The investigation offered businessman Alexander Fomin, accused of giving a bribe to Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov, exemption from criminal liability in exchange for “active repentance,” but he refused. Kommersant reports this with reference to a source. According to the publication, Fomin was detained on the evening of April 24.

Billionaire and former head of government of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ruben Vardanyan, who has been under arrest in Baku since September last year, has stopped his hunger strike. This is stated in a statement from his family. Ruben Vardanyan's family finally managed to persuade him to end his hunger strike, as his health and conditions of detention are deteriorating.

Members of a criminal group suspected of stealing antique and rare books from European libraries were detained in four EU countries and Georgia. This was reported by the press service of Europol. According to European police, the criminals stole rare books from national and historical libraries in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has designed new outfits for inmates in the country’s prisons. In addition to modernizing the color schemes, the FSIN will now allow female prisoners to wear pajamas instead of nightgowns and give them real hats instead of headscarves. The Justice Ministry unveiled the new looks at a meeting attended by prison representatives and human rights activists. Meduza shares photos from the event.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / Sputnik / imago images / Scanpix / LETA Russian soldiers in the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. March 8, 2024. Since the start of the full-scale war, Russian soldiers returning from Ukraine have killed at least 107 people and seriously injured at least 100 others, according to a new report from the independent news outlet Verstka. Using media reports and court records, journalists calculated that Russian soldiers committed 84 violent offenses.

In the occupied part of the Kherson region, two Russian servicemen suspected of killing four people in the villages of Podo-Kalinovka and Abrikosovka were detained. Kommersant reports this. The detainees' names are Alexander Osipov and Alexander Kaygorodtsev. According to the publication, they confessed to the murder and wrote a confession. In one of the houses in Podo-Kalinovka, police officers found the body of a woman.

The AST Publishing House called the publication of Roberto Carnero's book “Pazolini. To die for ideas ”with the chopped fragments of the text. As the media drew attention on April 25, the biography of the Italian director and poet Pierre Paolo Pasolini published in Russia with black pieces of text on several dozen pages.

She received calls from a “police lieutenant,” a “Central Bank employee,” and an “FSB employee.” I am not an extremist, not a terrorist, not in the opposition. My family and I sent money to the SVO . My cousin died defending the motherland. It is not true that I agreed to pour out the green paint for money. Everything the prosecution says is not true . I was deceived for several days by scammers and convinced to do this when I was vulnerable.

A New York appeals court has overturned Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 sex crimes conviction. BBC News reports this. The decision states that the sentence was imposed without due process of law. The appeals court explained that prosecutors called witnesses whose testimony was not relevant to the case. In addition, according to the appeals court, the judge hearing the case against Weinstein erred by cross-examining the producer in a way that cast him in a “grossly biased” light.

Hundreds of Ukrainians blocked the passport center in Warsaw. Documents cannot be obtained, even if they are already ready Sergei Gapon / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainians at the passport service of the state enterprise "Documents" in Warsaw. April 24, 2024 The Government of Ukraine has banned the issuance of a citizen’s passport abroad or foreign passports to Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 years, who are subject to draft in the army. Corresponding amendments were adopted on April 23.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution “On undemocratic presidential elections in Russia and their illegal conduct in the occupied territories.” The document states that “the so-called presidential elections in Russia were illegitimate and undemocratic.” “This farcical performance by the Russian authorities pursued the only goal - to create the appearance of electoral legitimacy of Vladimir Putin, his policy of merciless internal repression and, above all, an aggressive war against

The Russian authorities decided to expel two employees of the Latvian Embassy in Moscow as a retaliatory measure, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. The department summoned Latvia's charge d'affaires in Russia, Dace Rutka. Representatives of the Russian Ministry expressed a “strong protest” to her in connection with the declaration of two diplomats of the Russian Embassy in Latvia as persona non grata “without any grounds” and informed her of the expulsion of two Latvian diplomats.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The case of corruption in the Ministry of Defense is an attack personally on Sergey Shoigu? What did he guil to Putin (according to the concepts of the system)? On the evening of April 23, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the detention of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Timur Ivanov. He is suspected of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the seizure of a business into state ownership is justified in cases where the actions of the owner harm the security of the state. There is no talk of any revision of the results of privatization, he assured, speaking at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. “Recently, law enforcement agencies have opened a number of cases to return some assets to state ownership.

Macron gave a keynote speech. He spoke for two hours - here's a brief summary There is unity in Europe. We have freed ourselves from dependence on Russian hydrocarbons and have stood together in support of Ukraine since the first day of aggression. Europe has become one. Ukraine and Moldova are part of our family and they, like the Western Balkans, will join the EU when the time comes. We have reacted quickly to crises, but is it enough? Our Europe today is mortal. Our values ​​are under threat.