The Vienna prosecutor's office has charged a 21-year-old Austrian citizen with terrorism in the case of preparing an attack at the singer Taylor Swift's concert in Vienna in 2024, Kurier reports, citing a statement from the department. The name of the accused has not been released. According to local media, his name is Beran A., he is an Austrian citizen and has been under arrest since his arrest in August 2024. He faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of terrorism and other crimes.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov (“New People”) collected more than one million signatures against the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia. Davankov announced his initiative on January 21.

Police detained 14 people at rallies in memory of Alexei Navalny held across Russia on the second anniversary of the politician's murder, according to the OVD-Info human rights project, which tracks arrest data. In Volgograd, while laying flowers at the monument to victims of political repression, a local resident named Andrey (his last name is not indicated) was detained. He was taken to the police department and released a couple of hours later, without explaining the reason for his detention.

The memory of Alexei Navalny was honored at the Borisov Cemetery. The people who came to the politician’s grave were filmed by security forces - but they didn’t care. This is how the day went "Shore" Two days before the anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny, five European countries announced that, according to the results of independent examinations, the politician was poisoned in a colony in the Arctic Circle. The poison used for the killing was epibatidine .

The State Duma Committee on Industry and Trade supported the proposal to introduce a value added tax (VAT) on imported goods sold on online platforms, Interfax and Kommersant report. This measure will not depend on the availability of a duty-free threshold. Now goods for personal use worth up to 200 euros and weighing up to 31 kilograms are imported into the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union ( EAEU ) without duties and taxes.

Did he succeed? Giuseppe Lami / EPA / Scanpix / LETA German Foreign Minister Johann Wadefull, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrault at the Munich Security Conference The main event of the Munich Security Conference, which took place on February 13-15, was the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. His speech was perceived as conciliatory. At the 2025 conference, US Vice President J.D.

American actor and film director Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95, AFP reports, citing a statement from the actor's wife. Mark Blinch / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Duvall is known for the films “Battle Hospital,” “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now.” He starred in more than 100 films. Duvall began his television career in the 1960s. In 1962, he made his feature film debut playing the role of Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1966, the actor began performing on Broadway.

The service retroactively checks transfers from CIS countries and closes accounts if clients do not explain the origin of the money. What to do? The neobank Revolut, which in the fall of 2025 shocked Russians living in Europe with the massive disconnection of accounts, has again strengthened supervision over clients with Russian citizenship. As Oninvest noted , this time the service has tightened checks on money transfers from the CIS countries.

Caterina Bruzzone / Scanpix / LETA “Lovers’ Arch” before the collapse The Rock of Sant'Andrea, also known as the "Arch of Lovers", has collapsed on the Adriatic coast in south-eastern Italy, Corriere Lecce reports . This happened on February 14, when the world celebrated Valentine's Day. The collapse was caused by weather conditions and sea erosion.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region opened a criminal case for evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (330.1 of the Criminal Code) against Marat Nikandrov, who was declared a “foreign agent” in 2023 at his own request.

15 countries of the world issued a joint statement on the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony. Its text is published on the website of the German Foreign Ministry.

The FSB will be able to block communications even if there is no security threat in the country or region. The conditions for such blocking will be established by the President of the Russian Federation, the new version of the amendments to the Law “On Communications” states, the Agency noted . Changes to the bill were prepared for the second reading and published on the State Duma website. According to RIA Novosti, deputies will consider the new edition at a meeting on February 17.

One thousand four hundred fifty-fourth day. The Kremlin: at the negotiations in Abu Dhabi they discussed only security issues, in Geneva we will discuss territories 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?

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to staff fire departments with conscripted military personnel, the head of the department, Alexander Kurenkov, said at a meeting of the State Duma Security Committee. According to him, one of the department’s problems is the “outflow of personnel” due to low salaries for both ordinary employees and highly trained specialists. “This initiative has already been agreed upon with the Russian Ministry of Defense,” Kurenkov said.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya overturned the sentence of the mother of opposition activists, Zarema Musaeva, on charges of attacking a colony employee and sent the criminal case for a new trial, reports Team Against Torture. In August 2025, the Shali City Court of Chechnya sentenced Musayeva to four years in a penal colony in a criminal case for disrupting the activities of a correctional institution (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code).