Photo: Martial Trezzini/EPA The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo an "emergency of international concern." The BBC writes about it. They added that the scale of the outbreak does not yet meet the definition of a pandemic. There are now about 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths. The virus has spread beyond the DRC, with two confirmed cases recorded in neighboring Uganda.

Ksenia Maksimova. Photo: Facebook / Ksenia Maksimova “New-Europe” talked with Ksenia about British politics and what place immigrants from the Russian Federation can take in it Ksenia Maksimova, head of the UK-based Russian Democratic Society, won local elections in London in May and became one of three Lib Dem councilors who will now represent the cosmopolitan suburb of Ealing on London City Council.

Consequences of the attack on Moscow, May 17, 2026. Photo: Telegram / FTP What was the target of the attack and whether such attacks could be repeated - New Europe asked military experts Ukraine launched a massive attack on the Russian capital on May 17. Three people died in the Moscow region, said the head of the region, Andrei Vorobyov. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke about twelve victims. Most of the injured were construction workers at the Moscow Oil Refinery.

Start of work of the admissions committee at the Russian University of Transport. Photo: Kirill Zykov / Moscow Agency What is happening to Russian higher education on the eve of the new admissions campaign? Soon schoolchildren will take the Unified State Exam and will apply to different universities. Whatever they choose, it will most likely not be the same education as four years ago.

An unknown drone entered Latvian airspace in the morning over the municipality of Kraslava, bordering Belarus, and a little later flew out of the country over the municipality of Ludza, bordering Russia. This was reported to the country's National Armed Forces (NBS). An air threat was declared in five regions. Fighter planes took to the sky. 🔵 On May 7, two Ukrainian drones fell in Latvia, which provoked a political crisis.

Sculpture of Grisha Bruskin in the Russian Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale 2017. Photo: Alamy/Vida Press Historian Ella Rossman - on the concept of citizenship in modern Russia The recent discussion of the action against the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is like two peas in a pod like all previous discussions about the Russian opposition in exile. What is this opposition doing? Does it help stop the war or, on the contrary, prolong it?

Moscow and the Moscow region came under a massive Ukrainian attack, killing three people, authorities said. 🔵 Scale . This is the most massive attack on the Russian capital since the beginning of the invasion, dozens of objects were damaged, Ukrainian monitoring publics said. The Agency writes that the drone attack on Moscow was one of the largest since the beginning of the war. If we compare the number of deaths, it is comparable to the strike in March last year.