Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the storming in January 2021 demanded that Donald Trump's new fund, which was created for citizens "suffered" by the persecution of the Joe Biden administration, be declared illegal. Reuters writes about this. The creation of the fund became known this week.

The Russian propaganda network Matryoshka began hacking the accounts of real users in Bluesky in order to publish fake news on their behalf. Among the victims were journalists, teachers and cultural figures. This is reported by The New York Times with reference to researchers at Clemson University.

Wind and solar power generated more electricity than gas in April for the first time in history. This was reported by the British analytical center Ember, Reuters reports . According to the organization, in April wind and solar accounted for 22% of global generation versus 20% for gas. The combined output of these two sources increased by 13% year-on-year.

Over the past year, security forces in Russia disrupted a whole series of punk and metal concerts. 35 years after the collapse of the USSR, representatives of subcultures—those who were previously called “informals”—are again being persecuted in Russia. Concerts are banned and dispersed, songs are censored, and people are fined for wearing the wrong clothes. Police and judges rely on anti-extremist legislation, which is becoming increasingly strict.

The granddaughter of the former mayor of Samara Viktor Tarkhov, accused of his murder, for a long time mixed substances into her grandparents’ drinks and medicines in order to achieve the transfer of property. The prosecutor's office stated this in the Samara Regional Court, a TASS correspondent reports .

SpaceX, in its initial public offering (IPO) filing, disclosed the scale of losses from artificial intelligence, Reuters reports . The company's AI division, formed after the acquisition of xAI, generated a loss of $2.47 billion in the first quarter of 2026 on revenue of just $818 million. This follows from the prospectus that Elon Musk filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, May 20.

While Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 made working with Western states in the North challenging, it remained possible inside the tacit zone of Arctic exceptionalism . However, since the start of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, both Sweden and Finland have joined NATO, meaning that every Arctic state other than Russia is now a member of the alliance.

The US State Department has issued a global travel warning due to the Ebola outbreak in central Africa. Starting May 21, all U.S. citizens and green card holders who have traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days will be able to enter the United States only through Washington Dulles International Airport. As the State Department said in a statement, “enhanced sanitary control” will be carried out at the airport.

Russia and Belarus are holding joint nuclear exercises - for the first time with the simultaneous participation of Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, who observe them via video link. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that units of the Strategic Missile Forces, the Northern and Pacific Fleets, Long-Range Aviation, as well as the Leningrad and Central Military Districts were put on combat readiness for missile launches.

In one of the videos previously published by an eyewitness, the author of the recording says that six drones hit the object. Before the occupation, the Passage hotel complex was located at the site of the attack. The statement of the Ukrainian side about the presence of the FSB there is indirectly supported by the statement of the service itself. In July 2023, the Russian FSB border service announced the closure of civilian access to the Arabat Spit.

The changes were made on the same day that the Investigative Committee of Armenia announced the initiation of a criminal case against Karapetyan. According to investigators, Karapetyan hid his second citizenship in order to participate in the elections. The Investigative Committee of Armenia claims that he submitted a false application to the migration service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, indicating that he was not a citizen of another state.

Israel has begun deporting detained Sumud flotilla activists - most of the approximately 430 people are already being transferred to a civilian airfield near Eilat for expulsion from the country. This was reported by the human rights organization Adalah, which represents the interests of the detainees, reports Associated Press.

In Belgorod, the first verdicts were handed down in the case of theft during the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine. We are talking, among other things, about the so-called dragon’s teeth - concrete anti-tank barriers that began to be erected in the Belgorod region in the fall of 2022. According to Kommersant, the Sverdlovsk District Court found four entrepreneurs guilty back in March, but the verdicts had not previously been publicly reported.

Alican Uludağ, a correspondent for the German publication Deutsche Welle, who was detained in Turkey in February of this year, has been released from custody pending trial, Der Spiegel reports . He is due to be released from the Silivri prison complex this evening. The next hearing in the Uludag case is scheduled for September 18. His case will be tried by a jury.

In today's summary: In the Kharkov direction, Russian troops are advancing in the “dead villages” east of Volchansk In the Kupyansk direction, it is announced that the last Russian sabotage groups in Kupyansk have been “cleaned up” Russian drones equipped with thermite incendiary mixture are used in the Konstantinovsky direction In the Zaporozhye direction a strike was recorded on a Ukrainian position 2 km south of the “legendary” Malaya Tokmachka Ministry of Defense of Ukraine - losses of the