The US Treasury has decided not to renew a license that allows Russia to service foreign debt. This was reported on the website of the US Department. The license will expire at 07:01 Moscow time on May 25. Coupon payments, which were to be made on May 27, were made by the Ministry of Finance in advance, last week, RBC wrote . The next payments are scheduled for June 23-24, notes The Bell.

The authorities of the island of Jersey, which is a British crown dependency, have launched an investigation into the assets of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. This was found out by The Wall Street Journal. Law enforcers on the island are trying to find out, among other things, whether Abramovich tried to circumvent British sanctions.

The head of the occupation administration of Berdyansk in the Zaporozhye region, Alexander Saulenko, announced the transition of the city to the ruble zone. This was reported in the telegram channel “Berdyansk. Officially". According to him, the hryvnia exchange rate against the ruble is set at 1:2 (1 hryvnia = 2 rubles). From May 25, pensions will be paid in rubles.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that the exchange of Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a civilian resident, is “technically”. UNIAN quotes it. Vadim Shishimarin. Screenshot Video SBU “Our scenarios of the development of events can be completely different. You can exchange a person after the sentences of ships. Yes, this is technically possible, ”Venediktova said.

Roskomnadzor has blocked a number of resources, including the websites of Vot so, Interfax-Ukraine, and Sukhumi.info. This is evidenced by the data of the register of the Roskomsvoboda project. All resources were blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. The site of the writer and blogger Alexei Exler was also blocked. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor has blocked more than 300 media websites.

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, announced that its Prosecutor General's Office was preparing a charter for a tribunal over the Ukrainian military who surrendered at Azovstal in Mariupol. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti. “The statute of the tribunal is now being developed by relevant departments, including the Prosecutor General’s Office of the “DPR”, including the help of related relevant departments of the Russian Federation,” Pushilin said.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education plans to abandon the Bologna system and develop its own higher education system. This, according to Kommersant, was announced today by the head of the department, Valery Falkov. “The Bologna system must be treated as a lived stage. The future belongs to our own unique education system, which should be based on the interests of the national economy and the maximum space of opportunities for each student,” he said.

Russians and Ukrainians drove through the newly opened border between Vladikavkaz and Tbilisi With the outbreak of war, Georgia became one of the main points of attraction for Russian emigrants. And this is despite the fact that there has been no direct air traffic between Georgia and Russia since 2019, and since March 27, 2020, the land of the Russian-Georgian border was also closed (remember, was there such a coronavirus?).

In Tver, an independent group of volunteers helping Ukrainian refugees was forced to stop work due to pressure from the security forces. about this to Layout Veronika Timakina, one of the volunteers, told . According to her, on May 23, employees of the IC department for the region came to one of the temporary accommodation centers for refugees, where humanitarian aid was brought.

In Hungary, a state of emergency is introduced from tomorrow due to the war in Ukraine. this today . announced Prime Minister Viktor Orban According to the politician, the war in the neighboring country is a constant threat to Hungary. “Recent events threaten our physical security and threaten the energy and financial security of the economy and residents,” he said.

Musical critic Artemy Troitsky - about the anti -war performances of Russian artists and the future of Russian "loyal" musicians in the conditions of international isolation The war changed life in Russia. So, as it was before, it will not be. Therefore, we decided to investigate how exactly she influenced society, institutions, and people. Music is an important part of anti -war protest, but in recent months it often became a marker of loyalty to the state.

Kanamat Botashev, 63, a retired major general of the Russian Air Force, died in the sky over Ukraine. This is reported by the BBC Russian Service with reference to three former subordinates of Botashev, who kept in touch with him after the end of the service. “Farewell commander… There are few people on this planet who lived in the sky as well as you. The sky takes the best, today it took you,” such a message appeared on the Fighterbomber telegram channel.

It doesn't matter if you have a good passport, it is important to stop the war Photo: Unsplash The idea of ​​a “good Russian passport”, formulated at the Free Russia forum in last week, became a meme and caused many critical reviews. As a “passport of good Russian”, shots from the film “Identification of Bourn”, documents of Russian cats and dogs were published, such passports were proposed to be presented posthumously.

Ernest Mackevicius, host of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, will head the media department at the National Research University Higher School of Economics from Monday. About this to Novaya Gazeta. Europe,” a source at the university said. "New Newspaper. Europe” turned to Ernest Mackevicius for a comment. At the time of publication, the TV presenter did not respond.

The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles on Magdy Kamalov, the founder of the Chernovik online publication, in the case of “discrediting the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation” (20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). this The publication itself reports . The reason for drawing up the protocol was the repost of the publication from the channel of Igor Strelkov (Girkin) to the Chernovikov telegram channel.