Photo: Marina Adamovich Lukashenko released opposition politician and former presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich from prison. Marina Adamovich told Statkevich, Nasha Niva reports . There is also a photo of them together. “Nikolai is home! He had a stroke. He is now recovering. Still having problems with the language. Otherwise, everything is fine,” Adamovich said. According to the Viasna human rights center, Statkevich is already at home in Belarus.

The Moscow City Court rejected appeals against the termination of proceedings brought by a group of Russians who demanded that Roskomnadzor’s decision to restrict calls to Telegram and WhatsApp be declared illegal. This was reported by the joint press service of the capital’s courts. The decision of the Tagansky Court of Moscow was left in force without changes.

Conversation with the founder and owner of Sandermoen Publishing, Anna Sandermoen The book publishing house Sandermoen Publishing was registered in Switzerland in 2016. Since then, more than 100 titles have been published in different languages, including Russian, for both adults and children. The publishing house sees its task as helping Russian-speaking emigrants integrate into a new life outside of Russia, and therefore publishes books by emigrants and for emigrants.

Alexander Dotsenko, convicted under the article of “calls for terrorism” because of anti-war leaflets, died at the age of 65, OVD-Info reports* with reference to a support group. Dotsenko was hospitalized from the colony with a heart attack on February 12.

Tube stream without politics On February 12, two events occurred at once that are unexpectedly connected with each other: in 1864, a zoological garden (the future Moscow Zoo) was founded in Moscow, and in 1865, Dmitry Mendeleev defended his dissertation on the combination of alcohol with water - and thereby gave rise to a persistent myth about the “creator of vodka.” On the air we recall the menageries of Russian monarchs, elephants that were taken to watering places in St.

UPDATED Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev congratulated Filippov on being awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. The result of ski mountaineer Nikita Filippov in the sprint final - 2 minutes 35.5 seconds - brought him silver at the Olympic Games, and this is the first Russian medal at this Olympics. The first place in the sprint was taken by the Spaniard Oriol Cardon, he came one and a half seconds earlier than Filippov.

The so-called “cooling” (automatic blocking for 24 hours) of SIM cards when subscribers return to Russia from abroad is unstable, and it is possible to unblock a SIM card only in about half of the cases, Kommersant writes, citing sources. The “cooling-off” period for the largest mobile operators operates “selectively,” Kommersant researched. Some subscribers are not affected at all. Others do not receive SMS with a link to the captcha to resume full operation of the SIM card.

The authorities of St. Petersburg are in no hurry to punish those who demolished the historical building At the beginning of January, Novaya Gazeta talked about the demolition of the building of the former All-Russian Research Institute of Paper Industry in St. Petersburg, for the preservation of which city defenders had been fighting for several years. City officials also confirmed the illegality of the demolition, but did not stop it.

In the Lipetsk region, one of the workshops of the Motorinvest plant, where Chinese Evolute cars were assembled, collapsed - the roof could not withstand the snow mass, said the head of the region, Igor Artamonov. The regional Ministry of Emergency Situations gave the area of ​​the collapse: 5 thousand square meters. m. According to the Mash telegram channel close to the security forces, the workshop, the roof of which collapsed, was opened only two months ago - in December 2025.

From February 19 on the screens - “Beauty” directed by Anton Bogdanov about how animals were saved in the Leningrad Zoo Still from the film “Beauty” Is it possible to make a family movie about a miracle, telling about the ordeals of the blockade? Can. The film "Beauty" is released. Winter of 1941. Petty Officer Nikolai Svetlov (Slava Kopeikin), after a severe concussion and treatment, asks to return to the front. Where else, all our loved ones died. But for now he is receiving a new appointment.

It is not always worthwhile to immediately send to prison someone accused of “minor offences,” Putin said at a meeting with judges of arbitration, military and general jurisdiction courts. He demanded special control over the validity of the arrest of persons involved in cases of violations in the economic sphere. “Of course, it was said, we all remember, “a thief should be in prison.” But there is a nuance.

What former and current Yabloko members say about what is happening inside the party, about the new wave of repression and about participation in the elections Photo: Moscow Agency At the end of 2025, the Russian Yabloko party was hit by a new wave of repression.

Cancellation of the decree on the detention of Aliya Galitskaya may change the vicious practice of the Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov. Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya / TASS TASS and RIA Novosti agencies and member of the Human Rights Council Eva Merkacheva reported the resignation of Istrinsky judge Fyodor Grigoriev, who on February 6 issued a decree on the detention of Aliya Galitskaya on charges of extorting $150 million from her ex-husband, financier Alexander Galitsky.

Neo-imperialism without empires: how the USA and Russia are dividing the planet Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS On the night of January 3, 2026, the US Armed Forces attacked a number of military and strategic targets in Caracas, carried out an operation in the center of the capital and as a result arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, after which they were taken to New York for trial on charges of narco-terrorism and drug smuggling.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested in the UK, reports the BBC and other British media. The family has already stripped the brother of the current King Charles III of his titles because of his informal contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, but now he is suspected of transferring confidential British materials to the American. The police consider such data to be the details of Andrew’s international travels, which he passed on to Epstein.