On the 30th of April in the capital of the Ural Federal District and the Sverdlovsk Region, the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia was carried out the so-called "counter-terrorist operation regime (CTO)" - NAC reports. According to the official version, the decision on the operation was made after receiving operational information.

Recently, the IMF predicted the worse economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said, “We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.”

On May 2, 2020, Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, responded back to the Taliban’s spokesman in a tweet, declaring that “Reducing violence is an absolute necessity, and this is up to the leaders of the Afghan security forces, the Taliban fighters and the coalition forces.”

On 25 March, the Russian court in the Tatarstan city of Naberezhnye Chelny sent 62-year-old Nakiya Sharifullina under the house arrest. She is accused of the organizing the activities of the so-called “home madrassa”, where she with the gathered people, according to investigators, studied the Qur'an and the works of the famous Turkish theologian Said Nursi.