Total global military spending in 2023 reached an all-time high of $2.44 trillion. Such data are presented in a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SPIRI). The report says that for the year the cumulative growth of global military spending was 6.8%, which was also a record since 2009. At the same time, military spending reached 2.3% of global GDP. The top five countries in terms of military spending are still headed by the United States.

Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov said at a session of the International Kant Congress that the German philosopher Immanuel Kant is a Russian trophy. “Today we must talk about Kant for two reasons. A philosopher must be a live interlocutor; his ideas must be discussed, revised, argued with, and interpreted in the spirit of the times. Such a dialogue with the philosopher, his philosophy, gives rise to genuine thinking and, therefore, is a form of the highest respect for him.

Customs officers in Bashkortostan handed over a Honda Elysion minivan seized at the border with Abkhazia to the front. This was announced by the acting head of the regional customs Alexander Pryashnikov, RBC reports . According to Pryashnikov, the car was imported into Russia from Abkhazia without paying customs duties in the amount of more than a million rubles. Details of this case have not been disclosed.

The surgeon managed to restore it. After that he was fired from the university Krasnodar surgeon Alexei Dikarev conducted a unique operation to restore face to a four -year -old boy, to whom the dog bit his nose, part of the forehead and cheek. A few days later, he said that the leadership of the Kuban State Medical University asked him to quit of his own free will.

Biden and Trump will again converge in the battle for the presidential chair. Who will win and how will this affect Ukraine? In the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, the whole world will see the second round of the confrontation of the two “grandfathers” : Joe Biden will fight Donald Trump again. Until recently, the level of support for the main candidates from the democratic and republican parties was almost equal: 45% - Biden, 46% - with Trump.

Kazakh journalists complained that Ksenia Sobchak and her media employees received privileges at the trial where the case of ex-minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who killed the wife of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, is being considered. This was reported by Kursiv.media, and Mediazona noted . According to Kazakh media employees, Sobchak became the only journalist who received a seat in the courtroom.

Since September 2023, the presidential administration began to develop a plan in the event of a forced change of power in Chechnya. The Kremlin has already found a replacement for the seriously ill Ramzan Kadyrov, claims Novaya Gazeta Europe. The publication suggests that the current head of Chechnya may be replaced in his post by the commander of the Chechen volunteer special forces unit "Akhmat", Major General Apti Alaudinov.

A new US program of military assistance to Ukraine worth $61 billion will give the Ukrainian army a break, but will not allow it to turn the tide of the war with Russia. Bloomberg writes about this, citing military experts. They say that in the six months it took the US administration to get House Republicans to approve the new program, Russia was able to increase its firepower along the entire 1,200-kilometer front line and make some offensive gains.

The usual rainy season for Guangdong province in southern China, which lasts from April to September, turned into heavy downpours. Water levels have already reached a 50-year high, putting 127 million people, infrastructure and the economy of China's key commercial and manufacturing hub at risk. Rescuers are working in the region, The Washington Post reports . Heavy rainfall began in Guangdong province on April 16 and never ended.

Leaders of the European Union and NATO countries are calling on Athens and Madrid to transfer their air defense systems to Kyiv. This was reported by the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the discussions.

In the Kurgan region, as a result of the flood, the wells of the Dobrovolnoye deposit, where one of the Rosatom enterprises mines uranium, were flooded. The Tobol River flows next to it, downstream of which is the city of Kurgan. The Agency writes about this, citing publications by the regional government, videos of local residents and words of local environmentalists.

The US House of Representatives approved a new package of military aid to Ukraine The adopted document involves the allocation of a total of $61 billion. Of this money, 23 billion will be used to replenish American weapons stockpiles, which will then be supplied to Kyiv, 11 billion will be used to finance current US military operations in the region, and about 14 billion more will be used to purchase modern weapons and defense systems for Ukraine.

Artist Sasha Skochilenko, sentenced to seven years for anti -war price tags, talks about how she copes with PTSD in prison Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko is one of the most famous defendants about the “fakes” about the army. In April 2022, Skochilenko was detained after denunciation and accused of replacing the price tags in a grocery store with Anti -war leaflets. In November 2023, she was sentenced to seven years in colony.

There are not enough priests in Ukraine to work with war participants. Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, the head of the synodal department for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, stated this on air on Rossiya 24, Kommersant reports . According to the clergyman, now the Ministry of Defense has only 309 full-time positions for military chaplains. “This is extremely little.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been suffering from pancreatic necrosis (necrosis of the pancreas) for several years - this is a disease with a high mortality rate that is difficult to treat, Novaya Gazeta Europe found out . According to the publication, Kadyrov was first diagnosed with this diagnosis in January 2019. Then he went on leave due to “temporary incapacity”, and his duties were performed by the chairman of the Chechen government, Muslim Khuchiev.