NATO countries are discussing the bringing of nuclear weapons into a state of combat readiness. According to the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with The Telegraph, all because of threats from Russia, China and North Korea: "The world in which Russia, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons, and NATO is not a more dangerous world." In the Kremlin, the statement of Stoltenberg was called - the next injection of tension.

The editor-in-chief of the online magazine "Cold" Taisiya Bekbulatova was detained at border control in Tbilisi on Monday. Border guards told her that they needed to clarify whether she could be allowed into the country, the publication says. She was allowed through after 8 hours of waiting, after the press began to talk about the incident. Bekbulatova is a Russian journalist who left for Georgia in 2021 due to political pressure on independent media. She recently moved to Berlin.

Frame of the news report (illustration) More and more people around the world refuse to watch news, calling them boring or driving into depression. This is stated in a global study by the Institute of Journalism Reuters (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism). In a survey conducted from January to February this year, almost 95 thousand people from 47 countries participated. It was revealed that four out of every 10 respondents (39%) deliberately avoid watching news.

Mark Galeotti British Russian scholar Mark Galeotti is a political scientist, author and honorary professor at the School of Slavic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College London. He says that while President Vladimir Putin has put Russia on a war footing, Ukraine's Western partners have not yet done the same.

Evan Gershkovich on a billboard with an appeal to return him home, New York, March 2024 The case of the journalist The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich will be considered closed. This was reported on the website of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. The first meeting is scheduled for June 26. Gershkovich, who has been in the Moscow Lefortovo pre -trial detention center since March 2023, was charged with espionage.

In the Czech Republic, an explosion occurred at the Libau military training ground in the east of the country. According to preliminary data, one serviceman was killed, 8 people were injured - 7 military and one civilian specialist. It is reported that the lives of the wounded are not in danger. The Czech Defense Minister subsequently reported that the cause of the explosion was not sabotage.

43 migrants seeking asylum in the European Union may have died due to the fault of the Greek coast guard. Nine of them were deliberately thrown overboard. This is reported in a BBC article with reference to stories from eyewitnesses, activists and the Turkish coast guard. Migrants died as a result of “displacement” operations from Greece between 2020 and 2023, according to an investigation by journalists.

On Monday, the 2nd Western District Court in Moscow sentenced the citizen of Ukraine to Christina Lyubashenko to 12 years in prison, finding guilty of the spread of the so-called fakes about the Russian army and participation in a terrorist organization. The verdict is associated with two shares in May 2023.

The results of the world summit * The attack of the recognized Islamic State Terrorist Group in the Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center * The story of the student expelled from the Moscow State University * What is due to the disappearance of the monument to Crimea to the monument to Dissenta Peter Grigorenko.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced the termination of Russian participation in the consideration of a complaint of Australia and the Netherlands in the Council of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in connection with the Boeing Capstrap "Malaysian Airlines" over Donbass in July 2014. Then 298 people were killed, many of whom were citizens of the Netherlands and Australia. The plane flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works On Monday night, drones attacked the Belgorod, Voronezh and Lipetsk regions. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, six UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems. During the night, one drone was shot down over the Belgorod region, two over the Voronezh region and three drones were destroyed over the Lipetsk region, the Russian defense department said. There is no information about casualties or damage yet.

Ramzan Kadyrov The Project publication on Monday published an investigation into the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his family.

Within a month, the Ukrainian army concluded contracts with more than 2,750 prisoners released for military service. The Washington Post writes about this. The law allowing such hiring was signed on May 17 by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Prisoners can receive parole if they are not convicted of premeditated murder of two or more people, sex crimes, serious corruption crimes and crimes against the state.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.