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The series of suspicious deaths among Russian businessmen continues. A former top manager of the tech giant Yandex has died under unclear circumstances while fishing. Serghei Loiter, aged 42, drowned near Volgograd while fishing on the Volga River. He held the position of Commercial Director at Yandex between 2022 and 2024, and subsequently worked at Yango. According to the Russian press, Loiter’s body was identified among the three missing fishermen reported last weekend. In the same incident, real estate entrepreneur Sergei Nazarov, whose body has not yet been found, and his driver, Igor Prohorov, who was found first, also lost…
Increasingly clear signs of internal tensions are surfacing in Iran’s negotiation team with the United States, with an ultraconservative politician set to take on a key role in the nuclear dossier negotiations, reports Fox News. According to information revealed by Iran International on April 24, 60-year-old Saeed Jalili is expected to replace the President of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line politician, following the latter’s abrupt withdrawal from discussions with the USA due to internal disputes. Jalili, a veteran conservative known for his opposition to concessions in the nuclear dossier, is considered the leader of a so-called “shadow…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated on Monday that the leaders of Iran are “humiliating” the United States in the conflict in the East. He accused Washington of not having a clear strategy. “The Iranians are clearly stronger than expected, and the Americans also lack a truly convincing strategy in negotiations”, Merz stated during a visit to a school in Marsberg, a city in his native region of Sauerland. The German official cited the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq as examples, according to Deutsche Welle. “The problem with such conflicts is always the same: it’s not enough just to get in,…
President Donald Trump is faced with three difficult options regarding the conflict with Iran, after he cancelled peace talks and rejected a last-minute offer from Tehran, according to reports in the American press. According to The Wall Street Journal, the leader at the White House could choose between escalating the conflict, using economic pressure — including by blocking the Strait of Hormuz — or accepting a deal that he does not consider favorable. In statements made on Sunday, Trump asserted that Iran’s oil infrastructure could suffer major damage in just a few days. He suggested that certain pipelines could “explode…
Vladimir Putin has appointed Igor Chaika, the son of the former Prosecutor General of Russia (2006–2020), Yuri Chaika, currently the plenipotentiary representative in the North Caucasus Federal District, as the head of Rossotrudnichestvo. Ceaika Jr., who previously served as the deputy head of the agency, became widely known to the public following the anti-corruption investigation conducted in 2015 by Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The film “Ceaika” claimed, among other things, that the businesses of the Prosecutor General’s sons – Igor and Artiom Ceaika – might be linked to the Tsapok gang, accused of mass crimes in the Krasnodar…
The authors of Vladimir Putin’s speeches are urgently trying to “repair” the president’s image, which has been affected by the most significant drop in ratings in the last eight years, against the backdrop of internet restrictions and the blocking of Telegram. Speaking on Monday before the Council of Legislators, Putin made an unexpected appeal to senators and deputies to avoid new bans and restrictions, the number of which has significantly increased since the beginning of the war. “The legislative process must be systematic and, I would add, creative, oriented not only towards adapting to current challenges and risks — sometimes…
The deficit of Russia’s regional budgets, which last year reached a record level, will continue to rise, warned Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on Monday. The situation of the regional budgets is “complicated,” he declared during a meeting of the Legislative Council: “Last year, the deficit significantly increased — from usual levels of 200-300 billion rubles to about 1.5 trillion.” This year, according to Siluanov’s estimates, the total “gap” in the regional budgets will increase by another 400 billion rubles (approximately 4 billion euros), reaching 1.9 trillion rubles (about 19 billion euros). Under these circumstances, regions must adopt budget consolidation measures…
After the head of the Russian Investigation Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, ordered the verification of the works of children’s author Grigori Oster, the demand for his books suddenly increased. According to data provided to RBC publication by the RWB company (which includes Wildberries), sales of Oster’s books on the platform increased by almost 500% during the period of April 21-26, compared to the same period last year. Compared to the beginning of April, the increase was 220%. “We’re talking about thousands of copies sold this year. The most popular are the various editions of the volume ‘Harmful Advice'”, the company representatives…
Russian authorities could significantly reduce the traditional lavish Victory Day parade ceremony in Moscow, writes journalist Aleksandra Prokopenko, author of the book “Accomplices”, citing sources. According to this, this year’s parade could take place without military technology: only columns of soldiers are expected to march on Red Square. The number of guests could be reduced from thousands to a few hundred, and the entire ceremony could last less than an hour. The propaganda is expected to claim that this was the initial planning and that the reduction is not related to the threats generated by drones. Previously, pro-war bloggers suggested…
At the Technical University of Petroleum in Ufa, one of the main training centers in the oil and gas sector in Russia, students were encouraged to bring friends and relatives to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, writes the independent publication “Groza”. According to a student quoted by the source, the message was conveyed in an internal chat of the university. From the content, it appears that it is about unmanned systems troops, where authorities have begun to recruit students due to the decreasing number of contractors and the increasing losses of the Russian army…