Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA The Kremlin has prepared a memorandum based on the return of Russia to the international system of settlements in dollars after the conclusion of a peace agreement with Ukraine. Bloomberg reported this with reference to the document. According to the agency, the memorandum was drawn up this year and distributed among senior Russian officials.

Maxim Kruglov in pretrial detention in Moscow. Photo: SOTA A Moscow opposition politician who is currently in police detention awaiting trial for spreading false information about the Russian military has repeatedly been offered his release if he enlists with the Russian army to fight in Ukraine, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

Let's work with lawyers to figure out why this is happening. Russians queue at a public service center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, October 3, 2022. Photo: Pavel Mikheev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Kazakh authorities have granted Russia's request to extradite two of its citizens. These are ex-volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters from St. Petersburg Yulia Emelyanova and Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev.

Adam Kadyrov attends a meeting of security chiefs in Grozny, Chechnya. Photo: Telegram / Kadyrov_95 Adam Kadyrov, the youngest son and presumptive heir of Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov, may lose the sight in one eye following his involvement in a fatal car crash in the republic’s capital Grozny last month, sources have told Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Ukrainians bring candles, flowers and toys to the site of a Russian strike on a multi-story building in Ternopil on November 21, 2025. Photo: Maxim Marusenko / EPA Ukrainians bring candles, flowers and toys to the site of a Russian strike on a multi-story building in Ternopil on November 21, 2025. Photo: Maxim Marusenko / EPA In 2025, fighting between Russia and Ukraine killed at least 2,919 civilians and injured another 17,775.

Photo: website of the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region Photo: website of the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Vladimir Region recognized the best pre-trial detention center in terms of performance indicators for 2025 as SIZO-1, where prisoners were tortured. The publication “Non-Moscow Speaks” drew attention to this.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky - about the ban of his book, the danger of autocracy, the aging of elites, the blocking of Telegram and the optimization of repression On February 6, the Moscow City Court recognized Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s book “How to Kill a Dragon: A Guide for Aspiring Revolutionaries” as “extremist material.” Why does autocracy lead to the abyss? How does the elite age and why is there no place for young people at the top? Why does Putin’s personal safety threaten dozens of people?

Vladyslav Heraskevych shows off his helmet in memory of the Ukrainian athletes who have died resisting Russian aggression, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, 11 February 2026. Photo: EPA / Daniel dal Zennaro The International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from this year’s Winter Olympics in Milan on Thursday for breaking its rules on political expression.

A fire rages following Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Odesa, 12 February 2026. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Some 300,000 people have been left without running water and close to 200 apartment blocks without heating in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Thursday after Russia unleashed another night of “massive strikes”, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said on Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Zelensky / Telegram Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told journalists that he heard about his intention to announce a presidential election and a referendum on a peace deal with Russia on 24 February “for the first time” when it was reported by the Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday. “This is the first time I’ve heard about the intention to announce on the 24th.

Adam Kadyrov was discharged from the hospital after the accident and is already appearing in public. His guards were much less lucky in that accident. Adam Kadyrov. Photo: @Kadyrov_95 / Telegram According to sources of Novaya Gazeta Europe, last week the third son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov, was discharged from the Botkin hospital, where he spent almost three weeks after an accident in Grozny.

Aysoltan Niyazova. Photo: social media Pussy Riot member Aysoltan Niyazova has had her name removed from Interpol’s Red Notices for wanted persons more than two decades after she was added to the database, she told Novaya Gazeta Europe on Wednesday. Niyazova’s native Turkmenistan first submitted a request for her arrest to Interpol in 2002, accusing her of embezzling over $40 million while she chaired the country’s Central Bank. She has always denied the charges against her.

On the night of February 12, Ukrainian drones attacked the Volgograd region, said the head of the region, Andrei Bocharov. According to him, the fragments of the UAV fell on the territory of the Ministry of Defense facility near the village of Kotluban. Bocharov claims that there were no casualties as a result of the attack, and no civilian objects were destroyed.

Photo: Alonso Cupul/EPA Rossiya Airlines is suspending flights from Moscow to Cuba from February 24, the Aeroflot press service reported the day before. The adjustments are related to the decision of the Cuban authorities to temporarily stop refueling aircraft in the country. To evacuate Russians on the island, the company will send six flights from Varadero and Havana to Moscow, they will fly from February 12 to 21.

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Geraskevich was disqualified before the first race of the Olympics, which was supposed to take place today, the International Olympic Committee said . They indicated that the reason for this decision was the athlete’s refusal to “adhere to recommendations for self-expression.” The athlete himself does not agree with this decision. According to him, he “never wanted a scandal with the IOC” and “did not create” it.