The Ministry of Digital Development announced that on May 9 mobile communications will be “temporarily” blocked for security reasons, and on May 7 and 8 there are no plans for mobile Internet restrictions in Moscow. The department published a corresponding message on the Max state platform.

One of the 23 passengers on the cruise ship MV Hondius, who disembarked in St. Helena on April 21 and went home, has been hospitalized in Switzerland with confirmed hantavirus. An anonymous passenger remaining on board the ship spoke about this in an interview with the newspaper El País. Twenty-three people left the ship ten days after the first death on board and returned to their countries - Australia, Taiwan, the USA, the UK, the Netherlands and others.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin called radio “the most convenient, reliable and accessible form of communication for millions of people” - this assessment is contained in the congratulations of the head of government on Radio Day. According to Mishustin, the transmission of information via electromagnetic waves has become one of the key inventions that gave impetus to the development of telecommunications in general.

In today's summary: In the Kupyansk direction, a major Russian assault was repelled on the left bank of the Oskol River In the Konstantinovsky direction, the Russian military is gaining a foothold on the outskirts of Konstantinovka In the Pokrovsk direction there has been an increase in the activity of Russian drones over Dobropolye In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian troops are conducting an intensive campaign of airstrikes to advance towards Orekhov Vladimir Zelensky promised to “act in a

Alexander Okunev with his family. Collage: IStories Доступно на русском Kaliningrad resident Alexander Okunev self-immolated near the Memorial to the 1,200 Guardsmen in February 2025 in protest against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The incident became public only nearly a year later, after the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service mentioned it in a public report. The report did not name the man who died.

Sales of literature from the category “Atlases and road maps” in Russia increased by 55% year-on-year, reported AST Nonfiction. The publisher calls the interest in analog cartography record-breaking and attributes this to communication outages: “Against the backdrop of news about Internet restrictions, Russians are massively returning to paper maps. The trend began a few years ago.

Anthropic has announced an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to use the computing power of the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. Shortly thereafter, Musk announced that xAI would cease to exist as a separate company and would become part of SpaceX under the SpaceXAI brand. Anthropic said in a statement that the company will have access to the entire power of the Colossus 1 data center - more than 300 megawatts of computing power and over 220 thousand Nvidia GPUs.

Two former Chinese defense ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, have been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on corruption charges, Reuters reports . Both were found guilty of receiving and giving bribes. The investigation established that Li Shangfu received bribes of large sums, and also gave them himself, failing to cope with his “political responsibilities” and using his position to obtain personnel privileges.

In 2024, the 4th department trained 1,563 reservists and 429 potential contract officers in 14 specialties relevant to the army. Students who have completed the “young fighter course” are enrolled in a special course on espionage technologies, taught by the deputy head of the 4th department, Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Stupakov.

Russia announced a temporary cessation of hostilities from 00:00 May 8 until May 10 in connection with the celebration of the 81st anniversary of Victory in World War II. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this. The department said that the decision was made at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin. For this period, according to the Ministry of Defense, Russian troops will completely cease military operations in the war zone against Ukraine.

Oleg Novoselov, a researcher of political repressions, was detained in Yekaterinburg, 66.RU reports , citing a source close to law enforcement agencies. The historian’s name also appeared on Rosfinmonitoring’s list of terrorists and extremists. As the Verkh-Isetsky District Court told the publication, Novoselov was arrested under the article of inducement or recruitment to assist in terrorist activities.

The Ukrainian government has simplified the issuance of temporary residence permits for foreigners and stateless persons who are fighting or planning to join the Defense Forces. This was announced by Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko. According to her, a temporary residence permit will be issued for the entire duration of the contract and for another six months after its completion.

The Insider and its investigative partners have obtained documents from Department 4 of the Military Training Center at Bauman Moscow State Technical University that describe how the GRU trains students in hacking attacks and disinformation tactics. Some of the graduates are already serving in GRU Unit 74455, which is responsible for attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and Georgia — which constitutes a war crime.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday amid the most acute crisis in relations between Washington and the Holy See in years, The Washington Post reports . The reason for the break was the Iranian war: the pontiff, although not directly, but consistently condemned the US military operation and Trump’s appeals to the will of God as a justification for hostilities that claimed thousands of lives.

On May 7, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, said that serial production of the MS-21 and SJ-100 will begin in 2027. A day earlier, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Anton Alikhanov, said that the SJ-100 could begin regular flights before the end of 2026. This is not the first postponement of the release of the SJ-100 and MS-21: in 2024, Chemezov reported that the release of the MS-21 was moved to 2025, and the SJ-100 to 2026.