Miguel Ángel Cárdenas Montilla previously served in Colombia’s anti-narcotics police unit and later worked in the private security sector. In the spring of 2024, he signed a contract with the Ukrainian army. The human rights NGO Memorial notes that he was initially expected to serve in the International Legion; however, Montilla ended up in the 59th Separate Assault Brigade along with a group of nine other Colombian nationals.

Major General Ivan Popov, a former commander of the 58th combined arms army, was sentenced by five years of a general regime colony. The military court found him guilty of fraud and official forgery. He was also deprived of a military rank. According to the lawyer, the convicted person will achieve an excuse.

The news The Insider April 24, 2025 Konstantin Simonov and Valentina Serova The Literary Gazeta deleted an open letter from its site, in which the head of the news agency “Russia Today” Margarita Simonyan was criticized for the transfer of the Soviet poet and writer Konstantin Simonov.

Photo by Alex Traiman History Yuriy Matsarsky 24 April 2025 Documents discovered by chance in declassified CIA papers reveal that in the late 1980s, U.S. intelligence was seeking to find the biblical Ark of the Covenant, a mysterious relic of deep religious significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

The Concord group of companies, founded by Evgeny Prigozhin, sold the Kuhnya factory in the new Moscow structures associated with the Kievskaya Square Group of Companies, writes Kommersant. As the newspaper notes, having lost contracts from the Ministry of Defense for the supply of the power of the Russian army, the Concord Group sold its factories and closes the production unit.

The news The Insider April 24, 2025 At night, on April 24, Kyiv and Kiev region, as well as Zhytomyr, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Poltava, Khmelnitskaya, Sumy Region and Zaporozhye, were under a massive combined blow of Russia. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko, 9 people were killed in Kiev as a result of the attack, more than 70 people were injured of varying severity. At the place of work of emergency services, there are restrictions.

The news The Insider April 24, 2025 Employees of the FSB “neutralized” two people who allegedly planned the terrorist attack at the petrochemical enterprise in the Nizhny Novgorod region. About this with reference to the press service of the department writes TASS. It is clarified that the dead are migrants, originally from Central Asia. According to the security forces, they planned a terrorist attack on the instructions of Ukrainian special services using FPV-throns with explosives.

Last week, four Russians were arrested in Kyrgyzstan. On April 23, it became known that one of them is the “political strategologist” Viktor Vasiliev, who in 2009 was convicted of murder on the basis of hatred, and in 2021, on the instructions of the GRU, he hunted the Kazakh nationalist Kuat Akhmetov in Ukraine. Vasiliev was arrested as part of the case of recruiting mercenaries to participate in an armed conflict.

Documents discovered by chance in declassified CIA papers reveal that in the late 1980s, U.S. intelligence was seeking to find the biblical Ark of the Covenant, a mysterious relic of deep religious significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. To aid their efforts, America’s premiere espionage agency recruited a psychic, who provided guidance that bore remarkable resemblance to elements of the film “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which (likely not coincidentally) came out in 1981.

The artist-activist Pavel Krisevich and his wife Elena was a search. Krisevich reported this in social networks, clarifying that the search is connected with the case of curator Marat Gelman. “Lena and I were searched in the case of Marat Gelman,” Krisevich wrote.

On Apr. 23, Russian Presidential Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and Russian Ambassador to Kabul Dmitry Zhirnov held meetings with Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani.

The body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in Russian captivity, was returned to their homeland. This was told by the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Timchenko in an interview with the publication "Censor.net". According to him, the body was returned to Roshchina at the end of February. The identity of the deceased was confirmed by the DNA examination.

As for the poorest country in Europe, Kilinkarov is right here. According to the World Economic Outlook 2025, according to the Prowuent Population GDP in Europe, in Europe. In 2013, before Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the occupation of part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Ukraine, according to this indicator, was ahead of Kosovo, Armenia and Moldova. But with the "title" of the most corrupt country in Europe, everything is much more interesting.

The Moscow City Court granted the complaint of the Moscow City Hall and canceled the decision of the Presnensky court, who previously ordered the capital of the capital to provide housing for 77-year-old Elizabeth Mikhailova, the daughter of the repressed Muscovites born in the Stalin exile. This was reported by the Russian BBC service. In January 2025, the Presnensky court for the first time ordered the city administration to buy an apartment for a descendant of victims of political repression.

In a statement following the strike, Russia’s Ministry of Defense described the early morning attack on Kyiv as “high-precision” and said it targeted key sites connected with Ukraine’s military-industrial complex: “A massive strike was carried out using long-range precision-guided weapons launched from air, land, and sea, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against facilities in Ukraine’s aviation, missile-space, mechanical engineering, and armored [vehicle] industries, as well as the