In Vladivostok, before May 9, a children's parade was held, led by participants in the war with Ukraine. Parents and teachers talked about free costumes, medals and lessons from "veterans" The column of primary school students is involved in the parade of “great -grandson of Victory”, Vladivostok, on May 4, 2025.

Photo: Social media Unknown assailants have engaged in a shootout with security forces in Makhachkala, the capital of the republic of Dagestan in Russia’s North Caucasus region, killing two policeman and injuring two more, the republic’s Interior Ministry said on Monday afternoon. State-owned RIA Dagestan said that the assailants had fled in a police car after killing the members of the security forces.

In Makhachkala, unknown people attacked police officers. This was reported by the publication by RIA Dagestan , as well as the telegram channels "112" , Mash and Baza close to the Russian security forces. Later, the information was confirmed by the head of the republic Sergey Melikov and the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs . “Today, at about 14:20 in Makhachkala, unidentified persons attacked an outfit of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Dagestan.

Yekaterina Barabash. Photo: RSF Yekaterina Barabash, a Russian film critic who went on the run from Russian justice, has found refuge in Paris, she revealed at a press conference at the headquarters of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday. RSF helped Barabash leave Russia clandestinely. “I fled — I had no other choice. Journalism no longer exists in Russia,” Barabash said.

An agreement that speaks more about politics than about the economy. What did Kyiv and Washington actually signed U.S. Finance Minister Scott Immotrot and First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko after signing an agreement on the “Subsoil”, Washington, April 30, 2025. Photo: Yulia Sviridenko / Facebook On the hundredth day of Trump’s presidency, the “Subsoil” agreement with Ukraine was finally signed.

On the night of May 3 to 4, activists from the ultra -right movement “Russian community” broke into an apartment in Vsevolozhsk. A fire arose, a citizen of Armenia died. About this "Moika78" and "Fontanka" . The hostess of the room said that that night her son told her that night. In total, four or five unknown in black masks with the chevrons of the “Russian community” were breaking into the apartment. Introducing themselves to the police, they knocked out the door and penetrated inside.

Israeli troops struck Damascus in defense of the Syrian Druzov. A new turn of the Middle Eastern War? Syrian security forces in Sakhnai near Damascus, Syria, April 30, 2025. Photo: Omar albam / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta The Islamists tried to arrange a massacre in the settlement of Druzov in Syria. More than 100 people died. Israel promised to intercede for an ethnic minority and even dropped a bomb next to the presidential palace in Damascus. Türkiye lifted its planes into the air.

North Koreans previously employed in Russia wait for their airplane home at Vladivostok International Airport in Vladivostok, Russia, 20 December 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/YONHAP Pyongyang has rapidly increased the flow of migrant workers to Russia, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Monday, citing South Korean intelligence sources.

On May 2, the Kursk garrison military court arrested the Russian military Dmitry Stenkin, who attacked a large family, Mediazona reports . Other details of the arrest are not reported. The court refused to name the article on which the suspect was arrested. The public security forces have never commented on what happened. As Astra and the Mediazon found out , the attacked Dmitry Stenkin is from Astrakhan. The man went to the army instead of the next term in the colony.

The unveiling of the monument. Photo: The Communist Party A bronze bust of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has been unveiled in a village in Russia’s northwestern Vologda region on the initiative of the local Communist Party, independent news channel SOTAvision reported on Monday. Local officials and politicians and Oleg Lebedev, a Communist Party deputy from the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, attended Sunday’s unveiling, the party website said .

What will it take for Trump to understand that Putin is playing him like a fool? Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Last month, ahead of the 100-day anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency, a flurry of news stories appeared probing the possibility of a settlement in the Russia-Ukraine war. The Americans displayed renewed urgency to find a solution to an issue that their president had promised would be solved “in 24 hours” during the election campaign.

Nadezhda Buyanova. Photo: OVD-Info A Moscow court has upheld the prison sentence handed down to paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova in November for “spreading false information” about the military, independent media outlet Mediazona reported on Monday from the courtroom. A group of Russian doctors had appealed to Vladimir Putin to release the paediatrician, who was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison . Around 20 supporters gathered at the court to show solidarity with Buyanova, according to Mediazona.

What will the United States now become for Ukraine - explains Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Fesenko People in Putin and Trump Masks hold the Ukrainian flag during a rally against the Trump administration and in support of the Ukrainian and American peoples near the US Embassy in Kyiv, March 15, 2025. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA-EFE On the hundredth day of the presidency of Donald Trump Ukraine and the United States, they still signed an agreement on the bowels.

On the evening of May 4, an explosion occurred in a multi -storey building in Moscow in the Teply Stan area, TASS reports . According to the agency, the epicenter of the explosion was in the apartment on the ninth floor, it was destroyed, like part of the roof. The fire occurred in two apartments on the eighth and ninth floors, the ceilings collapsed between them. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, two people were killed, their bodies were found on the balcony of the ninth floor.

Kadyrov’s disease activated the scenario of the change of power in Chechnya. Officials are already hanging portraits of a possible successor in offices Collage: "New Gazeta Europe" Special operation for hospitalization All last year, Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been progressing a serious illness for several years, tried to adhere to the recommendations of doctors. Last year, the state of health of the head of Chechnya was more or less stabilized, and by the end of the year he felt quite tolerably.