Two people - a man born in 1961 and a boy born in 2005 - died in the explosion of a military projectile during the Great Patriotic War at an excavation site in the Volgograd region. This was reported by Interfax, referring to the regional administration. The explosion occurred 30 kilometers from the village of Samofalovka, Gorodishchensky district, reported the Investigative Committee .

The Estonian Ministry of Defense stated that on the morning of May 5, a Russian Il-96 wide-body aircraft violated the Estonian air border near the island of Vaindloo in the Gulf of Finland. The aircraft stayed in Estonian airspace for about a minute.

Verkhovna Rada deputy and leader of the Opposition Platform - For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk, who is called "Putin's godfather" , entered the Forbes Ukraine magazine ranking of the richest Ukrainians for the first time. Medvedchuk became the richest of the 14 newcomers to the Forbes rating. The publication estimated his fortune at $620 million. Medvedchuk is involved in business in the fuel and energy sector, media, metallurgy, and also owns real estate.

Sberbank will raise mortgage rates by 0.4 percentage points from May 7, RBC reports, citing the company's call center. Rates will increase on mortgage loans for finished housing, for new buildings (except for the “State Support-2020” programs), loans for building a house and purchasing a garage.

These are mainly immigrants from law enforcement agencies. But there is even a former ally of Leonid Volkov among them On May 4, a group of deputies introduced significant bills on unwanted and extremist organizations to the State Duma. Both documents, first of all, were sent against the FBC , staff of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, as well as ordinary supporters of the opposition policy.

Scientist Mikhail Meltyukhov - about a new bill prohibiting "identify" the goals of the USSR and Nazi Germany Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta military before the scenery installed on Red Square on the eve of the Victory Parade.

On May 3, a member of the Senate of the American state Ohio Andrew Brener participated in a government video conference when he was driving a car. At the meeting, Brenner was sitting against the backdrop of a home environment, while he was fastened with a seat belt, and the buildings that he drove past the frame. The video of the meeting was published by the official government television channel Ohio. Judging by the record, Brenner connected to the conference when he was in a parked car.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Repression intensifies on all fronts. Now authoritarianism in Russia has been reborn and will rely exclusively on force? Answers political analyst Vladimir Gelman On May 4, State Duma deputies proposed banning people who were associated with organizations recognized as extremist to run for parliament. This bill may be aimed at discrimination, including supporters of Alexei Navalny, to exclude them from the elective process.

We analyze and discuss the strengthening of repression. Starship prototype has not finally exploded. It seems that for the prevention of Covid to ventilate the rooms is more important than wearing masks 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”. To get started, look at the dog, who caught the wave instead of the ball .

On the morning of May 6, the Rio de Janeiro police held a special operation against a gang occupying drug trafficking in Favel Zhakarezino, the G1 news portal reports. The special operation provoked a shootout, which killed 25 people: one police officer and 24 suspects. Two metro passengers who were traveling in the train near the Triazhen station also received gunshot wounds. A video with wounded passengers was published on the Web.

Russian lawmakers have submitted draft election reforms that would prohibit people “involved in the activities” of extremist or terrorist organizations from being elected to the State Duma. This potential ban would directly impact former and current employees of Alexey Navalny’s political network.

When the Urals’ largest city declared itself Russia’s street art capital, everyone laughed. Then it became the truth. Borya Kaufman / Carte Blanche festival Yan Posadsky’s piece “Russian hieroglyph” In the last few years, street art has become one of Yekaterinburg’s main attractions. The city’s streets have become a gallery of social commentary and protest art — and local utility companies don’t seem to mind, painting over it much less frequently than in other cities.

In the Vitebsk region, on the site of the village of Shunevka burned by the Nazis, a “theatrical historical reconstruction” of the burning was organized. Luxta telegram channel drew attention to this. A video recording of the reconstruction made at the Shunevka memorial shows how people in the form of policemen lead civilians to the “execution”, this is accompanied by the sounds of gunfire and German speech. Then women with red cloths begin to run around them, imitating fire.

The Saeima (Parliament) of Latvia adopted a declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923. Realizing that, as a result of the actions of the authorities of the Ottoman Empire, a large number of Armenians were forcibly deported to other regions of the empire and died as a result of starvation, torture and murder, (the Seimas) condemns the crimes committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people, including murders and forced displacements.

Lawyer and head of the human rights organization "Team 29" Ivan Pavlov believes that the customer of the criminal case against him may be FSB investigator Alexander Chaban. Pavlov stated this in an interview with Dozhd. Chaban is handling the case of journalist Ivan Safronov, who is being defended by Pavlov. Last week, the lawyer was accused of disclosing investigative data on Safronov's case.