“Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov Every Saturday, Kirill Martynov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, comments on the most important events of the week in Russia and the world. For what is the longer term: for killing a person while hunting or for smoking a hookah on Easter cake? And also other crazy criminal cases of the week: prosecution for translating Aristotle, a special school for “LGBT propaganda”, a HSE teacher in a colony for donating to FBK and mephedrone extremists.

Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 29, 2026. Photo: Alexander Kazakov / Kremlin / EPA Armenia does not yet want to choose between the EAEU and its dream, although Russia is actively pushing it to do so.

Photo: social networks Employees of the State Security Service of Georgia detained the head of the non-governmental organization “Eurasia Institute”, founder of the “Immortal Army” movement (analogous to the Russian “Immortal Regiment”) Gulbaat Rtskhiladze. He is suspected of espionage. This was reported by the Georgian Channel One. Details. According to the security forces, Rtskhiladze has been obtaining and transmitting intelligence information to foreign intelligence services for many years.

Andrey Zvyagintsev with the Grand Prix award for the film “Minotaur”, May 23, 2026. Photo: Clemens Bilan/EPA Great interview with Andrey Zvyagintsev - about Cannes, “Minotaur” and the need for compassion — Everyone, including the Kremlin, is discussing your speech on stage. You obviously prepared for it and even read it from your phone. Was it difficult for you to say these words?

Pope Leo XIV at the presentation of "Magnifica humanitas" in the Vatican, May 25, 2026. Photo: Maurizio Brambatti/EPA The Pope wrote the first Christian manifesto about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Leo XIV warns of the risk of dehumanization due to the development of neural networks A year after the accession to the throne of St. Peter, May 25, Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical, an official doctrinal document.

Photo of the port in Taganrog: Rosmorport Russian drones destroyed a train station in the Sumy region As a result of a Ukrainian drone strike on a private house in Taganrog, two people were injured, said the governor of the Rostov region, Yuriy Slyusar. On the territory of the port in Taganrog, a tanker, a fuel tank and an administrative building caught fire due to a UAV attack. The fire was extinguished.