The third episode of the “Traitors” project is about how Putin came to power. Brief retelling After Yeltsin's re-election, he was unable to serve as president. The country was led by the collective body “Family”, at the heart of which were Tatyana Dyachenko and Valentin Yumashev. The main sponsor was Roman Abramovich, who kept a low profile - but became much closer to her than the noisy Berezovsky. Around the same time, Sobchak lost the election.

At a meeting on May 1, the Georgian Parliament adopted the bill “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” in the second reading, the BBC reports. As in the first reading, the document was supported by 83 deputies out of 150 - members of the Georgian Dream party and its coalition partner, the Power of the People party. The third reading is tentatively scheduled for May 17.

AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russia’s “presidential elections” in occupied Donetsk. March 16, 2024. Since the summer of 2022, the Putin administration has been enticing career officials to work in Ukraine’s occupied territories by promising them unbeatable salaries and promotions afterwards. Many bureaucrats have answered the call, happy to do the Kremlin’s bidding in a war zone if it means eventually getting a governorship back in Russia.

Photos Alex Kent / Getty Images The missing protesters on April 29 captured and barricaded Hamilton Hall-one of the main buildings of the Campus of Columbia University, where mainly administrative offices are located. The capture of the building happened the third time in history, the same thing happened during the student unrest of the 1968th and 1985 .

Sading and meaningless film for the perfect weekend Eric Laciste / Universal Pictures / Ap / Scanpix / Leta The comedy action movie Cascaders is released in the world rental - the new film by David Litch (John Wick, the Explosive Blonde, Deadpool 2) with the stars of Barbigaimer, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blant. This is a detective story about an understudy who is trying to save the directorial debut of his lover. Mikhail Cabo talks about another film that revives the genre of stunt militants.

In Germany, left-wing radical activists burned down the garden house of the head of the weapons company Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, Bild reports. The building, located in Hermannsburg in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, burned down on the night of April 30.

The third episode of the documentary series “Traitors,” dedicated to the history of Russia in the 1990s, was released on Alexei Navalny’s YouTube channel. The new episode is called “Where Putin came from and why Russia was given to him.” In it, the head of FBK, Maria Pevchikh, talks about how Boris Yeltsin’s entourage was looking for his successor. “The oligarchs, with the help of television and an insane amount of money, were able to elect Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 presidential elections.

Seven hundred and ninety -seventh day of the war. Photos Every day since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Medusa editors choose the main military pictures taken the day before. These photos contain scenes of cruelty, violence and death, but most of them are not placed under a special dick, which usually the editors hide similar images. In a series of these materials, we try to document the war as it is.

A US court sentenced the founder of the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, to four months in prison. Reuters reports this. The court found 47-year-old Zhao guilty of violating US anti-money laundering laws. According to the prosecution, Binance management was aware of transactions related to the financing of terrorism, child pornography and other illegal activities - but the platform did not inform law enforcement authorities about this.

And why is the introduction of such therapy more slowly than enthusiasts expected? Lukas Kabon / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Laboratory of Blood Diseases in Czech Ostrava is one of those places where methods of immunotherapy of cancer diseases are studied On February 16, 2024, the US food control control and US medicines (FDA) approved the world's first cell drug directed against so -called well -coal tumors , that is, what is commonly called “ordinary cancer”.

An oil refinery in the Ryazan region was attacked by a drone. This was reported by the local publication RZN.info. According to eyewitnesses, the attack took place around three o'clock in the morning. Afterwards, a fire started on the territory of the plant. The governor of the Ryazan region, Pavel Malkov, confirmed the drone attack in the region (he did not specify what the drone’s target was), saying that there were no casualties.

Music producer and sound engineer Andrei Tropillo has died. His friend, artist Oleg Buryan, reported this on Facebook. Tropillo was 73 years old. According to Meduza, he died in Finland. Tropillo was called the first music producer of the USSR. In 1979, he created the unofficial AnTrop label, which released albums by Time Machine, Aquarium, Zoo, Kino, Alisa and other cult Russian rock groups. Tropillo himself acted as a sound engineer for the records and recorded some instrumental parts.

If this happens, he will be on a par with Omar al-Bashir and Vladimir Putin Spencer Platt / Getty images In Israel, it is believed that the International Criminal Court (MUS) is preparing to issue a warrant of several senior leaders of the country, including Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu. In the court itself, this information is not officially commented on.

Yekaterinburg prisoner Alexander Paranuk, who gave an interview to Meduza, was sent to a punishment cell. He told Meduza about this himself. Paranuk is currently serving a sentence of forced labor in a correctional center in Kamyshlov. According to him, the reason for placing him in solitary confinement was that he "allegedly went beyond the territory" of the center when he received a doctor's appointment from his wife.

In Tbilisi on the evening of April 30, 63 people were detained during the dispersal of a rally against the law on “foreign agents.” The country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this. The department also said that six police officers were injured during the dispersal. The crackdown began after protesters tried to block the parliament building. The police used special means, including water cannons, pepper gas and tear gas.