The head of Khakassia, Valentin Konovalov, announced the death of a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic in Ukraine Dmitry Ivanov. Dmitry Ivanov, born in 1976, was a deputy of the regional parliament from the Communist Party. High Council of Khakassia The deputy “went as a volunteer to the zone of special operation,” wrote the head of the region, adding that Ivanov served in Wagner's PMC. “Hero died in the performance of military duty. He had a widow and five children, ”Konovalov said.

The manufacturer Barbie - Mattel - introduced a new doll, it depicts a girl with Down syndrome. The doll was created in close cooperation with the National Society of People with Dowun Syndrome (NDSS). “This is a huge step forward to inclusiveness and the moment that we celebrate,” CBS News quoted the statement of the head of NDSS Candy Picard.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree providing for the “transfer to temporary management” of assets of legal entities and individuals from “unfriendly countries” in the event of the withdrawal of Russian assets abroad.

The Hakuto-R module developed in Japan, on board the lunar rover of the United Arab Emirates Rashid, did not communicate after trying to land on the moon in the area of ​​the Atlas crater. ISPACE, which developed Hakuto-R, admitted that the device was lost, CNN reports. Hakuto-r was to be the first commercial module in history to land on the moon. He went into space on board the SpaceX missile, launched on December 11, 2022 from Cape Canaveral.

An unknown suspect has accessed a 50-year-old Sakhalin resident’s personal account on the government electronic paperwork website Gosuslugi (“State Services”) and signed up the victim for contract service in the Russian army. The Telegram news channel Baza reports that the culprit messaged the account owner, impersonating a government employee and asking him to share an authentication code from a text message.

The Yermak-McFaul group, which is developing recommendations on sanctions against Russia and Belarus, suggested that European countries take a “fee for the restoration of Ukraine” when issuing visas to Russians. "The Russians will have a choice - pay up and see Rome, or save money and relax in Minsk," according to the new recommendations of the Yermak-McFaul group, which drew attention to The Bell .

A Moscow court arrested Bogdan Tsyganenko in absentia. Tsyganenko is the second suspect in the murder of Daria Dugina, a pro-war pundit and the daughter of Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin. The FSB referred to Natalya Vovk as the alleged perpetrator and said that Tsyganenko and Vovk “assembled the bomb together.” According to the FSB, Tsyganenko provided Vovk with fake license plate numbers and documents. Both Tsyganenko and Vovk are Ukrainian citizens.

A group of pro bono civil liberties lawyers working with the advocacy group OVD-Info have petitioned Russia’s Constitutional Court to repeal a law that currently makes it a misdemeanor to criticize the Russian military and its combat operations. The misdemeanor legislation the group is trying to repeal is different from the criminal law on “discrediting” the armed forces. Both articles of the law, however, belong to a single initiative to discourage public criticism of the Ukraine invasion.

A resident of Sakhalin was hacked into his personal account on the Gosuslugi portal and filed an application on his behalf for voluntary participation in a “special military operation” in Ukraine. As Baza writes, the attacker, who introduced himself as an “employee of Gosuslug”, contacted a 50-year-old resident of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk via messenger, said that he had been “hacked”, and asked to dictate the code from the SMS message.

The 65-year-old Marina Novikova from the Tomsk region of Western Siberia is a defendant in one of the first two criminal cases opened in Russia since a new law against “fakes” about Russia’s combat operations was adopted in 2022. Novikova is now on trial for retelling on social media what her Ukrainian friends from Enerhodar told her about their experiences during the Russian invasion.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow received a petition from the FSB to arrest a Russian citizen suspected of high treason, TASS reports. No details of the case are disclosed, only the surname and initials of the suspect are reported - Dovgan A.S. On April 18, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved amendments to the Criminal Code, introducing penalties for high treason up to life imprisonment (now the maximum sanction under this article is up to 20 years in prison).

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia Bogdan Tsyganenko, the second defendant in the case of the murder of the daughter of publicist Alexander Dugin, Daria Dugin. Mediazona found information about this on the website of the court. According to the FSB, Ukrainian citizen Bohdan Tsyganenko provided Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk, who is called the perpetrator of the murder, with fake car numbers and documents, and also “jointly assembled” a bomb with Vovk.

Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that it is expelling five Russian diplomats for engaging in activities considered to be incompatible with their diplomatic status. The Swedish Foreign Affairs Ministry notified Russia’s Ambassador to Sweden, Viktor Tatarintsev, on April 25. The Russian ambassador declined to comment on the developments. Sweden last expelled Russian diplomats in April 2022 on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence agencies.

Building a ‘digital gulag’ for draft-eligible Russians is turning into a major headache for the government IT contractor Maxim Mishin / Moskva Maksut Shadayev Earlier this month, Russia’s State Duma and Federation Council passed a new military conscription law. The bill, approved on an expedited basis, was designed to close the remaining loopholes that until then permitted the most determined of draft-dodgers to escape military duty.

Found bodies of 83 dead Reuters / Scanpix / Leta rescuers carry an exhausted child who has become a victim of the followers of Pastor Paul Mackenzie. Kenya, April 24, 2023 Kenya police discovered dozens of graves in the Shakahol forest located in the east of the country. On April 21, an exhumation was launched . For three days, mainly from mass graves, the bodies of 73 people were extracted , and then another 10 . The local publication The Star writes that there are many children among the dead.