Rosaviatsia has suspended the monthly publication of statistics on passenger air transport, Interfax reports. As the agency notes, Rosaviatsia traditionally published several reports per month: operational and then updated data on passenger transportation, information on the load of Russian airports, including separate data on the passenger flow of the Moscow air hub , and statistics on the intensity of use of Russian airspace by domestic and foreign carriers were also published.

The procession "Immortal Regiment" in St. Petersburg was attended by people hired for money, writes "Fontanka". The publication found out that they were recruited by the Moscow advertising agency Akula, which organizes extras. The announcement, which the Fontanka journalist drew attention to, appeared in one of the telegram channels five days before May 9. It said that the payment would be 300 rubles for one hour, and asked to contact the coordinator on WhatsApp.

Russia spends $1.4 million on ‘marathon’ of pro-war concerts Ramil Sitdikov / TASS The Russian government’s recent “marathon” of pro-war concerts cost the federal budget 95.3 million rubles ($1.4 million), BBC News Russian reported on Wednesday, May 11. The concert series, meant to drum up support for Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, marks the largest state contract ever concluded in Russia for such an event (as per public procurement records).

The Rutube video service, which was hacked on May 9, started working again on the evening of May 11. Rutube previously stated that video hosting faced "the most powerful cyber attack in its history." The Village sources close to the company claimed that as a result of a cyberattack, the site's code was completely removed.

Update: The head of the Belogorod region said that, according to updated data, seven people were injured, one died. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the village of Solokhi, located near the border, was shelled by Ukraine, there were dead and wounded. “The most difficult situation in the entire period of shelling,” Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel Gladkov.

published on the Change.org website A petition demanding the evacuation of civilians and the Ukrainian military from Mariupol gained more than 1.2 million signatures. The petition is addressed to the UN and personally to the Secretary General of the organization António Guterres. It contains demands to urgently ensure a ceasefire in Mariupol and organize the evacuation of people to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government, or to the territory of a third state.

The Pope Francis met with the wife of the commander of Azov Denis Prokopenko Ekaterina and the wife of the fighter of this regiment Arseny Fedosyuk Julia. Ekaterina Prokopenko and Yulia Fedosyuk, writes Reuters, spoke with Pope about five minutes.

The Russian government has published a list of companies subject to sanctions in accordance with the decree "On the application of retaliatory special economic measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organizations", which Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on May 3 . The list compiled by the government is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Italian financial group UniCredit SpA is in talks to sell its subsidiary bank operating in Russia, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the discussion. According to the interlocutors of the agency, financial organizations, as well as companies interested in obtaining a banking license in the Russian Federation, showed interest in Unicredit Bank. Negotiations, Bloomberg sources emphasized, are at an early stage.

We explain whether this will affect the budget of Russia and heating in Europe Sean Gallup / Getty images Ukrainian gas facility Dashava is an underground storage of natural gas and an important transit station along the gas pipelines connecting Russia, Ukraine and Europe The Ukrainian operator Naftogaz said that Russian gas for transit to Europe in one of the directions due to “force majeure circumstances” would no longer accept.

Thai authorities will distribute one million cannabis bushes for free to residents in June for household cultivation, CNN reports, citing a statement by the Kingdom's Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. On June 9, a new law will come into force in Thailand allowing residents to grow cannabis with a low content of psychotropic substances and use it for medical purposes, subject to notification to local authorities.

Protesters sang Soviet songs and used pro-Russian symbols the day after Latvia officially commemorated the victims in Ukraine On May 10, a spontaneous protest broke out in Riga’s Victory Park after city officials used a bulldozer to remove the flowers left at the park’s Monument to the Liberators of Riga. Residents who were upset by the authorities’ actions started bringing new flowers to the monument, and a crowd formed.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov is making a film about Eduard Limonov, Variety reports . He will show the first frames of the picture to the public at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival on May 17. The film "Limonov, the Ballad of Eddie" is in the process of filming. The director told Variety that half of the film was filmed in Moscow, but after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the film will be shot in Europe. The publication does not name a specific country.

The prosecutor's office and the Federal Penitentiary Service did not file complaints against the decision to parole the former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax was told in the press service of the Moscow District Court of Tver. May 11 was the last day when it was possible to appeal the decision on parole, the press service of the court said.

The first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk died. It is recalled by journalist Konstantin Skorkin Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / Leta supporters of Leonid Kravchuk at a rally for the independence of Ukraine. Kyiv, November 30, 1991 On May of May 2022 , Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, who, together with Boris Yeltsin and Stanislav Shushkevich ( died only a week earlier), signed Blovezhsky agreements that legally issued the collapse of the USSR.