Photo: Ronald Wittek/EPA The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) conducted searches at the central office of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main, as well as at one of the bank's branches in Berlin. This was reported by Der Spiegel. The searches were authorized by the prosecutor's office. The department told the publication that they are conducting an investigation into as yet unidentified Deutsche Bank employees who are suspected of money laundering.

Illustrative photo. Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV A Russian soldier has kidnapped and killed a woman in the Siberian city of Irkutsk after an anti-domestic violence charity took his wife into its care following months of abuse, regional news outlet Baikal People reported on Wednesday.

“White Nights” went viral on TikTok and became Dostoevsky’s most popular work in the West: we remember the story on the 145th anniversary of the writer’s death Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” Traditionally, Dostoevsky’s most widely read works were the novels of the “Great Pentateuch.” But now the situation has changed. “White Nights” burst into the English-language top. In December 2024, The Guardian reported that the early story took 4th place in sales in the UK among all translated books.

Photo: Franck Robichon/EPA Russian long jumper Daria Klishina was deprived of an apartment in Tver, which was given to her by the city authorities, and this housing was given to a military man. The athlete spoke about this in an interview with Vita Kravchenko. “In 2011, I was given a one-room apartment in Tver. This was the only place where I was registered.

Director and member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Bortko criticized clericalism on the state channel. For this, an entire World Russian Council fell upon him. Another series of fights Vladimir Bortko.

While Volodymyr Zelensky appears upbeat about US security guarantees, Davos only demonstrated Trump’s unreliability Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 22 January 2026. Photo: EPA / Gian Ehrenzeller Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that a security agreement with the United States had been finalised following his most recent meeting with US President Donald Trump.

The European Court for the first time banned theses from the Navalny investigation Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA The Hamburg Regional Court upheld the claim of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov against the German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and prohibited the editorial office from disseminating “numerous slanderous statements” about the businessman. This was reported by RBC and Forbes .

From September 1, there will be one hour less English in secondary schools. How will this affect students' English proficiency and what can parents do? Photo: Vladimir Novikov / press service of the mayor and government of Moscow / AGN “Moscow” From September 1, 2026, Russian schools will reduce the number of English lessons for students in grades 5–7: instead of three lessons per week, there will be two, according to the draft order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

Svetlana Tolkachova. Photo: Memorial A woman from Russia’s southwestern Kursk region has been arrested and charged with treason for corresponding with an alleged Ukrainian intelligence agent based in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, human rights organisation Memorial reported on Tuesday. According to Russian human rights organisation Memorial, Svetlana Tolkachova, 43, has been in pretrial detention in the city of Kursk since 25 December over her links to Alexey Lebedev, a volunteer from Tbilisi.

Russian troops are leaving the Qamishli airbase, a key facility in northeastern Syria. Why is Moscow curtailing its presence after five years? A Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 takes off from Qamishli Airport, Syria, January 27, 2026. Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russia has begun withdrawing troops from Qamishli airfield in northeastern Syria, where Russian units have been stationed since 2019, Reuters reported on January 26, citing five sources.

Investigators at the scene of a Russian drone strike on a passenger train near the village of Yazykove, Ukraine, 28 January 2026. Photo: Kharkiv region Prosecutor's Office A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region killed five people and injured two others on Tuesday evening, while overnight attacks elsewhere in the country killed a further three people, the Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday.

A court in the Krasnoyarsk Territory imposed a fine of 15 thousand rubles each on Tatyana Zinnatulina and Yulia Klushina in cases of “discrediting” the army, 7x7 journalists noted . At a school-wide parent meeting on October 24 at school No. 3 in the village of Tinsky, Yulia Klushina proposed spending the money raised at the school fair for the needs of the school, and not to help participants in the war with Ukraine.

A military man returning from the front held her hostage for several hours and then killed a ward of the Obereg charity foundation. This was reported by “People of Baikal” with reference to the head of the fund, Alexander Sobolev. The man said that the military man terrorized his wife and 7-year-old son for several months: he carried out “bullying with knife slashing, kicking, and humiliation.” The foundation repeatedly contacted the police, but the man remained at large.

Chronicles of the cold and warmth of January Kyiv from the correspondent of “New Europe” Olga Musafirova People warm themselves outside their homes during a power outage in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 18, 2026. Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA Generators are burning Our pharmacy has an unusually long and slow line. I don’t immediately notice that from the street, through the closed doors, I can no longer hear the sound of the generator, as usual. Oh, so he's not there.