News The Insider February 23, 2026 Pavel Talankin. Photo: Wikipedia The documentary film “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin,” made by Russian educator Pavel Talankin in collaboration with American director David Borenstein, received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. The awards ceremony took place in London on February 22. The film “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin,” which received an award for best documentary film, talks about state propaganda in a Russian school.

Poland's State Agency for Strategic Reserves has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office about possible irregularities in the purchase of coal in 2022, under Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The state could have suffered damages of more than 1.3 billion zlotys ($370 million). This was announced by the head of the country's Foreign Ministry, Marcin Kerwiński.

The T-Invariant publication analyzed the scientific activities of Alexei Dudarev, who studied the pollution of the Russian Arctic, worked for many years on the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) reports of the International Arctic Council and became a defendant in a treason case. According to the publication, a new five-year monitoring of Arctic pollution, due to be published this year, will likely be released without current Russian data for the first time in five years.

The European Union intends to ban entry into the Schengen zone for all participants in the war against Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the EU diplomatic service, Kaya Kallas, at a press conference following the meeting of the EU foreign ministers, TASS writes .

Convicted sex offender and hanged himself in prison, financier Jeffrey Epstein rented six storage facilities in different US states to hide photographs and computers containing evidence of his crimes from police. The Telegraph writes about this. According to the publication, investigators never conducted searches in these places. This fact raises the possibility that there are still unexamined documents in the Epstein case. What is happening with the archive now is unknown.

The SBU attacked the Kaleikino oil pumping station near Almetyevsk in Tatarstan. The oil pumping station is part of the Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil flowed to the EU countries. This is reported by several Ukrainian and Russian media, as well as by Reuters. The Astra publication found out that as a result of a drone strike, 2 tanks with a volume of 50 thousand m³ each caught fire at the station. The area of ​​the fire in the area of ​​the first affected tank reached 2900 m².

News The Insider February 23, 2026 Last minute buses in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco state. Photo: Reuters In Mexico, on February 22, the head of the CJNG drug cartel, based in the state of Jalisco, Nemesio Oseguera, also known as El Mencho, was killed. He died during an operation carried out by Mexican authorities with US support. After this, CJNG members began blocking roads and burning cars throughout the country. At least 14 people were killed in the clashes.

The Polish Internal Security Agency (Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, ABW) detained a Belarusian citizen who is suspected of working for Belarusian intelligence. According to the Polish prosecutor's office, Pavel T. has been charged with espionage. He has been placed in custody. According to the prosecution, the suspect collected data on critical infrastructure facilities in Poland, as well as in Germany and Lithuania, from June 2024 to February 2026. It is noted that Pavel T.

Former British Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson has been detained, CNN reports . He is suspected of misconduct in public service. In September 2025, Mandelson was ousted amid a scandal surrounding his ties to convicted sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein. In early February, searches were carried out in the former diplomat's house. According to police, he may have provided Epstein with confidential information from the British government.

News The Insider February 23, 2026 Photo: Vessel Finder Advertisements have appeared on LinkedIn, a website designed for finding jobs and establishing professional connections, promising a cash reward for information about a “shadow fleet” tanker. The professional publication Seatrade Maritime drew attention to this. Advertisements posted by an account under the username OMRA ex Vani offer a reward of €500,000 for information about the VLCC Omra tanker (IMO 9264881).

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that on February 24 it will stop imposing tariffs on imports that the Supreme Court ruled illegal on February 20. According to Reuters, the agency notified through its Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) that the duty codes would be deactivated. Customs did not explain why it continued to collect duties for several days after the Supreme Court decision.

Catherine Tai/Reuters Politics Veaceslav Epureanu February 23, 2026 After a significant expansion of the practice of Russian drone pilots using the Starlink satellite Internet, the Ukrainian authorities, with the help of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, introduced white lists of verified terminals and largely managed to disrupt the operation of the “gray” devices at the disposal of the Russian Armed Forces.

Hungary vetoed the EU’s decision to adopt the 20th package of sanctions against Russia and provide Ukraine with a “military loan” of €90 billion. TASS reports this, citing a statement by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó. Szijjártó said at a meeting with Hungarian journalists following a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels: “I made it clear that we will not support Ukraine receiving a military loan of €90 billion because the Ukrainians are blackmailing us.

News The Insider February 23, 2026 Last week, at the Ural forum “Cybersecurity in Finance,” market participants reported on the successful fight against fraudsters: the volume of major thefts is falling, and, according to them, the situation with telephone fraud has also been reversed .

The Georgian government has banned foreigners without permanent residence permits from working as guides, couriers and taxi drivers. According to the local publication Business Media, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze signed a decree approving the rules for issuing work permits to foreign citizens. The government introduced a quota system, limiting the number of foreigners who could work in the service sector. Different quotas are introduced for different areas.