The response of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to the question of the magazines about who controls the Bakhmut, gave rise to conflicting interpretations. As Christopher Miller wrote on Twitter, the correspondent of Financial Times, who also published a video of a fragment of a press conference, one of the journalists asked Zelensky: “Bakhmut remains in Ukrainian hands? The Russians say they captured Bachmut.

The Tages-ANzeiger publication has published an article prepared to investigate the undermining on the North Stream gas pipelines, which is conducted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, as well as other media from Poland, Denmark and Sweden. According to her, now investigators in the case of sabotage are considering two main versions of what happened, and both of them are connected with Ukraine.

Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia, State Secretary Peter Kucherenko, died, returning from a working trip to Cuba. As reported on the website of the department, this happened on May 20. The official became bad on the plane on which he flew home with other members of the Russian delegation. The board was put at the mineral water airport, but the arrived doctors could not save Kucherenko and he died. He was 46 years old. The causes of death are not called.

News "New" accused the Yangulbaev brothers of setting up a fugitive security forces. The brothers called him a "military criminal" and "mole" 21 May 2023 In the Omsk region, at the automobile border post, Isilkul, while trying to cross the border with Kazakhstan on May 20, was detained by 19-year-old resident of Chechnya Yasin Khalidov. New Gazeta writes that this is a former Chechen police officer who is pursued for abandoning the service.

The seven workers who most actively participated in the gathering at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ) were taken to the police department on the statement of the director of the enterprise Alexei Spiririn, the State Duma deputy Alexei Kurinni writes in his Telegram channel. On May 17, UAZ employees went to the authorities with the requirements for raising salaries, stopping the conveyor until the end of the working day.

The criminal case under the article on the shock of the feelings of believers, initiated against the 19-year-old resident of Volgograd Nikita Zhurav due to the burning of the Qur'an, was transferred for investigation into the Office of the IC in Chechnya. It is reported by TASS. In the video published by the FSB press service, a man with a shut-off face says that, at the direction of the SBU, he bought a Qur'an and on May 4 burned it at the Volgograd Cathedral Mosque.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyyarto spoke in an interview with Portal 24.hu about pressure from the European Union to his country due to the fact that it prevents the introduction of anti -Russian sanctions and the membership of Ukraine in the EU. According to Siyyarto, on May 22, the European Union Council for Foreign Affairs will take a discussion of the activities of the Hungarian bank OTP.

The Georgian Airways airline “announced Persona Non Grat” by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili. “Until she apologizes to the Georgian people, we will not let her into our board,” said the director of the company Tamaz Gaiashvili in an interview with Imady. According to Gaiashvili, the president mistakenly believes that “having stopped the Georgian airline, it will destroy the Russian economy” and does not think about the interests of Georgia.

The mayor of Krasnodar, Yevgeny Naumov, instructed law enforcement agencies to exclude the possibility of performing the song “Gulyanka” Verka Serduchka (Andrei Danilko), as well as “generally exclude the possibility of such incidents” in entertainment institutions, according to the website of the city administration.

News The daughter of Navalny Daria made a speech about her father at the ceremony of presenting diplomas at Georgetown University 21 May 2023 Daria Navalny, the daughter of the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was in prison in the Russian Federation, performed at the ceremony of presenting diplomas at the school of the diplomatic service of the University of Georgetown. The video of the performance was published by the YouTube channel "Fold Live".

At the Summer Summit in Hiroshima, a press conference of US President Joe Biden was held following the results of meetings of the heads of the state included in it. During communication with reporters, Biden made several important statements regarding relations with China, supporting Ukraine and a problem related to the ceiling of the American public debt. Regarding China, Biden said that the G7 members agreed on the need to diversify the supply chains so that they were not tied to one country.

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