Representatives of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor have demanded that her songs be stopped from being used at former US President Donald Trump's campaign events, the BBC reports. According to the publication, in February, during Trump’s political rally in Maryland, O’Connor’s most famous song, “Nothing Compares 2 U,” was performed.

France does not consider the possibility of sending its military contingent to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the Czech publication Novinky.cz. In a conversation with journalists, Macron recalled that on February 26, at a press conference, following a meeting of the leaders of the European Union in Paris, he was asked about sending troops to Ukraine.

Russian battalion of far-right soccer fans reportedly funded by railway official with ties to billionaire Rotenberg brothers Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Española members during a training session near Mariupol. June 22, 2023. Alongside its regular army units, mobilized units, and prisoners’ units waging war in Ukraine, Russia has dozens of pseudo-mercenary groups that receive financing from large companies and state agencies.

US Air Force soldier Jack Teixeira, accused in the case of leaking classified Pentagon documents, entered into a plea agreement, ABC News reports. As part of the deal, Teixeira pleaded guilty to six charges, including knowingly storing and transmitting information relating to national defense. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to bring more serious charges against the military man, including espionage.

At the International Hippocratic Medical Forum, Archpriest Igor Aksenov said that Russia must develop a program to promote chastity among youth, reports The Moscow Times. Aksenov says this program should be introduced in schools with the aim of preserving the younger generation’s reproductive health. An excerpt from the archpriest’s speech was published by Russian journalist and socialite Ksenia Sobchak.

The first deputy head of the Novosibirsk city administration, Yuri Ovcharenko, addressed the heads of management companies in the Leninsky district of the city with a request to provide a list of debtors for housing and communal services to transfer this data to the military registration and enlistment offices. A letter about collecting lists of debtors, signed by Ovcharenko, was published in her Telegram channel by independent deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council Svetlana Kaverzina.

This was done after the US Supreme Court allowed the States to prohibit the termination of pregnancy (and they began to introduce such a ban) Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / Leta supporters of consolidating the right to abortion in the Constitution of France, March 4, 2024 The upper and lower chambers of France’s parliament at a special joint meeting in Versailles on March 4 approved changes to the country's constitution - now the right of women to abortion will be fixed there.

Tolyatti resident Polina Yevtushenko, arrested in the summer of 2023 in the case of preparation for treason, was finally charged - she faces up to 22 and a half years in prison, reports the human rights project “First Department”. According to the press service of the court, Yevtushenko was placed under arrest for allegedly inducing a resident of Samara to commit high treason - joining the Freedom of Russia legion fighting on the side of Ukraine.

The ‘Forever War’ on Ukraine is chipping away at anti-war Russians’ morale By Jeremy Morris and Mack Tubridy Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, a constant challenge for outside observers has been divining Russian public opinion. Making sense of what Russians “really think” has never been simple, but wartime censorship, an unrelenting crackdown on dissent, and the fact that few now travel to Russia make this task all the more difficult.

43 countries demanded that Russia conduct an independent international investigation into the death of politician Alexei Navalny. Agence France-Presse reports this. The EU permanent representative to the UN, Lotte Knudsen, made the demand on behalf of these states. “Navalny’s unexpected and shocking death was yet another sign of increasing systematic repression in Russia,” she said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Due to the invasion of Ukraine and the death of Navalny, the West clearly believes that it is useless to negotiate with Putin. But still will have to? How? On February 26, the chairman of the FBC Maria Pevchiki said that for two years the team of Alexei Navalny worked on the exchange of a policy for Vadim Krasikov, the alleged employee of the FSB, convicted in Germany for the murder.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “undesirable” organizations, adding to it the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the German Society for Eastern European Studies and the Mobile Academy for Support of Gender Democracy and Peacemaking. According to the register, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office declared these organizations “undesirable” on February 14. The Ministry of Justice also added to its list the XZ foundation, a foundation created to combat Russian propaganda.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump is eligible to run for president. The justices unanimously overturned a ban imposed by the Colorado Supreme Court. The lawsuit was originally filed by six Republicans living in the state. It relied on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which bars rioters from running for public office. The plaintiffs sought to remove Donald Trump's name from the Colorado primary ballot.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow sentenced 14 defendants in a criminal case about a criminal community created, according to investigators, for the theft of gas by Raul Arashukov, the father of former member of the Federation Council from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov.

The Metallurgical District Court of Chelyabinsk arrested Nikita Sidorov, a participant in the war in Ukraine, on suspicion of murdering his ex-wife, reports the local publication Chelyabinsk Online. According to the publication, the murder occurred on the night of February 25.