The winners of the “Gift” award, founded and headed by the writer Mikhail Shishkin, in 2026 were three authors: Oleg Radzinsky (novel “Repentant Days”), Ksenia Buksha (novel “Little Paradise”) and Alexandra Krashevskaya (book “Lullaby in Mariupol”). This is reported on the award website. The winners will receive grants to translate their books into a foreign language. All three winning books deal with the war in one way or another.

Qualcomm, which produces chips for various electronic devices, has agreed with the owner of the TikTok platform, ByteDance, to supply a large batch of several million chips for data centers for artificial intelligence. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation. Against this background, Qualcomm shares rose 5%.

The AfD could come to power for the first time in Saxony-Anhalt, an eastern state that was formerly part of East Germany, according to a recent report by Deutsche Welle , citing polling data. Several months ahead of the September elections to the state parliament, the party’s support stands at about 41%. That level of popularity could allow it to form a one-party government.

The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Andrei Dymov, associate professor of the Faculty of Mathematics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, to 3.5 years in prison in a case of financing extremist activities. The reason for the criminal prosecution, according to sources of the scientific publication T-invariant, were donations to FBK totaling about 3.5 thousand rubles. Dymov was found guilty under Part 1 of Art.

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has passed a bill in its second and third readings that allows the seizure of property belonging to Russians who have left the country, the business outlet RBC reported earlier today.

Russia has lost 4,390 tanks, 6,429 infantry fighting vehicles, and 184 aircraft in Ukraine, according to visually confirmed losses collected by the Oryx open source intelligence (OSINT) project. The list of Russian combat vehicle losses has grown so extensive that it has reached the maximum post size on Blogger, the platform where it is published.

The natural gas carrier Arrhenius left the Belgian port of Antwerp on May 16 before heading for Russia's Ust-Luga. Photo: FSB Доступно на русском Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on May 25 that magnetic mines weighing about 7 kilograms each were found on the hull of the gas carrier Arrhenius (IMO: 9471032), which arrived at the port of Ust-Luga from Antwerp, Belgium.

Russia may suspend or completely terminate the agreement on the supply of petroleum products, natural gas and rough diamonds to Armenia, the head of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Sergei Tsivilev, threatened. Kommersant writes about his letter addressed to the Armenian Ministry of Infrastructure.

Chinese authorities have carried out the death sentence on Xu Yao, convicted of murdering the founder of the gaming company Yoozoo Games, billionaire Lin Qi.

Entrepreneur Alexander Galitsky left Russian territory using a Dutch passport two days after a court decision to confiscate his property worth about 8 billion rubles. This was stated by the prosecutor in the Moscow City Court during the consideration of the appeal in the case, TASS reports . At the end of March, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow decided to convert Galitsky’s property into state income due to accusations of supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The UK has announced a new package of sanctions against cryptocurrency and financial entities that are helping Russia circumvent Western restrictions and finance the war against Ukraine. This is stated in a press release published on the British government website. The sanctions included cryptocurrency exchanges, Russian-linked companies, and the A7 network, a Kremlin-backed system that British authorities say was used to evade sanctions, finance military purchases and process oil payments.

The High Qualification Board of Judges of the Russian Federation (HQCC) recommended Oleg Nefedov for the position of Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court. He ruled on claims to recognize the International Satanism Movement and the International LGBT Movement as “extremist.” RAPSI writes about this. Nefedov may receive the post of Chairman of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court, and also become Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court.

Ferrari on Monday, May 25, introduced its first all-electric car model, the Luce. It was developed with the participation of the former chief designer of Apple. Ferrari presented its first all-electric car at a time when its main competitors - Porsche and Lamborghini - on the contrary, moderated their ambitions in the field of electric vehicle production. This trend was caused by low demand, notes Reuters.

The State Duma, in its final reading, adopted a law that allows the Bank of Russia, Sberbank, the Russian Collection Association and the organization of special postal services to independently reflect a drone raid, without the need to wait for special services, said Andrei Kolesnik, a member of the Duma Defense Committee: “The law has been passed, and it’s better late than never. Everyone must defend the Motherland!

As The Insider previously wrote , the ship left the Russian port of Vistino and left the Baltic Sea on April 6, accompanied by the corvette Soobrazitelny, OSINT project SONARROW reported. On the way to the Atlantic, the tanker was accompanied by Russian warships. On April 8, the ship passed through the English Channel in British territorial waters, where, according to The Telegraph, the Russian Black Sea Fleet frigate Admiral Grigorovich took further escort to the Atlantic.