Statistics claim that in modern Russia 1117 cities. Among them are multimillion-dollar megalopolis, and ancient cities such as Derbent, founded in 438, and Innopolis, which appeared in the 2010s, where less than nine hundred people still live. But in each of the Russian cities, an inquisitive traveler will find something worthy of attention.

The heads of the unrecognized Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik appointed their ambassadors in the Russian Federation, reports TASS. Olga Makeeva became the DPR ambassador. She was born on November 21, 1974 in Donetsk, graduated from the pedagogical school and Donetsk National University with a degree in jurisprudence. In the People’s Council of the DPR, Makeev held the post of chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Law and State Construction.

In May, we recall the verses that the great Russian poets wrote about past wars. On May 12, as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru at 19:00 in the club “Club” (Moscow, Pokrovsky Boulevard, house 6/20), poets will read poetry. Not their own - old, beautiful, scary. Some participants for objective reasons will perform by video communication. Online will be the presenter of the evening, literary critic Oleg Lexmanov, as well as poets Linor Goralik and Dmitry Vedenyapin.

Austria does not intend to pay for Russian gas in rubles, the Minister of European and Foreign Affairs of Austria, Alexander Shallenberg, told Al Jazeera. “Our position is clear. We are committed to existing agreements [with the Russian side] and we will not pay in rubles, we do not have such an intention, ”said the official ( quote for TASS).

The Ministry of Justice of Russia recognized as an individual - the “ino -agent” of the rapper Alisher Morgenstern (Valeeva). According to the agency, the contractor was engaged in political activities, while receiving financing from Yoola Labs Ltd (Israel) and from Ukraine.

In April 2022, the Russian budget received 133 billion rubles less oil and gas revenues than was planned. About this writes "Interfax" with reference to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. According to forecasts drawn up in March, the country's oil and gas revenues should have amounted to 798.4 billion rubles. Expectations for May below - 414 billion.

Eight people were killed and about 30 were injured after a strong explosion in the capital of Cuba, which occurred in the Saratoga Hotel built in the 19th century opposite the Havansky Capitol. It is reported by TASS. At least two floors of the building were destroyed. According to the source, we can talk about gas explosion. It is noted that the hotel was preparing for the opening, work was carried out to put up gas equipment. The evacuation of students from a nearby school is carried out.

In the first quarter of 2022, 3,880,679 citizens left Russia. This follows from the statistics of crossing the borders published by the Federal Security Service (FSB). Most of the Russians went to partially recognized Abkhazia (744 548, last year in the first quarter - 789 330). 204 947 people left for Kazakhstan (in the past - 122 330). In Armenia - 134 129 people, this is three times more than in the first four months of 2021 (44 586).

Businessman Valery Markelov, for whom the accusation requested a 12-year term on charges of giving almost 1.5 billion rubles as bribes to the former Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, can already be released from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center on Saturday. About this writes "Kommersant". Doctors diagnosed him with an extremely dangerous oncological disease with which the detention is prohibited.

Yura Boguslavsky, Record of the Lecture cycle "Animation and Me", 2018, photo from the page "Animation workshop" Georgy Boguslavsky is an artist-multiplier, co-founder of the Studio School "The Workshop of Animation" , teacher. After the start of the special operation, George and part of his colleagues moved to Armenia and settled in Yerevan.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation excluded four individuals from the register of media-foreign agents, according to the website of the department. “In accordance with the orders of the Ministry of Justice of Russia dated May 6, 2022, the functions of a foreign agent from the register of foreign media are excluded, Vladimir Vladimirovich Zhilkin, Alexander Ivanovich Lutov, Alexander Viktorovich Grasyev and Ilya Valerievich Pigalkin,” the report said.

Residents of Russia sought psychological and psychiatric assistance in January, February and March 25.9% more often than in the same three months last year. This was written by Kommersant with reference to expert interviewed. The head of the Center for Psychological Correction of Diseases of the Clinical Hospital Medsi Sergey Pozdnyakov specified that in February the increase amounted to 15.2%, in March - 21.4%.

The total actual economic effect of the introduction of rationalization proposals and initiatives of employees of the company RN-Utneftegaz Rosneft for 2021 amounted to more than 2 billion rubles. In 2021, the employees of the RN-Utatneftegaz developed and introduced 26 projects into production activities.

Susan Lindy The Alpina Non-Fixes Publishing House represents the book of the American sociologist of science Susan Lindy “Reason in the fog of war. Science and technology on the battlefields ”(translation by Natalia Kolpakova). Modern militarized science and technology are represented in this book as a moral catastrophe associated with the use of the resources of the human mind to cause people of the greatest suffering.

German researchers have collected spider web samples to assess the number of tiny particles of microplasty floating in urban air. Microplasty is called polymer particles in size less than five millimeters. The source of environmental pollution by microplasty becomes, for example, abrasion of car tires. About 35 % of the particles of microplasty in water comes from wastewater of washing machines, where microplastics is separated from fibers of synthetic clothing - for example, from polyester.