What is curious "Eurovision-2025" Tommy Cache at the Eurovision rehearsal in Basel, May 12, 2025. Photo: Georgios kefalas / epa From May 13 to 18, Basel will host the 69th Eurovision Contest-a third in a row without the participation of Russia, suspended due to the war with Ukraine. Switzerland takes the show for the first time since 1989 - then the competition was held there thanks to the victory Selin Dion in Dublin. Nemo was brought to the Basel show with the Opera-Hip-Hop track The Code.

Ilya Politkovsky on Words of War, the first feature film about his mother, Anna Politkovskaya Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya in Words of War. Photo: Good Films Collective Words of War, the first feature film about Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the entrance to her Moscow home in 2006, was released in the United States just ahead of World Press Freedom Day earlier this month.

A police car blocks a road in Moscow, Russia, 21 October 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV Ten former prisoners who were due to fight in Ukraine escaped from a military training ground in Russia’s southern Rostov region in the early hours of Friday, regional news website Donday reported on Tuesday.

Why did the negotiations of Russia and Ukraine fall off in 2022 - and with which both countries go to Turkey three years later Ukrainian and Russian delegations during negotiations in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha, March 7, 2022. Photo: Maxim Guchek / Belta / Ap / Scanpix / Leta On May 15, in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine will try to resume the dialogue. This is the first full -time discussion since the spring of 2022 - then the negotiations also took place in Turkey and ended with nothing.

Photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA-EFE Donald Trump's participation in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on May 15 remains an open issue. To a large extent, this will depend on whether Vladimir Putin will take part in the negotiations. This was written by CNN with reference to the representative of the US administration. “Now everything is very dynamic. No one knows what Thursday will look like, ”the source said.

Screenshot: Telegram channel Ramzan Kadyrov On the Russian coat of arms, who fell on the video of the awarding of the 17-year-old son of Chechnya Adam Kadyrov with a commemorative medal for the 25th anniversary of the Akhmat-Grozny riot police, there were no crosses. Attention to this was paid by the Z-blogger Kirill Fedorov. So, the crosses “disappeared” from three crowns and a scepter.

William Herrington in the exhibit in Zheleznogorsk. Photo: screenshot from a video by Ruslan Tsyganov Russian police have tracked down a teenager who sent in a photo of a well-known pornographic actor to appear in an installation honouring war veterans in Russia’s southwestern Kursk region, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Monday.

In the Rostov region, ten former prisoners who were going to go to the war to Ukraine fled from the territory of the military training ground. This is reported by Donday and 161.ru with reference to sources. According to media reports, on the night of May 8 to 9, ten contractors fled from one of the training grounds near Rostov-on-Don, who had to go to the front in the coming days. They did not come to the uniform issuing uniforms.

Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on 10 May 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will only agree to speak with Vladimir Putin in Istanbul on Thursday, his aide Mykhailo Podolyak told YouTube political programme The Breakfast Show on Tuesday.

The first feature film about Anna Politkovskaya - “Words of War” was released in the USA. How did it turn out? We are discussing with Anna's son - Ilya Politkovsky Photo: Good Films Collective On the eve of the International Free Press Day, May 3, the USA Words began in the United States. This is the first feature film about Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Novaya Gazeta, killed in the entrance of his house in Moscow in 2006.

Clockwise from top left: Orlin Roussev, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, Biser Dzhambazov, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev. Photo: London Metropolitan Police / BBC News A court in London has sentenced six Bulgarians to prison sentences ranging from five to nearly 11 years for spying for Russia, BBC News reported on Monday.

The security forces found a teenager who sent a photo of the porn actor and hero of the Internet meme “Gachimuchi” by William Herrington on the Panel “Battle of Kursk” in Zheleznogorsk of the Kursk region. This was reported by TASS. “The personality of the teenager who sent the photo was established, they were given an explanation from which it follows that the teenager decided to joke and inserted a photograph of a porn actor into this exposition.

The court in London sentenced six Bulgaria citizens to terms of five to 11 years in prison in the case of espionage in favor of Russia. This was reported by the Russian BBC service. The most severe sentence - ten years and eight months - received Orlin Rusev, whom the court considered the leader of the criminal group.

How families are denied - even despite the law Evgenia Shashev, Alisa Meissner and Elizabeth Mikhailov at a meeting of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, October 22, 2019.

Photo: STEPHANIE LECOCQ / EPA-EFE Europe is ready to wait for the alleged meeting of Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in Turkey before pushing the United States to introduce new sanctions against Moscow. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources.