Kazakhstan intends to stop supplying electricity from Russia starting in 2027. As TASS reports , Deputy Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan Sungat Yessimkhanov said this at a press conference. “If at the end of this year or the beginning of next we commission all our planned [energy] facilities, then in 2027, I think, we will not [purchase electricity from Russia] at all.” According to Yesimkhanov, this year Kazakhstan will need to purchase 1–1.2 billion kWh of electricity.

In dozens of Russian regions there are no anti-cancer drugs in pharmacies, Izvestia reports this with reference to specialized organizations. According to the publication, the drug etoposide is not available in pharmacies in 80 regions, and methotrexate is not available in 57. Doctors note that both drugs are critical for the treatment of cancer and hematological diseases, especially in children.

However, local military success did not solve systemic problems. To consolidate the results, Paris launched Operation Barkhane . Its goal was to help Sahel countries ensure their own security with minimal external support. But the contingent at its peak numbered only 5,500 men —too small to control an area the size of Europe. But the strengthening of national armies played an unexpected role - they acquired political ambitions. As a result, the initiative failed.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving a plan to counter “negative social phenomena” among children and youth - the document is designed for 2026–2030 and covers schools, universities and patriotic associations. The plan contains 41 activities.

The UK has included in its sanctions list 35 individuals and legal entities who, according to London, are associated with the recruitment of migrants for the war with Ukraine and the production of drones. “British-sanctioned networks fraudulently recruited foreign migrants seeking a better life, either sending them to the front lines as cannon fodder or putting them to work in weapons factories.

Biologist Ariel Chipman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has proposed a new explanation for why some animals have become incomparably more complex and diverse than others during evolution. According to the “brain hypothesis,” published in the journal BioEssays, it was the increasing complexity of the nervous system that set off a chain reaction that turned several groups of animals—arthropods, molluscs, and annelids—into the most numerous and diverse types of living things on Earth.

Profits from Russian oil exports have risen to their highest level since February 2022, the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg writes about this. The growth is associated with two factors: increased supply volumes and high world oil prices. The latter, in turn, increased due to the war with Iran and disruptions in oil on the market. On average, in the four weeks to May 3, Russia earned about $2.42 billion per week from oil exports.

In the Irkutsk region, due to the war and subsequent sanctions, the economic situation has worsened: export relations have decreased and the budget deficit has increased. Three industries important to the region were particularly affected: logging, oil and gas, and the public sector. In the first two, wages are being delayed, incomes are falling, and layoffs are already underway or are being prepared. In the public sector, there are interruptions in financing and payments.

A group of deputies from different factions introduced a bill to the State Duma banning enrolling in a master's program other than a bachelor's degree. The list of such specialties will be determined by the Ministry of Education and Science. The second stage of higher education will also be available to those who have work experience in the chosen profile.

Drones again attacked the Leningrad region at night, targeting Kirishinefteorgsintez, one of the country's largest oil refineries, said Governor Alexander Drozdenko. According to him, a fire broke out at the site, which was localized, there were no injuries. No other details about the consequences are provided. A total of 29 drones were shot down over the region. According to data from the FIRMS fire monitoring system reviewed by The Insider, the fire at the refinery is still ongoing.

US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll convened major defense contractors, as well as technology companies Palantir and Anduril, to host the Right to Integrate hackathon, designed to improve the interaction of disparate weapon systems and accelerate the introduction of artificial intelligence into army operations, Bloomberg reports .

The Romanian parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Ile Bolozhanu, sending him to resign, Politico reports . As the publication notes, the decisive role in the vote was played by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which had previously left the coalition with the Bolozhan National Liberal Party and united with the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians. Socialists attributed the gap to dissatisfaction with the government's harsh economic policies.

The President of Portugal has signed into law a bill amending the Citizenship Law. They are tightening the conditions for obtaining a passport: now, in order to submit documents for naturalization, you will have to live in the country for at least 10 years. Previously, the period was half as long. An exception was made for citizens of Portuguese-speaking countries - Brazil, Angola and Mozambique. They will need to live in Portugal for at least seven years.

Valery Zvegintsev, a researcher at the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and founder of the High-Speed Aerogasdynamics Laboratory, was detained in Novosibirsk in 2023. His colleague and co-author from Tomsk, Vladislav Galkin, was detained later. Both were charged with treason, reportedly over a paper on gas dynamics they had published in a foreign journal.

On the night of May 5, Ukraine launched a large-scale attack on Russian regions. A missile threat was immediately declared in several regions, Interfax reports . Ukrainian monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ write that in the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia, Cheboksary, the VNIIR-Progress JSC enterprise was attacked at night and in the morning, and a fire broke out.