The Chechen authorities have decided to limit the tempo of playback of all musical, vocal and choreographic works in the republic at a level from 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM), Grozny-inform reports, citing the Ministry of Culture of the Chechen Republic. The Minister of Culture of Chechnya, Musa Dadaev, said during an extended meeting on April 5 that a “ final decision” had been made on this issue, agreed with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included in the register of “foreign agents” the writer Mikhail Weller and the entrepreneur and founder of the Anderson cafe chain Anastasia Tatulova.

A dam has broken in Orsk, Orenburg Region, TASS reports, citing emergency services. The Orsk Unified Dispatch Service told Interfax that the dam was broken by a flood. Residents of the city are being evacuated from houses located in the flood zone, the agency's source said. According to the city administration, 4,258 houses and 10,987 people may be in the flood zone. "The dam break primarily threatens the private sector of Orsk," emergency services told TASS.

Sources of Ukrainskaya Pravda and RBC-Ukraine in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claim that three Tu-95MS strategic bombers and two Su-25 attack aircraft were damaged as a result of drone attacks on Russian airfields. There is no independent confirmation of this information. According to sources, Tu-95MS bombers were damaged during an attack on the Engels airfield in the Saratov region. It is alleged that seven Russian soldiers were killed.

Update. In Zaporozhye, four people were killed and more than 20 were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the regional administration, Ivan Fedorov. Industrial facilities and civilian infrastructure came under attack twice, the second time when operational services and journalists were there, the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine reported . The Russian military shelled the city of Zaporozhye on the afternoon of April 5. The regional authorities reported this.

The creators of the Editorial Board award established a special award “For courage and fidelity to the profession.” This was reported on the Editorial Board website. Sotavision journalist and photographer Antonina Favorskaya was announced as the first winner of the award. Unlike the traditional “Editorial Board,” the laureate of the “For Courage and Fidelity to the Profession” award will be awarded not for a specific report, but for journalistic work in general.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, arrested Muhammad Sharipzoda, another defendant in the case of a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow, Interfax reports, citing the court’s press service. He was remanded in custody until May 22. According to the court, Sharipzoda is a citizen of Tajikistan, whom investigators consider one of the participants in the preparation of the terrorist attack.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred in the New York area on April 5 at 10:23 am local time (17:23 Moscow time), the US Geological Survey reports. According to the service, the epicenter of the earthquake was in Lebanon, New Jersey, about 80 kilometers west of Manhattan. The earthquake was felt throughout New York, state Governor Kathy Hochul said. “My team is assessing the consequences and possible damage, and we will inform the public throughout the day,” she said on social media X.

The St. Petersburg police have drawn up an administrative protocol for drug propaganda on the Internet against rock musician Alexey Vishnya. The case will be heard by the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, as follows from the case file received by the court on March 14. Attention to this was drawn on April 5 by the head of the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, Darya Lebedeva.

The Arbitration Court of the Chelyabinsk Region satisfied the request of the Prosecutor General's Office to recover 105 billion rubles from the former owners of the enterprises of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK) group and the Etalon Company joint-stock company, the court's press service reports.

Bayden talked with Netanyahu after the blow of the IDF on the humanitarian convoy in the gas sector - and warned that "patience was exhausted" GPO / Handout / Anadolu / Getty images US President Joe Biden on April 4 phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-their conversation has become the first since the Israeli Army on the Humanitarian convoy of the World Central Kitchen charitable organization in the gas sector, which died seven of its employees.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In St. Petersburg, they now take a resort fee from tourists. He could help save the historical center from destruction - but will not help Since April 1, 2024, in St. Petersburg, tourists began to levy a resort fee of-1,100 rubles per day. According to the Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, the funds raised will go to the development of the tourism infrastructure of the city.

Gamers are waiting for crooked battles with the Poles, a slurred plot and a lot (a lot!) Walking. Is there something good? Cyberia Nova “ Troubles ” - an adventure game from Russian developers, based on the historical novel by Mikhail Zagoskin , “Yuri Miloslavsky, or Russians in 1612” . The creators so reluctantly revealed important details that some gamers to the last doubt the existence of the project. And in some way they were right.

A new generation of Armenian musicians navigates conflict, creativity, and cultural preservation Egor Kirillov for The Beet Story by Arpine Hovhannisian for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why did Vladimir baptize Rus'? What did this change in the lives of people of the 10th century? And what - in the history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? The baptism of Rus' is one of those historical events that the Russian authorities load special ideological content. In 2014, Putin, justifying the annexation of Crimea, claimed that Prince Vladimir was baptized in Chersonesos, so Russia was returning to the “historical spiritual font”.