A Moscow court has sentenced former deputy head of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center Andrei Tsyganov in the case of placing a mining farm in the psychiatric department of the detention center. RIA Novosti reports this. The court sentenced Tsyganov to two years and 10 months of forced labor.

In Strasbourg, France, on April 3, a 37-year-old man was arrested for asking the ChatGPT chatbot how to get a weapon and sharing plans to “kill a CIA, Mossad or DGSI agent.” Le Parisien reports this. The suspicious requests were discovered by FBI investigators, who alerted French authorities. As a result, the man was detained by the RAID police special forces.

US President Donald Trump told Fox News that he is currently engaged in intensive negotiations with Iran. At the same time, Washington is maintaining an ultimatum: Tehran must open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening (Washington time), otherwise the United States will strike Iranian power plants and bridges. By this time, the B-52 and B-1B Lancer strategic bombers, involved in Operation Epic Fury from the first days of the conflict, continue to operate in the region.

Because of the Ukrainian strikes, the ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk were unable to receive and load fuel for close to two weeks. However, on April 5, Bloomberg reported that loading of crude oil at Ust-Luga had resumed. On April 6, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — of opening their airspace to Ukrainian drones, saying Moscow had issued them a special warning. “These countries were given an appropriate warning.

The hacker group APT28 (Fancy Bear), associated with Russian military intelligence, hacks popular routers to steal passwords for email and other online services. The UK National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) warned about this, Bloomberg reports . According to the British side, APT28 acts in the interests of Russian military intelligence (GRU). British cybersecurity experts have recorded that alleged Russian attackers are attacking routers made by MikroTik and TP-Link.

The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, has warned that April will be an unprecedentedly difficult month for global energy - worse than any of the three major oil crises of the past. He stated this in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. According to Birol, the Gulf countries now produce slightly more than half of pre-war oil volumes, and gas exports from the region have completely stopped.

The motives of the attackers have not been officially reported. As local journalist Tamer Oskay said , they were armed with long-barreled weapons and tried to attack the diplomatic mission building. According to local authorities, Israeli diplomats have been absent from the consulate for 2.5 years. Security has been tightened around the scene as police believe there may be other accomplices.

Australian Army corporal and recipient of the country's highest military award, the Victoria Cross, Benjamin (Ben) Roberts-Smith has been charged with the murders of four prisoners in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012, as well as inciting the murders of unarmed people in other military personnel. The day before he was arrested at Sydney airport. This was reported by The Australian. Roberts-Smith is considered the most decorated living Australian military man.

North Korea has allowed Chinese citizens to use their phones in the border city of Hyesan, Daily NK reported , citing a source in Yangang Province. Observers attribute the easing to Pyongyang's efforts to attract Chinese investment in regions along the country's northern border. According to the source, Chinese entrepreneurs who have been coming to Hyesan since March this year are freely making calls from Chinese phones right on the city streets - previously this was almost impossible.

The launches of several Russian lunar probes have been postponed, some to earlier dates. We are talking about the Luna-28, Luna-29 and Luna-30 missions, which are planned to be sent between 2032 and 2036. This was announced by the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Chernyshev, as quoted by Interfax.

“Earthset” captured through the Orion spacecraft at 6:41 p.m. EDT on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II mission's lunar flyby. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered surface of the Moon. The dark part of the Earth is at night. The illuminated side shows swirling clouds over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground is the Om crater with terraced rims and a flat bottom interrupted by central peaks.

In the 1990s, bodybuilder Laszlo Kovacs worked for Igor Korol, the leader of the most powerful organized crime group in Budapest, which reported to the main boss of the underworld, Semyon Mogilevich. According to Kovacs, his duties included, among other things, the transfer of large sums of cash that Mogilevich regularly sent to police chief Sandor Pinter to close criminal cases.

The Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar stripped Andrei Korobka of his position as Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory and confiscated the property of the official, his relatives and fifteen business partners. Earlier, the press service of the court pointed out Korobka’s corrupt relations with two former deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory.

Photo: view of the Moon from the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II mission / NASA/AP American astronauts Victor Glover, Reed Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen completed the main part of the Artemis II mission, rounding the back of the Moon and heading towards Earth. During the flight, they lost contact with the planet for 40 minutes and set a record, moving away from it by more than 400 thousand km.

The Ministry of Digital Development's manual for Russian companies, which obliges them to limit access to their services to users with a VPN, actually obliges companies to implement spy modules in their applications. This could negatively affect the operation of their applications and lead to a ban on marketplaces such as GooglePlay and AppStore, says cyber lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan. The department’s new methodological recommendations became known at the end of last week.