The United States Department of Justice has charged the head of VTB Bank, Andrei Kostin, with violating the sanctions regime and money laundering. This is stated in a press release on the department's website. It is alleged that Kostin, despite the imposed sanctions, maintained two superyachts worth a total of more than $135 million, as well as a large home in Aspen, Colorado.

US President Joe Biden met with the widow of Alexei Navalny Julia, and his daughter Daria. The American leader reported this on his page in X. Biden expressed his support for his family, who died and stated that Navalny’s legacy would live in them. Where exactly the meeting went, is not specified. “Today I met with Julia and Dasha Navalny - relatives of Alexei Navalny - to express condolences in connection with their tragic loss.

The main events of February 22 The poster with the inscription "Alexei Navalny is not silent!" On a prayer for peace in Kroyskirh in memory of Alexei Navalny, February 19, 2024. Photo: Robert Michael / Picture Alliance / Getty Images Navalny's mother said that investigators threaten to “do something with the body” if the politics is not buried secretly. The Voronezhets, who was arrested in the case of Gosizman, announced torture in jail.

Why did the Central Bank close Kiwi Bank, which now to make it to customers and what role the payment system played in the black market Photo: Eugene Reasonable / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press On February 21, the Russian Central Bank announced that he withdrew the license at Kiwi Bank (QIWI). His services “QIWI Wallet” and Contact - through them millions of Russians paid for services, received salaries and made cross -border transfers - stopped working.

Screenshot from the video Alexey Navalny’s mother has accused the Russian authorities of threatening her and forcing her to agree to a secret burial for her son. In a video posted to the Navalny Live YouTube channel on Thursday, Lyudmila Navalnaya said that she had been taken to see Alexey’s body in the morgue in Salekhard on Wednesday evening and had signed his death certificate, which, according to Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, said Navalny had died “of natural causes”.

The mother of the deceased in the colony of Alexei Navalny Lyudmila Navalny made a new appeal in which she stated that investigators were threatening to “do something with the body” of the politician if he was not buried secretly. The opposition’s mother said that yesterday she was secretly taken to the morgue, where they showed the body of her son. “Investigators claim that they know the causes of death. They are ready for all the medical and legal documents that I saw.

On the ninth day from the death of a politician, February 24, you can come to the temple and submit a note about the repose of Alexy. Appeal of Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin Photo by Alexei Navalny among the colors of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, February 21, 2024. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke / EPA-EFE Novyevropin publishes the appeal of Archpriest Andrei Cordochkin to Christians who mourn these days about the death of the politician Alexei Navalny.

Portrait of a global policy that was born on February 16, 2024 Julia Navalny. Photo: Vidier Lebrun / Photonews / Getty images They are together for almost 26 years, officially in marriage - almost 24th week. She is a widow. The whole world writes and says about it today, making bets regarding its future as a politician.

Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov speaks to journalists during a press conference in Kyiv in September. Photo: EPA-EFE/STR Spanish intelligence services have “no doubt” that the Kremlin ordered the assassination of Maxim Kuzminov, a former Russian military helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine in August and subsequently moved to Spain, Spanish daily El País reported on Thursday.

More than 100 foreign companies are continuing to operate in Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / Novaya Gazeta Europe The Russian authorities are fond of saying that foreign firms only pretend to have left Russia, and even if they do, they always come back. Novaya Gazeta Europe’s latest data investigation found that the Kremlin, for once, had a point.

Photo: EPA-EFE/MIKHAIL METZEL Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has accused US President Joe Biden of acting like a “Hollywood cowboy” after he called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB”, state news agency Interfax reported on Thursday. “We have a crazy SOB like that guy Putin and others and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate,” Biden said at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Wednesday.

A resident of the Voronezh region, Ivan Ignatov, who was arrested in a case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), complained that FSB officers were torturing him in a pre-trial detention center. His letter was published on the website “Free People of Voronezh”. Ignatov said that FSB officers strangled him with a bag, shocked him, including in the genital area, and also raped him with a mop handle.

The story of Nadine Geisler is a volunteer from Belgorod, which helped Ukrainian refugees, and now sits in a pre -trial detention center "Army of Beauties", Nadine Geisler - the second on the left / VK On February 1, in Belgorod, FSB officers detained Nadine Geisler - a famous local activist, leader of the volunteer organization “Army of Beauties”. From the very beginning of the war, she and other Belgorod beauties were engaged in the help of Ukrainian refugees.

Memorial to Alexey Navalny in St. Petersburg, 16 February 2024. Photo: Artyom Priakhin / SOPA Images / Sipa USA / Vida Press Russian Orthodox priests and members of the church have appealed in writing to the Russian authorities for the body of murdered political prisoner Alexey Navalny to be given to his family for burial. The letter, signed by over 800 people, says Navalny was “a man of faith, an Orthodox Christian”, whose family deserved the chance to give him a proper burial.

Photo: Boris Nadezhdin / Telegram The Russian Supreme Court has rejected the third and final appeal by presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin against the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) not to register his candidacy in March’s presidential election.