The Latvian National Theatre has cancelled the performance of the play "Notes of the Mad" starring Chulpan Khamatova. This was reported by the publication LSM.lv. The premiere of the play was scheduled for September 18 and 19 in Russian with subtitles in Latvian.

The Ministry of Justice, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, added the German Historical Institute in Moscow (GIIM) to the list of "undesirable" organizations. The OVD-Info project drew attention to the update in the register. GIIM was created in 2005 on the basis of the Max Weber Foundation. Since 2009, the institute has been financed by the German government. Similar organizations exist in other cities around the world - London, Paris, Beijing, Warsaw, Washington, Istanbul.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia Ukrainian Army Colonel Nikolai Dzyaman on charges of a terrorist act that resulted in the death of a person (clause "b" of part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

Three people accused by the Polish authorities of spying for Russia have disappeared after being sentenced, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper reports . In December, the District Court of the Polish city of Lublin sentenced 14 foreigners to various prison terms. According to investigators, the group, which consisted of Ukrainians, Belarusians and one Russian, was involved in sabotage and surveillance of Polish airports and railways through which Western military equipment is delivered to Ukraine.

Russian military attacked civilian infrastructure in the suburbs of Poltava during the day, said the head of the regional administration, Filipp Pronin. According to him, three people were hospitalized as a result of the shelling, and a total of 12 city residents were injured. Pronin and a Suspilne correspondent publish footage from the scene. They show burnt and damaged garages and broken windows in several multi-story residential buildings.

Kristina Lyubashenko. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazon After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kristina Lyubashenko and her family fled from Kyiv to Switzerland. There was not enough money for life, and she succumbed to the persuasion of an accidental acquaintance: to go to Russia and for a reward to launch balls with a white-blue-white flag in Moscow. Later, threats and blackmail were added to the promises of money.

Ramzan Kadyrov and his associates use three Chechen legal entities - Benofon, Orbita and Izumrud - for money laundering, according to the Project’s investigation. Money is withdrawn from them under the guise of interest-free loans to individuals working as taxi drivers and welders, and cashed out. In total, according to financial documents obtained by journalists, the companies own assets worth about 150 billion rubles.

Vladimir Putin has appointed his cousin Anna Tsivileva and Mikhail Fradkov 's son Pavel as deputy defense ministers. In addition, First Deputy Minister of Finance Leonid Gornin was appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced three local residents to 11 to 11.5 years in prison in the case of sabotage on the South Ural Railway. This was reported by correspondents of 74.RU , TASS and Ura.ru from the courtroom. Magnitogorsk residents Aleksey Udalykh, 22, and Nikita Sychev, 19, were sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Dmitry Masgutov, 19, was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison.

A criminal case has been opened against TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva for justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This follows from the response of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was received by State Duma deputy from Yekaterinburg Andrei Alshevskikh.

The Service Service sent letters to Russians with advertising of free training at the Russian University of Special Forces. The letter offers “to become part of the country's military elite right now” and get a “new military specialty” with “training with the best instructors with combat experience” and “cash allowance at a high level”. At the same time, no details about the University itself are given there, including its whereabouts.

The Supreme Court of Udmurtia sentenced a 20-year-old resident of the village of Debesy to 12 years in prison in the case of arson of a relay cabinet in Izhevsk, the united press service of the courts of the republic reported . He was found guilty of sabotage (paragraph "a" of part 2 of article 281 of the Criminal Code). He will spend the first three years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the time in a maximum security penal colony. The villager admitted his guilt in full.

Bags with torn documents of the Stasi. Photo: INGMAR BJörn Nolting / The New Yorker Stasi was one of the most powerful and all -pervasive special services of the XX century: for every 50-60 residents of the GDR, one employee of state security had one. Thousands of agents conducted surveillance and observation around the clock, and in this they were helped by tens of thousands of informants.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court received the case of Russian and US citizen Ksenia Karelina (Havana) under the article on treason, Mediazona noted . The first hearing is scheduled for June 20. The 33-year-old Yekaterinburg resident, who moved to Los Angeles, returned to Russia in early 2024.

The Investigative Committee has asked the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow to arrest Ukrainian Colonel Nikolai Dzyaman in absentia. The case file has been published in the court database. Dzyaman is the commander of the 138th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade. This is a formation within the Ukrainian Air Force that guards the Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.