Speech at the Moscow City Court, April 22, 2022 Yes, Your Honor, thank you for the opportunity to speak. First, I just want to express my sincere amazement. I have been working as a journalist for 25 years, I have seen many court hearings in different countries of the world, including ours. I have never seen such a biased and biased court administration in my life. I want to say this from the very beginning.

Later, a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled. UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Ukraine on April 27. Today he visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen. Guterres said he was glad that the International Criminal Court had begun proceedings on all the facts of possible war crimes in Bucha. In Borodyanka, he said that he imagined his family running out of a destroyed house. “I see how my granddaughters run away in panic, part of the family eventually dies.

The Financial Times reports on the transfer of Wagner PMC mercenaries to Ukraine, the UN named the number of civilians affected by war crimes, a referendum is being prepared in the LPR, DPR and Kherson region The Financial Times reported on the transfer of Wagner PMC mercenaries to Ukraine. Sources of the publication report that about 200 Russians and 1,000 Syrians were taken to the country through Libya. Another 200 "Wagnerites" were brought from the Central African Republic.

Earlier, British Foreign Minister Liz Truss stated the need to strengthen the military potential of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “pumping up weapons,” including heavy ones, provokes instability in the region and threatens the security of the continent, writes . RIA Novosti British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called for a "double" support for Ukraine on April 27. Support should include further deliveries of heavy weapons, writes The Guardian.

This was announced by the representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the US State Department had promised to help Russian consulates open new accounts in American banks. This should help avoid problems for US diplomatic missions in Moscow, writes . Vedomosti According to Zakharova, Bank of America could not block the accounts of Russian consulates without a direct order from the State Department.

The court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for taking bribes. The city court of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk announced the verdict for the former governor of Sakhalin, Alexander Khoroshavin, for three days. In 2018, he was convicted in the first corruption case - then the term was 13 years. According to Interfax, the announcement of the verdict was completed today. The punishment was imposed on the totality of crimes, by partial addition of the punishment already passed in 2018.

Without exception, all of them are opportunists who considered support for the regime as a form of capital accumulation, and Putin’s aggressive rhetoric against the West as the right business strategy, writes Yevgenia Albats The strongest impression of recent weeks is that it seems that cotton has been inserted into the ears. The old sounds, the conversations, the crossings, it all evaporated.

The bill was approved by the US House of Representatives In the United States, assets associated with Russia are proposed to be confiscated and sold. They want to send the funds received for military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. The bill, writes , was approved yesterday by the House of Representatives of the US Congress. Vedomosti The initiative was supported by 417 congressmen, opposed by 8.

More and more repressions are being prepared against people who disagree with the Russian authorities: book publishers are next in line Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Yampolskaya proposed several legislative initiatives the day before that would expand censorship not only in the media, but also in the book industry. She had claims against Boris Akunin, Glukhovsky, Parfenov and Bykov.

Later, a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled. UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Ukraine on April 27. Today he visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen. Guterres said he was glad that the International Criminal Court had begun proceedings on all the facts of possible war crimes in Bucha. In Borodyanka, he said that he imagined his family running out of a destroyed house. “I see how my granddaughters run away in panic, part of the family eventually dies.

So they were able to slow down the offensive Residents of Demidovo destroyed the dam and flooded the village. So they were able to stop the advance of Russian troops and save Kiev, writes The New York Times. Flooding in Demidovo could be another misfortune for residents. They have to dry at home, save last year's harvest from the cellars. But now it doesn't bother them. At the beginning of the Russian offensive, they destroyed the dam and flooded the village.

In total, several villas, dozens of yachts and other assets worth billions of dollars are under arrest in Europe. In France, the villa of a Russian businessman, husband of Putin's daughter Yekaterina Tikhonova, Kirill Shamalov, was arrested, reports BFM Bussines . The estate of Oleg Deripaska and Chechen businessman Musa Bazaev also fell under state administration. The estate of Shamalov, Putin's former son-in-law, is located in Biarritz. It was purchased in 2012.

Any person who is in prison sooner or later gets used to it. Some people need two months, some need a year. It just sounds scary, but there are no exceptions,” writes NT columnist Ivan Safronov from Lefortovo prison Any person who is in prison sooner or later gets used to it. Some people need two months, some need a year. It just sounds scary, but there are no exceptions.

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was imprisoned in a politically motivated case of "spreading fake news about the Russian army", spoke at a meeting in the Moscow City Court Yes, Your Honor, thank you for the opportunity to speak. First, I just want to express my sincere amazement. I have been working as a journalist for 25 years, I have seen many court hearings in different countries of the world, including ours. I have never seen such a biased and biased court administration in my life.

Allegedly, the Ukrainian side is bringing the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the city The Russian Defense Ministry made a statement about new provocations being prepared in Lisichansk. For this, according to the department, the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are brought to the city. According to the Ministry of Defense, the new provocation is designed to once again unfairly blame the Russian military for the deaths of civilians.