Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco, August 31, 2022. Photo: Eric Risberg / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA An American company was accused of wiretapping officials' phones. This is not the first attack on the corporation The FSB announced that it had uncovered an operation by foreign intelligence services to install malware on the phones of Russian officials. According to the department, attackers were able to access user data and eavesdrop on conversations.

Photo: FNCA Azerros Former Russian military officer Nursultan Mussagaleyev, whom Ukraine has accused of involvement in torturing and murdering a civilian in Bucha, finished second in the primaries for the United Russia party in Russia’s Orenburg region, securing a place on the party’s list of candidates for the State Duma. Mussagaleyev currently heads the region’s Novosergiyevsky district.

Photo: social networks Alexey Zakharov, the former head of the branch of the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRFC) in the Central Federal District, became the executive director of the Bulat company. The company produces components for technical means of countering threats (TSPU), New Europe found out. TSPU is equipment that Roskomnadzor installs on the networks of Internet providers.

Photo: Novaya Gazeta A Moscow judge has granted a request from investigators to ease the preventive measures imposed on Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin and place him on house arrest, the newspaper reports . Investigators noted that Roldugin has minor children and elderly parents who depend on him, and that he has partially admitted guilt.

A car drives past a gas station stele with zeros on the display after the introduction of restrictions on the sale of gasoline due to fuel shortages, Evpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine, June 1, 2026. Photo: Alexey Pavlishak / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On the peninsula they sell fuel using coupons. How are residents coping with the second gasoline crisis in a year? The fuel crisis is intensifying in annexed Crimea.

"New-Europe" has compiled a complete list Rosselkhoznadzor announced that from June 3, the import of potatoes, eggplants, apples, pears, quinces and dried fruits from Armenia will be prohibited. The restrictions are imposed indefinitely. And this is not the entire list of Armenian products on which restrictions are being introduced: in particular, earlier the Russian authorities had already banned the import of Armenian cognac, flowers and mineral water into the country.

Photo: Novaya Gazeta The judge of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to mitigate the preventive measure against Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin, Novaya Gazeta writes . Details . The investigator said that Roldugin is dependent on minor children and elderly parents. Moreover, the journalist partially admitted his guilt. Context . Oleg Roldugin was detained on April 9 - on the same day, searches took place at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Moscow.

A line of cars at a gas station after the introduction of restrictions on the sale of gasoline due to fuel shortages, Saki, Crimea, Ukraine, June 1, 2026. Photo: Alexey Pavlishak / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA How were the Ukrainian Armed Forces able to stop fuel supplies to the peninsula and create a shortage? In annexed Crimea, the sale of gasoline using coupons was introduced, and queues formed at gas stations.

Photo: DSNS On the night of June 2, the Russian army launched a massive attack on Ukraine. Details . In Kiev, according to the mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, four people became victims of the attack. At least 63 more residents were injured , more than 40 of them were hospitalized. In the Shevchenko and Solomensky districts, a 24-story and 15-story residential building caught fire. In the Podolsk region, a rocket hit a nine-story building and part of the building collapsed.

EPA/QILAI SHEN The forest area in the Irkutsk region decreased by 55,000 square kilometers from 2015 to 2025, according to a report by the Vertical52 team, which studies satellite data. The document is at the disposal of Novaya Gazeta Europe. How the area of ​​forests has changed . In 2015, there were 69.4 million hectares (694,000 square kilometers) of forest land in the Irkutsk region. According to Vertical52, forest areas in the region have decreased by 7.9% since 2015.

He came to the Russian Federation to visit his father and was detained due to correspondence with a girl from Ukraine The Pskov Regional Court, at a closed meeting, sentenced 48-year-old Mikhail Loshchinin, who has Russian and Belgian citizenship, to 16 years in a maximum security colony in a case of “high treason.” The prosecution asked for 18 years. First Department and ASTRA write about this. Loshchinin has lived in Europe since 1999, in recent years in Germany.

Photo: Department One A regional court in Pskov, in northwestern Russia, has sentenced dual Belgian-Russian citizen Mikhail Lochtchinine to 16 years in a maximum-security penal colony on treason charges, human rights NGO Department One reported on Tuesday. Lochtchinine had lived in Europe since the late 1990s, most recently in Germany, and became a Belgian citizen in 2000. In the summer of 2025 he attempted to enter Russia to visit his father, who had suffered a heart attack.

Photo: Amirhossein Khorgoee/EPA Iranian authorities have completely blocked the Strait of Hormuz - not a single ship has been able to pass through it in the last 24 hours, New Europe noted, having studied data from the Strait of Hormuz web map and Vessel Finder ship tracker. Details. As New Europe previously wrote, the throughput capacity of the strait on normal days is 60 tankers per day.