Businessman Oleg Tinkov announced that he has decided to close the Tinkov Family Foundation and also to leave the board of trustees of the Leukemia Foundation because the Russian authorities have declared him a “foreign agent.” "A couple of weeks ago, the Russian regime called me a so-called 'foreign agent'... It is unclear how a foreigner can be under foreign influence, but this oxymoron only confirms the stupidity, savagery and desperation of today's Russia," Tinkov said.

The US House of Representatives has approved a bill to temporarily fund the federal government. 320 congressmen (207 Democrats and 113 Republicans) voted for the bill, 99 were against. The vote in the Senate is expected to take place later on February 29. The adopted bill allows us to avoid a shutdown—a temporary suspension of government work.

Police in St. Petersburg detained Valeria Meshcheryakova because of a rally in support of journalist Elena Milashina “The Face of Russian Journalism,” which took place at the graduation ceremony of St. Petersburg State University in July 2023. This was reported by OVD-Info and Paper with reference to relatives of the detainee. The police detained Meshcheryakova at the Moskovsky station as she was exiting the train.

Putin’s order to appoint political commissars responsible for ‘strengthening patriotism’ in Russian government bodies 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 Medusa authorities in Moscow are actively preparing for the funeral of the politician Alexei Navalny, scheduled for March 1. Police patrols appeared in the Borisov cemetery. On the territory of the church, the Icon of the Mother of God “Srown my sorrows” in Maryino, where the funeral service will pass, on the afternoon of February 29, iron barriers began to install (in the photo).

In the first five days of the Let's project , launched by the Support Service together with Meduza and Dozhd, 53 thousand euros were collected for civilians in Ukraine who suffered from Russian military aggression. 2,735 people received donations. More than 80% of donations are monthly, that is, assistance will be provided to those in need through Ukrainian funds every month. The first amounts will be sent to help Ukrainians this week.

Palestinians say that the Israeli military opened fire on the crowd. They assure the IDF that people died as a result of a crush, and not because of shooting AFP / Scanpix / Leta More than a hundred people died in line for humanitarian aid in the gas sector early in the morning of February 29. According to the Palestinian side, this happened due to the fact that the Israeli military opened fire on the crowd.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that if Ukraine is defeated, NATO troops will fight Russia. He said this at a hearing in the House Armed Services Committee on his hospitalization in early January. If Ukraine loses, Putin will not stop, he will continue to attack and seize sovereign territory of his neighbors. And if you are a Baltic country, you are very worried about whether you will be next. And so they know Putin, they know what he is capable of.

Russian authorities leaving nothing to chance as Navalny’s funeral approaches After a week-long fight to secure his body from the authorities, followed by days of struggling to make funeral arrangements while the government worked to stop them, Alexey Navalny’s family and associates plan to bury him in Moscow on March 1. According to Navalny’s press secretary, a memorial service will be held at a church in the city’s Maryino District at 2:00 p.m.

He spent his childhood in a conservative Christian community.

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow fined the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Sergei Sokolov, 30 thousand rubles under the administrative article on “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) because of the publication’s material published in the telegram channel. At the hearing, judge Olga Ashurova denied Sokolov’s defense to satisfy all requests.

What we know David Young / dpa / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian soldiers fire a salute during the burial of eight Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war at a cemetery in Kharkiv. According to President Zelensky, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have already lost their lives in the two years since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. 26 February 2024. Kharkiv, Ukraine.

As independent studies show, the core of "supporters of their" melts. We publish the material of the project Re: Russia Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta inscription "Changes" in the snow covering ice on the Fontanka River in St. Petersburg, February 11, 2024 On February 29, Putin said that the “vast majority of the Russian people” supported the war with Ukraine.

American scientist and blogger of Russian origin Lex Friedman published a podcast with journalist Tucker Carlson, who recorded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in early February. In the conversation, Friedman asked Carlson what he thought about the “denazification” that Putin used as a reason for invading Ukraine. Here's what Carlson said in response: I thought that was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard.

Officials in Ukraine fear that Russian troops could break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the summer of 2024 if the West does not increase supplies of ammunition to Kyiv. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing a source familiar with the plans of the Ukrainian authorities. The pessimism of Kyiv and its allies, the agency notes, has been growing for several weeks as Russian troops seize the initiative on the front line.