The Bitcoin cryptocurrency rate dropped to $62,345 at 23:55 Moscow time, according to data from the Binance exchange. This is half the peak in October 2025, when Bitcoin rose to $126,199, according to Binance. The Bitcoin price has been falling since mid-January.

The Estonian government will close night traffic through the Luhamaa and Koidula border checkpoints for three months from February 24, ERR reported on February 5. Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said authorities want to free up resources for more effective border security because Russia “sometimes behaves irrationally” at the border. During the day, checkpoints will be open for 12 hours.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed lifting the ban on registering cars that are on the international wanted list at the initiative of states that the Russian Federation considers “unfriendly.” The draft amendments to the law on vehicle registration are posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

US President Donald Trump believes that it is necessary to develop an improved treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms instead of extending START III . “Instead of extending New START (an agreement that the United States poorly negotiated and is flagrantly violating), we should task our nuclear experts with crafting a new, improved, and modernized treaty that will last,” he wrote in Truth Social.

In 2025, 199 such crimes were recorded in the region. This is three times more than a year earlier Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A residential building that local authorities said was left without electricity after an attack by Ukrainian troops. Belgorod, January 9 In the Belgorod region in 2025, a record number of rapes was registered among all regions of Russia - 199 cases, which is three times more than a year earlier, reports the project “To Be Precise” .

How did the negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States go in Abu Dhabi? This is a brief retelling of the statements that representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the United States made following the results of the second round of trilateral negotiations dedicated to the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Negotiations took place in Abu Dhabi on February 4 and 5. USA Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff The delegations discussed issues that remain open.

In this game, journalist and geopolitics expert Alexander Gabuev played the role of Putin. We talked to him Oliver Berg / picture alliance / Getty Images In December 2025, the German newspaper Die Welt and the German War Games Center at the German Armed Forces University staged a Russian invasion of NATO territory. This role-playing game involved 16 people: former high-ranking German and NATO officials and security experts.

The naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized two tankers in the Persian Gulf, Fars reported on February 5. It is unknown who owns the tankers. The IRGC claims that the tankers were smuggling fuel. During the inspection, more than a million liters of fuel were discovered. 15 crew members were detained and will appear in court, the IRGC said.

A court in Kazakhstan refused to grant political asylum to former Russian military man Evgeny Korobov, who deserted from the army, Artur Alkhastov, a lawyer at the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights, told the BBC Russian Service. Previously, the Astana Department of Employment and Social Protection refused to grant refugee status to Korobov.

The Khimki court in the Moscow region ordered forced treatment for a native of Belarus, Vladimir Vitikov, who attacked a child at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, TASS was told in court. The court found that Vitikov is dangerous to society. They decided to send him to a closed psychiatric hospital with intensive observation and released him from criminal liability for health reasons.

The Russian and US delegations at the negotiations in Abu Dhabi reached an agreement to resume high-level dialogue between military departments, reports the US European Command. As noted, this communication channel was suspended in the fall of 2021, immediately before the start of a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.

Heroes of this top: Channing Tatum and one unbearably annoying polar bear Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Independent Film Festival has ended in Park City. Over the years of its existence, this show has launched the careers of a variety of filmmakers - from Steven Soderbergh to Celine Sohn, and has also developed a powerful documentary section: this year, for example, all five non-fiction Oscar nominees were shown for the first time at Sundance.

Russia and the United States are close to an agreement on the actual extension of the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START III), which expires on February 5, Axios reports, citing sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations. According to the publication’s interlocutors, the draft plan must still be approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.

One thousand four hundred and forty-third day. The second round of negotiations took place in Abu Dhabi. TASS claims that Moscow demands recognition of Donbass as Russian by all countries of the world Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

London's Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, sentenced Vladimir Motin, captain of the Solong container ship, to six years in prison in the case of a collision between two ships in the North Sea, the BBC Russian Service reports. A jury on February 2 found Motin, 59, guilty of criminal negligence resulting in death. They unanimously agreed with the prosecutors that Motin did not take the measures that he was obliged to take as captain to avoid a collision.