It seems like there are hundreds of such cases Paula Bayarte / EPA / Scanpix / LETA A resident of Peru shows a photograph of her husband, who was caught up in Russia's war against Ukraine. April 28, 2026 The Prosecutor's Office of Peru began a preliminary investigation after appeals from relatives of citizens of this country, who were allegedly lured to Russia by deception and sent to war against Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law stipulating that in 2026-2029, as part of an experiment, retail sales of medicines in mobile pharmacies will be allowed. Mobile pharmacies will begin operating in test mode in settlements where there are no regular pharmacies. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin previously said that one mobile point will be able to serve up to 50 designated villages. Mobile pharmacies will sell medicines, including on order.

Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin said after being released from prison in Poland that he was going to visit annexed Crimea in the summer. He said this in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. “In the summer, for sure! Maybe I’ll go to the conference before that - I don’t yet have information whether it will be this year or not... Of course, I would like to be there,” Butyagin said in an interview published on April 30. Butyagin is an archaeologist from St. Petersburg.

Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Archbishop Paul Pezzi, Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Our Lady of Moscow. The 65-year-old head of Catholics in Russia, Pavel Pezzi, resigned for health reasons, according to the archdiocese's website. The Pope appointed auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese Nikolai Dubinin as apostolic administrator. He will temporarily govern the archdiocese until a new archbishop is elected. Pavel Pezzi is a native of Italy.

Day 1529. Zelensky thinks about how Ukraine can conduct peace negotiations without US help Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing? How does war affect your life and your attitude towards the world? If you have a story related to the war, tell it .

Since mid-April, Ukraine has struck Tuapse several times. The main targets were the local oil refinery and the marine terminal, which forms a single complex with the refinery. There is an environmental disaster in Tuapse due to fires at oil facilities and oil spills in the Tuapse River and the Black Sea. The last fire, caused by a Ukrainian drone attack on May 1, was extinguished the next day. At the same time, the city continues to clean the sea of ​​oil products. This is what it looks like.

Why is Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic tale not as simple as it seems? And what does it have in common with the music of Wagner, Stravinsky and Schoenberg? On May 2, 1936, at the Central Children's Theater under the direction of Natalia Sats (modern RAMT), the premiere of the symphonic fairy tale “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev for reader and orchestra took place. In the field of academic music, this is still the most famous composition for children.

A member of the KVN team “Burnt by the Sun” Elena Rybalko died as a result of an accident in Sochi on May 1, telegram channels Shot and Mash reported. Information about her death was confirmed by the artist’s husband and the International KVN Union. Rybalko was 53 years old. Komsomolskaya Pravda According to media reports, Elena Rybalko died in Adler when she crossed the road in the wrong place. She died on the spot from her injuries.

Spirit Airlines has canceled all flights and announced that it will curtail its operations starting on the morning of May 2, NBC News reports. “Despite the company's efforts, recent significant increases in oil prices and other business pressures have significantly impacted Spirit's financial outlook. Without additional funding, Spirit had no choice but to proceed with liquidation,” the company said in a statement. Spirit has struggled financially in recent years.

It starts off great! And then all the script cliches come into play Netflix The second season of Beef has been released on Netflix - the series does not continue the events of the first season, but turns into an anthology. Each new part will tell about how the heroes go crazy and destroy each other under the influence of the capitalist world. This time the main stars of the show are Oscar Isaac and Carrie Milligan - they play a couple on the verge of bankruptcy who pretend to be successful.

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced on May 1 that for several months it had been listening to conversations at the headquarters of the Akhmat unit of the Russian Guard operating in the Sumy region of Ukraine.

Update. The “In Touch” project stated that the “white list” of the “Everyone Wi-Fi” provider is due to the fact that this provider provides communications via the mobile Internet. Several residents of the Moscow region said that they were faced with the fact that Internet providers introduced a “white list” on their home Internet, which is why other sites that are not on the list approved by the authorities were inaccessible.

Philip Dulian / various sources / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Whale Timmy on a barge during transport to the North Sea, April 29, 2026 The 12-meter humpback whale Timmy, who has been stuck in shallow waters in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Germany several times since the beginning of March, has swam into the North Sea, Der Spiegel reports online. In recent days, the whale was transported from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea on a submerged barge, accompanied by marine biologists and activists.

The Pentagon has warned European allies, including Britain, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia, that it will significantly delay the supply of American weapons, the Financial Times newspaper reported, citing sources. Nine of the publication’s interlocutors said that Pentagon representatives told Europe that they could seriously delay the delivery of several missile systems. Two sources added that such negotiations were also held with Asian countries.

He turned his performances into a parade of pop culture references Archive of Vitaly Terletsky Vitaly Terletsky is an author and publisher of comics and video games, best known for the projects “Dogkistan” (a comic about a totalitarian state led by comrade Druzhka) and “Altushka for Skuf” (a game about a lonely middle-aged man looking for a girlfriend). Terletsky unexpectedly took part in the 25th season of the TV show “Battle of Psychics,” which is currently airing on the TNT channel.