130 employees of the special regiment of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region went to Ukraine, they will help to guard objects in the territory of the "LDNR". It is reported by Fontanka. According to the publication, the police left for Ukraine as volunteers. Before sending, they received equipment and weapons. On May 5, police arrived in Rostov-on-Don.

In Kaliningrad, the police accused the Karelian activist Anna Boykova of "discrediting" the Russian army and violation of the procedure for holding a rally. About this writes "7x7". In relation to Boykova, two protocols were drawn up. She placed anti-war posts in the city Telegram channel. The posts were noticed by a policeman who was a channel subscriber. According to the activist, she made a repost from the feminists channel, thinking that she was in a closed channel.

Cross at the festival of the feminist project (archive photo) In St. Petersburg, police officers came up with a search to the curator of the feminist initiative of Rybra Eva, Julia Karpukhina and activist Daria Shchukina. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to a lawyer Vera Ivanov from the human rights organization "Apology".

Family Greta Baum in the country The family of 90-year-old Greta Baum from St. Petersburg was destroyed by war and Stalinist repressions. Her father, the chief engineer of the Russian Diesel plant, received 10 years of camps for German roots. And Uncle Sergey Dyakonov - one of the first directors of the Gorky Automobile Plant - was shot in 1938. Greta herself for a lifetime remembered how she stood next to Anna Akhmatova at the Crosses prison in an endless queue for 300 hours.

Sailors returning from Mauritania at the Kaliningrad airport. Photo: Tatyana Bukina Sailors thrown on the Archimedes vessel in Mauritania by the Russian authorities return to Kaliningrad at their own expense. This was reported to the North. Reali correspondent by the crew member Gleb Severinets. - The ten Kaliningraders returned so far.

Political scientist Kirill Rogov about Russian propaganda and sociological surveys. Why do most Russians support the war and can these numbers believe?

Fragment of a British poster The US Congress approved the Lend-Lease bill for Ukraine, allowing the supply of weapons there. The US President is expected to sign the law on May 9, when Russia celebrates Victory Day. A significant contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War was made by the Lend-Lease program, under which during these years the United States supplied ammunition, equipment, medicine, food, and strategic raw materials to the USSR.

Evgenia Zateev and Valentin Khoroshenin, detained in St. Petersburg, were taken to Moscow for interrogation to Moscow. This was reported by the human rights organization "First Department". Activists suspects in the case of participation in the work of a non -profit organization encroaching on the identity and rights of citizens. Oppositionists were detained to the court, who will elect them to the suppression. On May 7, searches took place at once by several activists, the Vesna movement.