Intelligence agencies of the USA , Canada , Great Britain malware , Australia and New Zealand jointly reported on the neutralization of the Snake , which is associated with the FSB. They called it "Russia's most sophisticated cyber espionage weapon." According to intelligence agencies, early versions of the Snake program appeared at the end of 2003. Some lines mentioned one of the self-names “Ouroboros” - a snake biting its own tail.

Alexander Ivanov. Screenshot: @alexanderchachaivanov / Instagram On April 15th, Alexander “Chacha” Ivanov, the frontman of one of Russia’s oldest punk bands, NAIVE, took the stage at a Moscow club wearing a shirt bearing the name of Masha Moskaleva. The schoolgirl’s father received two years in prison for “discrediting the army” after she drew an anti-war picture during art class. This turned out to be NAIVE’s last concert in Russia. Days later, Ivanov left the country.

In the Bastak Nature Reserve in the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO), where Amur tigers live, a large fire was localized the day before, told TASS. the press service of the regional government The fire started on May 5, and on the same day a state of emergency was introduced in the region . The government of the Jewish Autonomous Region said that the smoke from it spread to the capital of the region, Birobidzhan. The very next day, the area of ​​the fire doubled - to 5.4 thousand hectares.

In the village of Taitsy, Leningrad Region, participants in a home anti-war exhibition were detained, RusNews and OVD-Info report . OVD-Info writes that “about ten people” were detained. SotaVision reports the detention of 14 people, including the publication’s journalist Vlada Makeichik, activist Vitaly Ioffe, Tatyana Sichkareva, Elina Kozich, Nina Ryabushkina, Marianna Khanukova and Ekaterina Statsenko.

A summer scene lit up in the Chelyabinsk Victory Garden; When workers were re-installing the wooden floor, a short circuit occurred. This was reported by 74.RU and Kommersant with links to eyewitnesses and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “Repair work was carried out in the utility block (annex to the stage).

The number of deaths from fires in the Kurgan region has increased to 19 people, told sources in medical services TASS. Another 13 people were injured of varying degrees of severity. Baza and Ural Mash write about 14 deaths. According to telegram channels, seven people died in the Tatar village of Yuldus, Shadrinsky district, which almost completely burned down.

The Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was unable to lay flowers at the memorial cemetery in Warsaw on Victory Day, as he was prevented by participants in the agreed action. about this The ambassador told TASS and Izvestia . According to Andreev, the crowd did not allow him to walk from the parking lot to the main monument at the cemetery.

In Estonia, on the wall of the Narva Castle, which is located on the border with Russia, they hung a Putin War Criminal banner (“Putin is a military criminal”). This was reported on the Narva Muuseum page on Facebook.

literary festival Ukrainian poets Anna Gruver and Olena Guseinova, participating in the Prima Vista in the Estonian city of Tartu, spoke out against the headliner of the event, Russian-language writer Linor Goralik, and she was excluded from the program. This was reported by ERR . Goralik was born in the Ukrainian city of Dnepr, during her school years she moved with her family to Israel, and since 2000 she has lived in Russia. In 2014, the writer left and received Israeli citizenship.

Ukrainian soldiers on exercises in the central part of Ukraine, May 2, 2023. Photo: Bernat Armangue / Ap The correspondent of Atlantic magazine Anne Applbaum and editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg went to Ukraine on the eve of the counter -offset. They visited Kherson and Odessa, met with Vladimir Zelensky and Ukrainian manufacturers of “wedding” combat drones, discussed the closest and distant prospects of war and victories with a variety of Ukrainians.

In the village of Tolmachevo, after a dispute in a store, four men attacked local resident Vyacheslav Mokin and his relatives in the courtyard of their private house. reported Mokin shot two attackers with a hunting rifle, two more were seriously wounded, NGS.RU and Astra . Astra writes that Evgeny Khotkov and Pyotr Vlasov died, and Novosibirsk resident Dmitry Fisyura and Kochenevo resident Boris Vlasov were hospitalized in the Ob Central District Hospital.

Vladimir Putin made a speech during the annual Victory Day parade. He devoted most of his time to the war in Ukraine and “Western globalist elites,” mentioning the Great Patriotic War only in a few asides.

The presidents of six countries, as well as one prime minister, came to Moscow for the annual parade in honor of Victory Day. The full list of foreign leaders was published by the Ministry of Defense TV channel Zvezda.

Alexander "Chacha" Ivanov. Screenshot: @alexanderchachaivanov / Instagram On April 15, the frontman of one of the oldest punk groups of Russia “Naiv” Alexander Chacha Ivanov entered the Moscow Club in a T-shirt with the name Masha Moskaleva, a schoolgirl, whose father received two years in a colony for “discrediting” the army after she drew an anti-war picture in the art lesson. This was the last concert "Naiva" in Russia. A few days later, Ivanov left the country.

Ukrainian documentarian Mstislav Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko were awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in the category “For Service to Society.” This is the only award that comes with a gold medal. All three honorees are Associated Press employees . Together with them, the agency's European correspondent Laurie Hinnant received the award. During the siege of Mariupol, Chernov, Maloletka and Stepanenko were in the city.