The main events of April 19 Director Evgeny Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. Photo: Media The former head of the Nagorno -Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan announced a hunger strike in the prison of Azerbaijan. In St. Petersburg, the journalist of Fontanka Ksenia Klochkova was searched. In Poland, the customer and executors of the attack on the ally of Navalny Leonid Volkov were detained.

The floods in the Tomsk, Tyumen and Kurgan regions do not stop. Locals build dams and watch how their houses go under water Flood in the Tomsk region. Photo: Especially for Novaya Gazeta Europe In the regions of Russia, a difficult situation has been preserved for three weeks in connection with the floods.

Another Russian scientist was convicted of the case of Gosizman: Petersburg physicist Alexander Kuranov was sentenced to seven years in colony in two days Alexander Kuranov. Photo: Hypersonics.ru This time the convict is a 76-year-old physicist from St. Petersburg Alexander Kuranov. For many years he devoted to the introduction of the concept of hypersonic systems in the air -industrial complex of the country.

How Russian soldiers get away with murder for their service in Ukraine A memorial near the former Wagner Group headquarters in St. Petersburg, August 2023. Photo: Anatoly Maltsev While exemptions for military servicemen were signed into law last month, Russian soldiers with a criminal record have been receiving more lenient punishments ever since the war in Ukraine started.

In Poland, two people who attacked Leonid Volkov, an associate of politician Alexei Navalny, with a hammer were detained. Volkov himself announced this, citing a statement by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda. According to the president, Polish and Lithuanian law enforcement authorities detained two people involved in the attack.

The former state minister of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Ruben Vardanyan announced a hunger strike in the Baku prison. This is written by Hetq and "Echo of the Caucasus" with reference to the statement of the Political family. “The family of illegally arrested philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan reports that Vardanyan announced a hunger strike, demanding the immediate and unconditional liberation of his and other Armenian prisoners, illegally held in Baku,” the text says.

Ksenia Klochkova. Photo: St. Petersburg Union of Journalists Ksenia Klochkova. Photo: St. Petersburg Union of Journalists St. Petersburg law enforcement searched the home of journalist Ksenia Klochkova early Friday, local news outlet Fontanka has said.

Repression against LGBT reached a new level. We deal with the lawyer where they can lead, and try to understand the logic of the pursuers Photo: Elton / Yandex map In mid-March, a criminal case was opened in Orenburg against the owners of the Pose Quyr Club under the article on the organization of the activities of the extremist community. The reason was the denunciations of activists of the Russian community department of Orenburg, who more than once set the inspectors to the club.

Why floods in Russia do not stop and what is happening in the regions now. Review of "New-Europe" Floods in Russia affected residents of at least 39 regions of the country. Over the past week, Russians have been watching what was happening in Orsk and the Orenburg region as a whole. Now residents of Tyumen, Kurgan and other regions are faced with the same problems - loss of property, lack of adequate help from the authorities and rudeness of officials.

This year it will grow to 26.8% The share of closed expenditures of the budget of Russia in 2023 reached a record 22.6%. This was written by RBC with reference to data on the execution of the federal budget. The share has become the maximum at least since 2005 and broke the previous 2016 record, when the share of closed expenses was 21.7%.

Leonid Volkov. Photo: EPA-EFE/PHILIP DAVALI DENMARK OUT Leonid Volkov. Photo: EPA-EFE/PHILIP DAVALI DENMARK OUT Long-time Alexey Navalny associate Leonid Volkov, who was violently attacked in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in March, announced the arrest in Poland of two men suspected of carrying out the attack on Friday . Referring to a statement by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Volkov said that Polish and Lithuanian law enforcement agencies had detained two suspects.

Photo: 112 Telegram channel A Russian long-range Tupolev-22M3 bomber crashed into a field in the Stavropol region in Russia’s North Caucasus early on Friday morning, the Russian Defence Ministry said in comments reported by Interfax. Three members of the four-person crew were found and taken to hospital, the ministry stated, noting that the plane had crashed due to a “technical malfunction”.

In St. Petersburg, employees of the Investigative Committee at about 9 in the morning came to the apartment of the journalist and author of Fontanka Ksenia Klochkova. After about three hours, the search ended. The journalist was seized from the journalist and obliged to appear for interrogation.

Economist Andrei Movchan told Yulia Latinina about the financial prospects of Putin’s military machine. Big interview with New Evrop A symbol of the currency of the Russian ruble on the sidewalk in Moscow, October 24, 2023. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE Andrei Movchan is a financier, founder of a group of investment management companies Movchan's Group, former director, and now an expert at the Economic Politics program of the Moscow Center of Carnegie.

At least eight people were killed and a further 25 injured in Russian missile strikes on the central Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Synelnykove in the early hours of Friday, Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Serhiy Lysak told televised news on Friday morning. Two people were killed in the regional capital Dnipro, Lysak said, while six were killed in the nearby city of Synelnykove. At least 25 people were injured across the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of the attack, he added.