The leader of the Taliban Islamist movement, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has signed a decree that bans women in Afghanistan from appearing on the streets without a burka , which completely covers the face and body. The document, as reported by BBC News, was drafted by the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue. The decree also notes that women are better off staying at home unless they have important business outside. There is a penalty for refusing to wear a burqa.

Seven people died and 17 were injured as a result of fires that engulfed settlements in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to medical services, 14 people were hospitalized. The ministry claims that the fire situation in the region has stabilized. All fires that have arisen are localized. Extinguishing continues in 13 municipal districts. A total of 484 buildings were affected by the fire.

Two foreign citizens were detained at the Baikonur cosmodrome, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. “At 18.10 Moscow time, a report was received from the Yuzhny Space Center (Baikonur) about the detention of British citizen Rich Benjamin and Belarusian citizen Zelupa Alina in the area of ​​launch pad 112 (the Buran complex owned by Kazakhstanis)," he wrote in his Telegram channel . He later published photographs of the detainees' passports.

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk announced the completion of the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. “The order of the president has been fulfilled: all women, children and elderly people from Azovstal have been evacuated. This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation has been completed,” Vereshchuk wrote on her Telegram channel.

Ukrainian veterans of the Great Patriotic War asked Putin to release civilians and military from Azovstal AP / Scanpix / Leta The Azovstal plant-the last place in Mariupol, in which Ukrainian troops hold the defense-and civilians are hiding there (in the evening of May 7, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk announced evacuation from the factory of all children, women and the elderly).

On May 7, the Russian military carried out six missile strikes on Odessa, Suspilne Novini reports, citing Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces. Four shells hit a civilian business in a residential area, causing a fire. Information about the victims is being clarified. Two more missiles hit the previously destroyed airport runway. Updated .

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that in the area of ​​​​Snake Island in the Odessa region, the Bayraktar TB2 drone hit the Russian landing boat of project 11770 Serna and two Tor anti-aircraft missile systems. The agency also released a video of the strike on the ship. On the eve of May 6, the Ukrainian media reported that a Russian Burevestnik-class frigate was hit by Neptune missiles near Zmeinoye. Updated .

The mayor of the occupied city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, Igor Kotelevsky, died on May 7 at the age of 57, Ukrinform reports, citing the regional administration. The circumstances of his death are still unknown. According to unofficial information, the version of suicide is being considered, the newspaper writes. The city of Tokmok has been occupied by Russian troops since March 2022.

The chess player, writer and journalist, the oldest grandmaster of the world, Yuri Averbach, died on May 7 at the age of 100, the Russian Chess Federation reports. Sergey Bobylev / TASS On May 4, Averbakh was awarded the Order of Honor "for great contribution to the development and popularization of the Russian and international chess movement and many years of conscientious work." Yuri Averbakh was born in 1922 in Kaluga. He began to play chess from the age of three.

On May 7, law enforcement agencies conducted searches at the homes of several activists of the Vesna movement in St. Petersburg. According to Vesna, the police came with a search to the parents of the federal coordinator of Vesna, Bohdan Lytvyn. In addition, a search took place in the apartment of the Viasna activist Valentin Khoroshenin. In both cases, during the search, all equipment was confiscated. Valentin Khoroshenin was detained.

He subjugates the army of giant mushrooms - and with its help thoughtlessly destroys everything around Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about the new novel of the Catalan writer Albert Sanchez Pignol “Fungus”. This is a terrible fairy -tale story, which resembles in many ways the “Lord of the Rings”: an unremarkable hero suddenly wakes up an ancient evil and receives power over him.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia extinguish fires at once in 16 settlements of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where at least 200 different buildings are burning, according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fires spread widely due to strong winds, the speed of which in some areas reaches 40 meters per second, said the regional government in a statement.

Medusa spoke with the clergyman Grigory Mikhnov-Vitenko, who has helped Ukrainian refugees since the beginning of the war Sergey Karpukhin / TASS in the main church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kubinka Grigory Mikhnov-Vyatenko is the son of the poet Alexander Galich, human rights activist and clergyman, a former priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Russian paratroopers who fought in Ukraine will participate in the parade in honor of the 77th anniversary of the Victory, which will be held on May 9 on Red Square in Moscow, TASS reports. On the morning of May 7, the paratroopers participated in the dress rehearsal of the parade in Moscow. According to the announcer, the servicemen who participated in the "special operation" in Ukraine drove in a convoy of military equipment on the BTR-MDM "Rakushka".

Share your thoughts with "Medusa" Philippenzo Madonnaro Moscow, March 2022 In recent years, the Great Patriotic War has become the basis of the Russian state religion. The authorities are constantly discussing the need to maintain the memory of the feat of soldiers - and even legally prohibited “deny” the “decisive role of the Soviet people” in the defeat of Nazism.