on the social network VKontakte On May 15, the administration of the Starodubsky district of the Bryansk region published a post asking local residents to help search for the body of the pilot of the crashed plane. Thus, the authorities indirectly confirmed the crash of a Su-34 fighter-bomber near Starodub on May 13.

The head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, Vsevolod Knyazev, was detained while receiving a bribe in the amount of about three million dollars, Ukrayinska Pravda reports , citing law enforcement sources. Serhiy Leshchenko, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, also confirms this information. According to him, the size of the bribe amounted to 2.7 million dollars.

Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, reputed to be Putin’s personal confessor, presents a confused jumble of geopolitical ideas In a new interview with the Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, Orthodox Christian bishop Tikhon Shevkunov (reputed to be Vladimir Putin’s personal confessor and “spiritual guide”) shared a series of dubious and ill-founded opinions about Russia’s special place in the world, the West’s imminent clash with China, Ukraine’s doomed statehood, and other ideas barely compatible with

Comedian and musician Semyon Slepakov and blogger Ilya Varlamov challenged the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to assign them the status of "foreign agents". The relevant lawsuits against the ministry were submitted to the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, TASS reports. Meeting dates have not yet been set. lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice in the Zamoskvoretsky Court Earlier, artist Maxim Galkin also filed a .

The Arizona District Court on May 11 arrested two Russian citizens on charges of violating US export controls and money laundering - they are suspected of supplying Russian companies with thousands of aircraft parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft in circumvention of Western sanctions, writes The New York Times .

Since May 15, the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation has suspended operations on the accounts of Fashion House Yudashkin LLC, TASS reports with reference to the file system. SPARK Fashion House Yudashkin LLC, engaged in the production of outerwear, was registered in 2001. As of December 31, 2021, the company had net assets of minus RUB 219 million and had one employee.

Belarusian troops are on high alert after “four aircraft were shot down in Russia’s Bryansk region,” reported Alexander Lukashenko, in a meeting with the Belarusian military. “Let’s take a look at what’s happening near our country, specifically in the air. We often discuss issues concerning the security of our state, specifically in its airspace. As far as I can tell, the situation is not critical. However, there are some alarming factors.

The FSB accused Robert Shonov, a former employee of the US Embassy in Russia, of "cooperating on a confidential basis with a foreign state" (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code, punishable by imprisonment for a term of three to eight years with a fine of up to one million rubles). He was detained in Vladivostok, after which he was taken to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow, told TASS.

It seems we can now imagine how the Russian elite justifies the war to themselves. A brief summary from Meduza For me, war is a huge tragedy and a wound that never heals. I am constantly tormented by the thought that not everything has been done to prevent this from happening. I recall the words of your father, who was a true Russian liberal. He taught his students in exactly this spirit and warned about these events back in 1992.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that he paid $18,000 to “Ukrainian special services” for stealing his stallion Zazu, which was sanctioned in the Czech Republic in 2014. According to the head of Chechnya, at the beginning of 2023, “representatives of the Ukrainian special services” themselves approached him through intermediaries with a proposal to buy the horse. “They knew about my attachment to the horse and did not fail - of course, I agreed.

An amendment to a law on holding elections during martial law won committee approval in Russia’s State Duma, reports Russian state media TASS. The news outlet Vedomosti noted that a clause about the possibility of “forced and controlled movement of citizens from territories where martial law is in effect to territories where it is not in effect” was added in the second reading of the amendment. The “movement of citizens” would be carried out following a presidential order.

Georgia’s government has cleared the Russian airline Azimut for direct flights into the country, TASS reports . Charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi are set to begin on May 17. Azimut is the first Russian airline to secure a clearance to conduct direct flights after Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on direct air travel from Russia to Georgia, in place since 2019.

The first shooting in six days. He was not seen in public after the Victory Parade in Moscow The press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for the first time from May 9, when he took part in the celebrations on Victory Day in Moscow, appeared in public. His press service distributed personnel to his trips to the Central Command of the Air Force and Air Defense of Belarus. The media report that Lukashenko is sick.

Actor Danila Kozlovsky announced that he would not be engaged in creative activities until the end of 2023. “I have decided to go on vacation until the end of 2023 due to personal circumstances,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. He also said that May performances with his participation at the Maly Drama Theater (MDT) - the theater of Europe in St. Petersburg - were canceled.

Russia’s Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin has launched a criminal case against the security guards who wouldn’t let him onto a St. Petersburg construction site on May 14.