Stills from the film "Ulya". Source: kino-teatr.ru The film “Ulya” about the Latvian-Soviet basketball player Ulyana Semyonova turned out to be one of the most touching in Cannes. And her mother was played by Chulpan Khamatova In Un Certain Regard, Cannes showed the Latvian film “Ulya” about the outstanding Latvian and Soviet basketball player Ulyana Semyonova. She was played by one of the most popular young actors in Latvia, Karlis Arnolds Avots.

Consequences of a UAV attack on Starobel College. Photo: Telegram / Leonid Pasechnik Moscow calls the incident a “terrorist attack” and threatens a response, Kyiv declares the defeat of the Rubicon headquarters On the night of May 22, the building and dormitory of the branch of the Lugansk Pedagogical University in the city of Starobelsk, which is under the control of Russian forces, came under attack.

The war has reached a dead end, and Putin faces a choice: end it or finally put Russia on a war footing. Several influential Western media outlets write about this at once. Meanwhile, due to the threat of a UAV attack, residents of Vilnius went into the basements for the first time. Will there be a second front?

Andrey Zvyagintsev. Photo: JP Pariente / Sipa / Scanpix / LETA The second most important prize at the 79th Cannes Film Festival was awarded to the film “Minotaur” by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. This was announced at the closing ceremony of the film festival. Receiving the award, Andrei Zvyagintsev addressed Vladimir Putin in his acceptance speech and asked him to stop the war. “There is one person to whom I would like to address my words today on my own behalf.

Flags of Transnistria and Russia in a store window, Tiraspol, Transnistria, Moldova. Photo: Alamy/Vida Press Why did Putin simplify the admission of residents of unrecognized Transnistria to Russian citizenship? From May 25, the Russian Embassy in Chisinau and the Russian consular service point in Tiraspol will begin to accept residents of Transnistria who wish to obtain Russian citizenship under a new, simplified procedure. It is spelled out in the decree of Vladimir Putin, published on May 15.

Armenian wine. Photo: Wikimedia Rospotrebnadzor has suspended the sale in the Russian Federation of wines and cognacs produced by three companies from Armenia: Vedi-Alko, Abovyan Brandy Factory and Shakhnazaryan Wine and Cognac House. The ban included, in particular, semi-sweet red wine “Getap Vernashen”, dry white wine “Vedi Alko”, “Armenian cognac 5 stars” and cognac “Shahnazaryan XO”.

Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” The artist Elena Karaniku returned from Greece to Russia and received a sentence on charges of treason for searching on the Internet how to go back In February 2026, a military court in Khabarovsk sentenced artist Elena Karanika to 17 years in prison for correspondence with the Freedom of Russia Legion.