Alleged Russian GRU officers Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga, known under the pseudonyms "Alexander Petrov" and "Ruslan Boshirov" respectively, have been promoted and are now working for the Kremlin, investigative journalist Hristo Grozev of the Bellingcat project told the Czech publication Novinky.cz. "All I can say is that they are healthy and working in government services. They got new jobs because they can no longer work as spies.

The ‘international experts’ who observed Russia’s constitutional plebiscite arrived on a charter flight. Who paid for their visit remains unclear. Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Vida Press Russians voting on the amendments to the constitution During Russia’s constitutional plebiscite last summer, a group of “international experts” were flown in to observe the vote.

Blue Origin, belonging to the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, plans to make its first suborbital review flight for space tourists on the New Shepard ship on June 20. One of the six places on the ship will be played at a five-story online auction, which will be held in three stages. In the first round, from May 5 to 19, on the company’s website you can leave an application for any amount that will not be known to other participants.

The Consulate General of Spain in Moscow announced that from May 12, Russian residents will again be able to apply for Schengen visas. Visas will be available to people who previously had Spanish visas with a validity of at least one year, but, as noted in the consulate, "priority will be given to holders of previous visas for two, three and five years, as well as relatives of EU citizens and owners." Visas will be valid on June 1st.

Rospatent has received an application to register the pseudonym of singer Tima Belorusskikh (real name - Timofey Morozov) as a trademark. Open Media drew attention to this, having found the application on the website of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property, a subordinate structure of Rospatent. The registration documents were sent on April 6.

Russian court drops case against journalist accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about the coronavirus pandemic Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / LETA An ambulance outside of the emergency room of the Pokrovskaya Hospital in St. Petersburg. April 25, 2020. Last May, Russian journalist Tatiana Voltskaya interviewed an ICU doctor who told her about the critical situation facing St. Petersburg’s coronavirus hospitals.

25-year-old resident of Mali Halima Cisse gave birth to nine children - five girls and four boys, reports AFP, citing a statement by the authorities. According to them, the mother and children "feel good." On March 30, the Malian government sent Halima Cisse, who lived in the north of a poor African country, to Morocco for better care. The birth took place on May 4 in a private clinic in Casablanca; children were born by caesarean section.

Meduza has restored direct payments through our support.meduza.io platform. We temporarily disabled new donations via bank cards earlier in the day on May 5, after unknown hackers attacked our crowdfunding website . In an apparent attempt to damage the crowdfunding campaign Meduza launched after the Russian authorities designated us as a “foreign agent” media outlet, the hackers tried to make hundreds of payments to Meduza using stolen bank account numbers.

Meduza has re-enabled the ability to make donations to the publication using bank cards. Earlier on May 5, we disabled the data entry form due to a hacker attack. Unidentified individuals attempted to process several hundred Meduza transfers using stolen bank card details.

The supporters of Navalny want to prohibit the State Duma. How people recognized by the media live - "foreign agents." Why are Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Good evening, This is the daily Medusa newsletter about important news of the day, where we should now also write that the Ministry of Justice has declared us a “foreign agent”. First, look at the Bengal cat named Ben . He obviously wanted to tell us something ... But it was only possible to inflate the cheeks and mumble.

The State Duma wants to tighten the laws on "extremists" and "undesirable." Grigory Golosov, Vladimir Gelman and Elena Lukyanova explain that this speaks of the regime in Russia Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Promotion in support of Alexei Navalny on Tverskaya Street in Moscow.

Peloton, an American fitness equipment company, has announced a voluntary recall of the Tread+ and Tread treadmills for safety reasons. This is stated in a joint statement by the manufacturer and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. The statement said that people who bought Peloton treadmills should stop using them and contact the company to receive compensation for the product.

The Seychelles authorities have tightened anti-coronavirus restrictions due to an increase in the number of cases in the country. Bloomberg writes about it. In particular, schools will be closed for two weeks, and sports competitions will be cancelled. Bars and restaurants will be ordered to close earlier than usual. The head of the Ministry of Health of the country called the situation with coronavirus "critical".

The main thing from the investigation of "Novaya Gazeta" Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Vida Press voting on amendments to the Russian Constitution Foreigners, who acted as “international experts” in the summer of 2020, evaluating the course of voting on amendments to the Constitution of Russia, organizedly brought to Moscow a charter flight and also sent back in an organized manner. This is stated in the investigation of Novaya Gazeta and the Dossier Center.

On May 5, unknown hackers attacked Meduza ’s crowdfunding website , which we launched after the Russian authorities designated us as a “foreign agent” media outlet and chased away our advertisers. The hackers tried to make hundreds of payments to Meduza using stolen bank account numbers and gibberish email addresses for contact information. The electronic payment service “Stripe,” which processes donations to Meduza , blocked most of these transfers.