The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has for the first time ruled on a case of state inaction in combating climate change, BBC News reports. We are talking about a lawsuit that the Swiss activist movement KlimaSeniorinnen (Elders for Climate Protection) filed against the Swiss authorities.

Russian “military correspondents” published a video with the Russian flag, which, allegedly, the Russian military installed in the village of Pervomaiskoye, Yasinovatsky district, Donetsk region. Judging by the geolocation of the place, the video was filmed on the western outskirts of Pervomaisky. It is unknown when the recording was made.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar on the wanted list “under an article of the Criminal Code,” as follows from the department’s database. Mediazona drew attention to the wanted card. The card does not specify why a criminal case was opened against Zygar. In March, RIA Novosti, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reported that a case was opened against the journalist for “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Russia recruited these women prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Six months later, they’re still waiting to be deployed. UFSIN Correctional Facility No. 2 in Russia’s Leningrad region Looking to fill the army’s ranks for the ongoing war against Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry began recruiting inmates from a women’s prison in the Leningrad region in the fall of 2023. Promised money and freedom, some women joined up, hoping for early release and the chance to see their children again.

The water level in the Ural River in Orenburg rose to 931 centimeters, exceeding the dangerous level, said Denis Pasler, Governor of the Orenburg Region. “I urge you to be careful and promptly evacuate from flooded areas,” added the head of the region. The press service of the Orenburg administration clarified that the water level in the river at around 930 centimeters is considered dangerous.

An Oakland County, Michigan, jury has sentenced James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of 17-year-old Ethan Crumbley, who carried out the 2021 Oxford school shooting, to prison. The Crumbleys are the first parents in U.S. history to be convicted in connection with a school shooting, the Associated Press reported. James and Jennifer Crumbley were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.

At the age of 94, the British theoretical physicist, the Nobel Physics Physics Physics, died. This was reported by the press service of the University of Edinburgh, where the physicist worked. Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images Professor Peter Higgs is facing a photograph of the Great Adron Collider at the Collider exhibition at the Museum of Science on November 12, 2013 in London According to the university, the Higgs professor died at home on April 8 after a short illness.

Yui Mok / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta in the UK printed the first batch of banknotes depicting King Charles III. By tradition, the king himself received the first samples - in the Buckingham Palace, the manager of England, Andrew Bailey, and the chief cashier Sarah John handed him banknotes with a face value of 5, 10, 20 and 50 pounds with 01 00001 numbers and the CA, HB, EH and AJ series.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Western sanctions should have prevented Putin’s war, and they, on the contrary, help him (and even how). What can you do about it? For two years of full -scale war, Western countries have imposed many sanctions on Russia. They complemented the restrictions introduced back in 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea. Despite restrictive measures, the Russian economy is still stable.

On VKontakte, about eight thousand comments from pro-government bots have appeared under posts about flooding in the Orenburg region since April 4. “Verstka” writes about this with reference to data from the “Botnadzor” project. As the publication notes, three main narratives can be distinguished in the bot comments: defense of the actions of local authorities, praise for the Ministry of Emergency Situations and, separately, President Vladimir Putin.

The management of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, appointed by Russia after the seizure of the station, said that on the afternoon of April 9, a Ukrainian drone attacked the building where “the world’s only full-scale reactor hall simulator” is located. No one was injured as a result of the attack. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that “the reports of an explosion are consistent with the observations of a team” of agency experts who are at the plant.

Menahem Kahan / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Israeli military occupy positions on the border with the gas sector. December 24, 2023 On April 8 and 9, the UN International Court of the United Nations held a lawsuit against Germany on a violation of the Convention on the prevention of the crime of the genocide due to the fact that Berlin sells weapons to Israel. The charges against Germany put forward Nicaragua on March 1.

As in the Orenburg region, animals that find themselves in the flooding zone save. Volunteers tell Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant / AP / Scanpix / Leta ORSK during flooding In early April in Orsk - the second largest city in the Orenburg region - during the flood, two dams on the Ural River broke through. According to the latest data, more than ten thousand houses were in the flooding zone, about six and a half thousand people were evacuated, about a hundred people applied for medical help.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan toughened the sentence of the former head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, in the case of an “extremist community” - the term was increased from seven and a half years to nine and a half years, said FBK director Ivan Zhdanov. The second person involved in the case, Ufa activist Rustem Mulyukov, left his sentence unchanged - two and a half years in prison, Sotavision writes . The meeting was held behind closed doors.

Russian military police officers detained Russian citizen Anatoly Shchetin (according to other information , Shchetinin) in Armenia, who was wanted in Russia for refusing military service, human rights activists from the Vanadzor branch of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly ( HCA ) reported. According to Armenian human rights activists, Shchetin is being held on the territory of the 102nd Russian military base in the city of Gyumri and is being prepared to be sent to Russia.