Landing by the flight of Roman Protasevich will cost Belarus of the air offense with Europe The forced landing of the Ryanair aircraft with the detention of ex-head of Nexta Roman Protasevich threatens Belarus with final international isolation. The European Union countries are discussing the ban on flights for the Belavia airline and forbid their airlines a flight over the territory of Belarus.

Hamas has officially denied its involvement in the "mining" of the Ryanair plane - the movement stated that it does not use methods that other "suspicious parties" do not disdain. According to Reuters, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum denied that his group had any knowledge or involvement in the bombing of the Ryanair plane. Fauzi Barkhum Hamas official Hamas has nothing to do with this (the incident. - The Bell). We do not resort to methods that some other suspicious parties may use.

This week, Sergei Kiriyenko, Kremlin eminence grise and deputy head of the presidential administration, announced that Elon Musk would speak at a state-sponsored education forum. At first, it looked like a weird PR stunt. But, against all expectations, Musk actually gave a speech via a video link and spent 40 minutes answering questions from students. Struggling with an unstable connection, Musk often dissolved into pixels as he outlined his vision.

Russia’s second biggest retail chain Magnit announced Tuesday it was buying the country’s fifth-biggest grocery chain, Diksi. Two days later, retailer Lenta acquired the country's network of Billa stores, allowed their owners - German supermarket chain Rewe - to exit Russia. Magnit and fellow leading retailer X5, are now far ahead of the competition in a fast-growing market.

Businessman and scientist Valery Pshenichny died in mysterious circumstances in 2018 at a detention center where he was being held on charges of embezzling state funds linked to a defense contract. This week saw the start of a court hearing into his case. The Bell looked into his tragic story. Pshenichny’s NovIT Pro company worked on 3D modelling of nuclear submarines and its clients were state-owned enterprises in the defense sector.

The government proposed exempting state-owned media from reporting on foreign funding - the Ministry of Digital Development believes that through such publications attempts to influence from the outside to form a "distorted picture of political reality" are impossible.

Belarus expelled the Latvian ambassador and all employees of the Latvian embassy from the country. The reason was the replacement of the Belarusian flag in the center of Riga with a white-red-white one by the mayor of the Latvian capital in the presence of the country's foreign minister. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that a strong protest was expressed to the Ambassador of Latvia in connection with the insult to the state flag in Riga.

Great Britain was the first in Europe to impose a ban on flights to the country of the Belarusian air carrier Belavia and ordered its airlines to fly around the territory of Belarus. The British authorities immediately revoke Belavia's permission to operate flights to the country, said British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab . Transportation Minister Grant Shepps tweeted that he had already issued instructions to aviation officials.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev met in Geneva with National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan. The Russian Security Council said that this is an important stage in the preparation of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden. The press service of the Security Council noted that the meeting was a logical continuation of the talks held on May 19 between Lavrov and Blinken.

The Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Justice supported the idea of ​​the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace migrant workers with prisoners in those places where there are not enough hands - almost 200 thousand convicts may fall under the initiative.

Together with the co-founder of the NEXTA telegram channel Roman Protasevich, on May 23, his girlfriend, Russian Sophia Sapieha, was detained in Minsk. She was placed in the notorious isolation ward on Akrestina Street in Minsk, reports . BBC Russian Service Anna Dudich, the girl's mother, told reporters that Sapieha was in the detention center on Akrestsina Street.

The Minister of Transport of Belarus at a special briefing read out a letter with the threat of a terrorist attack on board the Ryanair aircraft, which supposedly became the basis for landing. In it, on behalf of some “soldier Hamas”, it was required to cease fire in the Gaza Strip.

Roskomnadzor (RKN) threatened to slow down Google traffic in Russia due to insufficient filtering of prohibited content. The agency that slowed down Twitter has already threatened Facebook and Youtube with the same. The RKN complained that Google does not remove 20-30% of links to prohibited content in Russia, in connection with which the agency does not rule out the start of a slowdown in traffic.

During the month, Bitcoin collapsed by 50%, from the historical maximum of $ 64.8 thousand to almost $ 30 thousand set in April (we talked about the reasons for the collapse here ). Newly made investors who bought a crypt at the peak of value tore their hair. The market veterans reacted to the fall philosophically and even think about buying currencies. The Bell asked the crypto -investors to tell how they were experiencing the current crisis and whether the nerves spent on them cost Bitcoin.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry recommended that its citizens not visit Belarus, and those who are now in this country should immediately leave it. This is the first country that, after the incident with the Ryanair plane, recognized Belarus as an unsafe state.