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The cost of war in Ukraine. Online May 5
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22:10 The Ministry of Digital Transformation has prepared a draft resolution on a unified register of military registration, state agencies report . The document was first published on the portal of draft regulations, but then deleted . According to the agencies, the registry is proposed to be created by July 1 and tested before the end of this year. In 2024, it will be gradually put into operation, and from January 1, 2025, the Ministry of Defense will be able to form entries in the register.
The creation of a unified register of military registration is provided for by the same law that introduces the concept of electronic summonses and establishes a ban on traveling abroad from the moment they are received. The unified register of persons liable for military service will be much more detailed than its name implies. We talked about how the electronic call will be turned into a superdatabase here .
21:33 The court arrested the author of the play Finist the Bright Falcon, Svetlana Petriychuk, for two months. According to her work, Evgenia Berkovich staged her own performance. Petriychuk is also accused of justifying terrorism on the basis of an examination prepared by "scientists-destructologists."
At the same time, lawyers point out that the performance, because of which a criminal case was initiated, was staged on a grant from the Ministry of Culture, and the media wrote about the anti-terrorist nature of the production. Lawyer Petriychuk Sergei Badamshin drew attention to the fact that the structures of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia liked the play “Finist the Clear Falcon”: it was shown in the Tomsk colony staged by the local Youth Theater.
21:10 The Ministry of Justice recognized Maria Pevchikh, Georgy Alburov and the Taiga.Info publication as foreign agents. The explanation says that Pevchikh called for the overthrow of power in Russia, Alburov disseminated false information about the RF Armed Forces and publicly supported sanctions, and Taiga.Info disseminated materials from other foreign agents.
Also included in the register are:
- Yan Matveev, military analyst;
- Alexander Osovtsov, ex-deputy of the State Duma;
- Ivan Preobrazhensky, political scientist;
- Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, opera singer, ex-deputy of the State Duma;
- Vladimir Pastukhov, political scientist;
- Elena Agafonova, human rights activist from the Tula region;
- Crisis Group SK SOS, helping LGBTQ+ people in the North Caucasus;
- Women's socio-political movement "Soft Power";
- St. Petersburg Russian PENclub.
18:40 The court arrested Yevgenia Berkovich for two months. The director's defense asked for an extension of her detention by 72 hours in order to collect additional documents. Lawyers asked for house arrest and wanted to confirm Berkovich's ownership of the apartment, where she could serve him. Also, the lawyers wanted to attach documents of children to the case (Berkovich is raising two adopted teenage girls). The court agreed to attach the documents, but did not extend the period of detention. What the "expertise" of the prosecution is based on, we wrote here .
17:15 The Governor of Bali announced plans to introduce quotas for foreign tourists. In order to come to the island, foreigners will need to register in advance and wait their turn to enter. The Bali authorities decided to fight mass tourism due to numerous violations by foreign guests, the governor explained. “Now a new phenomenon has arisen when a number of tourists are hooligans, outrageous, most of them are from Russia,” he says. According to the governor, 101 tourists have been deported from Indonesia since the beginning of the year, 27 of them are Russians. In total, there are about 50,000 Russian citizens in Bali now, he added.
16:59 After today's claims by Prigozhin about the lack of ammunition, the Ministry of Defense released a video showing Shoigu inspecting military equipment. It is reported that he ordered "to keep under special control the issues of continuous and rhythmic supply" of troops in the "special operation" zone with everything necessary. The ultimatum of Prigozhin, who promised to withdraw troops from Bakhmut on May 10, and the Ministry of Defense does not comment on all his other statements.
16:11 Acting Governor of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, announced a partial evacuation of the population from settlements located in close proximity to the line of contact. It will affect 18 settlements, including such large ones as Energodar and Tokmak. They were named among the likely directions of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
12:42 Investors in many Russian stocks will probably have to act “blindly” for a long time: the authorities and business have begun discussing the extension of the non-disclosure period for corporate reporting, found out Vedomosti . The moratorium on the publication of mandatory reporting expires on July 1.
12:11 Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) closed all correspondent accounts with Russian banks except for its own Russian subsidiary, follows from the materials for the financial statements for the first quarter. to them drew attention Frank Media . Consequently, foreign exchange operations through the RBI became unavailable to Russian banks.
The bank, which has become the main payment window for Russian companies abroad, does not plan to completely leave Russia, the documents say. However, the pressure on the bank in Europe is great - in March it became known that RBI was going to sell the Russian subsidiary or withdraw it from the group's perimeter. At least the first option threatens to quickly disconnect it from SWIFT: one of the contenders for the business was called the sanctioned Sberbank.
12:00 Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that on May 10, PMC "Wagner" was leaving Bakhmut due to lack of ammunition.
In a video message recorded together with the fighters, he said that a month ago they stopped issuing ammunition and we receive no more than 10%. “We were going to take possession of Bakhmut by May 9, but when they saw this, the near-military bureaucrats actually stopped any supplies to us, because they are sitting and shaking their fat bellies.”
The night before, he recorded another video message against the background of the dead fighters of the Wagner PMC, demanding that the Ministry of Defense solve the problem of “shell hunger”. In it, he used obscene language against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, with whom he had a conflict.
Dmitry Peskov did not comment on Prigozhin’s statement: “Yes, of course, we saw it in the media, but I cannot comment on this, because it concerns the course of a special military operation.”
The main thing for the night and morning:
- Indirect damage from drone attacks on the Kremlin promises to be incomparably greater than direct damage. A complete ban on flights of commercial aircraft will not protect against terrorist threats, but it will cost the new industry billions of rubles and set it back several years, say . its representatives
- The ruble on the eve of atypical for the beginning of the month strengthened, returning to 78 rubles per dollar, and did not fall at the opening of trading on Friday. An important new factor was the growing supply of foreign currency due to the preparation of companies for dividend payments, writes Kommersant . Analysts do not rule out an early depreciation of the dollar to 76 rubles.
- The banking crisis in the United States did not end with the sale of First Republic to the country's largest JPMorgan, but moved into a new phase - many times smaller regional banks without exotic strategies and with healthy balance sheets are under threat.
- The niche of the Tinder dating service, which will leave Russia in two months, is going to be occupied by VK. This will be a new application, not the VK Dating service already integrated into the ecosystem, and most importantly, it will not be tied to a social network account.
- The clothing retailer Uniqlo, which has suspended operations in Russia, but has not yet closed stores, is finally leaving . Most of the locations will be occupied by the Russian Gloria Jeans.
- Apple's sales declined for the second quarter in a row (by 3% yoy to $94.8 billion), but its quotes after the close of trading increased by 2.5%. The fall was less than expected due to very good demand for the iPhone in developing countries.
- The drone, colorfully shot down the night before over the very center of Kiev, turned out to be the Ukrainian Bayraktar, which lost control. The reason for the malfunction of the Ukrainian Air Force is not disclosed, which gave rise to versions of the intervention of Russian hackers or "friendly" electronic warfare.