Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Syria has reportedly come under attack. According to Russian media, Telegram channels, and pro-war bloggers, multiple unidentified militants attempted to breach the perimeter of the base but were repelled at its security checkpoints.

In March, the official print magazine of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Razvedchik, suddenly changed its editorial tone. Under the leadership of the agency’s new press bureau chief, Sergey Guskov, the magazine has replaced glowing profiles of Vladimir Putin and SVR director Sergey Naryshkin with features on the history of Soviet intelligence — including pieces on spymaster Pavel Fitin, female NKVD “illegals,” and interviews with the grandson of Soviet statesman Vyacheslav Molotov.

Unknowns attacked the Russian military base of Khmeimim in Syria. Russian media, Telegram channels and Z-bloggers report that the attackers tried to break through the security posts of the base, but were stopped.

The Donald Trump administration plans to spend up to $ 250 million on a program for deportation of refugees from countries where active hostilities are underway, in particular, Ukraine and Haiti. This was written by The Washington Post, citing official documents. As the publication clarifies, refugees from Ukraine and Haiti can fall under the “Self -Deportation” program. If they agree to voluntarily leave the United States, the government will pay them a scholarship of $ 1000.

In Munich, a trial began on three persons with German and Russian citizenship accused of espionage in favor of the Kremlin and planning attacks on military infrastructure, writes The Guardian. They collected information about the oil refining plant in Bavaria and the American military base near the graphene, and also developed plans for explosions of objects used to support Ukraine. The alleged leader of the group, known as Diter S.

On May 20, London supplemented the list of sanctions against Russia. The updated list includes ships involved in the transportation of Russian oil, as well as financial institutions and pro -Russian bloggers. As specified in the press release , companies and individuals involved in the Russian military, energy, financial sectors, as well as those who spread pro-Russian propaganda, fell under the sanctions. In total, the sanctions list was replenished with 82 positions.

Доступно на русском In 2024, the Latvian-registered company KLC Group SIA, based in Jūrmala and founded by Latvian citizen Roberts Kalve, exported $1.3 million worth of Western-made industrial automation equipment to Russia, despite sanctions imposed by the European Union.

The UK government expanded its sanctions list against Kremlin interests earlier today, imposing restrictions on vessels involved in transporting Russian oil, as well as on financial institutions and pro-Russian bloggers. According to an official press release put out by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the new sanctions target individuals and entities operating in Russia’s military, energy, and financial sectors, along with those spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda.

20 thousand foreigners who recently received Russian citizenship went to the war in Ukraine. Such data were cited by the head of the investigation department Alexander Bastrykin at the St. Petersburg International Law Forum (PMUF).

In Russia, a failure of several state electronic services at once was recorded. The problems were affected by the sites of the Federal Tax Service, EGAIS, GOSKLUCH, Honest Sign, as well as a single medical information and analytical system (EMIAS). This is reported by users and data of the Downdetector.su portal, which tracks the availability of online resources.

News The Insider 20 May 2025 Russia’s Khmeimim air base in Syria has reportedly come under attack. According to Russian media, Telegram channels, and pro-war bloggers, multiple unidentified militants attempted to breach the perimeter of the base but were repelled at its security checkpoints.

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Doctors of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, professors Andrei Rostovtsev fired from the Institute of Problems of Information of Information RAS (IPPI), follows from the order of May 15, which refers to RTVI. The official reason was the "Lack of the workplace." Rostovtsev worked in the laboratory of quantum physics and information from IPPI since 2014. According to him, he had not received a salary for about a year: “From the very beginning, I had no obligation to come to work.

SOCIETY Sergey Kanev 20 May 2025 In March, the official print magazine of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Razvedchik, suddenly changed its editorial tone.

Borisov was dismissed from the post of General Director of Roscosmos by decree of the president in February. According to RBC, after Borisov’s transition to the Council of People's Commissars, two former chapters of Roscosmos will sit there at once: since 2023, Dmitry Rogozin has been a senator from the Zaporizhzhya region.