Russian authorities are holding more than a thousand Tajik citizens at Moscow airports, the country's Foreign Ministry says. According to the ministry, as of the end of April 27, there were 954 citizens of Tajikistan in the temporary detention zone at Vnukovo airport, including students studying at Russian universities. The department added that after many hours of waiting at the border, 322 citizens of Tajikistan finally entered Russia.

Employees of the Investigative Committee and other investigative bodies began recruiting volunteers for the war in Ukraine, writes Kommersant, citing sources in the legal community. Representatives of the investigation began to provide those involved in criminal cases with a paper called “Explanation”, which states that they can be freed from criminal liability by concluding a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Experts fear that these methods will soon change elections around the world. The elections to the lower house of the Indian parliament, which began on April 19, could be the largest in the world: the potential number of voters is 970 million people, or about 12% of the entire population of the planet. Voting is held in seven stages and will end on June 1, with the results due to be announced on June 4.

"Paper" talks about two Ukrainians who came to St. Petersburg and ended up on the street "Paper" After the outbreak of a full -scale war, tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees from Mariupol and other occupied territories of Ukraine were in St. Petersburg. Many hoped that in a big city they have more chances to find a job and feed themselves and their families in a foreign country - but not everyone succeeded. Some Ukrainians have become homeless in Russia.

The Russian army is actively attacking along the entire front line in Ukraine and has tactical successes in some directions, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky. According to him, the situation at the front has worsened; heavy fighting continued along its entire line throughout the week - the enemy concentrated efforts in a number of directions, creating a significant advantage in forces and means.

The most long -awaited novel by the author of Wonguzer Yana Wagner (it was her book that was shot by the "Epidemic") One of the most discussed novels in Russian, published this year, is the “tunnel” of Yana Wagner. The writer herself calls him a “sealed thriller”: in the plot, several hundred people are locked in a car tunnel near Moscow. It is not known to the end whether at least someone will get out of this trap, but not only a denouement is curious.

The Nizhny Novgorod court fined the leader of the “Metal Corrosion” group, Sergei “Spider” Troitsky, one thousand rubles on charges of displaying Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code), RIA Novosti reports. The musician was detained on the evening of April 27 at the local club “Hate”. SOBR soldiers burst into the venue right during the “Metal Corrosion” concert, forcing the audience to lie down on the floor.

The result is a collaboration with Balenciaga and a solo exhibition in London Maja Golyshkina Page on Instagram On April 27, in the London Gallery of Moosey, the solo exhibition of Maya Golyshkina "with Maya is something is wrong." Golyshkina-a 22-year-old artist from Russia, who is posting on Instagram Auto portraits in home-made costumes. She collaborates with international brands and builds a career bypassing large art instance.

Photo report "Medusa" In early March 2024, Azerbaijan demanded from Armenia to free eight villages on the border. To avoid a new war, the Armenian authorities compromise and began to carry out delimitation - in fact, four villages passed under the control of Azerbaijan. Local residents began to protest against the decision of Yerevan: they demand to abandon territorial concessions and ask for assistance to international human rights organizations.

Novosibirsk City Open College (Novokolledzh), whose leadership openly takes an anti-war position and refuses to hold propaganda events within its walls, will cease its activities in July 2024. The founder of the educational institution, Sergei Chernyshov, said this in a video message. Also, at the end of the academic year, the New School and the Foreign Language School “Inotext” associated with the college will cease to operate.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army has lost about 450 thousand military personnel and more than ten thousand armored vehicles killed and wounded. This assessment was given by British Defense Minister Leo Docherty in response to a request from British Parliament member John Healey about the losses of the regular Russian army and Russian PMCs in Ukraine.

Issue "Signal" on "Medusa" Pascal Le Segretain / Sygma / Getty images The release of the series of the FBK “Traitors” ( the first episode , the second ) caused another wave of violent disputes about the Russian 1990s. Many critics say that the FBK did not take on this topic in time: war, repression, dictatorship - before now to find out who was right and to blame thirty years ago?

The Iraqi parliament has passed a bill criminalizing same-sex relationships in the country, writes Reuters. As stated in the text of the document, the law is aimed at “protecting society from moral decay and calls for homosexuality that have swept the world.” The bill was supported mainly by conservative Shiite deputies, who make up the majority in parliament, the agency notes.

New defendants - Sergey Karelin and Konstantin Gabov, who collaborated with the Associated Press and Reuters AP / Scanpix / Leta Sergey Karelin in court in the Murmansk region (where exactly is unknown). April 27, 2024 On Sunday, April 28, it became known that in the Murmansk region a video journalist Sergey Karelin, who collaborated with the Associated Press and Deutsche Welle, was arrested.

The Government of the Russian Federation has published a resolution on the work of the Unified Military Registry. According to the plan, the development of the register should be completed by October 31, 2024, and from November 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense will begin to fully use it, including sending electronic summons to conscripts. Notifications to those liable for military service about all new entries in the register will be sent through State Services.