The Hungarian government is withdrawing its application to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced . He also said that Hungary prohibits the import of agricultural products from Ukraine. The ban on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine was introduced by the government of Viktor Orban as part of a package of emergency measures in April 2023.

The head of VTB Bank, Andrei Kostin, commenting on the state of the Russian economy, told an anecdote about an 80-year-old man who came to the doctor complaining of tinnitus. A video of Kostin’s speech at the conference of the Association of Russian Banks was published by the BFM radio station. Kostin recalled that Russian banks have been under Western sanctions since 2014, however, despite this, they are developing successfully.

Tulsi Gabbard has tendered her resignation as US Director of National Intelligence. This was reported by Fox News, citing sources, and was soon confirmed by Gabbard herself. She informed President Donald Trump of her decision on Friday, May 22.

The special guest of the latest episode was Paul McCartney. The main star of the program, Donald Trump, was never mentioned Scott Kowalchyk/CBS/Getty Images On the evening of May 21, the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired on CBS. It is one of the most popular late-night shows on American television. Colbert has been its face since 2015, when he took over from David Letterman as host. The channel announced plans to close The Late Show back in July 2025.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine called “manipulative” reports from the Russian side that the Ukrainian military carried out attacks on civilian infrastructure in the territories of Ukraine annexed by the Russian Federation.

Rospotrebnadzor has banned the import and sale of mineral water from Armenia “Jermuk” in Russia. “The water was found to contain an excess of bicarbonate ion, chlorides and sulfates. Misrepresentation regarding the medicinal properties of products can lead to ineffective treatment and deterioration of health,” Rospotrebnadzor said. The ban takes effect immediately. This is not the first time that Rospotrebnadzor has introduced restrictions regarding Jermuk water.

Here's what experts, commentators and State Duma deputies think about this Sergey Savostyanov / TASS / Profimedia 13-year-old figure skater Alexander Plushenko will change his sports citizenship and compete for Azerbaijan.

In one of the regions of Russia, the police drew up reports on “LGBT propaganda” and the demonstration of extremist symbols against a 13-year-old schoolboy, Mediazona reports. Journalists specifically did not indicate the region and name of the child so as not to disclose his data. It is known that we are talking about a boy. According to the lawyer, the student showed a certain picture or video to other children or their parents. They wrote a statement to the police.

Vladimir Putin called the attack on a college in Starobelsk in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic a terrorist attack and instructed the Russian Ministry of Defense to “present its proposals” on how to respond to this attack. “Tonight, the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv carried out a terrorist attack on the student dormitory of the Starobel Pedagogical College. At night, when the students were sleeping,” Putin said at a meeting with graduates of the Time of Heroes program.

In terms of popularity on the Internet, it quickly overtook the country's main party. cockroachjantaparty.org A new political movement has emerged in India - the Cockroach Party. It comes shortly after Indian Supreme Court Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people interested in journalism and activism to cockroaches and vermin during a hearing. Kant later clarified that he meant only people with fake diplomas and not Indian youth in general.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents” to include scientific journalist and T-Invariant editor-in-chief Olga Orlova. The following were also declared “foreign agents”: activist from Yakutia Vilyuya Choinova, human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky, project about the war in Ukraine “After”.

Independent gas station chains, which account for about 40% of fuel sales in Russia, are unable to replenish gasoline supplies. In chats where oil traders and managers of independent gas station chains communicate, “panic reigns,” writes Novaya Gazeta Europe. “The 92nd is over, the 95th is over. Fuel trucks are parked at the VLPDS . An air raid alert has been declared at the moment. They don’t load,” the publication quotes one of the posts in such a chat, calling it typical.

What we learned from the company's IPO prospectus David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images On May 20, SpaceX released a prospectus for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). Ahead of its June transition to public status , one of the world's largest private companies revealed details of its business for the first time and shared its strategic development plans with the public. The result was a very lengthy document, as IPO prospectuses usually are, amounting to 200 thousand words.

Read a fragment of the producer’s book of the same name - about the film and about Russia before “Minotaur” Non-stop production “Lovelessness”, 2017 “Minotaur” is Andrei Zvyagintsev’s first film after a nine-year break. The director's previous work, Loveless, was also shown in Cannes: then the film received the Jury Prize, the third most important award after the Palme d'Or. What was this picture like? And how is it perceived now, almost a decade later?

Perhaps the developers even used a neural network for wiretapping Timur Malazoniia / Shutetrstock It has long been known that the Russian Max messenger is an unreliable and even dangerous service that constantly spies on users. However, IT specialists still continue to find new vulnerabilities and tracking tools in the application. In mid-May, one of the users of the IT site Habr shared the results of his own analysis of Max for Android.