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The American army captured on Monday, in the Indian Ocean, the oil tanker Aquila II, part of the Russian “shadow fleet” used by Putin’s Russia to circumvent international sanctions, reports The Moscow Times. The US War Department announced that the ship was violating restrictions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump for oil transfers in the Caribbean, restrictions that affect Venezuela and Cuba, according to EFE and AFP, quoted by Agerpres. “The American forces have seized” the ship, indicated the Pentagon, which had previously announced that American troops had boarded “without incident” the oil tanker Aquila II, after they…

Vladimir Putin has proposed that the $1 billion fee for Russia’s accession to the so-called Peace Council initiated by Donald Trump be paid from Russian assets currently frozen in the US. The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, stated on Monday that Moscow “has not yet received a response to Putin’s proposal,” reports The Moscow Times. In total, over $5 billion from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation’s funds are currently blocked in the US. “The subject of the Peace Council, according to the instructions of the President of Russia, is still being developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together…

During the war with Ukraine, Russian citizens have reportedly experienced an unprecedented increase in living standards, unseen in the statistics of the last approximately 20 years, asserts Rosstat. According to official data, last year the real disposable income of Russians increased by 7.4%. A year earlier, it had risen by 8.2%, and in 2023 — by 5.4%. The cumulative increase over three years, of 22.7%, would be unprecedented for a comparable three-year period since the 2006–2008 interval, when, according to Rosstat, incomes increased by 30.2%. Even taking into account the 1% decrease in 2022, in the four years of war,…

The US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, responded on Monday to the preliminary conclusions of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) report, the proceedings of which will open on Friday. He said he “completely rejects everything he just heard”, after the report’s authors warned that the main challenge for the liberal international order “comes from within”, namely through the fundamental change in the Trump administration’s thinking about US alliances, reports The Guardian. The United States does not want to dismantle NATO or undermine existing alliances, but to “balance the way the defense burden is shared among NATO countries”, Whitaker emphasized regarding…

Europe is forced to rethink its strategic role and strengthen its military autonomy in the face of an American administration perceived as increasingly authoritarian and less attached to liberal democratic values, according to a report by the MSC, analyzed by The Guardian. Europe has come to the painful conclusion that it must be more proactive and militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, states a report prepared ahead of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), which begins on Friday, according to the prestigious publication, cited by News.ro. The document…

The Baku Court has pronounced severe sentences for the separatist leaders from Nagorno-Karabakh, including life imprisonment for five of them, following a trial that began in 2025, according to Reuters. On February 5, 2026, the Military Court in Baku handed down prison sentences for several former officials from the former administration of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the last enclave predominantly inhabited by ethnic Armenians on the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan. The trial began in January 2025, after the region was recaptured by Azerbaijani forces in 2023. Those sentenced to life imprisonment are: Arayik Harutyunyan – former president of…

Russian forces are attempting to lure Ukrainian citizens with sums of money to register Starlink terminals, after the Ukrainian government and entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company SpaceX took measures to block Russian troops’ access to the high-speed satellite internet needed on the front. According to Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, the new advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense on technology issues, the Russian army is trying to recruit Ukrainians into an illicit scheme aimed at gaining access to the Starlink terminals that have been blocked for several days for Russian troops, reports Euromaidan Press. SpaceX has suspended services to its satellite internet…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims that Moscow agreed with the US proposal on Ukraine at the Anchorage summit last year, but that since then the Trump administration has changed course, imposing new sanctions and acting to restrict Russia’s energy exports, reports the Ukrainian press and international news agencies. In an interview given to the BRICS television station, Lavrov stated that the United States is showing signs that it is not willing to carry out the plan discussed during the meeting in Alaska between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump. “They tell us that we need to…

In at least four regions of the Russian Federation — Samara, Rostov, Chelyabinsk, and Orenburg — the value of the tax levied through the patent-based taxation system (PSN) has sharply increased since the beginning of the year. According to data from the Federal Tax Service of Russia, this tax regime is used by about half of individual entrepreneurs. As the publication Vedomosti writes, authorities have raised the cost of patents in these regions up to 12 times, against the backdrop of a huge cumulative deficit of regional budgets, which at the end of 2025 exceeded 1.5 trillion rubles (approximately 16.5…

The Russian secret services have announced the arrest of two citizens of the Russian Federation, suspected of plotting the assassination attempt on GRU General Vladimir Aleksiev. The surprise came when it was revealed that one of the suspects was actually working within the FSB. The incident took place on the morning of February 6, inside the building where Alekseev lived, right on the staircase, next to the elevator. The attacker left the scene without difficulty, while neighbors pointed out that, inexplicably, the surveillance cameras in the area had not been working for a week. Another hypothesis being circulated is that…