NewsImprisoned ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov sues Russia’s MoD over refusal to send him to the frontlines in Ukraine19 February 2026
NewsRussian official claims Telegram crackdown was motivated by “foreign intelligence services’ access to correspondence” 18 February 2026
NewsRussia hands two minors seven-year prison sentences for setting fire to Mi-8 helicopter at military airfield in Omsk18 February 2026
NewsDetained Russian “shadow fleet” tanker Grinch released by France after paying multimillion-euro fine17 February 2026
NewsPoland charges 29-year-old with spying for Russia around objects including military facilities and chemical plants17 February 2026
NewsAt least 15 people detained in Russia on the second anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s death17 February 2026
NewsRussia puts up memorial to GRU officer holding an Austrian rifle — the type used by its snipers in Ukraine despite sanctions16 February 2026
NewsUkraine’s ex-energy minister Herman Halushchenko arrested and charged with money laundering after attempting to leave the country16 February 2026
NewsRussia’s Matryoshka bots use scandal over Ukrainian skeleton racer’s Olympic disqualification as fodder for disinfo campaign16 February 2026
News“He wasn’t afraid, and I’m not afraid”: Memorial events held worldwide on second anniversary of Navalny’s murder, arrests reported in Russia16 February 2026
News“Biased and based on nothing”: The Kremlin rejects allegations that it poisoned Alexei Navalny with epibatidine16 February 2026
NewsAzerbaijan’s President Aliyev accuses Russia of deliberately targeting the country’s embassy in Ukraine16 February 2026
NewsUK to send an aircraft carrier to the North Atlantic to “deter Russian aggression and protect vital undersea infrastructure”16 February 2026
NewsToxin used to poison Alexei Navalny was synthesized at the same institute that created the Novichok nerve agent14 February 2026
NewsUK accuses Moscow of “blatant breach” of Chemical Weapons Convention in Alexei Navalny’s death by poisoning14 February 2026
NewsRussia’s Channel One airs fake front pages spread by Matryoshka bot network for the first time13 February 2026
NewsCIT report shows nearly 3,000 сivilians killed, over 17,000 injured in Ukraine in 2025 as intensity of Russian strikes rises13 February 2026
NewsEstonia deports Russian citizen suspected of gathering intelligence for intended acts of sabotage 13 February 2026
ECONOMICSRussia’s economy in 2026: A rising deficit, regional depression, and the possible depletion of sovereign reserves13 February 2026The Insider
NewsRussia uses new website blocking method as YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp Web, and independent media “disappear” from state DNS system12 February 2026
NewsIOC disqualifies Ukrainian skeleton pilot who planned to compete in a helmet decorated with portraits of athletes killed in the war12 February 2026
NewsKazakhstan moves to extradite former employee of Navalny’s St. Petersburg office to Russia11 February 2026
NewsPutin's “domestic” Aurus car project frozen due to lack of funds in the Russian state budget11 February 2026
NewsGermany plans to buy €536 worth of kamikaze drones tested on the battlefield, but they “lag behind Ukrainian ones” 11 February 2026
NewsRussia’s state censorship organ restricts Telegram messaging app nationwide, user complaints surge10 February 2026
NewsRussia’s FSB says it detained a third suspect in case over assassination attempt on GRU general Vladimir Alexeyev10 February 2026
NewsBrussels weighing sanctions on Russian corporations Rosatom, Lukoil, and Gazprom, says Hungary’s foreign minister10 February 2026
NewsAlleged accomplice in attempted assassination of GRU general was recently an FSB institute employee9 February 2026
NewsUK plans command center to intercept Russian “shadow fleet” tankers in the North Sea and English Channel, The Sunday Times reports9 February 2026
NewsGunman in attack on high-level GRU general Vladimir Alexeyev was recruited by Ukraine’s SBU with help from Poland, FSB claims9 February 2026
NewsPublic health scholar from St. Petersburg detained for “state treason” over publications allegedly accessed by Norwegian intelligence6 February 2026