A close friend of missing Chechen Seda Suleymanova, Lena Patyaeva, was interrogated in Grozny as a complainant in her case. To do this, she and her lawyer flew to Chechnya on April 26, reports the SOS Crisis Group. “I did everything that depended on me to help the investigation. I came directly to Grozny so that the investigator leading the case could interrogate me himself. I answered all his questions and expressed my willingness to undergo a polygraph if necessary.

Member of the European Parliament Viola von Cramon on the social network X called for Georgia to be deprived of its candidate status for the European Union due to the potential adoption of a law on “foreign agents.” The MP responded to a tweet from the head of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell: “We need concrete measures!

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev published a congratulation on May 1 on his social networks and telegram channel , in which he compared the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler.

The story of the Russell Texas Bentley, an American who fought for the DPR and killed "his" The American Russell Bentley arrived in Donbass in December 2014 to take part in the war and "make new friends." He took the callsign Texas and joined the Vostok battalion, but later changed the front to the informational one-he started the YouTube channel (he was subsequently deleted for violation of the rules) and collaborated with the Russian propaganda agency Sputnik.

How to protect yourself from encephalitis and understand whether you are in a dangerous zone With the onset of spring, the risk of bite insects becomes higher. And if we can simply dismiss from mosquitoes and midges, then ticks need more serious protection, because some of them can infect a person with encephalitis. In Russia, ticks have activated since April, by mid -May their population will reach a peak, and they will go hibernation only with the onset of the first frosts closer to October.

In Tbilisi, a rally by opponents of the bill on “foreign agents,” which deputies adopted in the second reading, again escalated into clashes with security forces. Special forces used water cannons, tear gas and, presumably, rubber bullets against the protesters. On the evening of May 1, the opposition party “Girchi - More Freedom” reported that one of its leaders, Tsotne Koberidze, was wounded by rubber bullets in the arm and stomach.

A US court sentenced the founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, Changpeng Zhao, to four months in prison on charges of money laundering and violating US sanctions. The American edition of The Wall Street Journal writes about this. According to the prosecution, the lack of necessary measures to combat money laundering on the part of the management of the crypto exchange led to the fact that the platform became a tool for financing human trafficking, drug trafficking and terrorism.

Alexander Paranuk, who is serving a sentence for drug distribution at a correctional center in Kamyshlov in the Sverdlovsk region, was sent to a punishment cell after his interview with Meduza. Paranuk told the publication about this. According to the man, the reason for the transfer to the punishment cell was allegedly leaving the territory of the correctional center when the man went to pick up a doctor’s certificate from his wife.

The owner of the company “Business Coffee to Go” and the author of the blog “Billionaire from Izhevsk” Konstantin Petrov was forced to apologize for his words about monuments in Murmansk. A video of his repentant speech appeared on the channel of the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina. Last week, Petrov posted a video from Murmansk on his page on the social network VKontakte, which is now unavailable . On the recording, he complained that there was nothing to see in the city.

In the show “Colds” “I Hate You? 2.0,” director of the Center for Research on Post-Industrial Society, Vladislav Inozemtsev, admitted that economists’ forecasts about the collapse of the Russian economy at the beginning of the war in Ukraine turned out to be erroneous and undermined trust in anti-war experts. During his speech, Inozemtsev said: “I never claimed that the Russians would eat pasture, but I did say that by the first military winter of 2022, Russia would be in serious decline.

Austrian authorities have called on Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) to abandon a deal involving Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska due to a possible negative reaction from the United States. This was reported by Reuters citing anonymous sources. Raiffeisen Bank plans to buy out Rasperia Trading Limited, a company affiliated with Deripaska, which owns 27.8% of the Austrian construction concern Strabag.

The first F-16 fighters delivered by the West to Kyiv will appear in Ukraine “after Easter,” which falls on May 5 this year. Representative of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ilya Yevlash said this on the air of the Ukrainian channel Ranok.LIVE. “Of course, we don’t think about all these deadlines. This date has already changed several times. So we wait. When they enter Ukraine, we will definitely talk about it,” he added.

The US Treasury has expanded sanctions lists against Russia. The list included 29 individuals and more than 250 legal entities, according to the department’s website. In particular, the Russian low-cost carrier Pobeda was subject to restrictions.

Global wine consumption in 2023 fell to its lowest level since 1996. The RIA Novosti agency writes about this, citing data from the International Organization of Viticulture and Winemaking. Thus, in 2023, the total volume of wine consumption in the world amounted to 22.1 billion liters. At the same time, a year earlier, the inhabitants of the planet drank 22.7 billion liters.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered to reduce the repair time for military equipment involved in the war in Ukraine. During a meeting at the headquarters of the Joint Group of Forces, he stated that in order to maintain the pace of the offensive, it is necessary to increase the supply of weapons, military equipment and weapons of destruction to the Russian troops. “The central bodies of military command are carrying out targeted work in this direction.