The Dutch prosecutor's office has arrested a plot of land in the village of Duivendrecht, owned by the ex-husband of one of the alleged daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Jorrit Faassen. This is reported by the journalists of the "Project", the Dutch publication Follow the money and The Guardian. The site itself was arrested on May 12.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested 22-year-old Vladimir Nuzhdin for two months in the case of setting fire to relay cabinets on the Elektrozavodskaya-Sortirovochnaya section of the railway in Lefortovo. about this TASS writes , the case card is published on the court's website. Nuzhdin is accused of rendering vehicles or means of communication unusable (Part 1, Article 167 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, Nuzhdin is unemployed.

FSB officers used intimate photos of graduate student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University Azat Miftakhov, who is serving a sentence in IK-17 in Omutninsk, to put pressure on him, DOXA reports citing Miftakhov's wife Elena Gorban. According to her, in this way other prisoners found out about his bisexuality and transferred Miftakhov to the caste of the “lowered”.

A Russian court has fined a 20-year-old resident of the city of Volgograd 100,000 rubles (€1,200) for “LGBT propaganda”, the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . According to the ministry, the male resident of Volgograd posted “materials promoting non-traditional sexual relations and preferences” online. This is the first case of a person being held accountable for this offence in the region, the ministry told Russian news agency Interfax.

We explain how that was possible and what might come next Фото: ЕРА After the Western sanctions had been introduced, Russia managed to redirect its supplies of oil and oil products to China and India. Moreover, the exports of these goods reached record figures in April since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. That being said, Russia’s state budget lost 52% of oil and gas revenue between January and April 2023 compared to the previous year.

The European Union has frozen the assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the amount of more than 200 billion euros, Bloomberg reports citing European Commission representative Christian Wiegand. The EU also froze 24.1 billion euros belonging to individuals and legal entities that fell under sanctions. Wiegand noted that the European Union is going to ensure that Russia pays for the damage caused to Ukraine during the hostilities.

As part of the cleansing of the Moscow inheritance, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine goes to the new calendar Meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, May 23, 2023. Photo: PCU The sensational, at first glance, the decision was made on May 24 by the Bishop Cathedral of the Autocephalous (Independent) Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), for the first time gathered in the refectory church of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

University of Chicago professor and economist Konstantin Sonin was put on the federal wanted list. This was brought to the attention of Mediazona. Earlier, a criminal case was opened against Sonin about "fake" stories about the Russian army. The Investigative Committee (IC) did not name the person involved, but Interfax, citing a source, said that the case had been opened against Sonin.

Following a prisoner swap, Ukraine has brought back home 106 servicemen from the Bakhmut direction, Andrii Yermak, the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, reports . “These are servicemen [who fought in] the Bakhmut direction — eight officers and 98 soldiers and sergeants. They fought for Bakhmut and committed a heroic deed, not letting the enemy advance into our East. Every one of them is a hero of our state,” Yermak wrote.

As an excuse for war, it became an end in itself for the Kremlin Photo: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov A resident of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Ivan Chistyakov during a feast attacked two acquaintances with a knife who "discredited the Russian army." Chistyakova, who inflicted a series of blows to both victims, sentenced to two years and four months a colony of general regime. As a mitigating circumstances, the judge referred to the “illegal actions” of the victims.

In the city of Paarl, South Africa, Fulgens Kaishema, accused of involvement in the genocide in Rwanda, was arrested, the reports . press service of the International Residual Mechanism for UN Criminal Tribunals Kaishema was arrested during a joint operation by South African authorities and UN investigators. At first, the accused pretended to be another person, but then confessed. He has been on the run since 2001.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to reciprocally recognise each other’s territorial integrity, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union Council, at which President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin were also present.

Novyevropa understands why saboteurs are so easily penetrated from Ukraine to Russia The consequences of a breakthrough to the Belgorod region from Ukraine. Photo: screen video In the summer of 2014, I was on a business trip in Ukraine and tried to return to Russia. Around the fighting, the Armed Forces tried to cut off the separatists from supply from the Russian Federation. The border crossing points did not work.

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to mutual recognition of the territorial integrity of each other. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting of the EAEU Council, where Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin are also present.

The Vorkuta garrison military court sentenced human rights activist Andrey Ivashev to six years in prison in the case of incitement to terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by "7x7". According to investigators, in 2020 Ivashev left three comments in groups on VKontakte calling for the assassination of the head of the region, Vladimir Uiba. The prosecutor demanded that the activist be given eight years in prison.