The Austrian singer JJ (Johannes Pitch) won the Eurovision Support contest. The musician who performed the song “Wasted Love” (“Very Love”) scored 436 points. Eurovision Song Contest JJ - Wasted Love (Live) | Austria 🇦🇹 | Second Semi-Final | Eurovision 2025 The second place was taken by the representative of Israel, Juval Rafael, the third - the performer from Estonia Tommy Cache.

Showranner of the series Tony Gilra is the first who managed to truly rethink the franchise of George Lucas (except for Lucas himself) Lucasfilm On Disney+ ended the series "Andor". Its action takes place in the Universe of the Star Wars a few years before the events of the fourth (according to internal chronology) or the first (under the date of the premiere) of the episode "New Hope". Former thief Cassian Andor joins the rebels who raised weapons against the empire.

At least 21 people died as a result of a tornado in the Middle West of the United States, CNN reports. At least 14 people died in Kentukki and seven more in Missouri, including five in St. Louis, the largest city in the entire region with a population of more than two million people. The city authorities called the incident “one of the worst storms” in history, due to bad weather, about five thousand buildings received damage there.

These are books about love, identity and growing up. We talk about each On May 14, searches were held with the current and former employees of the Eksmo Publishing Company, including the employees of the editors of Individuum and Popcorn Books, which are part of the holding. About ten people were detained that day, later it became known that three defendants in the case were sent under house arrest. They are accused of “extremism” due to Quirry literature entering Popcorn Books.

US President Donald Trump will talk on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump himself reported this on the social network Truth Social. The conversation will be held on Monday, May 19, at 10 a.m. (Trump did not specify what time). “The themes of the negotiations will be the cessation of the Boodland Bath, which kills, on average, more than five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers per week, as well as trade,” Trump wrote.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor, the film recreate of Novaya Gazeta Larisa Malyukova said. The ceremony was held in Cannes. Serebrennikova was awarded by the Minister of Culture of France Rashid Dati. She noted the director’s contribution to the development of cinema, theater and opera and called his participation in the cultural life of France.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a telephone conversation. According to the Russian foreign policy, the conversation took place on the initiative of Rubio. “Lavrov noted the positive role of the United States, which contributed to the fact that Kyiv ultimately accepted the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to resume Istanbul negotiations.

Thousand one hundred and seventy -ninth days. The Kremlin commented on the results of Istanbul negotiations. Russia admits the possibility of meeting Putin and Zelensky - but not now UKRAINEQIA 93RD MECHANIZED Brigade / EPA / Scanpix / Leta consequences of the attack of Russian drones. Konstantinovka, Donetsk region. May 16, 2025 Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air.

All tags are in place: BLM, anti -Vaxeres, trumpism. But the statements did not work A24 The Cannes Film Festival showed “Eddington”, a new picture of Ari Aster - the author of the “solstice”, one of the most famous and unusual modern horror. This time, the director tried to create a modern western that would work with the archetypes of American culture and at the same time comprehended a complex modern reality (the tie of the film, for example, is associated with Pandemia Covid).

Benoit Tessier / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16 showed the documentary “Bono. Capitulation Stories ”about the soloist of the U2 group. At the premiere of Bono, the guitarist U2 Edge and director Sean Penn appeared with the fighters of the Armed Forces. “I want to thank you because you keep us freedom. Glory to Ukraine! ”, The musician said, turning to the military.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that simplifies Russian citizenship for citizens partially recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The decree is posted on the official Internet portal of legal acts. Applicants in citizenship from Abkhazia and South Ossetia will now be spared from the need to comply with the requirements for constant residence in the Russian Federation, knowledge of the Russian language and Russian history.

We talk about favorites (these are the Swedes with a song about the sauna) and the political context (for which they want to cancel musicians from Israel and Estonia) Jens Büttner / DPA / Scanpix / Leta group Kaj from Sweden - the main favorite of the competition On May 17, in Basel (Switzerland), the final of the Eurovision Music contest will be held.

The co -owner of the Gostiny Dvor and the former Minister of Trade of the Moscow Region Mikhail Khubutia wrote a confession in the case of an attack on his former girl Julia Van. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “He appeared with a guilty himself, he fully pleaded guilty,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The businessman Konstantin Malofeev, who is called the “Orthodox oligarch”, seeks the authorities, seeks through the court of destruction of the circulation of the book of the publishing house Individuum - it tells about his role in the collapse of the WEX crypto -story. About this writes the "Russian BBC service". The book "Crypt.

All because it is pregnant, and the state law prohibits abortion The doctors of the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, have been supporting a pregnant woman who stated the death of the brain on the life support apparatuses for more than three months. The point is the state of the state’s law on restriction of abortion: the doctors told loved ones that they were obliged to keep her life until the fetus is enough for them to make a cesarean section.