Citizen Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the King's brother and former Prince Andrew, was arrested by English police on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Former Prince Andrew. Photo: AP / TASS He was held in custody for 11 hours and released without charge pending further investigation. The details were not officially reported to the press until now, but according to the law, the detainee had to be interrogated in the presence of a lawyer and presented with some evidence.

Former leaders of Karabakh received sentences up to life in Baku, but the promised “second Nuremberg” still did not work out President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Photo: AP / TASS “Will the topic of the convicted leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh be raised in Baku?” - US Vice President J.D. Vance was asked in Yerevan, seeing him off in Baku, and he answered: certainly. And he didn’t deceive.

Vladimir Lukin. Press service of the courts of the Kursk region The Leninsky Court of Kursk sentenced the former head of the Kursk Region Development Corporation Vladimir Lukin to 9 years in prison, the Kursk press service of the courts reported . In addition to imprisonment, he was given a fine of 900 thousand rubles and was deprived of the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree.

At the end of the Berlin festival, the public was shown Josephine, the main film of the Sundance festival, awarded the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Still from the film “Josephine” The Berlin Festival ends today and the Wim Wenders jury will announce the winners. The general feeling is that the competition is significantly inferior to previous years, although several good films were shown towards the finals (including “Josephine” by the Sundance winner).

Relatives of 43-year-old Alexander Bydanov, a native of Appatity, reported his death at the front “while performing a combat mission” on January 4, 2026. The farewell and funeral took place only last Tuesday, February 17. Russian Railways mechanic Bydanov was convicted of attacking the governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis on April 4 in Appatity. He stabbed the governor, who came out to meet with residents, with a knife.

Novaya correspondent celebrated Chinese New Year in Moscow Photo: Daniil Cheryapkin / Novaya Gazeta Although God doesn’t play dice, the other day they seemed to have rolled up to the gambling table. While he was raising them, on February 16, the capital began to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and in China the next day, Maslenitsa. Cooperation between our countries is developing more and more rapidly: visa-free regime, Bolshoi theater tours, seasonal menu at McDonald's...

“Greatness” by Sergei Mostovshchikov, illustrations by Pyotr Sarukhanov How good it is to sit in a basin with your legs, Covered in hot water Sit and think: nothing will happen to us... Well, I mean, neither with you, Russia, nor with me.

Eighty years ago, George Kennan, in a message to the State Department, described the Russian political regime - past, present and future George Kennan. Photo: FPG (18+) THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV. An old joke. A telegram arrives: “Start worrying.

The Gulag Museum is being reorganized, replacing one genocide with another Museum of the History of the Gulag. Photo: Sergey Kiselev / Moscow Agency Two news arrived almost simultaneously - and both on the same topic. The Ministry of Justice included the Swiss-registered international association Memorial in the register of undesirable organizations.

A two-sentence telegram appeared on the FSB website, in which the intelligence service informed that “numerous reliable information” was found that the use of the Telegram messenger by the Russian military in the Northern Military District zone “repeatedly led to the creation of a threat to the lives of military personnel.” The intelligence service said that confirmation of such a threat was found “over the past three months.” According to the FSB, the Ukrainian army and Ukrainian special

The Central Court of Chelyabinsk arrested two police lieutenant colonels on charges of contract killings committed back in the 2000s, Interfax reports . One of those arrested is a current employee of the Russian Guard, the second is his former colleague. Both defendants served in the special riot police unit at the time of the events. The charge is about the murder of two businessmen, the Chelyabinsk department of the Investigative Committee clarified.

In Vladivostok, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, assets continue to be seized from the former owners of Vostochnaya Shipyard Small sea tanker "Mikhail Barskov" during the launching ceremony at the Vostochnaya Verf shipyard.

On Saturday night, drones attacked Udmurtia. The target was an unnamed “object,” as Governor Alexander Brechalov put it . “According to operational data, there is damage and casualties. “Everyone is provided with the necessary help,” Brechalov contacted subscribers of the Telegram channel at one in the morning. In the morning, the Minister of Health of the Republic, Sergei Bagin, said that 11 people were injured.

How Kadyrov's nephew's former assistant acquired one of the most expensive penthouses in Russia Ramzan Kadyrov and Ruslan Alisultanov. Photo of 2021 from the social networks of the head of Chechnya The career elevator in Russia is perhaps the fastest elevator in the world. The main thing is to jump into it with the right person. While ordinary people for the most part try to climb up the back stairs on foot, the elevator takes a special few straight to a penthouse with views of the Kremlin.