Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, Archive photo The Council of the International Federation of Hockey on Ice (IIHF) withdrew the right to hold the World Hockey Championship in 2023. The application on the organization’s website claims that this is done in connection with the care of the security of players, fans, journalists and officials. The war in Ukraine is not mentioned in the document. The World Hockey Championship was supposed to be held in St. Petersburg from May 5 to 21, 2023.

On April 27, at a meeting of the Council of Legislators with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the abolition of direct elections of governors may be announced. This was reported by Kommersant and RBC with reference to sources.

Lyudmila Narusova, archive photo The member of the Federation Council from Tuva Lyudmila Narusova handed over to General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov a folder with information about the soldiers-crops participating in the war with Ukraine. The senator told about this "Agency". In the folder there are evidence that in violation of the order of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, frequencies continue to fight. Documents contain personal data of military personnel.

Anti -war protest in Kaliningrad 18-year-old student Mikhail Sukhorichkin wrote an anti-war slogan at the military memorial in Kaliningrad. The guy was accused of vandalism and forced to plead guilty to the video - otherwise they threatened to "break fingers with a hammer." In April, Kaliningrad became the leader in the number of cases aroused for anti -war actions. In the bulk, very young people became the defendants. 77 cases were sent to the court.

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In the Murmansk region of veterans of World War II and persons equated to them were exempted from payment of housing and communal services. The measure will begin to act on May 1. This was announced by Governor Andrei Chibis. In addition, veterans will receive 15 thousand rubles from the regional budget by May 9. The day before, it became known that 10 thousand rubles would be allocated from the federal budget for veterans. Payments will receive 20 320 people.

Protest Protest in support of Navalny in St. Petersburg, archive photo The court in St. Petersburg decided to compensate for 70 thousand rubles to the local resident Alexander Aladyshkin, who was illegally arrested after the detention of supporters of Navalny on January 31, 2021. This was reported by the United press service of city courts. Details of the detention of a Petersburger are not given.

FIFA logo A resident of St. Petersburg Igor Romashov filed a lawsuit for 10.8 million rubles to Sony, which left Russia on March 10. He considered this discrimination, the united press service of the city courts said . Romashov is a fan of the FIFA football simulator, he spent more than 783 thousand rubles in the FIFA POINTS virtual currency in the game, and in September he bought an update to the game.

Katerina Zaripova A video spread widely on social networks : a young woman, having previously had a fight with the employees of the kindergarten, resolutely tears out paper letters Z from the windows in children's groups . The educators in response threaten to call the police, which, as it turned out later, was done. The correspondent of the North. Realia found the heroine of this video and found out how she decided on this act.

Alexey Navalny at Sheremetyevo Airport, January 17, 2021 The associates of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny compiled a list of six thousand "corrupt officials and warriors of war." It is published on The Anti-Sorruption Foundation. The names on the list are divided into several categories: “The Organizers of the War”, “Propagandists”, “Corruption”, “Public Supporters of Putin”, “Sales Celebrities”, “Key Officials”.

An illustrative photo The City Court of St. Petersburg refused to translate the creator of the resistance map of the QR codes of Alexander Konovalov under house arrest, the United press service of the city courts reports . He is in a pre -trial detention center in the case of mediation in a bribe from the end of January.

Illustrative photo In the Estonian port of Muuga, a large batch of cocaine was detained with a total weight of 3.5 tons. Drugs planned to be delivered to Russia. This was reported by ERR with reference to the State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia. Cocaine was found at the end of March on the Milan Express ship, which left the port of Rotterdam on March 5.

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Alexander Nevzorov Businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, who is called the "Putin's cook" in the media, wrote an application for journalist Alexander Nevzorov. He asks the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a criminal case of "fakes" about the Russian army against Nevzorov.

Temple, archive photo In St. Petersburg, the photographer Sergei Kondratyev set up a criminal case about insulting the feelings of believers for an 8-second video with a kiss with his partner against the backdrop of the Trinity Church "Kulich and Easter". This was reported by the human rights group "Exit". According to Kondratyev, the case was opened on April 15. He faces up to a year in a colony and a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles.