The cost of luxury housing in Sochi in 2025 turned out to be higher than the price of apartments and houses in this segment in Shanghai, Milan and Dubai. This is stated in the study The Wealth Report by Knight Frank, as calculated by analysts from the NF GROUP agency. The Wealth Report itself does not take Russian cities into account; the agency's analysts calculated the million index taking them into account.

The International Gymnastics Federation World Gymnastics has allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under the flag and anthem. This was reported on the website of the Russian Gymnastics Federation. The decision applies to all five sports included in the federation: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining, sports acrobatics and sports aerobics.

Iranian state news agency Fars has published a list of five demands for resuming peace talks, which it claims the US has handed over to Iran.

Since the beginning of the year, Roscosmos has placed six advertising images on rockets launched into space. As Vedomosti writes with reference to a representative of the state corporation, among them are advertisements for PSB Bank, the Coffeemania restaurant chain, the Russian Media Group (RMG) radio holding and the Russian Olympic Committee. In the remaining two cases, social advertising was placed - symbolism for the 65th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

Slovakia intends to conclude an agreement with Baku for the supply of Azerbaijani gas. This was stated by the country's Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba during a visit to Azerbaijan. According to Taraba, Slovakia and Azerbaijan are discussing a long-term contract - for at least 10 years. Bratislava wants to “diversify energy supplies,” the Deputy Prime Minister called Azerbaijan a “very reliable partner” in this area. “The only question is how to deliver energy resources to Central Europe.

In today's summary: In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian military announced the capture of Borovaya using a falsified video In the Liman direction, Valery Gerasimov “established control” over 85% of the urban development of Liman In the southern Donetsk direction, the command of the Russian Armed Forces is trying to restore the situation in the zone of Ukrainian counterattacks Zelensky - in a week more than 3,170 drones, over 1,300 air bombs and 74 missiles were fired across Ukraine Massive

Businessman Elon Musk's xAI company earlier this year invited its employees to share their tax returns to train chatbot Grok, promising a cash reward of $420. Almost two months later, this money has not been paid, Bloomberg learned . xAI wanted to improve the chatbot's capabilities for analyzing financial documents. According to internal company emails, xAI knew that users were turning to competing chatbots Claude from Anthropic and ChatGPT from OpenAI to analyze financial statements.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said at a security conference in Tallinn that Vladimir Putin’s decision to simplify Russian citizenship procedures for residents of Transnistria may be tied to the Kremlin’s efforts to recruit more people for the war in Ukraine, Politico reported on May 16. “Probably they need more people to send to the war in Ukraine,” Sandu said, referring to Putin’s decree.

The prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that it had not found any violations of the rights of mathematician Azat Miftakhov, who previously reported torture in the Polar Owl colony. According to the political prisoner support group, this is stated in the response to an appeal signed by Mikhail Mityaev, the prosecutor for supervision of compliance with laws in correctional institutions of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

In the German city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein), police arrested a businessman suspected of creating a scheme to supply dual-use technologies to Russia. According to Politico, the suspect is 39-year-old Nikita S. According to the investigation, which lasted four years, the trading company Global Trade was at the center of the scheme. Before the full-scale war in Ukraine, this company was engaged in direct supplies of goods to Russia.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the Protection of Sovereignty Law, which criminalizes the promotion of “foreign interests” in the country, Reuters reports . The law prohibits acting in the interests of foreign countries without government approval and carries penalties of up to 10 years in prison and large fines. Human rights activists fear that vague language will allow authorities to persecute virtually any political opposition.

The Iranian Ministry of Economy has launched the “marine insurance platform” Hormuz Safe on its website. The platform offers insurance policies for cargo ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and adjacent waterways. This was reported by the Iranian Fars agency. According to a document obtained by the agency, the Iranian Ministry of Economy began developing a scheme for managing the strait through insurance instruments in early May.

Companies around the world have lost at least $25 billion due to the US and Israeli war against Iran, Reuters calculated based on corporate reports of companies registered in the US, Europe and Asia. This amount continues to grow, the agency notes. At least 279 companies said they had to take steps to mitigate the financial impact of the war, according to a Reuters analysis.

The US Department of Justice has asked the court to dismiss the criminal case of fraud and conspiracy against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, one of the richest people in the world, reports the Associated Press. Prosecutors said the department "reviewed the case and decided not to expend additional resources to prosecute individual defendants." The final decision will be made by Judge Nicholas Garaufis.

Several thousand Australian scientists have been secretly collaborating with China to help produce weapons, The Australian has reported . An analysis of open sources has identified at least 6,000 joint projects between Australian researchers and universities associated with the Chinese army that have been implemented since 2020.