The Venice Biennale jury has said it will not consider artists from countries whose leaders are indicted by the International Criminal Court. We are talking about Russia and Israel, writes Reuters. The jury noted that the decision was due to its “commitment to protecting human rights.” The Biennale itself emphasized that the jury acts independently.

The teacher, head of the Moscow “Nadezhda” detachment, Efim Steinberg, was put on the criminal wanted list by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the department’s database. It is not specified under what specific article he is wanted. Two months ago it became known that a criminal case was opened against Steinberg under Part 3 of Art. 135 of the Criminal Code (depraved acts against a person who has reached the age of twelve).

Residents of the Russian Black Sea port town of Tuapse have been exposed to toxic combustion products from a marine terminal that was attacked by Ukrainian drones four days ago. “Black rain,” or “oil rain,” has fallen in the city — precipitation mixed with residue from burning oil.

Paleontologists have described the earliest octopuses, which turned out to be giant predators of the Cretaceous oceans - their length reached 19 meters, which is comparable to the size of the largest marine reptiles of that time. The study by a Japanese-German team of scientists led by Yasuhiro Iba from Hokkaido University was published in the journal Science.

Singapore, against the backdrop of the war in Iran, sharply increased imports of Russian fuel oil: in April, supplies more than doubled the average monthly level in 2025 and became a record since 2016, the Financial Times reports , citing data from the Vortexa analytical group. Traders at the world's largest ship refueling port are replacing lost Middle Eastern supplies with Russian fuel.

Photo: Alastair Grant / Getty Images Доступно на русском On April 23, the Council of Europe adopted its 20th package of sanctions against Russia. It includes 120 new individual listings and sweeping sectoral measures affecting energy, finance, trade, and the military-industrial complex.

The number of tankers passing through the Russian ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga is equal to what it was before large-scale attacks by Ukrainian UAVs. This was reported by the Finnish publication Yle with reference to the British commander of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force, Rear Admiral Marylou Ingham. According to Ingham, several ships carrying oil and petroleum products pass through the Gulf of Finland every day, and dozens of tankers are waiting to be loaded in the roads.

The FSB reported on the disruption of the preparation of a terrorist attack against the leaders of Roskomnadzor - according to the agency, they planned to kill one of the officials by blowing up his car, TASS reports .

EU Special Envoy for Sanctions David O'Sullivan demanded that Sweden "take action and possibly initiate criminal proceedings" against Avinode. A journalistic investigation by the SVT TV channel published yesterday with the participation of Chronicles.media says that this company helped organize private air travel to Europe for members of the Russian elite, bypassing sanctions. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the EU banned private Russian flights.

On April 24, the Ministry of Justice added the following people and organizations to the register of “foreign agents”: Yashma LLC and Trade Investments LLC, created by businessman and ex-head of the city of Plyos Alexey Shevtsov, declared a “foreign agent” in October 2025 due to an interview posted on a fake website posing as the “Horizontal Russia” project; Actor and director Yuri Mamin; Director Yuri Teplyakov; Activist Natalya Kasimova (real name Natalya Gogoleva); Project “Anti-imperial bloc

EU leaders have decided to develop a plan to implement Article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union - the provision on mutual assistance in the event of an attack, Reuters reports . The decision was made at a summit in Cyprus amid growing doubts about NATO's reliability. The reason was statements by US President Donald Trump, who criticized allies for insufficient support in the war with Iran, as well as his previous threats to establish control over Greenland.

The RT Labs company, which developed the electronic summons system, increased its net profit to 1.8 billion rubles in 2025 compared to 1.4 billion a year earlier, the media project “We Can Explain” found out after studying the financial statements. Revenue grew from 10.9 to 11.2 billion rubles, and the number of employees increased from 1,545 to 1,944 people.

The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded a contract to replace the aging fleet of Boeing E-3A early warning aircraft to Sweden's Saab and Canada's Bombardier, French defense publication La Lettre reports . The two companies are to supply the alliance with GlobalEye aircraft, which will replace all 14 aircraft currently in service. A fleet of 14 E-3As has been based at NATO's Geilenkirchen Air Base in Germany since 1982 and is scheduled to retire around 2035.

Доступно на русском A court in Orel has designated the Russian media website Parni Plus , which covers issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community, as an “extremist organization.” According to the website’s editorial team, the court ruling states that the project has already been “liquidated by court order in connection with carrying out extremist activities.” In a statement, the site wrote: “Of course, we are not going anywhere — no matter how much the Russian authorities might want that.” The case

Because of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices surged sharply, followed by fuel price growth inside the United States. The average price of gasoline rose from $3.17 per gallon a year ago to over $4.00 today, while diesel climbed to nearly $5.70. This is driving up transportation costs for various goods and adding further inflationary pressure to the economy as a whole.