The Kaliningrad company Avtotor decided to provide employees with plots for vegetable gardens. this . reports The press service of the enterprise “Due to the difficult economic situation in which the enterprise finds itself, AVTOTOR is implementing systemic measures to preserve and provide additional social support for the plant’s staff,” the release says. Avtotor decided to allocate 10-acre plots of land in the villages of Kholmogorovka and Lyublino to all willing factory workers.

The investigation has tightened the charges against Muscovites Anton Zhuchkov and Vladimir Sergeev, who were detained at an anti-war rally. This was reported by a Novaya Gazeta.Europe correspondent from the courtroom. The charge was reclassified from hooliganism with the use of weapons by a group of persons (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) to preparation for a terrorist act (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow reinstated two students of the Ostankino Higher School of Cinema and Television, expelled last year for liking them, TASS reports , citing the girls’ lawyer, Marat Amanliev. — The Tagansky District Court just accepted our arguments and considered the expulsion of girls for liking illegal. “We are pleased with the court’s decision,” the lawyer said.

The Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow sentenced former dentist Sergei Taraskin to eight years in a general regime colony in the case of “citizens of the USSR.” This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court. Taraskin was found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The time spent under house arrest since November 2020 will be credited to his sentence.

Khamovnichesky District Court Judge Diana Mishchenko arrested for two months 45-year-old Moscow resident Vitaly Koltsov, who was accused of attempting to set fire to a National Guard bus, lawyer Alan Gamazov told Mediazona. According to, at about seven o'clock in the evening on May 2, Koltsov threw two plastic Molotov cocktails at the GAZ Vector Next bus , owned by the Main Directorate of the National Guard in Moscow, which caused the bus to catch fire.

People on a train near Severodonetsk, April 7, 2022. Photo: Fadel Senna / AFP In the reports of the war on the first positions, there is always a discussion of the directly hostilities and the heavy fate of the civilian population. The fate of the most noticeable politicians is also widely discussed, and less attention is already paid to the regional administration.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Moscow St. Petersburg dismissed the administrative case against local resident Alexei Podgornykh, who went to the picket with a poster with a quote from the book “1984” by George Orwell. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The St. Petersburg resident was accused of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

In Yekaterinburg, a local resident Nadezhda Saifutdinov, who went to a picket against a war with a sewn mouth, was released from the police department. This was announced by the OVD-Info by her lawyer Fedor Akcherayshev. After the detention, the woman was taken to the city police department No. 5. The lawyer said that initially the police were going to take her to a psychiatric clinic, but then they took her to the traumatologist and released her.

Sberbank reported on the “prompt identification” of fund raisers for the Ukrainian army. this TASS reports with reference to a letter from Sberbank Deputy Chairman Bella Zlatkis to the First Deputy Head of the State Duma Committee on Education Yana Lantratova. — Fundraisers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are identified by the bank both independently using a set of various tools, including monitoring of social networks, and with the help of information that comes from third parties.

One of the international databases, Web of Science, has become unavailable in Russia . attention to this drew The Russian Research telegram channel , and the information was confirmed by the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexey Khokhlov. “According to numerous testimonies from colleagues, Clarivate Analytics services have become unavailable in Russia.

The Moscow Arbitration Court arrested the assets of the Russian division of Googl e for 500 million rubles following a claim from the NTV television company. This is reported in the court file. The NTV television company demanded that access to its YouTube channel be restored. The hearing took place on April 29, the card appeared on the court website only on May 4. The lawsuit was filed on April 13, the next hearing is scheduled for May 24.

In St. Petersburg, a case of desecration of the flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) was opened against a 17-year-old schoolboy who threw the Russian tricolor into a trash bin, reports . Fontanka According to the publication, a resident of the St. Petersburg district of Kupchino tore off the Russian flag near the shopping center on Bela Kun Street and threw it into the trash. According to Fontanka, the teenager is currently under recognizance not to leave the place.

Gemotest will conduct an internal investigation after two databases of laboratory clients were put up for sale on the darknet, reports with reference to the head of the company’s information security service, Ivan Osipov. RIA Novosti Osipov also said that in parallel with the progress of the internal internal investigation, the company will strengthen measures to protect confidential information and data security.

The UK has introduced a package of sanctions against Russia. This was reported on the website of the country's government. The new restrictions included VGTRK, the English-language publication South Front , the Strategic Culture Foundation, the Inforos news agency, as well as Kamaz, Volga Group, MIPT and the Dollezhal Research and Design Institute of Energy Engineering.

The Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate commented on interview Pope Francis’ with the Italian publication Corriere della Sera. The press service confirmed that the patriarch spoke about the expansion of NATO, which “Russia could not and cannot allow.” The Pope in an interview recalled a conversation with the patriarch that took place on March 16. “I talked with Kirill for 40 minutes on Zoom.