The Russian portal of public services on the anniversary of the fire in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, which killed 42 people on May 2, 2014, arranged a mailing list. Users of "Gosuslug" were sent letters where the incident is called "Odessa Khatyn, in the fire of which part of our Russian world perished" and is accompanied by a poem by Olga Starushko from the collection "Poetry of the Russian Summer".

In the Belgorod region, a drone dropped explosives at the construction site of protective structures near the village of Priles, Baza reports. A 46-year-old worker received a concussion. He was given medical assistance on the spot, the victim refused hospitalization. The drone, according to Baza, flew in from the border with Ukraine. The authorities of the Belgorod region have not yet commented on the incident.

In Russia’s Belgorod region, a UAV dropped an explosive device onto a construction site where some defensive fortifications were being built. The incident took place around 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday, near the village of Prilesye. The Telegram news outlet Baza reports that the UAV had arrived from the direction of the Ukrainian border. A 46-year-old worker on the construction site sustained a concussion but refused to go to a hospital.

A court in Russia’s Tula region has sentenced two defendants, Alexander Suchkov and Andrey Kuznetsov, in the murder of Daria Dugina, a pro-war pundit and the daughter of Eurasianist philosopher Alexander Dugin, TASS reported. The two were found guilty of falsifying a vehicle registration certificate that was used by Natalya Vovk, the alleged perpetrator of Dugina’s murder, to leave Russia.

Due to the outbreak of measles, Moscow State University has transferred several faculties to distance learning until May 17. This, in particular, is reported by RIA Novosti and MSK1, which received the relevant order from the university leadership. MSK1 publishes a screenshot of the quarantine notice sent to students of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

Another explosion occurred on the railway in the Bryansk region. The head of the region Alexander Bogomaz said that in the area of ​​the Snezhetskaya station "an unidentified explosive device went off." People were not injured, the locomotive and several freight cars derailed. Baza writes that at 19:48 local time, not far from the Snezhetskaya station, at the time of the passage of a freight train following from Bryansk to Karachev, three explosive devices went off.

Explosions were heard in Sevastopol on the evening of May 2, local Telegram channels reported. The head of the annexed city, Mikhail Razvozzhayev, said that "the loud sounds in the city center are preventive work within the framework of the EIDO and training of our air defense systems." Radio Liberty geolocated the explosion site using photographs — it is a former border guard training base in the Dzhabanak gully area near the village of Shkolnoye, several kilometers from the Simferopol airport.

Federal agents are prosecuting eight new treason cases in Russia’s Far East, including two that involve state secrets allegedly shared with China, Moscow’s most vital global partner Bloomberg / Getty Images A view of Blagoveshchensk from the bridge that connects it to Heihe, China Prosecuting treason in Russia is the domain of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the agency has opened at least eight new treason cases in the country’s Far East since the start of the full-scale invasion of

The Proletarsky District Court of Tula has sentenced two defendants in the case of the murder of Daria Dugina - Alexander Suchkov and Andrey Kuznetsov, TASS reports. They were found guilty of falsifying the registration certificate of the car in which the alleged organizers of the murder of Darya Dugina left Russia. The court sentenced Suchkov and Kuznetsov the same punishment - three and a half years in prison in a penal colony.

He was the first in the USSR to open a nominal brand of clothing and invented the famous hoodies of Alla Pugacheva Rudolf Dietrich / Ullstein Bild / Getty Images Vyacheslav Zaitsev in 1985 On the evening of April 30, fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev died . One of the most famous representatives of the Soviet fashion was 85 years old. The western press wrote about him and respectfully spoke French colleagues.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU) is considering the possibility of moving to a new calendar. On it, for example, Christmas will be celebrated on December 25, not January 7th. The decision on the transition, said the head of the PCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius, will be accepted at the Bishop Cathedral in May. “The embodiment of this reform will primarily allow you to switch to a more accurate calendar and avoid the gradual displacement of motionless holidays in the future.

And several more guests changed into cats (the best costume - Jared Summer) Evan Agostini / Invision / Ap Jared Leto on Met Gala 2023 In the New York Metro-Museum, the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” opens-by its beginning the costume institute was held by the Met Gala dedicated to Karl Lagerfeld. The exposition will work from May 5 to July 16, 2023. Met Gala is one of the most important annual fashion events.

The administration of the social network Twitter lifted restrictions on two posts by Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who said that Poland “should not exist” for Russians. Restrictions were removed from entries in Medvedev's English and Russian accounts. In both cases, the following warning appears before the messages: “This tweet violates the Twitter rules.

Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin says that Wagner artillery detachments destroyed an armored vehicle near Bakhmut. Ihor Tantsyura, commander of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense, was reportedly in the car. “We’re verifying the information at present,” said Prigozhin in an audio recording released by his press service. Prigozhin spokespeople released a screenshot showing a wrecked armored car.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called U.S. data on Russian losses in Ukraine “made up.” “Washington doesn’t have the ability to provide the correct figures. They don’t possess such data. We should only focus on the figures from Russia’s Defense Ministry, which are published in a timely manner, ” reported Peskov. Earlier, the White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said that 20,000 Russian soldiers had been killed since December 2022, based on U.S. intelligence estimates.