Russia and Serbia have agreed to extend their natural gas supply contract, which was set to expire in May, according to a report by Serbia’s national news agency Tanjug citing the head of the country’s state-owned gas operator Srbijagas, Dušan Bajatović. He announced that Serbia will continue to receive 6.1 million cubic meters of Russian gas per day until Sept. 30. The gas will be priced at €290 per 1,000 cubic meters (approximately $330), which is 25% lower than current EU market prices.

The Hungarian authorities banned the march in support of the LGBT, which was planned in Budapest this weekend. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Budapest police statement. The statement states that the police refused to issue permission to demonstrate, which five human rights organizations were going to hold, including local branches of Amnesty International and the Helsinki Committee.

In Lithuania, which has stopped buying Russian gas in 2022, the ammonia produced from gas continues from the Russian Federation, reports Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). According to the above data, over the past three years (from the beginning of 2022 to the end of the first quarter of 2025), a Russian ammonia has received € 157.3 million in the Baltic country. As they found out in LRT, the Russian ammonia is bought by the Lithuanian manufacturer of Achema nitrogen fertilizers.

News The Insider May 26, 2025 Konstantin Malofeev. Photo: Pravda Komsomolskaya/Globallookpress The website of the Russian TV channel “Tsargrad” has stopped working in Azerbaijan. The blocking occurred after the editor-in-chief of Minval.az, Emil Mustafayev, contacted the country’s Ministry of Digital Development and Transport.

Hamas agreed to the US offer to cease in gas sector for a period of 70 days, Reuters reports with reference to the Palestinian official close to the group. The plan, developed by the Special Supervisor of the US President, Steve Whitkoff, was transferred to Hamas through intermediaries. The plan provides for the release of 10 living Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians serving terms in Israeli prisons. Reuters notes that there have been no comments from Israel yet.

Israeli strikes in the gas sector led to the death of at least 52 people, including 36 people who were in the school building converted into a shelter for displaced persons. This was reported by AP with reference to Hamas controlled by Hamas. The Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj region of the city of Gaza was attacked at night, when most people were sleeping there, the AP interlocutors say.

In Johnson's report, presented on Wednesday in the subcommittee of the US Senate for internal security and state affairs and published by FOX, such information is indeed given. However, various allegations in the report that the Biden administration was informed of myocarditis caused by the Covid-19, based on one very specific source. This is the Epoch Times-a ultra-right edition, based in New York and related to the new religious movement "Falungun".

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court changed the verdict issued by two Moscow midwives-54-year-old Svetlana Akimova and 42-year-old Karina Rychkova. Akimov was sentenced to three years in prison in a colony of general regime, Rychkov - to two, abolishing both conditional condemnation, the website of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office said. In September 2024, the Nagatin court found them guilty of paragraphs. "A", "B" of Part 2 of Art.

Discipline in the Russian army has never been a strong suit, but since the mass conscription of convicts began in the fall of 2022, the military has been unraveling at alarming speed. The longer the war goes on, the harder it becomes to impose order. In April 2025, a group of soldiers fled their battalion commander after he threatened to execute them.

Society Victor Marquez May 26, 2025 Following the recent death of former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica, many obituaries called him "the world's poorest president." Mujica actually lived in a modest country house and drove a Volkswagen Beetle. At the same time, Uruguay, despite the consistently leftist policies of the authorities, shows impressive GDP growth, the lowest unemployment rate in history and a decrease in poverty.

Politics Alex Crane May 26, 2025 In May, the Administration of US President Donald Trump announced plans to suspend the constitutional right of a person to challenge his detention in court. This is one of the revolutionary changes that Trump has actively pursued since the start of his second term.

News The Insider May 26, 2025 Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi In Syria, on May 20, there was an armed attack on the Russian Khmeimim airbase - the first serious incident after the change of power in the country. Unknown people tried to break through the base's security posts, but were stopped by the Russian military. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attack was carried out by a group believed to be linked to Syria's new security forces.

News The Insider May 26, 2025 Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the US President's statements that Putin has gone crazy, called this assessment an “emotional reaction”: “This is a very important moment, which is associated, of course, with the emotional overload of absolutely everyone - and with emotional reactions. We are closely monitoring all reactions.

Russia and Serbia agreed to extend the contract for gas supply, which expires in May. As the head of the National gas operator Serbiyagaz Dushan Bayatovich, the head of the national gas operator, told the Serbian agency, until September 30, Serbia will receive 6.1 million cubic meters of gas from Russia daily.

Deputy Director of the Department of Military Industry of the Labor Party of Korea Ri Hyong Song was arrested in North Korea after the incident with the new destroyer, BBC reports with reference to official sources. This is the fourth official, detained after the ship turned over during the descent in the presence of the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un. The State Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CST) called Ri Hyun Sona the main responsible for a serious accident.