The company AstroForge plans to launch a vehicle into space this year, the mission of which is to take high-quality images of an asteroid that may consist entirely of useful metals. The company does not disclose what kind of asteroid it is because it plans to extract minerals from it in the future for their subsequent use on Earth. It is not yet known when the project will launch, but the creators have already managed to attract $13 million in investments, CNN reports .

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to the Investigative Committee. The department does not provide details of the arrest. According to TASS, we are talking about a bribe worth at least a million rubles. Ivanov faces up to 15 years in prison. RBC drew attention to the fact that the deputy minister was present today at the board of the Ministry of Defense led by Sergei Shoigu.

The UK will provide Ukraine with a new package of military aid worth 500 million pounds sterling (about $620 million). It will be the largest since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. This is stated in a statement by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, published on the UK government website.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that he was given a nickname in the messenger. The crypto businessman who made such a gift paid more than eight million rubles for it. The username @pavel belonged to technical blogger Pavel Fedorov for nine years - he was the first to register under it in Telegram. However, a week ago, Fedorov put up this nickname on the Fragment auction platform, which was created specifically for buying and selling nicknames in the messenger.

North Korea has benefited from diplomatic relations with Russia. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to Jung Park, a senior US State Department official on North Korea. According to her, Pyongyang benefits not only from arms supplies to Vladimir Putin's regime, Russian economic and security assistance, but even from visits by high-ranking Russian officials.

A second criminal case was opened against 22-year-old Yekaterinburg resident Dmitry Grebenkin, who attacked girls who refused to let him meet him. Grebenkin's lawyer Ekaterina Kuvaldina reported this to It's My City. According to Kuvaldina, we are talking about a criminal case of beatings (Article 116 of the Criminal Code). The reason was the incident on March 19, when Grebenkin sprayed pepper spray in the face of local resident Ainur Z.

After media reports appeared about Ramzan Kadyrov’s fatal illness, the head of Chechnya published two videos with his participation. At one of them he holds a meeting, at the other he trains in the gym. The first was posted on Kadyrov’s telegram channel on April 22, a few hours after the publication of Novaya Gazeta Europe’s investigation into the state of health of the head of Chechnya.

Alexander Lukashenko ordered the discovery of oil deposits in Belarus. He gave this instruction to Sergei Maslyak when appointing him to the post of Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Belarusian state agency BELTA reports . “As for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, we recently held a serious meeting in this regard. I’ll tell you straight: you have to dig and look. In addition, you need to force everyone to work in this direction.

The Lithuanian Parliament rejected a bill that would have deprived Russians and Belarusians of residence permits in the country, who often travel to their homeland. This was reported by the local TV channel LRT. According to him, the document was supported by 20 deputies, 47 voted against, and another 45 abstained.

All because it produces an “OPEC” in it Kalunnborg is a small port city in Denmark on the western coast of the island of Zealand. The economic growth is associated with it. All thanks to the pharmaceutical company NOVO Nordisk, which produces Ovorpik and Vegovy - drugs for the treatment of diabetes, which are used for weight loss. "Cold" tells how the small city has become the economic capital of Denmark.

Ukrainian authorities are looking for new ways to attract volunteers into the army to fight Russian aggression. Candidates are asked to choose specific units and roles that match their skills, and most importantly, the length of service, writes Reuters. Billboards with images of soldiers have appeared on the streets of Ukrainian cities, calling on citizens to unite and defend their homeland.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Vladimir Putin has “not the slightest reason” to refer to Immanuel Kant, since his policies contradict the ideas of the philosopher. Scholz made this statement while speaking at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in honor of the 300th anniversary of Kant’s birth, Die Zeit reports . Scholz said Putin is using “many discouraging reasons” to justify his invasion of Ukraine.

In Kazakhstan, the trial of the country's former Minister of Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who is accused of murdering his wife Saltanat Nukenova, continues. The court is examining the contents of his phone for the second day. At the meeting on April 23, it turned out that on the day of Nukenova’s death, that is, November 9, 2023, at about three o’clock in the afternoon, Bishimbayev wrote to a clairvoyant friend from Shymkent that his wife did not respond to ammonia.

A driver in Chelyabinsk cut off two cyclists and scolded one of them for her appearance. The victim, Russian judoka, sambo wrestler and current UFC fighter Irina Alekseeva, told the Meta Fight project about this. Meta Fight showed video captured by surveillance cameras in the parking lot. The footage shows how a gray car sharply cuts off the cyclists, after which a conversation takes place between the driver and one of the girls.

The story of a rural official who participated in the falsification of the elections In 2020, a taxi driver from the suburbs left for Siberia to his relatives and stayed, getting to work in the administration of a city settlement, which includes several villages. Sergei (the name changed at the request of the hero) told the “cold” about the everyday life of a small municipal employee: he responds to complaints of citizens, scolds the illiterate people and “draws” votes in the elections.