American video game developer Electronic Arts ( EA ) and the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) will end their partnership that has lasted nearly 30 years, The New York Times reports. Due to the inability to renew the contract, the football simulator FIFA 23 will be the last game in the series. The new name of the series will be EA Sports FC. Negotiations between EA and FIFA lasted for several months.

Russia’s YouTube ‘alternative’ down for the second day running following cyberattack On the morning of May 9, the Russian video platform Rutube reported that it had fallen prey to a “powerful cyberattack.” Rutube assured that work was underway to restore access to its site and an hour later claimed to have “localized the incident.” Around 6:00 o’clock that evening, the Rutube press office reported that user data had been saved and that technical work was ongoing.

Maria Alekhina left Russia. She disappeared from the police in Moscow, putting on the form of the Delivery Club courier, and spent a week on the border of Belarus and Lithuania Vadim Pacajev / Alamy / Vida Press Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina left Russia, The New York Times reports . She decided to leave the country, at least temporarily, after on April 21, the court in Moscow replaced her with a “sanitary case” with restrictions on imprisonment.

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who agreed with the leadership of Twitter to buy the company, said he was ready to cancel the decision to block the account of the 45th US President Donald Trump on Twitter. “I would lift the ban — but I don’t own Twitter yet,” Musk said . at a Financial Times conference “I really think it was wrong to block Donald Trump's account. I think it's a mistake because it alienated a lot of the country and didn't end up disenfranchising Donald Trump," said .

In the war between Russia and Ukraine, neither side wins, General Scott Berier, head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, said at a hearing in the US Senate. “The Russians do not win and the Ukrainians do not win. This is a kind of stalemate,” he said in response to a request from one of the senators to describe the situation in the war. He added that this "stalemate" represented a "war of attrition".

Ukraine’s Azov regiment shares photos of wounded soldiers in plea for evacuation from besieged Mariupol steel plant Battles for Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have been going on for nearly two months — Russian troops have been trying to seize this final pocket of Ukrainian resistance since mid-March. Russian President Vladimir Putin called off plans for the Russian military to storm the plant in late April, but Azovstal’s defenders regularly report renewed shelling and assaults.

The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk died on May 10 at the age of 88, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. Olena khudiakova / ukrinform / zuma wire / TASS Kravchuk died at 17 o’clock in Kyiv time after a long illness, a source in the circle of friends of Kravchuk told the agency. The information was confirmed in the Kravchuk family. Leonid Kravchuk headed Ukraine from December 1991 to July 1994. As a president, he signed Bialowieza agreements that put an end to the existence of the USSR.

The operator of the gas transmission system of Ukraine announced that from 7 am on May 11, it will stop gas transit through stations in the Luhansk region, which are located in the occupied territory. The statement of the operator says that further transportation of gas through the gas metering station (GIS) "Sohranovka" and the border compressor station "Novopskov" is impossible due to force majeure.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Due to the war, Mariupol and other cities of Ukraine were destroyed. How will they be restored? And how did this happen after the Second World War? On May third, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the parliament of Albania, spoke about destruction in Ukrainian territory, which brought military operations from Russia.

The European Union , Great Britain , the United States and their allies have accused Russia of involvement in the cyberattack on the KA-SAT satellite network, which is operated by Viasat. Information about Russia's involvement in the incident was received by the intelligence services of Great Britain and the United States. According to Western countries, the attack began on the night of February 24, 2022, an hour before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Photos The battles for the Azovstal plant have lasted almost two months - they have been going on since mid -March. Now the plant is the last focus of resistance in the actually occupied Mariupol. At the end of April, Vladimir Putin ordered the abolition of the assault, but the defenders of Azovstal regularly report new shelling-and attempts to still seize the plant.

He was called the Russian "alternative" YouTube. Now there is a version that it is not subject to restoration The Russian video service Rutube was hacked in the morning of May 9 . The message about the “powerful cyber attack” appeared in the telegram channel of the hosting at about 7:00 Moscow time. Rutube said he was working on restoring access to the service. An hour later, Hosting said that he “localized the incident”, and promised to report the terms of recovery in the near future.

Former Moscow Philharmonic illuminator Stanislav Semenyuk, who resigned after writing the words “Freedom to Political Prisoners” on a wall, has been detained in the Leningrad Region for setting a flag on fire. This was reported by his friend, Yabloko press secretary Igor Yakovlev. According to Yakovlev, Semenyuk burned the flag with the letter Z, which hung on the building of the board of the gardening association, where his parents live.

Anthropologist Alexei Yurchak on why Putin hates Lenin and how today’s Russia resembles the late Soviet Union Dmitri Lovetsky/ AP / Scanpix / LETA While waging war on Ukraine, the Russian state has intensified its already tight control over the Internet, press, and opposition at home. Meanwhile, the anti-war opposition has resorted to what are essentially guerilla tactics.

The picture helped to find out how he was killed Anastasia vlasova / getty images “ Mediazona. Belarus ” published the story of the American photographer Christopher Okikon about how in early April he photographed a deceased man in buch, and a few weeks later he met his son, helped him find out what happened to his father, and visited the funeral of a man in his native village. Occion with colleagues arrived in Buch in early April, shortly after the departure of the Russian army.