The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia and the Russian Jewish Congress appealed to the Investigative Committee with a demand to check for anti-Semitism the statements of Roman Silantiev, the creator of the pseudoscience of “destructology”, who conducted an examination in the case of director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk.

The State Duma immediately, in the second and third readings, adopted amendments to the law “On Combating Extremist Activities,” which include in the list of “extremist” materials maps or images that “challenge the territorial integrity of Russia.” Now, for distributing maps on which Russia is depicted without the territories occupied by the country, they can be arrested for up to 15 days and fined - up to a million rubles for legal entities.

The Supreme Court of Russia decided to liquidate the PARNAS party, Mediazona correspondents reported from the courtroom. The Ministry of Justice demanded that the party be liquidated under the pretext that the number of party branches had been reduced to 40, which is less than half of the regions of Russia and the occupied territories. PARNAS insists that 44 branches continue to operate.

On the night of May 25, unknown partisans set fire to two relay cabinets at the Bugach station of the Krasnoyarsk railway. Russian Railways stated that the fire occurred due to “interference by unauthorized persons.” The fire did not affect train traffic. The pro-government telegram channel SHOT claims, without citing sources, that security forces found arson tools near the cabinets.

A participant in the Equality March in Olsztyn, Poland, was attacked. An unknown assailant shot her in the head with an air pistol as she walked to a post-Pride party with her friend, carrying a rainbow flag. LGBT Pride organizers reported that the victim of the attack is alive and has already been released from the hospital. They also offered the girl legal and psychological assistance. “An attack on her is an attack on all of us!” the organizers commented.

The Higher School of Economics will educate, at its own expense, participants in the war in Ukraine, as well as their close relatives. Rector Nikita Anisimov announced this. The university will be able to enroll military personnel and mercenaries, as well as members of their families, under a special state quota - 10% of the total number of places. In addition, Anisimov announced that the university would pay for the education of war participants from its own funds in excess of this quota.

Plastic waste is causing 218 million of the world's poorest people to face more intense and frequent flooding as plastic blocks drainage systems. This is what researchers from Resource Futures and Tearfund came to. Almost a fifth of those affected by floods are children, elderly people and people with disabilities. Three quarters of those most at risk from flooding live in countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Political Mathematician Azat Miftakhov decided to publicize his position in the colony in status "Offended" Because of its bisexuality. In this status, he ended up after the FSB used his intimate photographs against Miftakhov at the beginning of 2019, transmitting the information to prisoners in the colony. This was told by Doxa by the wife of Miftakhova Elena Gorban.

In Nizhny Tagil, a Uralvagonzavod worker stabbed himself in the throat with a utility knife due to pressure from management. It is trying to force a worker to resign because of his union activism. The worker tried to commit suicide on May 16 in front of his boss after he told him to quit if he wasn't happy with his pay. Last month, the worker received 11 thousand rubles - 10 times less than usual - because he was transferred to other tasks against his will and refused to be trained in them.

At least three people have died due to Russian shelling of Ukraine over the past 24 hours, and another 12 civilians have been wounded. Russia shelled Kyiv, as well as the Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, Lugansk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Kyiv, Lviv and Chernivtsi regions of Ukraine, the administrations of these regions reported today. In particular, Russia used 36 drones in attacks, all of them were shot down by air defense forces.

Human rights activists from the Every Human Being organization and activists from the Kidmapping project are demanding that the UN investigate Karim Atassi, the head of the Russian office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Every Human Being and Kidmapping said Atassi was not trying to prevent the deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia and did not record these Russian crimes. In addition, Karim Atassi did not help return displaced children, human rights activists emphasize.

The Armenian Administrative Court in Yerevan postponed the issue of extradition to Russia of Chechens Salman Mukaev, whom the Russian security forces haunt for false suspicion of “homosexual ties”. This was reported by "Caucasus. Realities." Salman Mukaev "Caucasus. Real" At the meeting, an appeal was considered to refuse to provide Salman asylum in Armenia. He felt ill before the trial, because of which he could not attend the meeting.

Today, the West Kazakhstan Regional Court rejected the appeal of Igor Sandzhiev, who deserted the Russian army and requested political asylum in Kazakhstan. Sanjiev's passport was left at a military unit in Russia, and he has about a month to get to a safe country. Sandzhiev will challenge the court's verdict in the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. His lawyer believes that the deserter has about a month before the next hearing to leave Kazakhstan and seek asylum in a safe country.