Activists in Switzerland have handed over a petition to officials in Bern in which they propose banning the country from joining economic sanctions and imposing trade restrictions. The Financial Times writes about this. The so-called “neutrality initiative” was proposed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party. The initiative envisages amendments to the constitution that will more precisely define the definition of Switzerland's neutral status in relation to world politics.

Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets announced that he would propose to parliament that the Moscow Patriarchate be recognized as a terrorist organization. The Estonian national broadcaster ERR writes about this. According to the minister, this will allow the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs to officially ban the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the country.

Russian missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the bombing of Kharkov and the advance of Russian troops have brought Ukrainian defense to the brink of collapse, Bloomberg writes . According to the publication's Western sources, the Ukrainian army is suffering from a desperate shortage of ammunition, manpower, as well as gaps in air defense along the entire 1,200-kilometer front line.

Chinese banks began blocking payments from Russian companies for components for electronics assembly. In particular, we are talking about processors, servers and screens. Kommersant writes about this, citing market participants.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has promised to pardon a political activist who was sentenced by a local court to nine years in prison for attacking police officers. Paper Kartuli reports this. We are talking about Lazar Grigoriadis. On April 12, he was found guilty of assaulting police during protests against the adoption of the country's “foreign agents” law last March.

In St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island, a tram hit several people at a pedestrian crossing. Earlier, the city administration reported that trams of this model are equipped with an active safety system that will stop the train if there are people in its path. A video of the incident was published by the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office. The footage shows how a tram hits several people who were crossing the tracks at a pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Odoevsky and Nalichnaya streets.

When investigating the terrorist attack on March 22 in the Moscow region, Russian law enforcement agencies must comply with the norms and principles of international law, as well as legal requirements, especially regarding the presumption of innocence, the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment of detainees.

Deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Eduard Sharafiev proposed to carry out mobilization in one day for vacationers on Fridays in nightclubs. He published such a proposal in his Telegram channel. Sharafiev wrote that it is necessary to mobilize nightclub visitors throughout the country. “And so everyone who jumps there all night should be sent to SVO.

Women fence out husbands who beat them. But after this it is women who are judged after this Among people convicted in Russia for a false denunciation, there are many women who were victims of domestic violence. They burn their husbands - for example, lie to the police that they were attacked by robbers on the street. As a result, men who have beaten their wives are not punished, and criminal cases are initiated against women.

In Moscow, two policemen broke into the apartment of the adviser to the Kyrgyz embassy, ​​Manas Zholdoshbekov. They demanded to provide documents confirming migration registration. The VChK-OGPU telegram channel claims that security forces broke the lock and damaged the front door to Zholdoshbekov’s apartment.

The Turkish airline Turkish Airlines denied boarding on a transit flight to three Russian tourists who were flying to Mexico. The incident occurred on April 8, said the vice-president of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia Artur Muradyan. “No official documents were issued to the passengers about the denial of boarding. A representative of the airline did not appear to them; the Moscow representative office of the carrier also refused to help in the situation and avoided commenting.

The scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society, Mikhail Myagkov, believes that the Katyn massacre and the killing of civilians in Bucha are similar, and the Ukrainian media use the same methodology as the Nazis to spread “fake news.” He stated this in a conversation with TASS.

American regulators, including the Ministry of Finance and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), joined the audit of the financial conglomerate Morgan Stanley. Its main goal is to find out what measures the bank took to combat money laundering and how thoroughly it checked its wealthy clients, writes The Wall Street Journal. The SEC sent a list of current and former questionable clients to Morgan Stanley last year.

Bogotá Mayor Carlos Fernando Galan has asked residents living with partners to shower together due to water shortages caused by the drought. The Guardian writes about this. Galan also asked residents to completely abandon daily hygiene procedures as water levels in reservoirs, he said, are at historic lows. “If you're not going out on Sunday or any other day of the week, take advantage of it and don't take a bath,” the mayor said.

The Minister of Youth Policy of the Samara Region, Sergei Burtsev, resigned after State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein accused him of having a homosexual relationship with a subordinate. “Despite the fact that I absolutely disagree with the assumptions voiced and refute them, I think it is wrong to cast a shadow on the youth policy of the region! In this regard, I decided to resign. Time will put everything in its place,” Burtsev wrote on his VKontakte page.