Arsenal Football Club from London became the champion of England ahead of schedule after its closest rival, Manchester City, played a draw with Bournemouth in the penultimate round of the championship. Before this game, Manchester City was five points behind Arsenal in the English Premier League table (82 to 77). However, after a 1:1 draw with Bournemouth, Manchester City with 78 points will no longer be able to catch up with Arsenal in the last round of the championship.

Former Tatler editor-in-chief Arian Romanovsky, convicted in the case of extortion from Rostec head Sergei Chemezov, has been released. Taking into account the time spent under arrest, he served about three and a half years of imprisonment out of the five imposed on him by the court. His parole was not officially announced. Olga Karput, an entrepreneur and founder of the KM20 store, published photos from a joint dinner with Romanovsky at the Japanese restaurant Jun in Moscow.

Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russia's charge d'affaires Dmitry Kasatkin after Russian intelligence said Ukraine was planning to launch drones from Latvian territory. The head of the Russian embassy expressed a “categorical protest” and was presented with an official note of protest.

A court in Barcelona released from custody businessman Jonathan Andik, the son of the founder of the Spanish chain of stores Mango, who was suspected of murdering his father, write El País and La Vanguardia . The prosecutor's office asked to take Andik into custody with the possibility of bail of one million euros. The judge granted the request. Andik's defense paid bail by bank transfer, after which he was released and left the courthouse, accompanied by his lawyers.

John Locher / AP / Scanpix / LETA The premiere of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film “Minotaur” took place at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. The audience gave the film an eight-minute standing ovation. The film tells the story of the director of a company preparing for large-scale layoffs who finds out that his wife is having an affair with another man. The main roles in the film were played (in the photo from left to right) by Varvara Shmykova, Yuri Zavalnyuk, Iris Lebedeva and Dmitry Mazurov.

At the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the premiere of director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Minotaur” took place - his first film after an almost 10-year break. After the screening, the festival audience gave an eight-minute ovation. Zvyagintsev made a short speech. I will only have words of gratitude. I am grateful to our permanent group, which was scattered like fragments all over the world.

State Duma deputy Sergei Neverov withdrew from the primaries of “United Russia” in the Smolensk single-mandate district, and after him another candidate withdrew - Smolensk City Council deputy and participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war Artem Kornyuchenkov. Neverov himself commented on this: The district has been surrendered. Our candidate, participant in the special military operation Artem Kornyuchenkov, withdrew his candidacy from participation in the preliminary voting.

People in masks, with weapons, sledgehammers and in camouflage uniforms, who broke into the editorial office of Moskovsky Komsomolets on the afternoon of May 19, came to the office of the ANO Consortium of Medical Equipment, said MK financial director Ekaterina Chereshnikova. According to her, the armed people did not introduce themselves, refused to present documents and explain the purpose of their visit.

The administration of the social network TikTok carried out a massive blocking of accounts that advertised Alabuga Polytech in Tatarstan. Blogger Alexey Gubanov drew attention to this. “At the same time, a whole bunch of TikTokers were blocked, now it’s even difficult to calculate the exact number, but there are quite a lot of them,” the blogger noted. As Mediazona notes , among others, popular bloggers were blocked, for example, otesayy (1.4 million subscribers) and typahanter (780.7 thousand).

Now he can't officially call himself the band's songwriter. Tender May / Youtube The Krasnodar Regional Court officially confirmed that the former producer of “Tender May” Andrei Razin cannot be considered the author of the group’s songs. The court sided with Svetlana Shatunova, the widow of the group's former lead singer Yuri Shatunov, and overturned the 2007 decision that assigned copyright to Razin. All this time, the former producer claimed that he was the author of the compositions.

About 200 Russian military personnel were trained in China at the end of 2025 as part of a non-public agreement between the two countries. Reuters writes about this with reference to relevant documents and sources in three European intelligence services. Russian military training took place at facilities in Beijing and Nanjing - courses focused on the use of drones, as well as the use of explosives, mines and electronic warfare.

Rosfinmonitoring included femactivist Daria Serenko in the register of “extremists and terrorists,” reports a telegram channel that monitors list updates. Serenko's name was added without an asterisk, which usually denotes a criminal case under some terrorist article. There was no information about a criminal case against the activist under extremist charges. Daria Serenko is a femactivist who organized political performances even before the start of full-scale Russian aggression.

Ukraine has apologized to Estonia for a drone that flew into Estonian airspace and was shot down by a fighter jet. The corresponding post on the social network X was published by the representative of the country's Foreign Ministry, Georgy Tikhy.

The Russian authorities are conducting an information campaign against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, which is coordinated by the Russian Presidential Office for Strategic Partnership and Cooperation (USPS). This is stated in the publication of The Insider without citing sources.

Together with experts, we figure out whether we should worry about the nuclear threat The Russian Armed Forces are conducting large-scale exercises “on the preparation and use of nuclear forces under the threat of aggression.” They will last from May 19 to May 21. The exercises involve 65 thousand military personnel, more than 200 missile launchers, more than 140 aircraft, 73 surface ships and 13 submarines.