Representatives of Russia and Ukraine, during negotiations held with the participation of the United States in recent weeks, discussed the idea of ​​​​creating a demilitarized zone in the Donetsk region, which would not be controlled by either the Russian Armed Forces or the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We are talking about the territory of the region, which is now controlled by Ukraine.

In Belgorod, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged as a result of an APU strike, Mayor Valentin Demidov said. According to him, interruptions in the supply of electricity and heating began in the city. Authorities have no information about casualties yet. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, clarified that we are talking about a massive missile attack on the city’s energy facilities. “There is a lot of damage.

The Russian government refused to provide the Samolet construction company with a preferential loan of 50 billion rubles, which the developer had previously asked for, the Kommersant newspaper reported on February 18, citing sources. According to them, the company’s financial situation is not so critical as to provide it with direct government support, but the developer will be provided with indirect assistance.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, spoke about reconciliation with Senator Suleiman Kerimov, noting that “nobody forced him or summoned him to the Kremlin for this.” Thus, Kadyrov commented in his Telegram channel on the words of the chief mufti, chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Ravil Gainutdin.

The Moscow Regional Court overturned the decision of the lower court, which on February 6 took into custody 46-year-old Aliya Galitskaya, the ex-wife of investor Alexander Galitsky. The court “pointed out the lack of proper motivation for the decision to take the suspect into custody,” the press service of the regional courts of general jurisdiction reported.

The navies of Iran and Russia are conducting joint exercises in the Gulf of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, state-run Iranian and Russian media reported. In particular, the corvette of the Baltic Fleet “Staudy” has been in the port of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz since February 14. The day before, the press service of the fleet reported that the Steadfast, together with ships of the Iranian Navy, conducted the Passex naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman.

Roskomnadzor officially announced that it does not block resources associated with the Linux operating system after programmers complained about their inaccessibility. “No decisions have been made by the authorized bodies regarding Linux services; restrictions are not applied to them,” the press service of the RKN told the publication Podem.

The amount is 12 trillion dollars (that’s six times Russia’s GDP). The Economist writes that this cannot happen Sergey Anisimov / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Prirazlomnaya is the only Russian offshore platform producing oil on the Arctic shelf After Donald Trump returned to the presidency of the United States at the beginning of 2025, two negotiation processes are ongoing simultaneously between Russia and the United States. The first concerns the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The largest redistribution of property in Russia since the 1990s affected dozens of large businessmen and almost 20 of the largest companies by revenue. This is stated in a study by the independent think tank Cedar , the results of which are cited by The Bell. According to the study, 30 out of 311 participants in the Forbes list (9%) faced nationalization, its attempts or forced sale of assets on non-market conditions for the period from 2014 to 2025.

Renaissance Capital announced that it has closed a deal to purchase 100% of JSC CB Citibank, a Russian subsidiary of Citigroup. The transaction price is not disclosed. Citibank will be renamed JSC RenCap Bank. It will continue to operate under the single brand of the Renaissance Capital group. The bank's website states that it will continue to use the name "Citibank" until appropriate changes are registered in the company's charter.

Russian athletes competing at the Olympic Games were not given phones, like all other participants, due to sanctions. RBC writes about this with reference to the International Olympic Committee. Before the start of the Games, the organizers of the Games announced that all participants would receive phones as a gift from Samsung, a sponsor of the International Olympic Committee.

65-year-old artist-jeweler Alexander Dotsenko from Gatchina, convicted in the case of “justifying terrorism,” suffered a heart attack, was sent to the hospital and put into a medically induced coma, the prisoner’s support group reported . As reported in the group, Dotsenko was taken to the hospital with a massive heart attack on February 12. At that time, his condition was assessed as critical.

How did this become possible? After all, this is not the case at the Olympics. Exactly one month after the start of the Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Paralympic Winter Games will start in Italy. They will be held from March 6 to 15, and this time, for the first time since the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russians will participate with the flag and anthem.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against the former “people's governor” of the Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev, about “discrediting” the army. RBC drew attention to this. “Whether this is someone’s intention, I don’t know, I can only assume that some people didn’t like my texts. I rate this fact as hopeless stupidity. I don’t expect any consequences for myself,” Gubarev himself told the publication. Gubarev did not specify which texts he was talking about.

Rospatent has received an application to register the trademark “Larisa Dolina Save and Increase”, which will be used in the real estate industry. The application was submitted on behalf of the singer herself, according to RIA Novosti and the Moscow agency, which studied the Rospatent database. According to documents, the application was submitted in February 2026.