Angus Mordant / Bloomberg / Getty images The Manhattan court announced criminal charges to former US President Donald Trump. He became the first former or current head of state in the history of the country, officially accused of court. On April 4, Trump arrived at the office of the district prosecutor Manhattan and was formally taken under arrest for standard legal procedures.

An escaped Federal Guard communications officer speaks about Putin’s obsession with secrecy and self-preservation Khodorkovsky LIVE / YouTube Gleb Karakulov has the rank of captain in the Russian Federal Protective Service, also called the Federal Guard or “FSO.” His identity has been verified by the investigative team of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky-founded Dossier Center, whose journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky interviewed Karakulov after his defection to Turkey.

FSB officers have detained a married couple who are suspected of spying for Ukraine at a military-industrial complex enterprise in Nizhny Tagil, Interfax reports citing the security service.

On April 4, the Seth Wenig / Getty Images, former US President Donald Trump, appeared in court of Manhattan, where he was charged with 34 points. One of them concerns the payment of 130 thousand dollars porn actress Stormy Daniels , who agreed not to disclose information about her sexual connection with Trump before the 2016 elections. The former president said he did not admit his guilt.

Russian billionaire, owner of the Russian Copper Company Igor Altushkin fully sponsors the Ural Battalion, an assault unit of the Russian Defense Ministry, which is fighting in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. The Moscow Times writes about this with reference to sources. “Ural is fully sponsored by Altushkin. Provides equipment and other items. This is his battalion,” a Defense Ministry officer who took part in military operations in Ukraine told the publication.

Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan District Attorney's office on April 4 and is formally under arrest pending formal criminal charges, CNN reports. It is expected that soon the former president will be fingerprinted, after which he will be taken to the courtroom. The channel notes that, after the arrest, Trump will probably not be handcuffed and will not be photographed in full face and profile as a suspect in a crime.

The National Republican Army has claimed responsibility for the explosion in St. Petersburg that killed "war correspondent" Vladlen Tatarsky . The statement of the “St. Petersburg column of the NRA” was published by the Telegram channel “Rospartizan”, and was also distributed by former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who lives in Ukraine.

A district court in Moscow has granted the prosecution’s motion to remand Daria Trepova, arrested after the blast that killed the pro-Kremlin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on Sunday. Trepova is being charged with terrorism and illicit explosives dealing. She is to remain in custody until June 2, 2023. The court hearing was closed to the press. According to the prosecution, Trepova delivered a statuette stuffed with explosives to Tatarsky’s reading in St. Petersburg on Sunday afternoon.

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit satellite launcher has filed for bankruptcy in the US. This happened after she failed to find funding to continue her work, writes The Guardian. Amid this news, the company's shares fell more than 23% to $0.14. A week ago, Virgin Orbit announced the layoff of 85% of its employees, leaving about 100 people in the state.

The State Duma has prepared a bill introducing punishment for trash streamers. This was stated by Kirill Mandrygin, a member of the expert council under the State Duma Committee on Youth Policy. According to Mandrygin, the new document provides for the introduction of public demonstration of harm to health, beatings, torture and kidnapping of a person into the Criminal Code as an aggravating circumstance.

Human rights advocates in Russia believe that a new policy floated by Russia’s federal penal system regulator FSIN will be “the beginning of the end” of human rights advocacy in Russian prisons. FSIN has proposed requiring a 48-hour notice for jail and prison inspections by members of the grassroots watchdog committees called “ONKs” in Russia, as reported by Interfax.

The Joe Biden administration has announced that it will send another $2.6 billion military aid package to Ukraine. As reported on the Pentagon website, in the near future the United States will provide Ukraine with ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, missiles for Patriot and NASAMS air defense systems, as well as anti-tank systems, small arms, and heavy equipment worth up to $500 million.

In the capital of Chuvashia, at the request of the mayor's office, the concert of Diana Arbenina and the group "Night Snipers", which was supposed to take place on April 14 at the Ice Palace "Cheboksary Arena", was cancelled. A message about this appeared in the Telegram channel of the mayor of Cheboksary Denis Spirin in response to a comment from one of the users, who asked: "Why will an artist (D. Arbenina), who is against the SVO , perform in the city on April 14, 2023?

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow appointed a year and a half of forced labor to photographer Grigory Mumrikov because of the failed action, which his friend planned to arrange during the Victory Parade. It is reported by Mediazona. Mumrikov was found guilty of complicity in attempted hooliganism. The state prosecution asked to assign him four years in prison. In May 2022, Mumrikov was sent to a pre-trial detention center, in August the preventive measure was changed to house arrest.

The Dossier Center published an interview with the FSO officer who escaped to Istanbul - about Putin, war and his service Khodorkovsky Live / YouTube The Dossier Center, founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, published an interview with Gleb Karakulov , whom the reporters call the captain of the Federal Security Service (FSO). Karakulov worked as an engineer in the Presidential Communications Department, his duties included providing Vladimir Putin with a secret connection.