The building was declared uninhabitable back in 2017, but people continue to live there and pay housing and communal services. A still from a video appeal from residents of building No. 3 on Kuibyshevskaya Street in Bratsk. Photo: VKontakte A resident of Bratsk, Anastasia Sholokhova, together with other neighbors, recorded a video appeal to the president and governor demanding that they resettle the dilapidated house with fungus-damaged walls and shaky floors.

Results of the Cannes Film Festival: “A Mere Chance” by Jafar Panahi won the main prize, and the Chechen film “Imago” was celebrated in another program Still from the film “A Simple Accident”. Photo: imdb.com Saturday in Cannes began with a collapse and power outage throughout the city, but the festival palace was prepared for a local apocalypse.

Why is the Kremlin showing no willingness to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine on highly favourable terms? A Russian flag with the country’s coat of arms on display at a makeshift memorial to the Wagner Group in Moscow, Russia, 24 February 2025.

Pope Leo XIV's first attempt to get involved in the Russian-Ukrainian settlement was unsuccessful Pope Leo XIV in the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, May 11, 2025. Photo: Alessandro Di Meo / EPA-EFE “An option that is not very realistic,” Putin’s closest ally, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, called on May 23 the initiative of the new Pope Leo XIV to make the Vatican a negotiating platform for resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Photo: PostNews Law enforcement officers and far-right activists have raided a private party in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky in the Russian Urals on suspicion of “LGBT propaganda”, state news agency TASS reported on Saturday. A law enforcement officer who spoke to the agency said the police had stopped “LGBT obscurantism” at a 90s themed party in a rented house, claiming that the party organisers had invited drag performers to the event “for a fascinating journey back in time”.

Photo: Volodymyr Zelensky / Telegram Moscow and Kyiv each exchanged 303 prisoners of war on Sunday, concluding the largest prisoner swap of the war so far that had taken place over three days, the Russian Defence Ministry and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have announced.

70 years ago, the KGB came up with the idea of ​​“London businessman Gordon Lonsdale,” who got rich from gumball machines. The Soviet spy failed, but did not leave the image Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / Novaya Gazeta Europe In May 1955, the Canadian government issued a birth certificate and driver's license in the name of Gordon Lonsdale, born in 1924. Thus began the path of Konon the Young, who became a legend of Soviet foreign intelligence and British counterintelligence.

Photo: President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Russia and Ukraine completed the exchange of prisoners in the “1000 to 1000” format, transferring 303 military personnel to each other. This was announced by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russian military personnel are on the territory of Belarus, where they are receiving psychological and medical assistance, the department said.

The aftermath of the strike in the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine At least 12 people were killed and 70 injured in a Russian attack on Ukrainian cities overnight, the country’s Interior Ministry reported on Sunday, calling it “another terrible night” for Ukraine.

The arsonist of the military registration and enlistment office, Alexey Rozhkov, who was kidnapped by Russian security forces from Kyrgyzstan, received 16 years. Let's tell his story Alexey Rozhkov during the court hearing. Photo: Mediazona Alexey Rozhkov is an anarchist, musician and former salesman from the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region.

Still from the film “A Simple Accident”. Photo: media Iranian director Jafar Panahi after receiving the Palme d'Or. Photo: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA-EFE The main award of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, was received by Iranian director Jafar Panah for the film A Mere Chance . This was reported on the award’s social networks.

On the night of May 25, Russia inflicted a new massive combined blow to Ukraine. In total, Moscow launched 298 drones and 69 missiles. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The air defense forces destroyed 45 X-101 cruise missiles, Caliber, two X-59/69 missiles are locally lost. 266 drones are also neutralized (139 - shot down, 127 - locally lost/depressed by the electronic warfare). The blows of the Russian Federation fell on many regions of Ukraine.

Several dozens of Russians in Serbia hung in a migration limb and turned out to be a stateless person. For the sake of receiving a Serbia passport, they abandoned the Russian one, but the Serbian documents have not yet issued them. According to the publication of The Moscow Times, this happened due to the "unspoken ban" of Belgrade to provide citizenship to immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. However, not everyone sees intentional political reasons in what happened.

On the night of May 25, 110 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Russian regions. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.