Aeroflot airline bought eight Airbus A330 aircraft from foreign lessors as part of the fulfillment of contractual obligations. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of Aeroflot. “Eight A330 aircraft have been purchased. Aircraft were purchased from foreign lessors as part of the fulfillment of contractual obligations. The aircraft have been transferred to the Russian registry.

The Latvian Foreign Ministry has banned 102 Russian citizens from entering the country for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This decision was made by Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich. “Latvia condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine, where Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are dying daily as a result of the brutal actions of the Russian armed forces.

The Ministry of Justice wants to forbid to work in Russia to lawyers from the "unfriendly" countries. This, first of all, will hit their client The Ministry of Justice proposed to refuse to register lawyers from the "unfriendly" countries and cancel the status of existing defenders. Until May 20, amendments are at the stage of public discussion. In case of approval, more than 120 people may have problems with work.

In Moscow, a criminal case was opened against the artist and photographer Danila Tkachenko for hooliganism committed by a group of people (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to a “failed peaceful action” on May 9. He himself spoke about this on Facebook. According to the artist, he planned to remotely light 140 blue and yellow smoke bombs near the Kremlin.

The Magistrate's Court of Precinct No. 423 of the Tverskoy District of Moscow fined Radio Liberty 12.8 million rubles for refusing to remove materials about Russia's invasion of Ukraine (part 2 of article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). to Interfax This was reported by the press service of the Tverskoy Court. The court clarified that the radio station left 16 materials "to be removed." For each violation, Radio Liberty received a fine of 800,000 rubles.

In Russia, for the first time since the beginning of March, the official unemployment rate rose. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova. “As of May 5 of this year, compared to March 1 of this year, for the first time, an increase in the number of unemployed citizens who are officially registered with the employment service was registered. The growth is about 4 thousand people. Before that, this trend did not manifest itself, ”Golikova said.

Interview of Maria Seredas with Croatian-Bosnian activist, founder of the organization "Man in Beda" The text is prepared by the "greenhouse of social technologies" Igor Blazhevich. Photo: University of New York in Prague Sometimes it seems to me that the time of calm reasoning about the strategy of public campaigns has passed.

The current president of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, has scheduled a referendum on July 17 on joining Russia. This was reported on the President's website.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has spoken over the phone with US Defenсe Secretary Lloyd Austin for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS reports . “The sides discussed current issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine,” the Russian Defence Ministry stated, quoted by the agency. The ministry added that the talks were held at the initiative of the US.

The military enlistment offices are burning in Russia. What happened? On May 13, the Omsk resource OM1.ru said that unknown people threw the military commissariat in Molotov cocktails in the city center (in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs they refused to comment on this incident). It was already the ninth case of an attack on the military enlistment offices since the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list of Blogger Veronika Belotserkovskaya in the case of fakes about the Russian army. Her name appeared in the corresponding base of the ministry. Screenshot: website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Belotserkovskaya became one of the first defendants in the case under a new article on the spread of false information about the activities of the Armed Forces of Russia (part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Pskov city court fined the leader of the Pskov branch of the Yabloko party, Lev Shlosberg, 32,000 rubles, finding him guilty of "discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation." This was announced by the politician himself. Administrative Protocol under Part 1 of Art. 20.3.3. The Code of Administrative Offenses against Shlosberg was drawn up for a video commentary on the Grazhdanin TV channel.

RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian electricity company Inter RAO, will suspend import of electricity to Finland starting May 14, the website of Fingrid, a Finnish electricity transmission operator, informs . Fingrid stated that the import was halted due to problems in receiving payments for electricity. The import of electricity from Russia will be halted at 1 a.m. on May 14.

For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. on the conversation between the heads of the defense departments of Russia and the United States TASS reports . “Topical issues of international security were discussed, including the situation in Ukraine,” the Russian Defense Ministry told the agency. They noted that the conversation between Austin and Shoigu took place at the initiative of the American side.

Aeroflot began a check on the death of a dog of the American Bully dog ​​named Timon on a flight from Chelyabinsk to Moscow. About this "Novaya Gazeta. Europe ”reported in the press service of the company. Photo: 74.ru According to BAZA, Aeroflot employees did not give a carriage with the animal owner for a long time after the flight, explaining that the “dog is bad”, but after an hour and a half they reported the death of Timon and called his corpse “belonging to the airline”.