The Communists tried to begin the revolution with a massacre - an explosion in the temple in Sofia View of the Cathedral "Holy Week" in Sofia after the explosion, 1926. Photo: Bulgarian Archives State Agency / Wikimedia On April 16, 1925, in the Church of the Holy Week (then he bore the name “Sveti Krait” - “Holy King”, since the relics of the Serbian king Stefan Milutin were stored there) Many parishioners gathered.

In Moscow, the police detained the 21-year-old conscript Yaroslav Slepov, suffering from a mental disorder, and took him to a single call point (EPP). Astra writes about this with reference to the father of the young man. Help on the presence of a mental disorder in Yaroslav Slepov: Astra According to journalists, Slepov was detained the day before in the subway car at the Savelovskaya station.

Kursk survived one of the most powerful attacks of enforcement officers from the beginning of the war. Even those who are used to everything are shocked Photo: Telegram channel of the Government of the Kursk Region On the night of April 15, Kursk was attacked by about a hundred drones. According to local authorities, UAVs hit residential buildings and ambulances. As a result, an 85-year-old local resident died, nine more people were injured.

CECENDELGER TAGSHEE. Photo: Aidana Shivit-huhurac / Instagram The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested the soloist of the Tuvan Philharmonic Tsetzendelge Tagshe as part of the espionage case (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Mediazona." According to journalists, the preventive measure of the artist was elected on January 29, but it was possible to find out about the case only now. All this time, Tagshe was in the Moscow pre -trial detention center Lefortovo.

After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Serbia began to more actively give out Russians citizenship for merits to the country. Of the more than 330 passports of Serbia issued in a special manner in 2022-2025, 204 were received by Russian citizens. This was told "Important Stories." The publication learned about this from the records in the official legal news of the Serbia authorities, access to which Russian journalists were provided by colleagues from the Serbian Crime and Corruption Network .

Ex-head of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov and his former first deputy Alexei Dedov, photo: social networks The security forces detained the former head of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov, TASS and Vedomosti reported with reference to sources. According to TASS, with respect to Smirnov, they opened a case of fraud on an especially large scale. The crime is also suspected of his former first deputy Alexei Dedov, he was also detained.

How Mario Vargas Llos rebelled against dictatorships with the help of literature (and not only) Mario Vargas Llos at the library of the French Academy in Paris, February 9, 2023. Photo: TERESA Suarez / EPA On April 14, the Peruvian writer and politician Mario Vargas Llos died in Lima. He was 89 years old.

Kesaria Abramidze. Photo: kesaria_official / Instagram A court in the Georgian capital Tbilisi sentenced a man convicted of killing a transgender woman to life imprisonment on Wednesday, Echo of the Caucasus, Radio Free Europe’s Georgian outlet, has reported .

Repressive injustice in Putin’s Russia has led to a rebirth of regional opposition movements Sunset over the city of Volgograd in southern Russia. Photo: EPA-EFE / YURI KOCHETKOV Intense crackdowns on the Russian opposition began shortly after the war in Ukraine started, as the government enacted aggressive new laws meting out harsh punishments for anyone challenging its monopoly on power.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 4 April 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/STRINGER The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s national parliament, has passed bills to extend martial law and mobilisation in Ukraine for an additional period of 90 days, Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak announced on Telegram on Wednesday.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced Bek Jaini, accused of the murder of a transgender woman, Caesarea Abramidze, writes Echo of the Caucasus. Jaini found guilty of intentional murder, perfect with particular cruelty and based on intolerance associated with the gender identity of the victim, as well as in systematic beating for the same reasons. Jaiani himself was not present at the announcement of the sentence, but sent a letter with repentance in his deed.

50 years ago in the USSR, a drug cartel was defeated, but did not destroy the mafia. How was it? Illustration: "New Gazeta Europe" In the spring of 1975, at the Institute of Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the release of synthesized primary was established in an underground laboratory. The “pills of vigor”, as the Americans called them, began to enter the drug market and were in great demand.

A US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) seen in Ukraine’s Kherson region, 29 October 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE As talks over a minerals deal continue between the United States and Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s administration has eased its demands for the payback of aid by Kyiv, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the negotiations.

The state was afraid that the games were made of maniac people - but now they support them. What turned out the "first game" about " The screensaver of one of the missions of the game “Squad 22: Zov”. Photo: Studio SPN In February 2025, the first computer game about “Svo” called “detachment 22: zov”, created with the support of the Ministry of Defense, was published on VK Play. The creators promised a patriotic and historically reliable product.

The US presidential administration Donald Trump revised her assessments of the assistance that Washington provided to Kyiv during the war. This was told by Bloomberg with reference to sources aware of the course of American-Ukrainian negotiations. If earlier the Trump administration stated that the United States has provided $ 300 billion support from Ukraine since the start of the war, now, according to Bloomberg sources, the amount has decreased to $ 100 billion.