How the Kremlin uses ‘independent organizations’ to do its propaganda dirty work “Patriotic” programs and events have been popping up all over Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. The entities behind these endeavors are often “autonomous nonprofit organizations”: organizations purportedly characterized by their socially beneficial, cultural, educational, scientific, or charitable nature. They also aren’t governmental — at least officially.

Leaked documents suggest Kremlin spin doctors are presenting popular movies and TV to Putin as propaganda wins In late 2023, the Estonian news agency Delfi Estonia obtained a set of leaked documents from the Russian presidential administration. In the weeks that followed, journalists from Meduza, iStories, and numerous other international outlets studied the documents and used them to conduct investigations into Russian government activity as part of a joint project called Kremlin Leaks .

The owner of a coffee shop in Lyubertsy, Moscow Region, who said that she asked a war veteran to leave the establishment, was fined 45 thousand rubles under the administrative article on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), writes the Telegram channel “Beware, News”. In the Telegram channel, the owner of the coffee shop is called Alena P.

Over the nine months of 2023, the cost of sanctioned technologies received by Russia from the European Union that could be used in war amounted to 450 million euros. Almost a quarter of the goods came directly from European countries, Bloomberg writes, citing officials and data on trade flows.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia for two months the animator and author of the animated series Mr. Freeman Pavel Muntyan in the case of disseminating “fake news” about the army, follows from the court ruling . The case against Muntyan (clause “d” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) was initiated on October 17, 2023, the resolution says.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and representatives of the ruling Fidesz party refused to stand during a minute of silence in the Hungarian parliament announced on February 26 in memory of Alexei Navalny. At the beginning of the meeting of the Hungarian parliament, opposition MP Bence Tordai asked everyone to stand in memory of Navalny. However, Orban, deputies of the ruling party, as well as ministers of his government remained seated.

Update. As a result of the drone attack, four people were injured, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. In the border village of Pochaevo, Grayvoronsky urban district, Belgorod region, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked a car. There were three construction workers in the car, they died from their wounds, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow sentenced security guards of the currency exchange office Sergei Grebenyukov and Roman Moskovsky in the case of an attack on Anatoly Zhdanov, a photojournalist for the Kommersant newspaper.

Updated. plans to exchange Navalny, The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper also reported citing sources, according to which negotiations “have advanced far.” In this regard, the German government was “particularly shocked” by the news of Navalny’s death. The New York Times, citing Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh , notes that the politician himself knew about the discussions about a possible exchange, but was not privy to the details.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The United States believes that Russia is preparing to place nuclear weapons in space. So did not even do during the Cold War. Why is it pointless and dangerous? On February 18, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the United States turned to India and China with a request to dissuade Russia from placing nuclear weapons in space.

"The group is extremely committed to the idea of ​​respect for human rights - the battle that Mr. Navalny led" Evgeny Feldman Alexei Navalny in court at the appeal in the case of Yves Rocher. February 17, 2015 The French company Yves Rocher answered the questions of Novaya Gazeta journalists who asked to comment on the murder of Alexei Navalny in the colony and clarify the circumstances of the case, because of which the politics was arrested upon returning to Russia from Germany in January 2021.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out against the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine due to fears of the country being drawn into a war. "We must not be associated in any way with the goals that this system [Taurus] achieves," Focus Online quotes Scholz as saying at a conference of editors-in-chief of the German Press Agency (DPA). According to the Chancellor, the option of delivering these missiles to Ukraine is "not on the agenda." "This clarity is also necessary.

The State Assembly (Parliament) of Hungary has ratified Sweden's application to join NATO. At a meeting on February 26, 188 deputies voted for this decision, six were against it. There are 199 deputies in the Hungarian parliament. Hungary remained the last NATO country whose approval was necessary for Sweden to join the bloc. Now, after completing formal procedures, Sweden will become the 32nd member of NATO.

The main thing from the report of the human rights center "Viesna" Artur Widak / Nurphoto / Getty images photos from the action in Krakow on the second anniversary of protests in Belarus. August 2022 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, citizens of Belarus “actively showed an anti-war position,” writes the human rights center Vasna (the Russian BBC service drew attention to the publication).

The owner of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK), Yuri Antipov, was summoned for questioning by the police on a fraud case, Interfax reports , citing law enforcement agencies. Interfax's interlocutor stated that Antipov was summoned to the police "after a decision was made to reclaim shares of his enterprises from the current owners in favor of the Russian Federation." What status he is in the fraud case, and against whom it was brought, is not specified.