Boeing has encountered difficulties in producing the 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft - due to the sanctions that Western countries have imposed on Russia, the manufacturer is missing one of the parts, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). We are talking about heat exchangers that, before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, were produced at a Russian plant as part of a joint venture between HS-Nauka JSC and RTX Collins Aerospace.

Russia has introduced a temporary ban on the export of cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, the Russian government’s telegram channel reported. The ban will remain in effect until August 31. At the same time, the Russian authorities have provided exceptions for exports to the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. “The decision is aimed at maintaining the stability of the domestic food market,” the government says.

In Novoaleksandrovsk, investigators and police detained three local residents who were suspected of burning the New Testament book, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Territory reported. According to investigators, on the evening of May 2, in the courtyard of one of the houses, young people burned part of the Bible “out of hooligan motives, motivated by religious hatred.” They recorded their actions on video, which they published in the messenger.

China has successfully launched a launch vehicle with the Chang'e-6 probe, which for the first time in history should collect soil samples from the far side of the Moon and deliver them to Earth. The rocket took off at 17:27 Beijing time (12:27 Moscow time) from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. Chinese TV channels broadcast the launch.

Ukraine faces a new stage of war as Russia looks to expand its offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address to border guards during a visit to the city of Khmelnytskyi. Today is the 800th day of the war. This is an extremely difficult and tough path that our state had to go through, and a path that still needs to be taken to end the war on fair terms, on Ukraine's terms. Now we are facing a new stage of the war.

The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the hacker group APT28, associated with the Russian authorities, of attacks on Czech institutions. The corresponding statement was published on the department's website. According to the publication, some institutions in the Czech Republic have been subject to cyber attacks since 2023 using a vulnerability in the Microsoft Outlook service.

The GPS signal is blaming Russia Robert Alexander / Getty images At the end of April 2024, the Finnish airline Finnair suspended flights from Helsinki to Tartu, explaining this “quite common” interference in the region in the work of GPS. Before that, two Finnair aircraft could not land in Tartu due to a malfunction of the GPS navigation. Then the authorities of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia accused Russia of interference. Mediazona told the main thing that it is known about these obstacles.

The mayor of Orsk, Vasily Kozupitsa, said that resigning during a flood “would not be human, not state-like.” Local residents demanded his dismissal from the post of city leader. “I believe that in this situation it is easier to leave than not to leave. But how do you leave in such a situation? I clearly understand that in this case I must be with people, I must do what is necessary for their accommodation. The time will come, of course, I will make a decision, but now it is simply impossible.

In the run-up to the US presidential election, TikTok accounts associated with the Russian authorities have noticeably increased their activity on the platform, according to a study by Brookings Institution expert Valerie Wirtschafter. According to her data, the number of accounts affiliated with Russia on TikTok has decreased from 57 to 46 since 2022. At the same time, they began to publish much more content.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed on Friday that Ukraine has lost upwards of 111,000 troops since the start of 2024. “The enemy’s daily losses in April increased to 1,000 servicemen. In total for this year, they [Ukraine’s losses] exceed 111,000 people [and] 21,000 units of weapons and military equipment,” Shoigu said at a meeting with Russia’s top army leadership.

Russians with narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia have written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for permission to import modafinil, a drug that helps combat daytime sleepiness, into the country, Kommersant reports , citing the Ratio public association. In 2012, the Russian government included modafinil in the list of narcotic and psychotropic substances whose circulation in the Russian Federation is restricted.

Former Novosibirsk City Council member Helga Pirogova published a letter from the Novosibirsk Region Education Ministry on the social network X in response to her complaint that Nikita Semyanov , a former prisoner and participant in the war in Ukraine, was attending schools in the region. He was convicted of murder. Friends also accused him of having sex with minors.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Is Catherine II Great or not? In the final of the season we understand, for which everyone loves the Empress who won Crimea, divided Poland and finally deprived the peasants of freedom Catherine II is a rare figure in the history of Russia, which seems to cause little controversy and equally like both liberals and conservatives.

The G7 are no longer considering the possibility of confiscating the assets of the Russian Central Bank, frozen since the start of a full-scale war, writes the Financial Times, citing officials from the G7 countries. FT interlocutors say that the issue of confiscation is “no longer discussed,” despite the fact that Ukraine continues to insist on this option.

How Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan resist Russia’s linguistic influence Getty Images Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Eurasian Economic Union summit in Bishkek. December 9, 2022. Story by Bektour Iskender for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.