On May 24, 1905, writer Mikhail Sholokhov, Nobel Prize in Literature, was born Personal business Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was born on the Kruzhilin farm of the Donetsk district of the Donskoy army (now the farm Kruzhilinsky Sholokhovsky district of the Rostov region).

◾️ Prosecutor General of Ukraine Venediktova allowed the exchange of convicted Russian soldier Shishimarin, whom the Ukrainian court sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged crimes in Ukraine. ◾️ US trade minister Gina Raimonda said that there would be no soon removal of export restrictions from Russia. ◾️ Kanada will send 20 thousand howitzer shells to Ukraine, said Anita Anand, head of the Ministry of Defense of this country.

Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in aggressively criticized the plan of peaceful settlement in Ukraine, which proposed the Italian Foreign Ministry together with the government “Kiji Palace”. In his channel, the ex-president of the Russian Federation called this initiative “the delirium of the Italian graphomaniacs” and called for “sending their authors in a well-known direction”.

The case against Alexander Mavridi, accused of the murder of the “sausage king” Vladimir Marugov and the escape from the temporary detention center, as well as six of his accomplices, was transferred to the Moscow Regional. This was reported by TASS with reference to the words of the representative of the Main Investigative Department of the IC in the Moscow Region Olga Vradiy and the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region Natalia Grigoryeva.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the expert “What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askurov in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism due to the post of Marshal George Zhukov (part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). About this writes RIA Novosti. Askerov himself told RBC that he did not plan to challenge the decision of the Basmanny court and did not consider the opportunity to return to Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that Russia should stop depending on supplies from the Western in critical industries, and the future needs to rely on themselves and those countries that have proven their reliability and do not “dance under someone else's pipe”. The official also said that in the future the Russian authorities will make a decision whether or not to restore relations with Western countries.

In the Kherson region, the pro -Russian authorities will ask to place a Russian military base in the region. This should be a guarantee of security, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the words of the deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region Kirill Stremousov. “There should be a military base of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region. We will ask about this, and the entire population is interested in this.

In Armenia, protests continues with the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan. In Yerevan, government buildings have a skirmish of opposition to the police, writes RIA Novosti. Protesters were able to break through the cordon and go into the building of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports with the shouts of “Struggle” and “Nicholas - a traitor”. The skirmish also occurred at the Foreign Ministry building. According to the publication, at least 15 detentions occurred.

Valery Shiryaev, photo - from the personal archive For the project “After”, Dmitry Itskovich and Ivan Davydov talked with the military observer of Novaya Gazeta Valery Shiryaev - this time about what tasks should be faced with the army of future Russia, about what it should be, and why, under any authority, the army will remain one of the most conservative public institutions.

Economist Boris Lithuania published in Livejournal a large text (in two parts ) about sanctions and the possible consequences of their introduction to the Russian economy. In the first part of the text, a detailed classification of sanctions is also given. Some fragments: “ How easy it is to understand, in our world there are economic sanctions either American or none.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of VK (former Mail.Ru Group) was elected spokesman for the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Sergey Kupriyanov, representatives of the company said . “ VK Company Limited announces changes in the Council of Directors and the appointment of the Chairman of the Council. Sergey Kupriyanov was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the company. He entered the Council on December 14, 2021 as a non -completing director.

Rosneft was the first Russian company to begin industrial production of a hydrocracking catalyst. The solemn ceremony of launching the industrial production of the hydrocracking catalyst was held as part of the Russian oil and gas -chemical forum in Ufa. Development will increase the production of Euro-5 motor fuel and reduce the dependence of the Russian oil refinery on foreign products, which until recently amounted to 90% of the total supply of these products.

The police detained the teenager on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in the Rostov region. The TASS source in law enforcement agencies claims that the SBU recruited him. “ In the Rostov region, a teenager was detained who prepared terrorist attacks in schools of different regions. He was recruited to the SBU. He said that on the instructions of the SBU, he recruited young people to Azov via the Internet. So about 800 people were recruited.

Each fifth resident of Russia (19%) regularly fails to sleep, such data follow from a survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). It is possible to sprinkle and restore strength in every second (56%). With varying success, this succeeds in a quarter of the respondents (25%), every fifth is rather failed (19%). More often, older people can sleep (71%).

The Moscow City Court recognized the verdict to Alexei Navalny, in the case of fraud and disrespect for the court. The verdict entered into force, and Navalny should be transferred to a maximum security colony. Before that, he was serving a sentence in a general regime colony. “The verdict of the Lefortovo Court of March 22, 2022 is left unchanged, the appeal is not satisfied,” RBC quotes the words of the judge who announced the decision.