The International Fencing Federation (FIE) has decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international competitions with the anthem and flag. The first competition at which adult fencers from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete with national symbols will be the World Championships, which will be held in Hong Kong from July 22 to 30. The FIE returned this opportunity to juniors at the end of 2025.

Rheinmetall, Germany's largest defense concern, has signed a contract with Romania for the supply of military equipment worth 5.7 billion euros, Bloomberg reports , citing a company statement. For Rheinmetall, this is the largest package of international contracts since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, the agency notes. Romania will purchase from Rheinmetall 298 Lynx armored vehicles, Skyranger air defense systems, medium-caliber ammunition, as well as four naval vessels.

What prohibitions will be remembered in literature for the past three months? New issue of regular collection Photo: Marina Moldavskaya / Kommersant It was the spring of the absurd, a time of growing chaos - and attempts to at least somehow structure it on our own if the authorities refused to do so. This is the spring of new “destructive” and old “foreign agent” lists, which continue to include the cream of the Russian intelligentsia.

On June 4, a documentary film festival about new culture, Beat Film Festival, opens in Moscow. Still from the film “Ghost Elephants” For 17 years, the festival has formed a community of spectators around itself, which influences the content of the program. The current screening is held under the motto “You Too” - this is an appeal to the viewer who has become a co-author of the screening.

Why does the state demand to call itself the Motherland and what does Shaman have to do with it Photo: Artem Krasnov / Kommersant 18+.

Crypto exchanges are opening a back door to Europe for Russian shadow capital. Criminal scandal in Poland Photo: AFP/East News The story of the Tambov organized crime group , which appeared on the global cryptocurrency market, and the opinion of experts on how Russian crypto money is used not only for money laundering, but also used by the Russian state, was told by Andrey Kalitin*. And today we are publishing the continuation of the story - how the criminal scandal developed in Poland.

The international tactical exercise Platinum Wolf 26 (“Platinum Wolf 26”) began at the “South” base near Bujanovac and the Borovac and Vrtogosh training grounds in southern Serbia. They are organized by the Serbian Armed Forces with the support of the US European Command and will last until June 13. The name was not chosen by chance. The Platinum Series is held in several countries in the region.

Psychologist, anthropologist and teacher Alexander Asmolov tells how not to lose yourself in an era of hatred A conversation between Irina Petrovskaya and Alexander Asmolov about his new book “The Psychology of Love”, the lack of meaning, trust, dignity and love, about hatred as a form of slavery, about hope, art and human perspective.

Mikhail Loshchinin. Photos from social networks The Pskov Regional Court sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin, a programmer with Russian and Belgian citizenship, to 16 years in prison, who came to Russia in the summer of 2025 to visit his father after heart surgery. According to investigators, the reason for the criminal case was money transfers to an ex-girlfriend from Ukraine.

The court reinstated the scandalous rector of the St. Petersburg University of Trade Unions, Zapesotsky. Portrait of the “face of Russian science” Alexander Zapesotsky. Photo: 360.ru The tape literally brings phantasmagoric news every day, the hero of which is Professor Zapesotsky, now the restored rector of the St. Petersburg University of Trade Unions. The very chronology of events makes my head spin.

The Russian budget has begun to receive “donations” from large businessmen, claims the pro-Kremlin publication Expert. By May 27, the amount of such transfers allegedly reached 220 billion rubles, although the budget for the entire 2026 included only 1.7 billion for receipts in the form of “gratuitous payments from non-governmental organizations.” According to sources, the first transfers began after a closed meeting between Vladimir Putin and representatives of large businesses on March 26.

Will Russian Armenians be able to influence the election results in their homeland? Photo: Alexander Patrin / TASS On the eve of the Armenian parliamentary elections, which will be held on June 7, Russia is increasing pressure on Armenia amid deteriorating relations with the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Relations between Moscow and Yerevan began to deteriorate after the 2020 war and especially after the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023.

What are the similarities and differences between the Strait of Hormuz and the land route to Crimea? Photo: Viktor Korotaev / Kommersant Strikes by operational-range drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the northern supply route of Crimea began long before the fuel crisis, which hit the front pages of the press this week. But formally, the crisis in the transport supply of Crimea via the “land bridge” dates back to May 22.

Photo: Uralvagonzavod press service Uralvagonzavod announced that the tank support combat vehicle (BMPT), which was previously known as the Terminator, will now be called Spiridon. The company explained this by the fight against foreign borrowings and amendments to the legislation on the protection of the Russian language.

The European Union is preparing the 21st package of sanctions against Russia, which may include new restrictions against Rosneft, LUKOIL, banks and vessels of the so-called “shadow fleet”. However, a complete ban on Russian oil imports and shipping is still considered unlikely, Politico writes . According to the publication, one of the reasons is that part of the infrastructure serving the “shadow fleet” may be connected to European financial markets.