A member of the Russian opposition platform at PACE, Ruslan Kutaev, in an interview with The Breakfast Show, said that in Chechnya, decisions about a person’s fate, including in situations related to so-called “honor killings,” are made by the family. These words provoked a sharp reaction from the human rights organization SK SOS, which helps women and LGBT people from the North Caucasus fleeing violence and persecution.

Tuapse is a small port city on the Black Sea coast, approximately halfway from Krasnodar to Sochi. Here, side by side, there are tourist sites and the Tuapse Oil Refinery, which occupies a third of the area of ​​the entire city.

The platform for selling used cars CarPrice has been transferred to the state corporation Rostec, Interfax writes with reference to SPARK data. Previously, it was seized in the case of businessman Alexander Galitsky. In total, shares in ten companies were transferred to Rostec. The assets went to state-owned companies directly, and not in transit through the Federal Property Management Agency. They will be involved “in the national interests, in the implementation of state projects,” they said.

Photo: EPA/LISI NIESNER What's happened. The United Arab Emirates announced its withdrawal from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+ . From May 1, the UAE will be able to independently decide how much oil to produce and sell without regard to quotas established by the organization. How will this affect the markets?

Photo: social networks Belarus, in turn, released journalist Andrzej Poczobut The Polish authorities released and handed over to Russia as part of an exchange the arrested archaeologist Alexander Butyagin. This was announced by Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, TASS reports . The information was confirmed by the FSB. What is known about the exchange. The Belarusian state agency BelTA was one of the first to report the exchange today at about 14:00 Moscow time.

Photo: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Previously, the media wrote that there would be no military equipment on it for security reasons. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the May 9 parade will take place in Moscow. According to him, the authorities “will inform in a timely manner about the format of its holding.” Whether there will be equipment on it is unknown.

Photo: Kedr Russian journalist Anastasia Troyanova, a correspondent for the independent media outlet Kedr, was detained on Tuesday while reporting from the city of Tuapse, where a Ukrainian drone attack had sparked a fire at an oil refinery for the third time in two weeks. Troyanova’s whereabouts were unknown for two hours after her detention.

Photo: “Cedar” A state of emergency has been introduced. Putin sent the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Krasnodar governor to Tuapse On the night of April 28, Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian Tuapse, where an oil sea terminal and a refinery are located, for the third time in two weeks. This was reported by ASTRA and the Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ . The blow was the third in the last two weeks. Photo: “Cedar” The first consequences of the attack.

Photo: Vasily Kuzmichyónok / Moscow News Agency Russian users downloaded VPN apps 9.2 million times on Google Play in March 2026, which is 14 times more than in March 2025, state-affiliated business daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing data from the online service Digital Budget. The data indicates that over the year from March 2025 to March 2026, VPN services were downloaded 35.7 million times in Russia.

Polish authorities have released Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin as part of a US-brokered five-for-five prisoner exchange carried out today between Belarus and Poland, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced on Tuesday, with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) confirming the swap. Butyagin, who heads the Northern Black Sea Archaeology sector at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was detained in Poland in early December at Ukraine's request.

Photo: social networks The management of four of the seven Russian companies supplying equipment for TSPU (Technical Threat Countermeasures) comes from different law enforcement agencies. New Europe drew attention to this after analyzing the leaks. What companies do security forces work in? JSC DTsOA. In the general contractor GRChTs (Main Radio Frequency Center) - JSC DTsOA - the position of security director is occupied by Evgeny Babakov.

Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and blogger Victoria Bonya met at a debate on the air of the “Full Contact” program on the “Soloviev LIVE” channel. Their dialogue took place after Solovyov publicly insulted Bonya, calling her a “shabby slut” and “Zelensky’s agent” because of her appeal to Vladimir Putin. In total, the conversation lasted about 40 minutes.

The Telegram blocking debacle in 2018 showed Russian authorities that the old model of internet censorship in Russia no longer works. Then crude blocks based on IP addresses were applied not only to prohibited services, but also to random applications - from games to Amazon and Microsoft.

Yakub Zakriev, photo: social networks The Serbian government has canceled the decision to grant citizenship to Yakub Zakriev, the nephew of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by Nedeljnik with reference to the document. When Zakriev was given citizenship. The Serbian government granted citizenship to Zakriev following a meeting on April 23.