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In St. Petersburg, on the Kolpinsko highway, a car in which there was a serviceman with the rank of colonel exploded, he died, Fontanka and Clean TV write. It is known in advance that the bomb was attached to the bottom and activated remotely.
According to the source, a lieutenant colonel is dead. A family member was with him and he survived but was injured."
The investigative committee confirmed this information and opened a criminal case.
Larchek appealed to Vladimir Putin for a pardon, one of her lawyers, Konstantin Tretyakov, told TASS.
Formerly arrested head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication Nikolai Nikiforov became a defendant in 300 criminal cases.
UAE police have arrested the brother of Khabib Nurmagomedov, the MMA fighter Usman, alleging that he and a group of friends brutally beat Georgian athlete Merav Devlishvili. The man faces a year in prison.
Witkoff and Kushner flew to Moscow. They were met at the airport by Presidential Special Representative Kirill Dmitriev. Trump's negotiators will meet with Putin today before leaving for a meeting with Zelensky.
Nvidia's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he admitted cheating on his wife with a Chinese spy, the Wall Street Journal writes. And the New York Times previously wrote that Nvidia's CEO may also be in touch with the company's vice president of healthcare, Kimberly Powell.