Three favorites fell, and figure skater Mikhail Shaidorov, whom few expected to be the winner, took gold. Actually it happens Tim Clayton / Getty Images Ilya Malinin congratulates Mikhail Shaydorov on his victory On February 13, at the Olympics in Italy, athlete Mikhail Shaydorov became the first figure skater from Kazakhstan to win a gold medal. The favorites - American Ilya Malinin, Japanese Yuma Kagiyama and Frenchman Adam Xiao Him Fa - fell one after another.

The Finnish Ministry of Defense is studying the possibility of interfering in previously completed real estate transactions in the country in which Russians participated. YLE reports this was stated by the head of the department, Antti Häkkänen, in an interview with the STT news agency. According to Häkkänen, such an intervention could apply to transactions involving all types of real estate completed within the last 20 years.

Ukraine is ready to hold elections subject to a two-month ceasefire, Vladimir Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference. “Give us two months of truce, and we will go to elections. That's all. Give us a truce, give us security, infrastructure... we need many days to prepare,” he said (quoted by RBC-Ukraine).

Epibatidine is a very strong and dangerous toxin. Symptoms of poisoning are similar to Novichok. And Russian authorities appear to have been the first to use it for murder. Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands said that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a substance called epibatidine. This became known thanks to the analysis of biological samples that the politician’s associates were able to take out of Russia. This is a substance that affects the cells of the nervous system.

One thousand four hundred fifty-second day. Zelensky - at the Munich Security Conference: “Putin may consider himself a tsar, but he is a slave to this war” 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? How does war affect your life and your attitude towards the world?

Great Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands published a joint statement about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony with the substance epibatidine, the poison of a South American frog. The statement was agreed upon by the foreign ministers of the five countries and published on the British government website. It states, in particular, that epibatidine is a poisonous frog toxin from South America; contact with it naturally is impossible in Russia.

We publish photographs from Kyiv that help you see the disaster at close range Across Ukraine, many houses remain without electricity and heat due to Russian attacks on infrastructure. Including in the capital, where on February 12 about a quarter of high-rise buildings freeze. Despite the fact that the crisis in Ukraine is on the front pages of international publications, few people outside the warring country understand what Kyiv looks like now.

This conclusion was reached independently by experts from five European countries who studied biomaterials Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Listen to the audio version of this text on Radio Medusa You can read this story in English here . The substance epibatidine was found in the biomaterials of Alexei Navalny, which the politician’s family managed to take abroad after the murder.

His speech was greeted with applause Alex Kraus/Bloomberg/Getty Images Marco Rubio in Munich during an interview with Bloomberg US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, emphasized the close ties between the United States and Europe. He, in particular, recalled how the United States and Europe together won many conflicts of the 20th century.

Emirald Fennell wanted to make an outrageous movie in the spirit of the original source, but it turned out, well... at most a gift for Valentine's Day Warner Bros. Pictures In theaters: “Wuthering Heights” by Emirald Fennell. Emily Brontë's famous novel was published in 1847, during the Victorian era; contemporaries criticized it for its "immorality", but today it is an undisputed classic - and the British even consider it the main romantic book of all time.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 14. He, in particular, assessed the attempts to achieve an end to Russia’s war with Ukraine. “We don’t know whether the Russians are serious about ending the war. They say yes. And on what conditions are they ready to do this, and can we find conditions acceptable to Ukraine, with which Russia will always agree? But we will continue to check this,” said the US Secretary of State.

Former director of procurement and logistics of the Kalashnikov concern, Ksenia Grashchenkova, was arrested in a case of theft during the execution of a state defense order, TASS reports. Grashchenkova has been charged with abuse of power, law enforcement officials told the agency.

Dating in Russia changed during the war. How exactly? Here are four stories of people looking for love and sex Dmitry Serebryakov / AP / Scanpix / LETA The Russian invasion of Ukraine even affected those areas of everyday life of Russians that were difficult to think about in this context. For example, the dating market changed significantly almost immediately.

We talk about the consequences of a possible blocking (spoiler: everyone will suffer, from developers to tourists) and explain what to expect next Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images In the last few days, starting on February 9, the Russian authorities have resumed active attempts to disrupt popular foreign Internet services and make them completely unavailable in the country. Telegram worked intermittently, and YouTube and WhatsApp were under threat of complete blocking.

The US presidential administration published greeting cards for Valentine's Day on its social network account X. One of the valentines depicts former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was captured in Caracas in early 2026 and taken to the United States.