Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty images oil pumping machines, also known as “nodding donkeys”, work at the oil field near Neftekamsk in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia The European Commission announced the next package of sanctions, already the sixth in a row. In addition to the ban on broadcasting of Russian television channels and the disconnection of Sbering from SWIFT, we are talking about the refusal of Russian oil (at least partial).

The head of the 5th service of the FSB, General Sergei Beseda, who, according to unofficial data, was arrested, delivered a speech at the funeral of intelligence veteran Nikolai Leonov. It is reported by RTVI. The death of the former head of the analytical department of the KGB of the USSR Leonov became known on April 27. Farewell to him took place in the hall of the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. In his speech, Beseda said that he met Leonov in the late 1990s when he was working in Cuba.

The Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has included the trainer and chairman of the Melitopol Kung Fu Federation Andrey Golubev in the list of extremists and terrorists. This was noted by a Telegram channel monitoring the list's updates. Golubev is marked with an asterisk in the Rosfinmonitoring list. This is how the agency designates individuals for whom there is information about their involvement in terrorism.

The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on "fakes" about the Russian army ( part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ) against a deputy of the Semiluksky municipal district of the Voronezh region from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the agency. The name of the deputy is not mentioned in the Investigative Committee press release.

A London court has sentenced German tennis player Boris Becker to two-and-a-half years in prison for hiding £2.5 million in assets that could have been used to pay his debts after going bankrupt in 2017. Becker, 54, pleaded not guilty, The Guardian reports. The tennis player insisted that he followed the advice of his assistants. The jury found Becker guilty on four counts but acquitted him on 20 others.

The manufacturer of gummy bears Haribo will stop deliveries of products to Russia. report this Fontanka and Kommersant , according to a letter from the German company to Russian partners. "Global leadership has taken the decision to suspend production for the Russian market until further notice," said the letter, signed by director Walter Nikolaus.

78 Ukrainians who survived the Holocaust were evacuated to Germany because of the war, writes The New York Times. The same data was reported on April 25 by the Claims Conference organization, which, among others, organizes the evacuation. Elderly people, as described in the article, are taken out in ambulances. Evacuations are associated with danger due to hostilities and damage to roads.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange in terms of trading volume, announced that among the accounts blocked over the past two months were the accounts of relatives of high-ranking Russians. This is with reference to the statement of the company reports Bloomberg.

The military commissar of the Perm Territory, Alexander Kokovin, asked the authorities of the region not to disseminate information about the dead, wounded and captured during the hostilities in Ukraine. With such a request, he made a meeting of the organizing committee for the preparations for the celebration of May 9, chaired by the Governor of the region Dmitry Makhonin.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia the head of the Krasnoselsky Municipal District, Elena Kotenochkina, who became a defendant in a case of disseminating "false information" about the Russian army. This was reported to Interfax by the court's press service. The court ordered that Kotenochkina, who is currently abroad, be remanded in custody for two months from the moment of her extradition to Russia or detention in the country.

Cancer doesn’t disappear during wartime — but many of the resources required to treat it do Oksana Parafeniuk / Getty Images for The Washington Post A nine-year-old patient and her mother at The Unicorn Clinic in Poland. March 31, 2022 Every year, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are diagnosed with cancer — and for years, the Ukrainian healthcare system has done fairly well at treating them.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Dmitry Shtyblikov, previously convicted in one of the cases against “Ukrainian saboteurs,” to 19 and a half years in a strict regime penal colony. The court's press service also announced that Russian officer Alexander Obloga had been sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime prison. It is not specified whether they were involved in the same case. There are no details about the charges against Shtyblikov and Obloga.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced on April 29 that it had fulfilled its obligations under the Eurobonds "Russia-2022" and "Russia-2042" in dollars. The funds were brought to the paying agent, Citibank. “Thus, the obligations to service sovereign Eurobonds are fulfilled in compliance with the conditions established by the issuing documentation,” the statement says. We are talking about obligations with a deadline of 4 April.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Of the textbooks in Russia, the references of Ukraine are removed. History lessons at school have finally have become propaganda? We are talking with teacher Leonid Katskva The leadership of the Enlightenment publishing house, which issues school textbooks, minimizes the mention of Ukraine and Kiev in its publications.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has removed human rights activist Lyudmila Kuzmina and political scientist and Meduza author Arkady Lyubarev from the register of media outlets deemed "foreign agents." This was reported on the department's website. "This decision was made on the basis of applications for exclusion, as well as documents received from authorized state authorities," the Justice Ministry said in a statement. Details were not disclosed.