Shortparis lead singer Nikolai Komyagin has died. He was only 39, but he managed to go down in history - not only in Russia, but also abroad Nikolai Komyagin, a poet, musician, actor and frontman of the band Shortparis, died at the age of 39. The group's manager Marina Kosukhina confirmed the death of the lead singer, but did not provide details. According to journalist Ksenia Sobchak, the musician felt unwell after a boxing workout - his heart could not stand it.

How the first meeting of the Peace Council under Trump's leadership ended - and with Putin on the sidelines Donald Trump during a Peace Council meeting at the Donald Trump American Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, USA, February 19, 2026. Photo: Alessandro Di Meo/EPA On February 19, US President Donald Trump gathered his international allies - participants in the new structure that he himself created - at the Institute of Peace named after himself in Washington.

Instead of a museum of Stalinist repressions, an exhibition about the “genocide of the Soviet people” will be opened in Moscow. The project will be led by a participant in the war in Ukraine Photo: Kirill Zykov / AGN “Moscow” In Moscow, the Gulag History Museum will be finally closed: instead, a Memory Museum dedicated to the “genocide of the Soviet people” will be created. The institution suspended operations more than a year ago, and its director was soon fired.

A sign at the entrance to the Gulag History Museum, Moscow. Photo: Gulag History Museum The Gulag History Museum in Moscow is to be renamed the Museum of Memory and dedicated to the “genocide of the Soviet people”, according to art critic Ksenia Korobeynikova, who posted the news on her Telegram channel on Friday.

How one woman refused to be a cog in Russia’s military machine Illustration: Lyalya Bulanova, Novaya Gazeta Europe When Andrey and Natalia Smekalin and their four children were reunited in Paris last month, it was the first time that they had all been together in over a year, since Natalia had deserted her military post in Russia’s Far East and fled to Armenia, despite intimidation and threats from the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Alexander Moiseyuk. Photo: VKontakte A court in central Russia’s Ryazan region has placed a journalist in pretrial detention for a month over an alleged 300-ruble (€3) donation he made to late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2021, Russian human rights group OVD-Info reported on Thursday.

Nikolai Statkevich did not allow himself to be expelled from Belarus with other political prisoners. After five months of uncertainty, he is home, but with a stroke Nikolai Statkevich, 2017. Photo: Sergei Grits / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA “He doesn’t speak well yet, but he will soon recover, I have no doubt! - Marina Adamovich, Nikolai Statkevich’s wife, tells Novaya Gazeta Europe over the phone.

The Gulag History Museum in Moscow will be renamed the Memory Museum, and Natalya Kalashnikova from the Smolensk Fortress will become the new director. Art critic Ksenia Korobeynikova reported this. An announcement also appeared on the museum’s website on February 20. “The Memory Museum will open in Moscow. It will be dedicated to the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people.

Photo: Shortparis Photo: Shortparis Shortparis lead singer Nikolai Komyagin died at the age of 39. He felt ill after a boxing training session, “his heart couldn’t stand it,” journalist Ksenia Sobchak reported without citing a source.

Krasnogvardeysky District Court of St. Petersburg. Photo: Yandex maps The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested policeman Daniil Merzlikin and his alleged accomplice Taimuraz Popov for two months. The press service of the city courts reported this and drew the attention of Mediazona. Merzlikin and Popov are accused of robbery with illegal entry into a home (Part 3 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code).

Photo: Wu Hao/EPA American athlete Alice Liu took first place in women's singles figure skating at the 2026 Olympics in Italy. Based on the results of two programs, she received 226.79 points. Second and third places were taken by Japanese representatives Kaori Sakamoto (224.90) and Ami Nakai (219.16). American Amber Glenn received fifth place (214.91). Russian figure skater Adelia Petrosyan came sixth; she made a mistake while performing a quadruple sheepskin coat.

Why Krasnodar teenagers set fire to relay cabinets en masse and how their families united and are trying to protect them Collage: “New Newspaper Europe” The parents of ten teenagers in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar for setting fire to relay cabinets published a petition to reclassify cases of terrorism as articles of damage to property.