German Chancellor Olaf Sholts The European Union countries will stop the import of Russian oil before the end of the year, and in the summer they will abandon Russian coal. Olaf Scholz said this, the Chancellor of the chairman of Germany, said in an interview with The Indian Express. The Chancellor also noted that by the end of the year the EU will sharply reduce gas supply. that many countries have joined sanctions against Russia, despite economic costs.

Sergey Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset compared the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler, suggesting that Hitler, led by 6 million Jews, had “Jewish blood”. He mentioned about Hitler in the context of the so -called denazification of Ukraine, which, according to the Russian authorities, was seeking Moscow during the war.

Perfoman Anna Anisimova. Photo: "OVD-Info" The court in St. Petersburg fined an activist Anna Anisimova for 35 thousand rubles under the article on the "discredit" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported in the United press service of the city courts. The activist was detained on May 1. She held the action: put on her neck a rope and chained herself handcuffs to the fence, and nearby put a TV with the image of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.

Dmitry Kiselev The general director of the Rossiya Today agency and TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev on the air of the Vesti Week program on the Russia 1 channel said that the UK is so small that one Russian Sarmat missile is enough to drown the island once and for all. It is possible to destroy the kingdom, according to Kiselev, with the help of a sea robot-pivot “Poseidon”. "The explosion of this thermonuclear torpedo off the coast of Britain will raise a giant wave up to 500 meters high.

Christina Ramirez, Archive photo The St. Petersburg activist Christina Ramirez was detained due to a single picket in support of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. It is reported by "OTD-Info". During the detention, the police refused to introduce themselves and by force pushed Ramirez into a car carrier. She stood in a picket near the Gostiny Dvor with a poster "Freedom to Alexei Navalny! There is no repression!" Ramirez is a former volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters in St. Petersburg.

A lawyer from St. Petersburg, Sergei Bekeshin, sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General, in which he demanded to explain why the employees of the Russian Guard are involved in hostilities in Ukraine. The department replied that it is incompetent to answer this question. Bekesin published a response on Facebook. Bekesin wrote in circulation that from the statements of senior officials he became aware that military personnel of the National Guard troops participate in the war in Ukraine.

Military personnel of the pro -Russian troops. Mariupol, Ukraine, April 21, 2022 The British Ministry of Defense said that Vladimir Putin could announce universal mobilization during the celebration of Victory Day on May 9. British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace, on the air of the LBC radio station, said that the Russian president can declare war on the "world Nazism".

Margarita Simonyan Russian singer Philip Kirkorov turned to the main editor of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan, who previously stated that the showman Maxim Galkin married "an elderly woman for the path in his career." Kirkorov published an appeal to Simonyan on his Instagram page.

Tatyana Savinkina with her grandson, the photo is provided by the family Since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, police officers initiated hundreds of cases under the article on the discrediting of the Russian army. They were excited for crosses in memory of those who died in Buch and Mariupol, for "insulting the sign Z" and the recitation of anti -war poetry.

Finnish hockey players who play for Russian clubs will not be called to the national team. This was announced by the general manager of the national team of Finland Yer Lechtinen. "The position of the Finnish hockey association is that players performing in Russia next season cannot play for the national team," Lechtinen said. The manager also added that forward Miro Aaltonen, who moved from one Club of the Continental Hockey League to another, does not go to Russia next season.

The Finnish company Fennovoima reported that she terminated the contract with Rosatom for the construction of the Khanhikivi-1 nuclear power plant, the company's website said . "Cooperation with the RAOS project [is a member of the State Corporation" Rosatom "] stops with immediate entry into force, as well as work on design and licensing, as well as work at the Khanhikivi-1 site, the message said. The contract for the construction of the station was signed in 2013.

The FSB of Russia recognized a sharp increase in the number of citizens who left the country in January - March 2022. In Georgia, the flow of Russians increased by almost five times, in Armenia - three times. Such data are published on the official statistics portal. In the first quarter of 2022, 134 thousand Russians left for Armenia. Most of those who left (78 thousand) indicated the private purpose of the visit, 41 thousand - tourism.

Oleg Tinkov The founder of Tinkoff-Bank, Oleg Tinkov, said in an interview with the New York Times that the Russian President’s administration threatened to nationalize his business if Tinkov did not sell him. According to the businessman, employees of the Presidential Administration contacted the management of the bank after Tinkov published an anti -war post, and threatened with nationalization if the company does not break off the connection with it.