They were called Russian agents posing as diplomats Reuters reported today about the expulsion of six Russian diplomats from France. They were called Russian agents. The statement of the French Foreign Ministry says that on April 10, a secret operation was revealed, which these people carried out in France. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, employees of the Russian special services posed as diplomats.

Putin spoke about the fighting in Ukraine Today Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko met in the Amur Region at the Vostochny cosmodrome. They got acquainted with the progress of construction, talked to the cosmonauts and employees of the cosmodrome, and discussed plans for the Russian-Belarusian space program. According to the BelTA agency , Belarus is ready to send its builders here in the near future. Specialists will also be able to participate in the development of the space program.

The message about the use of chemical weapons by Russia in Mariupol is being checked, Iran may supply smuggled weapons to Russia, Putin met with Lukashenka On the night of April 12, the Ukrainian side reported the use of chemical weapons in Mariupol against military and civilians. Reports of this promptly decided to check the UK and the US. So far, there is no evidence of the use of such an arsenal.

The timing of the suspension of activities is not called Reuters April 11 reports the suspension of the telecommunications company Ericsson and the financial group Société Générale. Today, Nokia announced its exit from the Russian market. Nokia explained the decision by fighting in Ukraine, adding that Finland and Sweden (home countries of Nokia and Ericsson) announced plans to join NATO. This complicates the situation for companies.

The Ukrainian side announced the use of chemical weapons According to the Ukrainian Military Directorate of Strategic Communications, Russian troops used chemical weapons against Ukrainian military and civilians in Mariupol. The information is being checked in the UK, according to the BBC on April 11. The Ukrainian side does not provide details. On the eve of the alleged strike, the deputy head of the "People's Militia Department" of the self-proclaimed DPR spoke on Russian television.

What do the results of the first phase of the "special military operation" indicate? How can the armed conflict end for Russia and Ukraine? Why did the United States go to the disclosure of classified information?

They were accused of involving minors in illegal actions. Today, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow sentenced former editors of the student magazine DOXA - Armen Aramyan, Natalya Tyshkevich, Vladimir Metelkin and Alla Gutnikova - to two years of corrective labor. They were released from custody in the courtroom. The criminal case was considered under Art.

Putin and Lukashenko met in the Amur Region Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko met today at the site of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. Putin assured that Belarus would soon start participating in the Russian space program, and Belarusian builders were very much expected at large construction sites. And together the parties will begin to act for the construction of the Union State.

This is how disobedience to the police was justified in the protocol The Khamovniki Court of Moscow held a hearing on the case of Vladimir Kara-Murza. Yesterday he was detained near the house, he spent the night in the Khamovniki police station. His lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said that the judge sentenced him to 15 days of arrest.

They are redeploying for an offensive in eastern Ukraine The UK Ministry of Defense has published daily intelligence data. Fighting in Ukraine will intensify over the next two to three weeks. Russia continues to redirect its forces to the east. Now the main battles are being fought near Donetsk and Lugansk, Kherson and Nikolaev. The attack on Kramatorsk resumes.

Companies are recognized as being in a state of default For the first time since the imposition of sanctions, two Russian companies have declared default. Russian Railways failed to pay off one of the Eurobond issues, Bloomberg writes on April 11. Alrosa was unable to pay the coupon on dollar Eurobonds, according to The Bell *. Alrosa did not have the technical ability to make payments. The company came under US blocking sanctions on April 7.

Crimea became the sixth territory with the new status In Russia, in the regions bordering Ukraine, a yellow level of terrorist threat was introduced. From April 11, the work of law enforcement agencies will be strengthened here, residents are urged to be vigilant. Special measures have been introduced in several districts of the Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Belgorod regions and the Krasnodar Territory. This regime is also established in the Crimea.

Elements of totalitarian practices have appeared in Russian authoritarianism, suggesting even more conformism, aggressiveness and hatred, says NT columnist Andrey Kolesnikov A significant part of the Russians - from among those who support the "operation" and Putin - have turned into haters who do not listen to arguments that destroy their deaf-blind vision of the world. This is a sign not of an authoritarian, but of a totalitarian society, which accepts the state position as its own.

In this silence of the street there is a lot of latent gloomy and heavy force, the direction of which is not given to anyone to predict, just as it is not given to anyone to predict how “our word” will respond, if, of course, it will somehow respond, which I doubt all over the years. more and more, writes NT columnist Lev Rubinshtein The street, of course, writhing. But not out of stupidity. But rather - from the physical impossibility to speak out.

The death toll could be double that, the mayor said. Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko spoke in an interview with The Associated Press about the situation in the city. According to him, the bodies of the dead cover the streets with a "carpet". More than 10,000 civilians have died in the past six weeks, but the total could rise to over 20,000. According to Boychenko, who is now out of the city, civilians were killed by the Russian military.