The number of death penalty executions worldwide increased by 31% in 2023, the highest figure since 2015. This data is cited in a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International. In 2023, human rights activists recorded 1,153 executions in 16 countries. In 2022, the number of executions was 883. The leaders in the number of executions carried out in 2023 were China (1,000+), Iran (at least 853), and Saudi Arabia (172).

The law was published on the official portal of legal acts. According to the document, the register will include alimony defaulters who were previously brought to administrative or criminal liability, as well as those who were put on the wanted list. The personal data of debtors will be publicly available: last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth, place of birth, amount of outstanding debt and data on administrative or criminal cases against them.

Another ambiguous exhibition was held in the Hermitage, which aroused interest among visitors, and specialists - bewilderment Photo: Dmitry Yesakov The joint project of the Hermitage and the Museum of Christian Culture “New Riddles of the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci”, held in the picket hall of the Winter Palace from the end of February this year and recently ended, left behind a strange aftertaste.

The former leader of the "Athos VIP Brand" Konstantin Goloshchapov returned to the Russian Federation and began to open new cultural horizons Patriarch Kirill and Konstantin Goloshchapov. Photo: 45.ru It is unlikely that this 69-year-old person of sports physique can be considered a regular “masseur of Putin”, but at one time he made considerable efforts to go down in history with this honorary title.

The incident at School No. 62 in Voronezh was reported on May 28 by the publication Voronezh1.ru. As one of the students told journalists, before taking the Unified State Exam in Russian, the “frames” at the entrance to the school began to trigger on metal parts in bras, which is why the security guards demanded that the schoolgirls take off their underwear. "Three girls without bras came into my classroom. One girl was not allowed in wearing a corset.

What is the essence of the “increase” of personal income tax that the government prepared, whom it will affect and on what scale Photo: Cyril Kuhamar / TASS So, the tax reform, which has been talked about so long ago, has already started. On the evening of May 28, the Ministry of Finance introduced a package of bills to the government, which includes amendments to the law on the budget for 2024 and the planning period 2025 and 2026, as well as amendments to the tax and budget codes.

Deputy Director of Research Programs at the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) and HSE lecturer Dmitry Suslov published an article titled “It’s Time to Think About a Demonstration Nuclear Explosion,” which was brought to the attention of RBC. Among other things, Suslov writes that the only way to prevent Ukraine from using Western long-range missiles to strike Russian targets is to sharply strengthen Russia’s policy of containment and intimidation.

Raiffeisenbank will stop making outgoing payments in US dollars from June 10, the bank said in a statement. Russians will also not be able to open savings accounts and deposits - this restriction will come into effect on June 3. The ban will not affect incoming payments in American currency, as well as transfers in other currencies, the bank emphasized. Raiffeisenbank is a Russian subsidiary of the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI).

The final adoption of the law on “foreign agents” in Georgia turned out to be a fundamental issue for the West. Under the threat - visas, investments, EU membership. And in October - elections Participants in the protest in front of the Parliament of Georgia. Photo: Mikhail Egikov / TASS The authorities of Georgia passed the point of no return in relations with the West.

Photo: 47 News The sculpture of the founder of the PMC Wagner appeared in the Porokhovsky cemetery, where Prigozhin was buried, on the morning of May 29. According to the 47 News publication, the monument will be officially opened on June 1, on the birthday of Prigozhin.

The decree on this appeared on the Kremlin website. Previously, the post of Secretary of the State Council was held by presidential aide Igor Levitin. In May, Alexey Dyumin left the post of governor of the Tula region, which he had held since 2016, and was appointed assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Before coming to power, Dyumin worked in the Federal Security Service, responsible for the security of the head of state at public events.

Alexey Levinson, head of the socio-cultural research department at the Levada Center*, together with Irina Vorobyova and Anton Orekh discuss the present and future of Russia What do Russians fear most? Why have denunciations become popular again? How do Russians feel about denunciations? * Recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent.”

Conference disruption in the Law Chamber of Udmurtia gives an occasion to think about what is happening in the law community as a whole Dmitry Talents. Photo: Igor Ivanko / Kommersant In the Zavyalovsky district court of Udmurtia due to the delay in the “delivery” of the defendant Talent to his wife Ole, lawyer Pavel Biyanov and I had to wait about twenty minutes in the lobby. A couple of meters from me serenely, too, was waiting for something by a nondescript peasant.

The fate of the cyclist Khokhlov, and not only her, could have happened differently if the journalist Afanasyev and Reading Divister Asheulov was not changed places Andrey Ascheulov. Frame from the video of the YouTube channel Mikhail Afanasyev On the evening of May 26, in Bolshaya Irbe (a village in the blessed south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the Kuraginsky district), a 50-year-old cyclist and the head of a large family of Anatoly Khokhlov were shot at the Seagull's dachas.