After months of deliberation and thousands of amendments, Ukraine’s new mobilization law frustrates politicians and soldiers alike Valentyna Polishchuk / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images Ukrainian soldiers perform live-fire training exercises at a Kyiv firing range. January 27, 2024. On April 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law tightening the country’s mobilization procedures.

Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on the night of April 17 on the island of Tagulandang in the Indonesian province of the North Sulawes, the Stratovulkan Roang eruption occurred . He threw a pillar of ash a thousand feet high (300 meters) into the air. Due to the eruption of more than 800 inhabitants of nearby villages, they were forced to evacuate urgently. The last major eruption of Roang was recorded in 2002.

On the evening of April 17, thousands of Tbilisi residents again protested at the Georgian parliament building, demanding the withdrawal of the bill on “foreign agents.” On Wednesday afternoon, parliament passed the bill “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” in the first reading. Only representatives of the parliamentary majority took part in the voting. 83 deputies voted for the document.

Duty air defense systems detected and suppressed a Ukrainian aircraft-type drone over Voronezh on the evening of April 17, announced the governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev. “According to preliminary data, an industrial building was damaged when the drone fell. Emergency services are currently working at the scene. Representatives of the regional government and the city administration also went there,” the official wrote in his Telegram channel.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, published three separate bills on military assistance to Ukraine , Israel and Taiwan. Later on Thursday, he also promised to unveil a fourth US national security bill, addressing the use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, new sanctions on Iran and the blocking of TikTok .

At least seven people died as a result of flooding in the Orenburg region, writes “Important Stories”. On April 17, police discovered the bodies of 81-year-old Nina Solovyova and her 49-year-old son Alim Satigulov in their own home on Krasnoznamenaya Street in Orsk. They were considered missing for more than ten days; rescuers were unable to reach and inspect the house due to high water levels.

The main thing from the Foreign Affaars material Rodrigo ABD / AP / Scanpix / Leta Damaged Russian tanks on Buchi streets, April 3, 2022 During the peace negotiations that Russia and Ukraine waged in the first weeks of a full -scale war, Moscow was ready, among other things, discuss the status of Crimea. This was written by Foreign Affairs, whose journalists gained access to projects of a peace treaty between countries and traced how these documents changed over time.

There is an online broadcast of a meeting with journalists Ilya Barabanov and Denis Korotkov on the Meduza YouTube channel. They talk about their new book “Our Business is Death,” dedicated to the Wagner PMC and its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, and answer your questions. Join us! Meduza How Yevgeny Prigozhin lived and died. Stream with the authors of the book about Wagner The book “Our Business is Death” was published by Meduza Publishing House.

On May 15, the Simferopol court of annexed Crimea will begin to consider the merits of the criminal case regarding the death of the head of the regional division of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, former editor-in-chief of Gazeta.Ru Svetlana Babaeva. Kommersant writes about this. As the media group previously stated , Babaeva died in October 2022 as a result of an accident during military sports shooting at one of the training grounds in Crimea.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included in the list of “undesirable organizations” the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, founded by the daughter of the deceased politician Zhanna Nemtsova in Germany in 2015. Also included in the register are the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit) and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Now, the authorities of Georgia intend to fight “foreign influence”. Former social stations are usually understood as the influence of Western funds. What do they really do? On April 17, the Georgian parliament approved the bill on “foreign agents” in the first reading. This was accompanied by protests of activists and parliamentary opposition. The ruling party "Georgian Dream" registered the bill on "foreign agents" on April 8, 2024.

The Borodyansky District Court of the Kyiv Region sentenced Russian serviceman Radik Ghukasyan to 12 years in prison, finding him guilty of murdering a civilian. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine. According to the SBU, 29-year-old Ghukasyan served under a contract in the 331st parachute regiment of the 98th airborne division of the Russian Armed Forces.

Entrepreneur Arthur Ocheretny, the current husband of the former wife of Russian President Lyudmila Putina, had a villa in France seized. This was reported by Challenges. Villa Suzanne, located on the Bay of Biscay coast near the city of Biarritz, was confiscated in December 2023. The seizure occurred after a complaint from the French branch of Transparency International - human rights activists demanded to check the origin of the funds with which the villa was purchased.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Isakov demanded an assessment of the legality of the creation of the Higher Political School named after the philosopher Ivan Ilyin, headed by Alexander Dugin , within the walls of the Russian State Humanitarian University. A copy of the parliamentarian's appeal to the Ministry of Education and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation was published by the Telegram channel "Beware, News".

What is it worth being afraid? Explains the project "Guys Plus" Zurab Kurtsikidze / EPA / Scanpix / Leta rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. July 6, 2021 Over the next month, a parliamentary campaign will be held in Georgia to discuss amendments to the Constitution directed against the LGBTK community. The discriminatory initiative appeared on the website of the country's parliament on April 3, one day with a bill on “foreign agents” .