The City Council of the Hague refused the activists who submitted an application for renaming the street in honor of Alexei Navalny, Sergey Gorbunov, a politician in the Netherlands, told The Insider. A petition with a request to rename Andries Bickerweg, on which the Russian Embassy is located, launched the Dutch activist Lizz Hallmann. The appeal collected more than 85 thousand signatures, but the Hague authorities refused.

At least 28 Ukrainian media workers and citizen journalists are currently imprisoned in Russia or Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, according to a new report from Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists. Some of these reporters were arrested in occupied Crimea prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion, while others were captured in Ukrainian territories that came under occupation after February 2022.

Employees of the Poland Agency (ABW) of Poland detained a citizen of the country and two citizens of Belarus in the case of the preparation of sabotage on the instructions of Russian intelligence, the Polish prosecutor's office reports. As ABW clarifies , the accused was detained in Warsaw and the city of Prushkin on May 27.

FSO officers did not allow about 25 members of the Russian Academy of Sciences to attend a general meeting where a vote was held on the issue of creating a board of trustees for the Russian Academy of Sciences, T-invariant reports. The meeting took place on May 28.

Rosstat will stop publishing statistics on gasoline production in the country, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Energy told RBK. The decision was made "in order to ensure the information security of the petroleum products market." “Considering the current geopolitical situation, the disclosure of such information could become a pretext for market manipulation by unscrupulous participants,” the department told the publication.

In Moscow, raid was held on conscripts who achieved delay from service. They were put on the wanted list, kept in a prefabricated point, and at night - they were taken to the military unit Sota relatives at the prefabricular point on Ugreshskaya street In Moscow, at the end of May, raids were raid on draftees who achieved a deferral or exemption from service in the army.

The Russian authorities need to sharply strengthen their "policy of containment and intimidation" and conduct a "demonstration nuclear explosion" in order to stop the West from further involvement in the war in Ukraine. This is stated in an article by political scientist Dmitry Suslov, published in the magazine "Profile". Who is Dmitry Suslov? Suslov has been working at the Higher School of Economics since 2006, he is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics.

In 2023, the number of executions carried out worldwide reached its highest level in almost a decade, according to the annual report on the use of the death penalty by the international human rights organization Amnesty International. Thus, according to human rights activists, 1,153 death sentences were carried out in 16 countries in 2023. This is 31% more than in 2022, when Amnesty International reported 883 death sentences carried out in 20 countries.

Searches have been carried out in Brussels and Strasbourg, including in the offices of the European Parliament, in connection with an investigation into possible Russian interference in the activities of this EU body, Politico reports , citing a statement by the Belgian federal prosecutor.

"New Gazeta Europe" told the stories of some of them At least 28 employees of Ukrainian media and civilian journalists are imprisoned in Russia and in the occupied territories. Such data are given by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. One of them worked in Crimea until a full-scale invasion of Russian troops, someone tried to talk about the life of Ukrainian cities under occupation. The New Gazeta Europe talks about some of them.

And won't the collected trillions be spent on war? On the night of May 29, the Ministry of Finance announced details of the tax reform, which Vladimir Putin had announced in his address to the Federal Assembly in February. Russian authorities call these measures "improvement of the tax system," but in fact, this is an increase in taxes for individuals and businesses. From 2025, personal income tax rates for people with high incomes and profit tax rates for businesses will increase.

Roskomnadzor added the pages of the mobile game "Romantiki Club" to the register of prohibited sites in the Russian divisions of the AppStore and Google Play app stores, the Telegram channel "Beware, News" and the publication "Mediazona" report. Despite the blocking, the game is still available for download in both app stores. According to the registry , the agency made the decision to block the pages extrajudicially on May 28. The reason for the ban is not specified.

Hackers announced a hack. The work of the service is restored so far only partially Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Profimedia The company SDEK - one of the largest Russian delivery services - did not accept and did not send the parcels for three days. The site and the Service application stopped open in the morning of May 26. The company said that they were faced with a large -scale technical failure in the operation of computing power.

Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty images Ukrainian military are preparing for a night military sortie on the front line passing through Volchansk (Kharkov region). May 20, 2024 At the end of May, the NATO parliamentary Assembly said that the participating countries should allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets in the Russian Federation.

You'll be surprised - the Taliban are not considered terrorists even by the US and the UN On May 27, it became known that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice reported to Vladimir Putin that the Taliban movement could be excluded from the list of terrorist organizations. This was reported by Zamir Kabulov, Director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.