The Traktorozavodsky District Court of Chelyabinsk arrested 41-year-old local resident Aleksey Sidorov in the case of publicly justifying terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for commenting on the downing of drones over the Kremlin in early May in his stream. This was reported on the website of the court. Streamer and his lawyer asked to choose a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest.

An explosion has gone off in Russia-occupied Melitopol, southern Ukraine, the acting “deputy minister” of construction and public utilities have been injured, the Russian Investigative Committee reports . The name of the official is not disclosed. According to the committee, the improvised explosive device was planted in a rubbish bin near an apartment block and went off when the man exited the building. The “deputy minister” sustained blast injuries and was rushed to hospital.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on refusal to testify (Article 308 of the Criminal Code) against the Buryat human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina, according to the Soft Power movement. Nizovkina refused to testify against her client Natalya Filonova, who is accused of assaulting police officers (Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) during a rally against mobilization. According to investigators, Filonova hit them with a ballpoint pen.

In Melitopol, as a result of the explosion of an improvised explosive device, a representative of the “administration” of the occupied territory, acting, was injured. "Deputy Minister" of construction, architecture and housing and communal services. This is reported by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The name of the official is not called. According to the agency, an explosive device was placed in a trash can near the entrance of a residential high-rise building.

Why cancellation of visas and renewal of flights to Russia promise Georgia more bad than good Photo: EPA-EFE / MAXIM SHIPENKOV Since May 15, Russia cancels visas for Georgian citizens and allows direct air travel. In Georgia, confusion: a damping opposition sees this trap, an obstacle to European integration, and calls Putin’s decision “a gift” for the pro -Russian position of the government.

Two explosions were heard in Luhansk, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports . Eyewitnesses posted photos and videos of a plume of smoke rising over the city. Earlier today, leader of Russia’s ruling party United Russia Andrey Turchak and “head of the Luhansk people’s republic” Leonid Pasechnik laid flowers at a war memorial in Luhansk.

The US has accused South Africa of sending weapons to Russia as part of a “covert naval operation”, The Financial Times reports . German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said she was “very concerned” by the reports that South Africa could have exported weapons to Russia, Handelsblatt writes . According to Baerbock, “anyone who sends arms to Russia extends the war of aggression that violates international law”.

Two explosions sounded in Russian-occupied Lugansk, reports . RIA Novosti Eyewitnesses published photos and videos of smoke over the city. Earlier today, Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak, together with the "leader" of the "LPR" Leonid Pasechnik, laid flowers at the monument "They Defended the Motherland" in the city center.

In the first four months of 2023, Russian military courts received 1,053 criminal cases of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit (Article 337 of the Criminal Code). This is more than for the entire 2022 (1001 cases), noted Mediazona, which analyzed data on the websites of garrison courts. The publication notes that most of the cases (992) in 2023 were submitted to the courts after Russia tightened liability for “crimes against military service” and announced mobilization.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed that Russia did not interfere in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, TASS quotes him as saying. The statement comes as a response to a recent comment made by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, main opposition leader and unified opposition candidate challenging Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the upcoming election. “We officially say that there can be no interference. If somebody supplied Mr.

A very terrible film about a maniac based on real events Frame from the film "Killer" Holy Spider " The Iranian Noir “The Sacred Spider Killer” Ali Abbasi, the Thriller's chill, about the serial killer in Mashhad, who hunted street sex workers and killed them at home. The film critic Alice Taiga tells how the real history of past murders resonates with current events in Iran and why the “killer ...” is so different from other Iranian films familiar to the audience.

The Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced Valery Maksimenko, former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, to nine years in prison in a case of abuse of office and taking a bribe. It is reported by TASS. “Having agreed with the position of the state prosecutor, the court found Maksimenko guilty of the alleged crimes. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in a strict regime penal colony.

The owner of the souvenir store in Minsk was sentenced to 13 years in prison for "treason to the state" Pavel Belous. Photo: Belsat.eu Many years ago, I interviewed Thomas Shyarnas, the only survivor after the attack of the Riga riot police on the Lithuanian Customs trailer at the Belarusian-Lithuanian Calm Point Moidininkai on the night of July 31, 1991. There were eight people in the trailer - customs officers, police officers and two fighters of the Aras detachment.

A Mi-28 military helicopter has crashed in Crimea’s Dzhankoi district, killing both pilots, TASS and RIA Novosti report, citing the Russian Defence Ministry. Photo: social media The ministry claims that the accident happened “during a planned training flight”. “The flight was carried out without the weapon payload, no buildings were damaged on the ground. A technical failure is preliminarily believed to have caused the crash,” the statement reads.

Alexander Minkin in the podcast "What's new?" In the fresh issue of the podcast "What's new?" We talked about the latest news from Russia. The guest of the episode is the observer of Novaya Gazeta Alexander Minkin. What new front -line soldiers will return from the war? How does the authorities fight independent art? Will they cease to celebrate on May 9 in Russia? Watch in the new video! Listen to the podcast "What is new?" Apple Podcasts II Spotify