The FBI sought phone records of Cash Patel and Susan Wiles in 2022 and 2023, when they were both private citizens, Patel told Reuters. He is now the director of the FBI, and Wiles is the chief of staff of the White House. Patel spoke about it as an example of government overreach under President Joe Biden's administration.

The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the completion of a criminal investigation against eight people, including three minors, who are accused of an attempt on the life of the head of a defense enterprise, as well as the manufacture and trafficking of explosive devices and explosives. We are talking about the case of 2024.

On Feb. 16, France took the unprecedented step of issuing humanitarian visas to two former activists from Alexei Navalny’s regional offices, a move prompted by the United States’ refusal to grant them asylum and its threats to deport them to Russia. After Trump’s return to the White House, the U.S. began deporting Russian citizens — primarily asylum seekers who had fled war and repression — directly back to their home country.

On February 26, the State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a law allowing the refusal to extradite foreigners who served or are serving in the Russian army. The document expands the list of grounds contained in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation on which the extradition of a foreign citizen for criminal prosecution or execution of a sentence can be refused.

Russia increased imports of optical fiber by 10 times last year, Vedomosti writes , citing Chun Shen, an analyst at the Research Center for Fiber Optic Cables at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). According to his estimates, over the year Russia bought 10.5% of all optical fiber produced in the world. In previous years this figure did not exceed 1%. In absolute terms, Russia used 60 million km of optical fiber in 2025.

Russia increased its imports of optical fiber tenfold in 2025, according to a report by the business publication Vedomosti , citing Chun Shen, an analyst at the Research Center for Fiber-Optic Cables at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. By Chun’s estimates, Russia bought 10.5% of all optical fiber produced worldwide over the course of 2025. In previous years, that figure did not exceed 1%.

The founder of the recruiting agency Global Face Human Resources, which authorities accuse of sending citizens of the country to fight in Ukraine on the side of Russia, has been detained in Kenya. We are talking about Festus Omwamba - according to the police, Kenyans were recruited through his structure under the guise of employment in Russia. According to the AP, Omwamba was detained in the northern town of Moyale, near the border with Ethiopia.

Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, announced a review of its key security policy and abandoned one of its main principles: the obligation to suspend training of more powerful systems if their capabilities begin to outstrip control mechanisms. The company reports this on its blog. The previous “Responsible Scaling Policy” stipulated that when models appear that the company is not able to reliably control, their further training should be paused.

The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and the GLOBSEC policy think tank have updated their report on Russia’s so-called “crime-terror nexus” in Europe. According to the document, the Kremlin’s hybrid attack campaign significantly accelerated starting in the fall of 2025, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The original report, published on Sept. 30, recorded a total of 110 incidents of Russian hybrid activity over the course of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

During the Ukrainian attack on the Dorogobuzh chemical plant in the Smolensk region, installations for the production of ammonium nitrate, a chemical nitrogen fertilizer also used as an explosive, were damaged. The finished goods warehouse, parking lot and railway terminal were also damaged. The strike was carried out by FP-1 drones. This was found out by the Ukrainian OSINT project “CyberBoroshno | CyberBoroshno". As the publication “North.

The Echo publication reported on a large-scale campaign to recruit students to participate in the war against Ukraine. The editors found public messages about campaigning in 57 universities and 13 colleges and technical schools in 23 regions of Russia and annexed Crimea. Journalists note that the actual number of educational institutions that are recruiting is probably much higher. We are talking about a virtually national campaign.

Kenyan authorities have detained the head and founder of Global Face Human Resources, a recruitment agency accused of sending Kenyan citizens to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine. Police allege that Festus Omwamba recruited Kenyans under the guise of offering them civilian jobs in Russia. As reported by AP News , Omwamba was arrested in the northern town of Moyale, near the Ethiopian border.

The President and CEO of the World Economic Forum, former Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende, announced that he was resigning. This comes weeks after the organization launched an independent investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein .

News The Insider February 26, 2026 #Military report In today's summary: In the Kupyansk direction, stubborn fighting continues in the urban areas of Kupyansk In the Liman direction, the Russian military is chaotically “infiltrating” towards Liman Russian FPV drones controlled via fiber optic cable began to fly to the outskirts of Kharkov In January 2026, Shahed-type drones hit at least 396 targets in Ukraine As a result of a raid on the Dorogobuzh chemical plant in the Smolensk region, ammonium

The US Treasury Department has threatened the Swiss private bank MBaer Merchant Bank AG with virtual disconnection from the American financial system, accusing it of violating sanctions against Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Reuters reports this.