Non-Moscow news for the night of May 25
🔹 On the way out Yaroslavl to the side Moscow Traffic was blocked again due to a drone attack, the governor reported. Mikhail Evraev. "Refrain from traveling in the designated area and its surroundings, or choose a route that avoids this area. Security operations by the Ministry of Defense and law enforcement agencies are continuing." — the official writes.
🔹 Up to 40% of the exhibits at the Chernobyl National Museum were destroyed after the Russian combined attack on To Kiev on the night of May 24. Museum staff and rescuers began evacuating exhibits immediately after the strike. They managed to save items from storage facilities, a painting Mary's Primachenko and the flag of Ukraine, installed on Chernobyl Nuclear power plant after deoccupation in 2022.
🔹 The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has denied approval for the construction of a high-rise hotel on the territory of the Curonian Spit National Park. This follows an environmental assessment by the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which found the project to be dangerous for 15 migratory bird species listed in the Red Book, as well as FSB searches and a criminal case against the park's director.
🔹 Siberian The Federal Medical and Biological Agency's scientific and clinical center signed five contracts worth almost 15 million rubles with the St. Petersburg-based Synergy LLC, which is associated with a businessman Maxim Aprelkov — co-owner of the Delight strip club chain. Over five years, the company has received government contracts worth over 920 million rubles. Synergy was previously associated with the Russian Paradise bar, where patrons complained of inflated prices, deception, and aggressive staff behavior.
🔹 The Hermitage's Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Center has put on display a 16th-century French stained glass window, "The Birth of John the Baptist," which had never previously been on permanent display. The stained glass consists of 19 sections. It arrived at the Hermitage in 1933, but a large-scale restoration began only in 2016 and took ten years. During the work, specialists not only restored the original frame and the image itself, but also made an unexpected discovery: a graphic image of a crown and crescent moon, previously unnoticed, was discovered on the clothing of one of the figures.
