The United States will not participate in the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa either at the level of the heads of diplomacy, or at the president’s level, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. According to him, this is largely due to the contradictions between the United States and South Africa. The White House does not agree with the agenda formed by South Africa - it does not reflect the priorities of the US presidential administration, Rubio added.

The presidential candidate from the ultra -right “alliance for the unification of the Romanians” George Simion, who lost the presidential election in Romania, asked the Constitutional Court to cancel their results. “I officially ask the Constitutional Court to cancel the elections of the President of Romania. For the same reasons for which the December elections were canceled: external intervention of state and non -state entities. This time proven!

The European Union will allocate 5.5 million euros to support Radio Free Europe / Radio Freedom (RFE / RL), said the head of European diplomacy Kai Callas after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Money will be allocated to the non -governmental organization “European Fund for Democracy”, which will direct these funds to support Radio Liberty.

The Trump administration has developed a plan to spend about $ 250 million allocated for foreign assistance on sending refugees who received temporary protection. About this writes The Washington Post with reference to the documents of the Ministry of Internal Security. The documents say that more than 200 thousand Ukrainians and 500 thousand Hayites can fall under expulsion. They are in the USA in the so -called “temporary protected status”, provided by the Biden administration.

The European Union decided to lift sanctions from Syria, the head of the EU Foreign Policy Service Kai Callas said on the X social network. “Over the past 14 years, the EU has always supported the Syrians - and will continue to do it,” said Callas. Kallas did not specify whether all the sanctions will be lifted at once or this will happen in stages.

The Paris prosecutor’s office rejected the request of the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov to a trip to the United States for “negotiations with investment funds”, writes Politico. The prosecutor's office told Politico that she made a decision on May 12 "on the grounds that such a trip was not represented or justified." The department recalled that Durov is forbidden to leave France without permission - he received this for a trip to Dubai from March 15 to April 7.

Taliban has innovations in the protection of human rights On May 19, the International Law Forum (PMUF) opened in St. Petersburg. The organizers called the event "the main event in the world of law and lawmaking." Among its goals - “promoting the development” of legal science and education in Russia and the world, as well as the modernization of law “taking into account the best experience to protect the rights and interests of all subjects of legal relations”.

Great Britain, France and Canada criticized the expansion of the IDF operation in the gas sector and threatened the introduction of sanctions against Israel. The corresponding application is published on the website of the British government. We will not stand aside, while the government [Beniamin] Netanyahu continues these egregious actions. If Israel does not stop a military offensive and does not remove restrictions on humanitarian assistance, we will take specific actions in response.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the publisher of Medusa Galina Timchenko. This was reported by the Moscow department of the department. The case was opened under an article on the organization of the activities of a foreign or international organization that was declared “undesirable” in Russia (part 3 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Washington handed over to Moscow a list of Americans convicted in Russia, whom the United States would like to return as part of an exchange. Reuters published this list, receiving it from a source close to the Kremlin. Stephen Hubbard In October 2024, the Russian court sentenced the 72-year-old Hubbard to six years and 10 months of a general regime colony under an article on mercenaries.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that 20 thousand people who received Russian citizenship were sent to the combat zone to Ukraine. “Our military investigative department is conducting raids. We have already caught 80 thousand such citizens of Russia who are not like the advanced one, they do not want to go to the military registration and enlistment office.

In relation to the owner of the Rusagro holding, Vadim Moshkovich, accused of fraud and abuse of powers, a new criminal case on giving a bribe on an especially large scale was opened (part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code). About this, as Interfax writes, the investigator said at a meeting of the Meshchansky court of Moscow, which considers the issue of extending the arrest to the businessman. The investigator did not specify the details of the new prosecution.

Politicians, experts and journalists summarize the results of the telephone conversation of Putin and Trump Mandel Ngan / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On May 19, US President Donald Trump spoke for about two hours by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was their third telephone conversation after Trump returned to the White House.

During the war in Ukraine, at least 49 thousand Russian troops were put on the wanted list on suspicion of desertion or unauthorized leave. This is stated in the material of "important stories". Journalists studied two alleged lists of deserters in the Russian army. One of them in December 2024 published a telegram channel "DPR mobilization".

A thousand hundred and eighty -second days. The European Union introduced the 17th package of sanctions against Russia. The results of the conversation of Putin and Trump EFREM LUKATSKY / AP / Scanpix / Leta Memorial to the dead Ukrainian military on Independence Square in Kyiv. May 19, 2025 Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war.