Update. On the morning of May 8, rescuers put out a fire in Lugansk, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said . As a result of the attack on Lugansk, five employees of the oil depot were injured, said the head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik. According to him, as a result of the impact, power lines were damaged and a fire occurred in the gas pipeline.

The Tverskoy District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow has drawn up an administrative protocol on "discrediting" the Russian army against activist and homophobe Timur Bulatov. A message about this appeared on the website of Moscow courts of general jurisdiction on May 7, Mediazona noted . The first to report the case against Bulatov was the Telegram channel "Beware, News".

Ukrainian courts have suspended 10,775 criminal cases indefinitely because the defendants decided to mobilize into the Ukrainian army. This is stated in an investigation by NGL.media , which analyzed judicial statistics for 2022-2024. Most often, courts suspended criminal cases initiated under articles on theft (2,187 cases), road accidents with victims (766), drug trafficking (757), minor bodily harm (541) and desertion (439).

33 square meters per person - a minimum. The minimum wage is not less than 35 thousand. The Internet is sovereign. Aircraft are Russian Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin signed the new “May Decree” , which determines the national goals of the development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030 and for the future until 2036 .

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin may not join the new Russian government, RBC reports, citing sources. According to the publication, several candidates are being discussed for the post of Minister of Sports. RBC does not specify who exactly. The candidacy for the post of head of the Ministry of Sports will be submitted for consideration on May 12 at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Sports, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree defining the national development goals of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030 and for the future until 2036. The text of the decree was published on the Kremlin website on the evening of May 7. The document lists seven national development goals, 84 indicators and objectives in several areas, as well as six instructions to the government of the Russian Federation.

The United States, Great Britain and Australia have imposed sanctions against one of the leaders of the LockBit hacker group, Russian Dmitry Khoroshev, the press service of the British government reported. UK authorities believe the group was responsible for a quarter of all cyber extortion attacks that occurred in 2023. In total, thousands of people and companies around the world have become victims of hackers in recent years, the press release says.

He dreamed of creating an art that means nothing. It turned out that this is impossible Frank Stella in his studio in New York, 1987. Jack Mitchell / Getty Images Frank Stella, one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, died in New York. He was 87 years old. At the end of the 50s, Stella brought the line under abstract expressionism, the most important flow in the art of that era, and launched new processes in art.

Antonin Martynov was sentenced to nine years in the colony in the Novgorod case. That's how it was Sota In Veliky Novgorod, the process over Antonina Martynova ended. In June 2008, the jury found her guilty of attempting to kill Alice Fedorova, two -year -old daughter Martynova from her first marriage. Before the announcement of the sentence, Martynov fled with Alice - and for 16 years hid in the Stavropol Territory. In April 2024, she was again detained.

Apple, during the online presentation of Let Loose, introduced new models of its tablets-iPad Air and iPad Pro. For the first time in two years, the company updated the iPad Air, introducing two models with a diagonal of 11 and 13 inches. Apple did not produce 13-inch Air tablets. Both models received the M2 chip, which works 50% faster than the previous generation. The basic memory for both models is 128 gigabytes, the maximum is a terabyte.

After the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian aircraft manufacturing company Yakovlev (until 2023 - Irkut), which produces Su-30 fighter jets and Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft, purchased from its foreign partners the equipment previously supplied to them for almost $420 million , writes The Moscow Times with reference to customs data. In 2022, the company imported its own equipment worth $322.3 million, in 2023 - $95.1 million.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has declared the international human rights organization Freedom House , which conducts research on the state of political and civil liberties around the world, "undesirable." The Russian agency believes that one of the main areas of Freedom House’s activities is “facilitating the establishment of the so-called ‘leading’ role of the United States in the world.” In addition, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office claims that since the beginning of the

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, wished Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until the end of his life. He said this during a prayer service on the occasion of Putin’s inauguration in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kremlin. Komsomolskaya Pravda quotes the patriarch’s speech in full. “May the blessing of God, the protection of the Queen of Heaven, remain with you all the days of your life, until the end of the age, as we say.

Moscow's Basmanny Court has arrested 65-year-old journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova in a case of "justification of terrorism" (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona reports. The defense requested house arrest or personal surety, but the court granted the investigation's request. The reason for the persecution of Kevorkova were two posts on her Telegram channel. In one of them, according to the investigation, she justifies the activities of the Taliban movement.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced that a “sudden check of carrier vehicles” of non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons has begun in the Armed Forces. Alexander Lukashenko gave the order to carry out the inspection. “The division of the Iskander operational-tactical complex and the squadron of Su-25 aircraft are ready to carry out their intended tasks,” said Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin.