Alexander Dotsenko and his wife, Anastasia Dyudyaeva. Photo: Mediazona Alexander Dotsenko, a political prisoner convicted of distributing anti-war leaflets in a St. Petersburg supermarket back in 2024, has died after suffering a heart attack at his penal colony and failing to regain consciousness in hospital, his support group reported on Thursday. “Sasha is gone. He left us at 4pm,” his supporters announced.

Mikalai Statkevich looks from behind his barred cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, 26 May 2011. Photo: EPA/TATYANA ZENKOVICH Former Belarusian presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich has been released from prison and is now at home in the capital, Minsk, independent Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva reported on Thursday.

Previously, he refused exchange and deportation Photo: Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA The authorities of Belarus have released the former presidential candidate of the republic, political prisoner Nikolai Statkevich. This was reported by the Nasha Niva publication with reference to the politician’s wife, Marina Adamovich. Photo: Marina Adamovich According to journalists, Statkevich achieved release from the colony without deportation from Belarus and is at home in Minsk.

Photo: Mediazona Alexander Dotsenko and his wife Anastasia Dyudyaeva. Photo: Mediazona Political prisoner Alexander Dotsenko, convicted of distributing anti-war leaflets, died after suffering a heart attack in the colony. This was reported to his support group. “Sasha is no more. He left us at 16:00,” - said relatives of the political prisoner. Dotsenko suffered a massive heart attack on February 12 in the colony, after which he was in a coma in the hospital.

Russian military - without Starlink and Telegram. How terminal blocking and messenger interruptions affect the front line Russian military personnel in the Sumy direction, February 10, 2026.

They haven't been able to bury her for four months. Aishat Baimuradova, photo: girl’s social networks The funeral of the Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova, who was killed in Yerevan, will be paid for from public funds of the republic. A representative of the Investigative Committee of Armenia stated this to Radio Azatutyun. He did not specify when and where the funeral would take place.

Aliya Galitskaya. Photo: Liya Bazikova / VK The judge of the Istrinsky City Court, Fyodor Grigoriev, who decided to arrest the ex-wife of ex-member of the board of directors of Alfa Bank Alexander Galitsky, Aliya, resigned. This was reported by a member of Putin’s Human Rights Council, Eva Merkacheva. The chairman of the Istra City Court, Irina Putynets, also resigned, sources told TASS and RIA Novosti .

Photo: EPA / IAN LANGSDON Telegram has rubbished claims made by the Russian authorities that messages sent on the messaging app can be accessed by foreign intelligence agencies, calling them “deliberate fiction”, Reuters reported on Thursday. Insisting it had not found any breaches in the encryption protocols used for messages sent on the app, Telegram said that meant foreign intelligence agencies would be unable to access messages without its knowledge.

Andrew. Photo: Andy Rain/EPA British police have arrested the brother of the King of Great Britain, former Prince Andrew, on suspicion of inappropriate conduct while performing public duties. This was reported by the BBC and The Telegraph . Police said they had arrested a man "in his late 60s" from Norfolk. His name is being withheld in accordance with national guidelines. Now the suspect is in custody, and searches are being carried out at his addresses, the department added.

General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi attends an interfaith prayer service for peace in Ukraine at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in London, 24 February 2025. Photo: EPA. / Neil Hall The former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, has discussed his rift with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with the Associated Press (AP) that was published on Wednesday.

Dmitry Kisiev. Photo: Slovo Zashchite Dmitry Kisiev, who ran the 2024 campaign of would-be Russian presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin, had his Russian citizenship revoked in part because he was spotted attending the funeral of murdered opposition politician Alexey Navalny, Kisiev’s lawyer Alexander Molokhov has claimed .

The alliance must face down the Russian threat in places where deterrence is most fragile, such as the Suwałki corridor NATO troops in the village of Szypliszki in Poland’s Suwałki corridor, 7 July 2022. Photo: EPA / Artur Reszko In response to intensifying Russian activity along NATO’s eastern flank, the US Congress recently approved $200 million in security assistance for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

During the war years, Russia fell far behind world leaders in the field of artificial intelligence. Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” Because of the war with Ukraine, Russia risks losing the main technological race of the century - the development of artificial intelligence. New Europe studied international ratings and independent data to understand how the Kremlin’s ambitions to become one of the world leaders in the development and implementation of AI compare with reality.

The erotic melodrama Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi has been released worldwide. Finding out what's left of Emily Brontë's novel Photo: Warner Bros. As in her two previous works (“Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn”), the British director Emerald Fennell, who directed the film, chose the method of satire and kitsch to talk about destructive desire.

Photo: Sepahnews handout/EPA Photo: Sepahnews handout/EPA The United States is ready to strike Iran as early as Saturday, February 21, but the head of the White House, Donald Trump, has not yet made a final decision. Sources told CBS News about this. Discussions continue in the White House regarding possible strikes on Iran. Officials are weighing the risks of escalation, as well as the political and military consequences of abandoning the operation, the channel's interlocutors said.