The European Commission has clarified that EU member states can use the existing EU social fund to provide free abortions for women coming from EU countries where abortion is restricted. As reported by Reuters on February 26, the European Commission responded to the women's rights campaign My Voice, My Choice, which advocates for the creation of an EU-funded tool to help women who want to have an abortion abroad due to restrictions at home.

The former head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, who is challenging the sanctions imposed against him in Canada, said that he has always been in opposition to the President of the Russian Federation and opposed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As the Kommersant newspaper reported on February 26, Chubais stated this in a lawsuit filed in the Federal Court of Canada. Chubais asks the court to order the Canadian Foreign Ministry to respond to his statement.

The US and Iranian delegations held another round of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. The meeting took place in Geneva on February 26. The United States was represented by Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Iran by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. They communicated for several hours, during two sessions in the morning and evening.

US authorities have slowed down the sale of international assets of the sanctioned Russian company Lukoil in order to use them to put pressure on the Russian Federation in negotiations to end the war with Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources. The United States imposed sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as their structures, in October. After this, Lukoil began to look for a buyer for its foreign assets. They are valued at $22 billion.

The Afghan military has launched operations against Pakistan along the Durand Line in the provinces of Khost, Paktia, Nuristan and some other areas in response to airstrikes by Pakistani forces, ToloNews and Reuters report, citing the Afghan Ministry of Defense. Pakistan carried out airstrikes on February 22, allegedly targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State militant camps in Khorasan province in eastern Afghanistan.

Hillary Clinton testified before the US Congress and called for Trump to be questioned. Brief retelling This is a summary of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement to the House Oversight Committee in Chappaqua, New York, on February 26. The meeting was held behind closed doors, Clinton published the text of her opening remarks. Congressional investigations are political theater.

RBC and The Bell wrote about this. Roskomnadzor said it had “nothing to add” Lam Yik/Bloomberg/Getty Images Telegram will be completely blocked in Russia on April 1, RBC and The Bell report , citing sources. Earlier, the telegram channel Baza, close to the security forces, mentioned the same date. RBC's interlocutors close to the Kremlin called the blocking decision final.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced former volunteer and photographer of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters, Alexander Strukov, to six years in prison on charges of “justifying terrorism” (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona reports. The punishment was imposed in conjunction with the sentence in Strukov’s first case. According to his lawyer, the defendant actually had a year and a half added to his previous sentence.

One thousand four hundred and sixty-fourth day. The European Union is discussing how to make concessions to Orban so that he will unblock aid to Ukraine. He has an election soon - and he may lose 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?

Answered by an employee of the Memorial Society During the scientific council of the Russian Military Historical Society , the head of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, called for “exposing” the quote from the book “Zone. Notes of the warden" Sergei Dovlatov - that citizens of the USSR wrote "four million denunciations": Indeed, four million denunciations were written and, if there were denunciations, who wrote them?

Journalist and politician Ekaterina Duntsova, detained on February 26 in Tver, was released from the police. She told OVD-Info that the reason for her detention was a denunciation of an uncoordinated rally. At the police department she was questioned and released without a protocol. Earlier, Duntsova’s supporters from the Dawn party reported that the journalist was detained at an evening of letters to political prisoners.

Russian authorities plan to finally block the Telegram messenger in early April, RBC reports, citing a source familiar with discussions in the relevant departments. Two of the publication's interlocutors close to the Kremlin called this decision final. “Among the reasons for the blocking discussed, they indicated that recently cases of recruiting people, including minors, to commit illegal acts have become more frequent,” the article says.

In Tver, police detained journalist Ekaterina Duntsova, who was denied registration as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The arrest was reported by Duntsova’s supporters from the Dawn party. Duntsova was detained at an evening of letters to political prisoners, the party’s telegram channel reported . “Ekaterina was taken to the central police department to give an explanation. The remaining participants were not detained,” the statement says.

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation has renamed “Conversations about important things” for kindergartens into “Good Games,” the Agency noted on February 26. The head of the department, Sergei Kravtsov, said that during the “Good Games” classes, children “will come into contact, among other things, with the history of our country, with the history of their family,” RIA Novosti writes. The ministry launched the project in August 2025.

Vladimir Putin created a commission under the President of Russia on the development of artificial intelligence technologies. The corresponding decree was published on the legal information portal. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Maxim Oreshkin were appointed co-chairs of the commission.