The Diet (parliament) of Lithuania extended the action of anti -Russian sanctions until 2026 and made amendments to them, according to which the residence permit issued to a Russian citizen will be canceled if his owner traveled to Russia or Belarus more than once in the last three months. This was reported on the website of the Sejm.

Ukrainian drones attacked the city of Shu in the Ivanovo region on the night of April 17. The authorities of the region reported the introduction of the “Dangers of UAV attack” and the work of the warning system. According to the administration, the attack was repelled, there were no injured, TASS reports . Locals talked about explosions about 03:50. The Astra Telegram channel published a video of the attack and the fire that began after the fire.

The Moscow Court of Moscow made a decision in the case of the division of property of the founder of Wildberries Tatyana Kim and her ex -husband Vladislav Bakalchuk. The share of 1%, which belonged to Bakalchuk, crossed his ex -wife. Thus, Tatyana Kim became the owner of 100% Wildberries. Tatyana Kim and Vladislav Bakalchuk officially divorced after 22 years of marriage in February this year.

Alexander Lukashenko on April 17 met with an economist, former Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev, during which he announced his appointment to the post of State Secretary of the Union State, Belta.by reports . This decision was made together with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko said: “We agreed with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin that your contribution to the construction of the Union State should be significant.

The entire team working on the National Survey on Drug Use — the primary source of data on substance abuse in the United States — was dismissed . Also cut were all staff from the Health Department’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which annually allocated billions of dollars to help low-income Americans pay their heating bills.

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, actively implements a plan to create a “legion” of children from women “with high intelligence”, considering this as a way to ensure the survival of mankind in the event of a global catastrophe, according to the investigation of The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the mask already has at least 14 children from four women, but sources close to a billionaire argue that the real number of his descendants is much higher.

The news The Insider April 17, 2025 The former head of the Crimean Ministry of Emergencies, Sergei Sadacalev, was sentenced to 5.5 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 1.75 million rubles for bribery, TASS reports . According to the prosecutor's office, Sadakakakhev took bribes from subordinates and the contractor in the amount of over 1.5 million rubles. In August 2024, Sadacalev wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will.

The European Union abandoned plans to prohibit the import of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the nearest packages of sanctions due to the resistance of a number of member countries and uncertainty with the search for alternative suppliers, Reuters reports with reference to the statement of European officials. Instead, the European Commission intends to develop a new “road map” to terminate the dependence of the Bloc on Russian energy by 2027.

It is not clear why Zakharova calls the “power event” proposed by Zelensky. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Sibigi, who transferred official invitations to European partners during a meeting of the heads of foreign policy departments in Luxembourg, the purpose of the meeting is “a demonstration of solidarity and determination in the face of the largest aggression in Europe since the Second World War”.

The deputy of the Council of the Kalar District Mikhail Nosik has been fulfilling his official duties remotely for four years, while in the Ukrainian Dnieper. Information about this is contained in the protocol of the meeting of the ethics commission, the copy of which was at the disposal of the editorial office of the regional publication Zab.ru. The nose received the mandate of the deputy of the Council of the Kalar municipal district of the Trans -Baikal Territory in 2020.

The ACF report notes that Andreeva spends a significant amount of time in Montenegro, specifically in the resort town of Sveti Stefan on the Adriatic coast. The investigation identified the residence Andreeva uses during her visits — a large estate near the coast consisting of multiple connected buildings totaling 26,900 square feet (2,500 m²) and located on a plot over one 2.5 acres. The property was purchased in 2015 by her husband, Duško Perović, a dual citizen of Serbia and Montenegro.

Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / Kommersant Contents 1. Law and practice: What is considered slave labor 2. Slave labor on farms, in private homes, and in workhouses 3. Hundreds of convictions are just the tip of the iceberg In 15 years, Russia has registered only 53 criminal cases of slave labor (Article 127.2 of Russia's Criminal Code), but the scale of such exploitation appears to be 17 times as high, according to a study by the Yesli Byt Tochnym (lit.

In this pool photo released by Russia’s state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin is seen shaking hands with Sasha Trufanov, a former hostage held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 16, 2025. Photo: Sofia Sandurskaya / Pool / AFP Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday evening at the Kremlin with three former hostages of Hamas: Alexander (Sasha) Trufanov, a dual Russian-Israeli citizen, Trufanov’s mother Yelena, and his fiancée Sapir Cohen.

In 15 years, Russia has registered only 53 criminal cases of slave labor (Article 127.2 of Russia's Criminal Code), but the scale of such exploitation appears to be 17 times as high, according to a study by the Yesli Byt Tochnym (lit. “To Be Precise”) project, which analyzed nearly 500 court verdicts.

In 2024, in Russia, 4 times more sentences under the article “State treason” were issued than in 2023, follows from the statistics of the judicial department. At the same time, according to the “first department”, judicial statistics are significantly underestimated and there are actually much more sentences.