In April, lessons about the dangers of VPNs began in Russian schools. Children and parents are told that bypassing blockades is illegal today and may generally be associated with drug use. “Conversations about important things” continue.

Anti-war activists Olga and Nikita Belov, who fled to Finland after the start of the war in Ukraine, were denied asylum and now face deportation to Russia. This was reported by Mediazona and Echo . Mother and son Belov unsuccessfully tried to appeal the deportation decision. The day before they were called to the police and the deportation process was announced; the Belovs were placed in custody. The trial will take place tomorrow.

Photo: Hadama Diakite/EPA The Afrika Korps of the Russian Ministry of Defense is fighting on the side of the ruling junta Armed terrorist groups have carried out one of the largest coordinated attacks on Mali government forces in recent years. This was reported by the BBC , Reuters and Bloomberg . The Mali army said that early on April 25, jihadists carried out attacks on several installations and barracks in the capital Bamako and other localities in the country.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred. Between 600 and 800 thousand people became liquidators of the Chernobyl accident; there was no exact accounting. They preferred not to talk about the consequences, especially the long-term ones. The lies about Chernobyl eventually blew up the USSR. At the same time, the Ukrainian Green Party, born at the peak of citizens’ interest in the environment, never grew into the country’s main political force.

This week, the FSB announced that it had prevented a terrorist attack against the heads of Roskomnadzor, the agency responsible for implementing blocking measures. During the arrest, security forces killed a man. This event coincided with two others. Activists of the Scarlet Swan, a community that opposes Internet censorship, disappeared, and Vladimir Putin announced the need for network restrictions. However, it is impossible to unambiguously link these events.

On the morning of April 25, a Ukrainian drone crashed into a residential building in Yekaterinburg, which is located 2,000 km from the front line. According to the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Denis Pasler, six people were injured, mostly people were poisoned by combustion products, one woman was hospitalized. Residents of the damaged house were evacuated. As Mediazona and E1 write, the Trinity residential complex on Khokhryakova Street was damaged. The drone hit the 25-30 floors.

The first deputy mayor of Tomsk, Vladimir Radul, explained the dismantling of monuments to victims of repression by cracks in the tiles and the building next to the park. RIA Tomsk writes about this. According to him, “in the near future” a study of the territory will be carried out there, after which the square will be restored. He did not give exact dates.

The US Department of Justice announced the lifting of the federal moratorium on executions, which was introduced in 2021 during Joe Biden's presidency. In addition, the department approved requests for the death penalty against 44 defendants. This is reported on his website. The decision was the result of an order Trump made on the first day of his new presidential term.

The Ministry of Finance has sent to the government a package of bills that provides for the phased introduction of VAT on goods imported into Russia through marketplaces. This was reported in the press service of the department. The document proposes to introduce VAT on e-commerce goods with a gradual increase in the rate to the standard one. In 2027, the rate will be 7%, in 2028 - 14%, and from 2029 - 22%. Trading platforms will pay the tax.

A drone hit a house in Yekaterinburg. Fire at the oil terminal in Tuapse after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces: a cloud of smoke for 300 kilometers, oil rains, an environmental disaster. Over 4 years, Ukraine struck Russia more than 35,000 times; we compiled an interactive map of military incidents. Putin, of course, ignores such news. But they still forced him to comment on the blocking. Have the ratings been declining for several weeks in a row?