuses by the militia of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic,” where the draftees were deployed after mobilization. The video, recorded in the indigenous Tyvan language, has been translated into Russian and published by the Asians of Russia Telegram channel.

Users encountered a failure in the work of Yandex services on the afternoon of February 6. The failure affected Search, Music, Maps, Kinopoisk, Taxi, Uber, as well as columns with Alice and other Yandex services. Also, did not work . Zen, which belongs to VK, The Yandex company told RIA Novosti that a number of Yandex users encountered short-term difficulties with access to services, but now everything is working properly.