The second place was taken by Israel, the third - Estonia In the Swiss Basel, the final of the 69th Eurovision Contest was held. The first place was taken by Austria, which was presented by the counterattacent Johannes Pitch (JJ) with the song Wasted Love, a dramatic ballad of unrequited love. “Love is the most powerful power. Let's spread more love, ”said the winner of the competition during the presentation of the award. Johannes Pitch-24-year-old singer of Philippine descent.

"Terrible News" with Kirill Martynov Every Saturday, Kirill Martynov, editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, comments on the most important news that happened in Russia and the world over the past week. * On Friday, in Istanbul, the first direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were held in three years. Why did this meeting bring the parties closer to the world and did the levers of pressure remained in Putin among the allies of Kyiv?

Photo: "Moskvich Mag" At the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow near the bas -relief with Stalin, unknown people placed posters with quotes by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev with condemnation of the personality cult of the Soviet leader. This is written by Moskvich Mag and Moscow. “All positive was achieved by an unacceptable price. Achieving the result by repression is unacceptable.

“Andor” in the Universe of Star Wars is a topical series about life under dictatorship. Why is the history of rebels in a distant, distant galaxy finds such a response among the audience? Frame from the television series "Andor". Photo: Disneystudios.com The Galactic Empire is building fortifications around the administration of the planet Gorman. A curfew is introduced in the city, residents are forbidden to go out onto the streets - but they still do it.

The newly opened Stalin sculpture at Moscow's Taganskaya metro station. Photo: Alexander Avilov/Moscow City News Agency Activists in Moscow staged a protest against a freshly recreated sculpture of Joseph Stalin at the city’s Taganskaya metro station on Friday by placing quotes from Vladimir Putin and former president Dmitry Medvedev criticising the Soviet dictator next to the monument, Telegram channel Moskvybory reported .

For the first time, the Crimean Tatar, still living on the occupied peninsula, was declared a “foreign agent” - on the eve of the anniversary of the deportation Lutfiy Zudiev. Facebook / Personal page On May 16, the Ministry of Justice announced a new list of foreign agents, among them was Lutfiy Zudiev. Until this moment, not a single Crimean Tatar or the Crimean Tatarsk received the status of a foreign agent while in the Crimea.

Bridget Brink speaks in Kyiv during a press conference following her appointment as the new US ambassador to Ukraine, 2 June 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE / OLEG PETRASYUK Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who resigned in April after three years in Kyiv, has revealed that she left her post over US President Donald Trump’s “appeasement” of Russia in its war against Ukraine.

It describes the involvement of the billionaire in fraud with cryptocurrency Since the summer of last year, the founder of the Tsargrad television channel and the Orthodox billionaire Konstantin Malofeev have been suing in Moscow with Individuum. The oligarch demanded to seize and destroy the circulation of the book “Crypt. Like cipher -frauds, programmers and crooks, Russian reported by the journalist Andrei Zakharov. This was written by the Russian BBC service.

Students "hung" the goddess Minerva to the university and wrote: "Science is dead." Now they are accused of extremism and order from abroad The action "Science is dead" with "Minerva", hanged on the monument to Uvarov. Photo: Telegram / Administration Department In March, at the building of St. Petersburg State University, a doll hung suspended to the Minerva monument appeared - the students held the science of dead in protest against the university policy.

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Nine people were killed and seven were injured when a Russian drone hit a civilian minibus in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, local authorities said on Saturday. According to Sumy Governor Oleh Hryhorov, Russian forces struck the bus with a Lancet drone near the border city of Bilopillya shortly after 6am local time. He called the strike a “deliberate attack on civilian transport that poses no threat” that constituted “another war crime by Russia”.

Why world stars - from the Nobel laureate of Olga Tokarchuk to actor Sean Penn - go to Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and Sean Penn in Kyiv, November 8, 2022. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine The visit of the leading Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk, the Nobel laureate, became the central cultural event of spring in Ukraine. Today she is the most status writer who visited Ukraine and supported her struggle with the aggressor. On May 8, the writer performed in Kyiv, the next day - in Lviv.

A conversation with Pavel Sulandziga, the defender of the indigenous peoples, whose Batani Foundation was recognized as “unwanted” in Russia Pavel Sulandziga. Photo from a personal page on Facebook On May 14, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced an “undesirable organization” of the Batani Indigenous Peoples Protection Fund.

As a result of the blow of the Russian drone on a bus near Belopoli in the Sumy region, nine people died, four more were injured. This was told by the head of the regional military administration. The bus evacuated civilians of the Sumy region: “In this bus, people went to the evacuation [from Belopoli to Sumy]. Outside the city, the Lancet drone hit the bus [Lantzet Drone, he was brought by an intelligence drone. Now we have nine dead and five wounded.

In the Moscow Migration Center near the village of Sakharovo, an elderly foreigner died in line in line. This was reported "Caution, News" with reference to witnesses. The tragedy occurred on the afternoon of May 15. Eyewitnesses told reporters that on that day a large crowd arose near the migration center. Three hours after the start of work, people heard screams in line. Two came bad, they fainted. After a while, an ambulance arrived: one elderly foreigner died due to a lack of oxygen.