Because of the dictator, the most loyal people of the USSR suffered. He deprived them of their homeland and destroyed their unique culture In 1937, the Soviet government evicted more than 170 thousand Koreans from the Far East in a matter of weeks, suspecting them of sympathizing with enemy Japan. This resettlement was the first mass deportation of the Stalin era carried out solely on ethnic grounds.

A 41-year-old man was detained in St. Petersburg and is suspected of murdering a 25-year-old Russian flight attendant in Dubai. This was reported in the telegram channel of the local Investigative Committee. According to the Baza and Shot telegram channels, the man’s name is Albert M. He dated the deceased girl and broke up with her shortly before the incident. Fontanka writes that the accused already had a criminal record in a drug case.

In Yekaterinburg, the police came to the Khata bar, where trash streamers were broadcasting, getting drunk and beating girls during live broadcasts. RIA Novosti reports this. According to the 112 telegram channel, local residents have been complaining to the police about the bar’s activities for several months. It is noted that bloggers conducted their streams for donations.

Hannah Notte, director of the Eurasian Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, wrote a column for the Financial Times saying European fears about a potential Russian attack on Europe are growing more acute and likely inevitable.

Vladimir Putin became interested in meeting with Steve Witkoff after he was appointed US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing an unnamed source. According to the publication, Putin was ready to consider the possibility of transferring to Witkoff an American prisoner, teacher Mark Vogel, sentenced to 14 years in prison on drug smuggling charges.

Banks of “friendly” countries have strengthened control over transactions of Russians. This happened against the backdrop of the fact that the European Union included Russia in the list of states with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, RBC reports , citing lawyers and financial consultants. According to the publication, enhanced control applies to both individuals and legal entities. It mainly affects transfers in euros and dollars.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Left Bank, answered a question about “the biggest mistake within the country,” which, in his opinion, can still be corrected and victory in the war can be won. “The main mistake, purely from my point of view, is a completely lost media campaign. Just tight. Which allowed, let’s say, to raise the temperature in matters of mobilization,” Budanov said.

Vladimir Putin wants to take over all of Ukraine and the countries that used to be part of the USSR. Six unnamed sources close to American intelligence and familiar with its reports told Reuters about this. According to the publication, these reports present a completely different picture from the one described by US President Donald Trump and his negotiators to resolve the war in Ukraine, who said Putin wants to end the conflict.

The St. Petersburg publication Fontanka published a lot of material about Indians who recently appeared on the city streets as street cleaners. Among them was a former developer who worked for the IT giant Microsoft. He turned out to be 26-year-old Mukesh Mandal. The publication published a short video of an interview in which Mandal talks about himself and praises his Russian employer in Russian, albeit with a strong accent.

In the materials of the case of financier Jeffrey Epstein, convicted of pedophilia and involvement of minors in prostitution, published by the US Department of Justice, they found a mention of a meeting between current US President Donald Trump and one of the victims, who was 14 years old at that time. The document contains a fragment of the testimony of the girl, whose name in the published materials was replaced by the pseudonym Jane Doe, traditional for such cases.

School teacher Athena Symeonidis, accused of sexually abusing 12-year-old students, is innocent, and the testimony of the alleged victims is revenge for unrequited love. This, as the Baza telegram channel writes , was reported by the mother of Simeonidis, whose name is not given in the publication. According to the woman, her daughter graduated with honors from the Russian State Pedagogical University named after.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has developed a plan to transform the Gaza Strip into a high-tech coastal metropolis and a futuristic resort. This project is called “Sunrise,” reports the American edition of The Wall Street Journal. According to him, Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and the son-in-law of the American president, Jared Kushner, took part in the development of the plan.

The adopted son of the Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Olesya Ilashchuk Bogdan Rynzhuk was arrested on suspicion of murder. Reports of this were confirmed by Ilashchuk herself, writes the Ukrainian publication “Strana”.

The draft peace deal on Ukraine proposed by US President Donald Trump, despite active revision, still contains at least five key issues that have not yet been agreed upon. The American edition of The Wall Street Journal writes about this. According to him, the key obstacle to peace is the “issue of territories.” Moscow continues to demand the transfer to its control of that part of the Ukrainian Donbass that the Russian army has still not managed to capture.