Non-Moscow news for the night of May 1
🔹 In Moscow Security forces raided a local club because "suspects of LGBT propaganda" might be gathering there. According to footage published by RIA Novosti, clubgoers were forced face down on the floor. According to VChK-OGPU and ASTRA, the club in question was Bizzare. The venue's poster stated that the previous evening, it hosted an event called "Ancient Greek MILFs."
🔹 In Novooskolsky district of the Belgorod region conscript soldier Sergey Ch. ASTRA has discovered that Sergei committed suicide while on a combat mission near the Ukrainian border. According to journalists, on April 28, Sergei and a fellow soldier were sent to a combat post as part of a counter-drone team near the village of Makeshkino. The young man shot himself in the chin with an AK-12 assault rifle.
🔹 City Council Deputy Krasnoyarsk Ivan Petrov received a response to my request to the governor Michael Kotyukov with a request to lift coronavirus restrictions. The main restriction, which is still in effect, is the ban on mass events, including rallies. The response stated that in Krasnoyarsk Territory This ban will remain in place “until the sanitary and epidemiological situation improves.”
🔹 On the famous St. Petersburg The bookstore "Subscription Editions" filed a report on "LGBT propaganda." Allegedly, propaganda was found in three books: "Everybody's Body" by Olivia Lange, "On Women" and "Against Interpretation and Other Essays" by Susan Sontag, the head of the press service of the St. Petersburg courts reported. Daria Lebedeva. "The materials presented contain signs of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations," she wrote.
🔹 More than 200 lawyers working on cases involving state secrets have been restricted from leaving Russia, reports the First Department. State secrets are contained not only in treason cases but also in civil and general criminal cases. Some of the lawyers have already been summoned to the Ministry of Justice, where they are being asked to surrender their passports; failure to do so could result in their documents being revoked.
🔹 PepsiCo has warned of possible disruptions in the supply of chips and other snacks in the coming months (these include Lay's and Cheetos chips, as well as Khrustim croutons) due to difficulties with packaging suppliers.
