The husband of blogger Elena Blinovskaya, accused of tax evasion and money laundering, Alexey, went to serve at the front in a unit for thieves. The founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team project, Ruslan Leviev, spoke about this in his next report on the war in Ukraine on the YouTube channel of journalist Michael Naki. According to Leviev, we are talking about the Bars Cascade division.

Online platform Fanvue has announced that it is accepting applications for the first-of-its-kind Miss AI beauty contest. The competition will take place online as part of the World AI Creator Awards program in May 2024. Models created using artificial intelligence will take part in the competition. Participants will be judged on three parameters: appearance, technical skills used by the model's creators, and popularity on the Internet.

Police in Rio de Janeiro detained local resident Erica Vieira Nunez, who brought the body of an elderly man to the bank and tried to take out a loan on it. This is reported by O Dia. The publication notes that a 42-year-old woman brought the body of 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga to the bank in a wheelchair late Tuesday evening. She introduced herself as the man's niece and guardian and in the process talked to the corpse and tried to put a pen in his hand so that he would sign the document.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Sakha, Sardana Guryeva, called for the introduction of criminal liability for domestic violence. She wrote about this on her VKontakte page. Guryeva believes that it is necessary to create a working group that will analyze existing laws and develop proposals to tighten measures against domestic violence. The Ombudsman called this task urgent.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chose to strike Iran in response to the attack on the night of April 14th. This was reported by The Jerusalem Post, citing anonymous sources. How exactly Israel will respond to Iran and when this will happen, the publication’s interlocutors did not specify. They noted that Israel is determined and is seriously preparing to respond.

Nestle ignores WHO recommendations and uses added sugar in its baby food for Africa, Asia and Latin America. So, according to researchers, Nestle is trying to maintain sales at a high level. However, in Europe and the UK, the same baby food products do not contain added sugar. The Guardian reports this. The Swiss organization PublicEye took the most popular Nestle children's products from Africa, Asia and Latin America and submitted them for chemical examination.

The first Russian shareholder Anatoly Osmolovsky - about how contemporary art (not) is experiencing war Anatoly Osmolovsky is one of the most famous contemporary artists of Russia and the “godfather” of Russian actionism. He began his artistic activity in the late 1980s, and in 1991, as part of the movement, E.T. and held a famous action on Red Square, where they depicted the word “dick” with bodies. Osmolovsky influenced the art group "War", Pussy Riot and Peter Pavlensky.

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine launched a drone strike on the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunov, where military aircraft are produced and repaired, including strategic bombers Tu-22M and Tu-160M. RBC-Ukraine writes about this, citing sources in the Ukrainian special services. According to the publication, the drones reached their target in Tatarstan at about 10 a.m.

The world's biggest clothing brands, H&M and Zara, use cotton that has been linked to illegal deforestation, violence, human rights abuses and corruption in Brazil. This is evidenced by the results of an investigation by the British NGO Earthsight. SLC Agrícola and Horita Group are the main suppliers of cotton from Brazil and are owned by some of the richest families in the country.

The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ivan Vyhovsky, reported that 161 children forcibly removed from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and Belarus are in Germany. Vygovsky met in Berlin with the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, Holger Münch. At the meeting, he stated that the location of the children was established thanks to cooperation with German law enforcement agencies. Vygovsky did not say how exactly the children ended up on German territory.

Kharkov risks becoming a “second Aleppo” if American congressmen do not agree on a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said in an interview with The Guardian. He stressed that the country needs air defense capabilities amid an increase in the number of Russian missile attacks. Terekhov pointed to changes in the tactics of Russian troops who are trying to destroy the power supply to Kharkov.

The organizers of the “Support Region” quiz, which took place in the Sverdlovsk region from March 15 to 18, called it a coincidence that some of the prizes went to people close to the regional authorities. This was reported by “66.ru”. The competition took place on the days of the Russian presidential elections. It featured 45 apartments, 100 Moskvich cars, 20 Ural motorcycles and two thousand smartphones.

In Kazakhstan, during the trial of former Minister of Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who is accused of murdering his common-law wife Saltanat Nukenova, one of the witnesses stated that he killed a child. The local publication ORDA writes about this. According to him, on April 11, speaking in court, Saltanat Nukenova’s mother Zhumagul “threatened Bishimbayev to reveal his past.” “Do you want to tell me about your past?

American TV presenter Tucker Carlson interviewed the creator of Telegram, Pavel Durov. The video, just under an hour long, was published on the journalist’s YouTube channel. In an interview, Pavel Durov spoke about his work at Vkontakte, the founding of Telegram, attention to applications from governments of different countries, and censorship by Apple and Google. Durov said that he encountered the first attempts at censorship in Russia in 2011.

Sales of instant coffee bags in Russia have grown by more than 10% over the past year. At the same time, the demand for other hot drinks has decreased, the Kommersant newspaper writes about this, citing data from NielsenIQ. Experts interviewed by the publication explain this by the desire of Russians to save money. According to NielsenIQ, in February 2024, demand for instant coffee bags grew by 10.5% year-on-year in volume terms.