Samsung Electronics' largest union plans to begin an 18-day strike on May 21 amid a dispute over the payment of bonuses to employees at the company's semiconductor division. South Korean authorities said they were ready to use emergency arbitration to prevent a strike, Reuters reports. Negotiations between Samsung management and the union are due to resume on May 18 with the participation of a government mediator.

The environmental project "Earth Touches Everyone" reported that the "foreign agent" status assigned to the environmental protection association "Nature Conservation" effectively stops its work. “Earth touches everyone” is the public name of the project that this association is implementing. The project team announced that it is canceling regular donations from supporters and will no longer publish new materials on social networks and on the website.

Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Sergei Sternenko, in turn, threatened larger-scale attacks on Russia, including Moscow. The drone strike killed at least three people and injured more than 10 others. Apartment and private buildings, as well as enterprises, including the Solnechnogorsk fuel loading station, were damaged. Fires broke out at the Moscow oil refinery and at Sheremetyevo airport.

The Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, said that he was “a little upset” after inspecting the exposition of the X Russian-Chinese Expo in Harbin, comparing Russian and Chinese stands.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that Vladimir Putin’s decision to make it easier for residents of Transnistria to obtain Russian citizenship may be related to an attempt to recruit more people for the war against Ukraine. She said this at a security conference in Tallinn, writes Politico. “They probably need more people to send to the war in Ukraine,” — Sandu said, commenting on the decree signed by Putin.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda an international emergency. In these African countries, more than 300 suspected cases of infection with the new strain of the virus, Bundibugyo, have already been recorded, and at least 88 people have died from the consequences. “There are currently significant uncertainties regarding the true number of infections and geographic spread associated with this event.

Andrey Vorobyov / Telegram More than 80 drones have been shot down on approach to Moscow since midnight, and more than 120 in 24 hours, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said . According to him, at least 12 people were injured, some of them were construction workers who were at the entrance of the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya in the southeast of the capital. According to the mayor, the plant's technology has not been compromised. In addition, three houses were damaged.

Félicien Kabuga, accused by an international tribunal of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has died in custody in The Hague at the age of 93. This was reported by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals of the UN, writes Reuters. Kabuga was arrested in France in 2020 after more than twenty years of manhunt and extradited to the Netherlands.

The acting governor of the Bryansk region, Yegor Kovalchuk, signed a decree on the resignation of the regional government. TASS reports this. According to the decree, the government of the Bryansk region will continue to perform its duties until the elected governor takes office. Elections for the head of the region should take place on a single voting day on September 20. Vladimir Putin appointed Kovalchuk as acting governor on May 13 after the resignation of Alexander Bogomaz.

The FSB is investigating a criminal case of major theft in the subordinate intelligence service FSUE Kompleks, which is engaged in the sale of “released” property of state security agencies, Kommersant reported .

More than 450 common-law wives of deceased war participants in Ukraine intend to use the courts to seek a change in the law, which deprives them of the right to payments and benefits if they did not have a common minor child with the deceased. The first lawsuit of a member of the initiative group, Alexandra Tokareva, has already been submitted to the Supreme Court of Russia, writes Kommersant.

In the UAE, after a drone strike, a power generator behind the inner perimeter of the Barakah nuclear power plant in the Al-Dhafra area caught fire, the Abu Dhabi media office reported . According to the authorities, there were no casualties, the incident did not affect the level of radiation safety, and all power units of the station are operating normally.

A bear attacked a Russian citizen near the village of Okutama in Tokyo Prefecture, police said . At the time of the meeting with the animal, the foreigner was going down the mountain along a forest road alone. He suffered serious injuries to his arm and face and was taken to hospital by helicopter. The name of the Russian and other details about him are not disclosed. We only know that he is about 30 years old.

Bulgarian singer Dara won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, which this year took place in the Austrian capital. She took first place according to the results of both the audience vote and the verdict of the national jury, scoring a total of 516 points. 27-year-old Dara (Darina Yotova) performed the song Bangaranga. She became famous in her country after participating in the television talent competition The X Factor.

Dozens of residents of Kabardino-Balkaria received warnings from security forces about the inadmissibility of participating in uncoordinated rallies on the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Caucasian War. This is stated in the appeal of the regional human rights center to the head of the republic, Kazbek Kokov. The signatories called the calls to the police department by activists who want to hold a funeral procession unfounded and intimidating.