News The Insider May 30, 2025 The register of “foreign agents” includes: co-founder of OVD-Info Grigory Okhotin human rights activist Alexandra Polivanova demographer Alexey Raksha photographer Evgeniy Feldman human rights activist Alexander Cherkasov writer Alexey Exler project “Moscow against mobilization”. We really need your help Sign up for regular donations Subscribe to our newsletter

Church of Saints Nicholas and Alexandra, Nice Society Alexey Uvarov May 30, 2025 In April 2025, the appeal court of the French commune of Aix-en-Provence decided to transfer the Orthodox Church of Saints Nicholas and Alexandra, as well as a plot of the Cocade cemetery in Nice, to the Russian Federation. For decades, these objects were managed by the emigrant Russian community, which registered rights to them under French laws.

In Virginia, 28-year-old Neutan Laatch, an employee of the Military Intelligence Agency (DIA), was arrested. He is accused of trying to transfer secret information to the representative of a foreign state. This was reported by the US Department of Justice. Laatch began to work in Dia in 2019 and had admission to materials under the Grand -Secret Griff. He worked in the department, which is monitoring potential threats within the agency.

In 2024, no more than 407.2 thousand people signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, calculated “important stories” using data on annual expenses of the federal budget. These data show that the Ministry of Defense in their official statements continues to overestimate the number of new contractors. By the end of 2024, the recruitment rate of recruits in the Russian army became lower than in 2023: in the IV quarter of 2024, an average of 1700 people a day was signed.

Residents of the distant and poor regions of Russia die in the war in Ukraine ten times more often than Muscovites. The BBC and Mediazona established the names of more than 110 thousand Russian military who died since the beginning of a full-scale invasion. The analysis of the data showed that for men from Tyva and the Altai Republic, the probability of perish at the front is 30–40 times higher than for the inhabitants of Moscow.

In May, it became known about 73 politically motivated sentences with the real terms that the courts issued in Russia and in the occupied territories against 96 people calculated The Insider. 40 of them were convicted under articles on “terrorism”, “sabotage”, “gosizmen” and “espionage”. Another 38 convicts are Ukrainian prisoners of war, with 35 of them - these are the fighters of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, captured in the Kursk region.

In Voronezh, the mayor of the city, Sergei Petrin, selectively quoted the message from the time capsule, and Urbanist Yuri Rodionov drew attention . He ignored the anti -war calls of the authors of the 2000 letter, concentrating only on patriotic slogans. The capsule was solemnly opened the other day as part of commemorative events - it lay at the base of the pyramid in the Comintern district for 25 years.

In the Toretsk sector, Russian sources reported the capture of Zoria and Stara Mykolaivka , which entails the elimination of the pocket between Romanivka and Oleksandropil . In addition, the Russian Armed Forces occupied Romanivka proper and advanced to the southern outskirts of Dyliivka north of Toretsk. Finnish OSINT analyst Emil Kastehelmi of Black Bird Group argues that the Russian offensive between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka poses multiple significant threats to Ukrainian defenses.

Chief judge Christina Reiss of the U.S. District Court in Vermont has allowed Kseniia Petrova, a Russian researcher working at Harvard Medical School, to be released on bail while her case is being reviewed, The New York Times reports . The judge called the case “extraordinary and novel” and described the actions of U.S. authorities against Petrova as unlawful.

Доступно на русском The Chinese company Jiangsu Feiya Chemical Industry, a manufacturer of diphenylamine and its derivatives, supplied Russia with massive amounts of this critical gunpowder component in 2024. Among the buyers were St. Petersburg-based Forsadis LLC (ООО «Форсадис»), which made its purchases directly from the manufacturer, and Bashkortostan-based Intell LLC (ООО «Интелл»), which imported the product via a Chinese intermediary.

In Guatemala, archaeologists discovered the ruins of the ancient city of Maya for almost 3 thousand years, reports The Guardian. The settlement, called Los Abuelos ("grandparents"), is located in the Northern Department of Peten and contains pyramids and monuments indicating its important ceremonial role in Mayan civilization.

News The Insider May 30, 2025 Journalists from the Kyrgyz investigative publication Kloop, during an interrogation to which lawyers were not allowed, were forced to apologize on camera and accuse the publication of lying and falsifying data about the country’s President Sadyr Japarov.

News The Insider May 30, 2025 #Military report In today's summary DeepState: the activity of Russian troops advancing in the Sumy region is “increasing every day” In the Toretsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced north of Toretsk to the settlement of Dyleevka In Ukraine, a new “Donbass defense line” is being built with a total length of 350 km from Kharkov to the Zaporozhye region In Kharkov, a trolleybus depot came under attack by “Shaheds”; a total of 39 trolleybuses were damaged.

Antifake 30 May 2025 Iva Tsoi The SHOT telegram channel, which was quoted by RT , RIA Novosti , Izvestia , Rossiyskaya Gazeta , REN TV and other media, wrote about “huge queues” at the Narva-Ivangorod border crossing, supposedly consisting of Estonians who “are rushing en masse to the Russian Federation to buy food, things and equipment.” “After all, it’s much cheaper in hated Russia.

The founder of META Mark Zuckerberg plans to help the American military on the battlefield, reports The Washington Post. The company announced partnership with the defense startup anduril to develop augmented reality and artificial intelligence technologies for the US military and allies. The main project of cooperation will be the high -tech helmet Eagleeye, which will serve as a “constant companion” for soldiers.