Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow through a Russian airbase. The escape was organized by Russian intelligence officers after Russian authorities were able to convince Assad to admit defeat in the fight against the rebels, Bloomberg reported , citing sources. The agency's interlocutors, familiar with the situation, claim that Moscow promised Assad security if he immediately left the country.

The Russian National Guard advised Russians to tightly close the curtains on the windows and leave a light on “somewhere” to protect themselves from robbers while leaving. In a conversation with the National News Service, ways to secure housing were listed by the head of the private security department of the Moscow Directorate of the National Guard Troops, Alexander Romanenko.

Blogger and organizer of the scandalous “almost naked” party Nastya Ivleeva got married. She wrote about this in her Telegram channel, but did not disclose the name of her husband. In turn, the telegram channel “Ruthless PR Man,” with reference to Ivleeva herself, writes that her husband was 32-year-old TV presenter Philip Begak. His grandfather is the Soviet writer Yulian Semenov, and his grandmother is the daughter of the children's writer Natalia Konchalovskaya.

Global human trafficking rates are rising again after a decline during the coronavirus pandemic. This is stated in a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). According to the organization’s experts, the number of victims of human trafficking in the world in 2022 increased by 43% compared to 2020 and by 25% compared to 2019.

Young Swedes who had tonsil or adenoid surgery as children are more likely to have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicidal behavior. The study was conducted by a group of doctors from the USA, China, Sweden and Iceland. Doctors studied more than 800 thousand records from the Swedish registry of patients born from 1981 to 2016. Of these, almost 84 thousand people underwent removal of the tonsils (tonsillectomy) or adenoids.

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Yaroslav Belozerov (name changed), who will soon turn 60, lived in a small town in central Russia, occasionally going out on one-man pickets against government actions. The scale of the Russian invasion shocked him and left him in despair. Out of hopelessness and a sense of guilt before the Ukrainian people, he decided to become a volunteer and fight on the side of Ukraine, although before he could not imagine himself with a weapon in his hands.

In Moscow, police detained Vyacheslav Chikalin, a wanted former vice president of Evrazbank and chairman of the board of directors of Sol Rusi PJSC. TASS reports this, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. According to them, a police squad stopped Chikalin at the Teply Stan metro station to check his documents, during which he told the security forces that he was homeless. Nevertheless, security forces checked the man and discovered that he was wanted in several criminal cases.

After the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, a series of extrajudicial executions were carried out in Syria, the victims of which were Kurds, former soldiers of the Syrian army and co-religionists of the overthrown dictator. Videos of the massacres that appeared online were published by the publication “Important Stories” and the telegram channel “Caution, News” .

Rospotrebnadzor intends to suspend the sale of nasal aroma inhalers due to violations of the law. The press service of the department reported this.

The Russian Ministry of Health has proposed recognizing gastric resection, an operation in which part of an organ is removed, as the standard of medical care for obese children. At the same time, government funding for such operations is provided only for adult patients. Kommersant writes about this.

Russian Yaroslav Belozerov (name and surname changed for security reasons), who fought as part of a volunteer unit on the side of Ukraine, told Kholod that the Ukrainians he met in Kyiv thanked him for his decision to go to war. Belozerov said that during his first time in Ukraine, he and other volunteers were taken to Kyiv on excursions several times. I went to fight for Ukraine as a volunteer. I am almost 60, and I am from Russia.

Russian Yaroslav Belozerov (name changed), who fought for Ukraine as part of a volunteer unit, told Kholod in detail about his experience of participating in hostilities and that the Ukrainian military is extremely exhausted. “I decided to tell you about this damned war in detail, because I see that many Europeans and even anti-war Russians think that it will end somehow on its own. But this won't happen. The way I saw the war was a wild nightmare.

LDPR deputy Andrei Svintsov introduced a bill to the State Duma, according to which Russians will be able to buy alcohol only after a visit to a narcologist. The deputy proposes adding a doctor’s note to accounts on State Services so that it can be shown to sellers of alcoholic beverages. The bill was published on the parliament website.

The Ryazan Regional Perinatal Center spoke approvingly of the tradition of “certain nationalities” to give birth to children at a minor age. The medical institution reported that recently a 14-year-old patient gave birth to a child. The message was noticed by the publication “7x7. Horizontal Russia". Doctors at the Ryazan perinatal center named a 14-year-old teenager one of their youngest patients.

Every year, Russian companies lose up to 8.7 trillion rubles due to ineffective communications with colleagues. We are talking about direct losses from paying for wasted working time, as well as the consequences of sudden layoffs and an unhealthy atmosphere in teams. Kommersant writes about this with reference to a report by the Center for Communications and Digital Solutions of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.