At the end of 2023, the fortunes of 24 of the 125 billionaires on the Russian Forbes list have decreased. In total, they lost more than $16 billion. In tenth place in terms of losses among Russian billionaires was the country's richest woman, founder and head of Willdberries Tatyana Bakalchuk. She dropped from 17th place to 22nd, and her fortune decreased from 8.8 billion to 7.4 billion dollars.

The district police officer from the Ural village wanted to work honestly and bring police officers to justice. Now he is accused of beatings In the winter of 2022, in the urban -type village, in the Sverdlovsk region, employees of the cemetery, digging the grave, stumbled upon unidentified bodies in plastic bags. For more than a year, police were silent for this find, until in 2023 the former district police officer Yuri Zolotko spoke about what had happened.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the detention of the head of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alikhan Tsakaev, who was driving without a driver’s license, a “shameful provocation.” He published a corresponding post on his Telegram channel.

The Ministry of Health sent out methodological recommendations to the regions on assessing the reproductive capabilities of the population. Kommersant reports this. The program covers men and women from 18 to 49 years old. Men should be examined by a urologist. If a specialist is not available at the medical institution, the examination should be carried out by a surgeon who has undergone appropriate training.

The Sejm Committee on National Security and Defense (NSDC) decided to limit trips of Russians and Belarusians to their home countries to once every three months. For violating the rule, they will be deprived of a residence permit. The local publication Respublika writes about this. The authors of the bill were deputies Audronius Azubalis, Angele Jakavonytė and Kazys Starkevicius.

Russia plans to hire more contract soldiers to avoid a new wave of mobilization. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources. According to the agency, the mobilization in September 2022 undermined public trust in the authorities and provoked the emigration of many Russians. Therefore, the authorities plan to replenish the ranks of the army with the help of contract soldiers.

Priest Stanislav Dementeev, Defense Ministry soldier Igor Selyutin and individual entrepreneur Stepan Morozov are suspects in the case of murders, kidnappings and extortion as part of a criminal group (OCG). Kommersant learned about this. We are talking about several dozen serious and especially serious crimes committed in the 90s. The Moscow City Court considered complaints from the defense of the defendants in the case about yet another extension of their arrest.

The Federal Security Service has further tightened the rules for traveling abroad for Russian officials. Reuters reports this with reference to nine sources. The agency's interlocutors said that some officials are being pressured not to leave Russia at all. The unspoken travel ban even applies to “friendly” countries that have not imposed sanctions against Moscow. Travel restrictions vary across ministries and departments, Reuters sources said.

Russian schools, colleges and technical schools began to hold events dedicated to the “Day of United Action in Memory of the Genocide of the Soviet People by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War,” which appeared in 2021. During these classes, students are lined up in the shape of a five-pointed star, and in some educational institutions children are placed on their knees, the Agency found out .

Argentina has submitted an application to NATO with a request to grant it the status of a global partner of the alliance. This was announced by the country's Defense Minister Louis Petri after a meeting with the Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance in Brussels. “We will continue to work to re-establish ties to modernize and train our forces to NATO standards,” Petrie wrote.

The Minister of Industry and Energy of Chechnya, Adam Khakimov, and the Minister of National Policy of the Republic, Akhmed Dudayev, met with Palestinian refugees and promised to employ them in a car production plant. The local news portal Grozny Inform writes about this.

Some victims commit suicide. Their parents blame this Instagram and other social networks American teenagers are increasingly becoming victims of scammers who extort their naked photos, and then blackmail them, threatening to send pictures to their friends. Because of this, the number of teenage suicides is growing, writes Bloomberg . "Cold" says that this is known. In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our Instagram and telegram .

The Washington Post published a Russian document marked “for official use”, which talks about the Russian Foreign Ministry’s plans to weaken European countries and the United States through information campaigns. The resolution of the meeting of the board of the Russian Foreign Ministry was provided to the publication by European intelligence. The document dated April 11, 2023 is an addition to the Concept of Russian Foreign Policy.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe published a resolution in which it refused to recognize the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin as president and called on European countries to stop contacts with Russia, with the exception of humanitarian ones. The resolution states that Putin assumed the presidency in 2024 as a result of elections that were not free and fair. Since coming to power, Putin has been building a regime whose goal is to wage war against democracy.

The mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Yuri Shalabaev, proposed a one-time payment of a million rubles for those who sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and go to fight in Ukraine. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel. According to Shalabaev, the money will be allocated from the regional and city budgets, as well as from the budget of the Ministry of Defense. Several other regional heads increased their payments for participation in the war.