The Ministry of Justice recognized the editor-in-chief of the scientific publication T-Invariant Olga Orlova and human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky as “foreign agents”. In addition to them, the “After” project and the Yakut activist Vilyuya Choinova were included in the register. Dmitrievsky - Project Manager of the Documentation Center named after.

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a letter of resignation to US President Donald Trump on her page. “Unfortunately, I am forced to resign effective June 30 of this year. My husband, Abraham, has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. He faces tough challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must resign from public service to support him in his battle,” Gabbard wrote. “Tulsi did an incredible job and we will miss her.

Iran has destroyed between 24 and 30 US MQ-9 Reaper attack drones since the start of the war, worth a total of almost $1 billion, Bloomberg reports , citing an informed source. This is approximately 20% of the pre-war fleet of these drones at the Pentagon's disposal. According to the source, most of the vehicles were shot down in the air, some were destroyed as a result of missile attacks on ground positions or lost in accidents.

The head of VTB, Andrei Kostin, called on people not to make claims against the Russian economy and compared it to the “80-year-old grandfather” from an old joke, who should not expect applause after sex. He stated this at the VIII Congress of the Association of Russian Banks. According to Kostin, sanctions against VTB have been in force for 12 years - since 2014, when the bank was cut off from external financing.

ExxonMobil is in talks to return to Venezuela nearly two decades after being forced out of the country. The company is considering contracts for oil production at six fields in different regions, The New York Times writes , citing sources. The deal could be announced before the end of May. In April, a team of Exxon employees traveled to Caracas to evaluate the proposed fields.

Lada Deutschland GmbH, which has been selling Lada cars in Germany for more than 50 years, has declared bankruptcy and ceased operations after an unsuccessful search for an investor. This was reported by t-online. The company was based in Buxtehude near Hamburg. In recent months, its activities have been virtually stopped, and its staff has been reduced to about ten employees.

The Ankara Court of Appeal has removed the leader of Turkey's main opposition party, Ozgur Ozel, overturning the decision of the Republican People's Party (CHP) congress that elected him as chairman in 2023. Reuters reports this. In his place, the court returned the former head of the CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who was defeated by Erdogan in the presidential elections of the same year.

Vladimir Putin appointed Andrei Kozlov as assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council, a native of the Rostec cybersecurity structures, who, according to leaks, had a secret clearance through military unit 26165. Kozlov took the position that until March was held by General Pavel Konovalchik, also associated with this part of the GRU.

In Krasnodar pre-trial detention center No. 1, four prisoners beat to death a 47-year-old programmer who found himself in the detention center in a case of a “domestic conflict.” Among the participants in the beating was former Wagner PMC mercenary Gennady Sergeev, who was awarded the medal “For Courage.” Mediazona drew attention to the published verdict in the case.

According to WHO statistics, tuberculosis is one of the ten leading causes of death in the world, along with cancer, heart and lung diseases. In 2024, it killed 1.23 million people and affected 10.7 million, including 1.2 million children. However, in the Western world little is said about this threat, for several reasons: geographical and social factors, peculiarities of its course and the illusion of victory over the disease.

Paleontologists have discovered fossils dating back about 567 million years in the Mackenzie Mountains in northwestern Canada that contain the oldest known evidence of sexual reproduction in animals. Thus, the find pushes this boundary back by 5–10 million years compared to previous data. The study was published in the journal Science Advances. Evidence of sexual reproduction was left by funisia, tubular creatures that were often found in dense clusters.

On May 21, the Investigative Committee of Russia conducted searches of employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This was reported by the Telegram channel “Zapiski traditionalist” and the channel of the “ideologist of the Russian world” Alexander Dugin (this post was later deleted ). Two sources confirmed information about the searches to T-invariant.

At St. Petersburg State University, installation of the Max messenger was made a mandatory condition for employment. The corresponding order is available to the publication T-invariant.

Доступно на русском Information about the Russian citizenship of Armenian politician Narek Karapetyan, who heads the electoral list of the Strong Armenia alliance, an electoral bloc founded by his billionaire uncle Samvel Karapetyan, has been removed from Russia’s Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL). On May 19, the Armenian outlet Medianews published an EGRUL extract in which Narek Karapetyan was listed as a Russian citizen.

The Elysee Palace in Paris, where the residence of the French President is located, was searched in connection with a corruption case, the newspaper Le Monde reported . The investigation concerns several contracts with Shortcut Events, which organized large government events. The investigation does not directly affect French President Emmanuel Macron.