Patriarch Kirill performed a prayer service on the occasion of Vladimir Putin's inauguration and said a few words about the end of his time in power. These words were cut out from the video on YouTube of the Russian Orthodox Church and from its website, noted journalist Farida Rustamova. “May the blessing of God, the Protection of the Queen of Heaven remain with you in your life, until the end of the age, as we say.

Russian billionaires who fell under Western sanctions began to transfer their assets to their homeland despite the risk of their privatization, Bloomberg writes . According to the agency, against the backdrop of restrictions imposed against them, representatives of the elite were faced with the problem of transferring their wealth to their heirs.

After the accident, the doctors said that I would not survive, but, having learned about pregnancy, they wanted to “clean me”. But I have other plans A 29-year-old resident of the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region, Ekaterina Sukhina, nine years ago fell into a car accident and broke her neck. Doctors said that she would not survive. But Catherine recovered after the operation, re -learned to serve herself, got married and became a blog in Tiktok , which grew to one and a half million subscribers.

The Russian army began to attack Ukrainian power plants more often, trying to violate energy supply in the country. It is reported by the BBC. One of the large -scale shelling occurred on March 22. According to the state -owned company Centrenergo, to which the publication refers, the heat station in Kharkov was destroyed as a result. The BBC gained access to personnel, which shows that a hole was formed in the center of the building.

Four people have been arrested in India in connection with human trafficking, the local Central Investigation Agency (CBI) said . The men are accused of recruiting local residents to participate in the war in Ukraine on the side of Russia. The press release states that the department exposed the human trafficking ring in early March. Its members found young people through social networks and offered them lucrative jobs in Russia.

The number of particularly serious crimes committed in Russia will increase in 2024 to a record level. This forecast, as the publication “Vestk” writes , was made by employees of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In their opinion, at least 152 thousand particularly serious crimes may be committed in Russia this year - this is a record figure for at least the last 15 years, the publication notes.

At the summit of NATO member countries, scheduled for July 2024, a declaration will be adopted, which spells out the alliance’s refusal to send troops to Ukraine. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera writes about this with reference to the draft document at the disposal of the editors.

The wife of United Russia deputy Anastasia Demina died in Moscow. Baza reports this. Her husband Valery Demin returned from the war in Ukraine in February. After that, she complained of violence on his part. The Telegram channel claims that at the beginning of the year, 42-year-old Demina broke her shoulder and suffered from pain for several months. In February, her husband Valery Demin returned from the war in Ukraine on vacation.

The American soldier came to Russia to make peace with the girl, and she accused him of theft. He faces up to five years in prison In early April, the US Army sergeant Gordon Black arrived in Vladivostok to make peace with his girlfriend Alexandra Vashchuk. But something went wrong: in Russia, the American was detained on charges of theft. On May 3, the Pervomaisky District Court of Vladivostok made a decision on his arrest. Now Black faces up to five years in prison.

The court upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and allowed the property of the Makfa group of companies to be confiscated in favor of the state. Lawyer Pavel Khlustov told RBC about this. According to the defense lawyer, Makfa “strongly disagrees” with the court’s decision and plans to appeal it in the near future. Her lawyers are considering the possibility of appealing to the Constitutional Court.

The main propagandist of the DPRK, Kim Ki-nam, who was called the “North Korean Goebbels,” died at the age of 94. The BBC reports this with reference to local media. According to journalists, Kim Ki Nam has been ill for the past two years. He died after multiple organs failed. Where exactly he died is not reported. He was buried on Wednesday morning, with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending the ceremony.

The Supreme Court of Russia sided with Ilya Filimonov, who made money on exchange rates erroneously set by Tinkoff Bank. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this, citing a court decision. According to lawyers interviewed by the publication, the decision of the Supreme Court is a precedent that will have a “colossal impact” on Russian judicial practice.

A graduate of the University of the Russian Ministry of Defense and a former employee of the Investigative Committee, Ivan Glinkin, who calls himself a “white hacker”, created a program that allows you to determine the location of users of the Telegram messenger. Glinkin himself wrote about this on his page on the social network X. He called his development Close-Circuit Telegram Vision (CCTV). The program uses Telegram's Find People Nearby feature.

In Moscow, military registration and enlistment office employees beat a student who was detained by police on the street. The “Conscious Objector Movement” reported this on its Telegram channel with reference to the victim himself named Pavel. According to him, on May 6, around noon, on Arbat Street, where he left work to eat, he was detained by police. They cited a certain operation “Conscript” as the reason for the arrest.

It's snowing in Moscow and the Moscow region for the second day in a row. On May 8, the snowfall intensified and strong winds knocked down trees in some areas of the capital, damaging at least one car. The videos published on May 8 show that Moscow is already completely shrouded in a snowstorm. In this case, the air temperature does not exceed 5 degrees. In addition, the Shot telegram channel writes that strong winds cut power lines in Solntsevo.