OpenAI announced on February 9 that it had begun testing advertising in its ChatGPT chatbot among users in the US who have a Free and Go subscription. Advertising will not be shown to users under 18 years of age. It won't be around topics like health, mental health or politics. Additionally, users will be able to opt out of advertising in exchange for sending fewer free messages per day. Subscribers with Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education plans will not have advertising.

The Leninsky District Court of Samara imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on the representative of the non-parliamentary party Grigory Eremeev under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) because of statements about the Russian-Ukrainian war in the Samara Provincial Duma, the telegram channel “Caution, News” reported. An administrative case was opened after Eremeev’s speech at a meeting of the Duma on December 23, 2025.

US Vice President J.D. Vance signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of civil nuclear energy with the Armenian authorities in Yerevan, Bloomberg reported on February 9. The agreement allows American companies to export nuclear technology, as well as fuel and services, to Armenia. In addition, US companies will be able to participate in a competition to replace the Armenian nuclear power plant, which provides about 40% of the country's electricity, with small modular reactors.

Russian citizens made a record number of visits to the DPRK in 2025 - 9,985 trips, according to FSB data studied by Vestk and The Moscow Times . According to the department, citizens of the Russian Federation traveled to the DPRK mainly as tourists (5,075 trips). The second reason for visiting the country is vehicle maintenance work (3,080 trips). Russians made trips for business and private purposes 1,156 and 666 times, respectively.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the information that his son and secretary of the regional security council, Adam Kadyrov, was in a traffic accident a hoax. “With the help of artificial intelligence, you can deceive any person. There were 128 thousand accidents across the country, 13,009 people died, but no one cares about this, no one says anything.

After the divorce, he took the children and accused her of extortion. Before her death, she recorded a video saying that he is for Ukraine and against Putin Istra court Aliya Galitskaya in the courtroom in the case of extortion, February 6, 2026 46-year-old Aliya Galitskaya, the ex-wife of investor Alexander Galitsky (not to be confused with the founder of the Magnit chain of stores, Sergei Galitsky), committed suicide in a temporary detention center (IVS) in Istra, near Moscow.

The Bank of Russia will create a unified register of bank cards issued to citizens within a year, said Deputy Minister of Digital Development Ivan Lebedev, writes RBC. The database will contain information about “how many cards each citizen has and in which bank,” the official said, speaking at a meeting of the State Duma IT Committee on February 9.

The European Union has proposed imposing sanctions on the ports of Kulevi (Georgia) and Karimun (Indonesia) due to transactions with Russian oil, Reuters reported on February 9. This is stated in the document prepared by the European Commission and the European External Action Service. If the EU approves the proposed sanctions, European companies and individuals will be prohibited from conducting transactions with the two ports mentioned.

Among them is a holder of the Order of Courage (posthumously), after whom a school in Makhachkala was named Alexey Furman / Getty Images A burned car on the Zhytomyr highway between the villages of Myla and Mriya, Kyiv region, April 2, 2022 The British newspaper The Sunday Times, based on data from the Ukrainian police and intelligence services, named 13 Russian military personnel suspected of killing civilians of Ukraine on the “road of death” - a section of the Zhytomyr highway in the Kiev

Yulia Navalnaya and the Anti-Corruption Foundation announced that they are launching the “I’m in touch” campaign against Internet restrictions in Russia, Navalnaya herself said in a video message.

The court of the city of Kovdor, Murmansk region, fined a citizen of Ukraine, pensioner Vasily Yovdiy, 30 thousand rubles for “discrediting” the Russian army, which was recognized as liking a video on YouTube. The corresponding court ruling , issued on January 23, drew the attention of “Layout”. The court decision states that the administrative protocol against Yovdia was drawn up after an inspection by the FSB border department in the village of Alakurtti.

There are hundreds of buildings in the danger zone. Photos Fabrizio Villa / Getty Images View of Niscemi, a town where part of a landslide collapsed. January 27, 2026 In the Sicilian city of Niscemi (province of Caltanissetta), a landslide occurred at the end of January after heavy rains caused by Cyclone Harry. More than 1,600 city residents were evacuated , and hundreds of buildings were on the edge of a cliff. In total, about 25 thousand people live in the city.

Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in Russian captivity, was regularly sent to a punishment cell while imprisoned in the Taganrog pre-trial detention center. Once, when she was not allowed to meet with a psychologist, she tried to cut her wrists, a former Ukrainian prisoner told Slidstvo.Info. Journalists do not mention the real name of their interlocutor, presenting him under the pseudonym “Razor.” He was returned to Ukraine in October 2025.

Investment banker Jeffrey Epstein ordered the delivery of six barrels of sulfuric acid with a total volume of 1,250 liters to his island in 2018, according to one of the published “Epstein files” studied by the International Business Times. The document contained a request for payment of about five thousand dollars - this amount included the cost of the acid itself, as well as insurance and transportation services.

In Russia they began to fully prosecute for “Satanism” (yes, it is now also banned) You can read this story in English here . In Moscow, security forces disrupted a concert of the group “Evil Spirits”, which took place at the Eclipse club. The police raid was reported by Izvestia , as well as REN TV and telegram channel 112 . The concert of the group “Evil Spirits” was announced on the social networks of the Eclipse club on December 5.