Top stories for May 1

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Top stories for May 1

🔹The White House officially told Congress that it considers the war with Iran "over." Politico, citing a White House letter, writes that U.S. President Donald Trump notified Congress of the end of the war.

🔹Ukraine’s foreign minister said that Kyiv had received no proposals from Moscow for a ceasefire on Victory Day. "This is yet another attempt by the Russians to please the Americans. To show 'some element of constructiveness,'" the foreign minister noted.

🔹Pavel Talankin’s Oscar was found at Frankfurt am Main Airport. Lufthansa is investigating how the statuette could have gone missing.

🔹Prosecutors demanded the seizure of property belonging to Rusagro founder Vadim Moshkovich. He and Maksim Basov were charged with fraud and abuse of office.

🔹Roskomnadzor is massively opening cases against the world’s largest video game developers over violations in the collection of Russians’ personal data. The issue is that they are required to store and process this information on servers located in Russia.

🔹Cloudflare removed the spyware label from the domain of the Max messenger. Max said the "spyware" label was caused by a "misinterpretation of request headers to the services of the site’s ordinary web analytics."

🔹The names have been identified of more than 216,000 Russian servicemen killed in the war with Ukraine. The losses of just two regions exceed the Soviet Union’s total losses in the Afghan war.

🔹All 30 of the 30 popular Russian apps now look for VPNs on users’ devices. Eight apps that previously did not detect VPNs — Yandex Market, Yandex Food, Yandex Go, Zen, Mail Ru Mail, MegaFon, Gosuslugi, and Mir Pay — have acquired these functions.

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