Against the backdrop of a gold rush and the sale of Russian reserves, the family of one of the country's most influential security officials gains control over one of Russia's largest promising gold assets. The son of Russian Presidential Assistant Nikolai Patrushev, Andrei Patrushev, judging by SPARK data, became a co-owner of the project to develop the Tan field in Yakutia.

The European Parliament has approved new rules for the deportation of people who do not have the right to stay in the European Union, including rejected asylum seekers. 418 deputies voted for the text agreed with the EU Council, 218 voted against it, and another 30 abstained. The regulation is intended to replace the current 2008 Deportation Directive and significantly expands the powers of European authorities. One of the key innovations is the creation of deportation centers outside the EU.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is purchasing information related to immigrant tax identification numbers (ITINs) from a private broker, in what may be an attempt to circumvent a court order preventing the agency from obtaining such information. Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media about this after reviewing the procurement documents also available to journalists.

Elon Musk has managed to outpace his main artificial intelligence rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI, by becoming the first to complete preparations for an initial public offering (IPO) . In effect, Musk has seized from them the opportunity to attract large-scale and scarce investment capital. The primary purpose of a traditional IPO is to raise public equity capital to scale production, modernize technology, or expand into new markets.

Photo: AP Photo Content 1. What happened? 2. Presumption of non-danger 3. Risks for queer people 4. Who else might be at risk? Extending the accelerated procedure for processing asylum applications to Russians could have a negative impact on applicants in general, as well as a number of vulnerable groups, such as representatives of the LGBTIQ community. Human rights activists from the European organization EQUAL PostOst told The Insider about this. What's happened?

Iran exported its first shipments of crude oil in two months after reaching an agreement with the United States to end the American naval blockade. This was reported by CNN with reference to data from the company TankerTrackers, which monitors maritime transport. According to the company, confirmed by satellite imagery, at least two supertankers of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) crossed the US blockade line. There were about 3.8 million barrels of oil on board the ships.

Yermek Suyundukov. Photo: Facebook Доступно на русском In February, Vedomosti reported that imports of Chinese fiberglass into Russia had increased tenfold. Meanwhile, The Insider found that $9 million worth of fiber-optic cable was imported in the first quarter of 2025, roughly twice as much as in the same period a year earlier. Additionally, in April 2025 a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian production facility in Saransk likely further increased Russian demand for imported fiber-optic cable.

Human rights activists have documented 8,231 cases of unlawful deprivation of liberty of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces from the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine to the end of 2025. This is stated in the report of Austausch e.V., Ukrainian organizations “SOVA Expert Group”, “Center for Civil Liberties”, “War Archive” and independent experts.

Vladimir Putin’s daughter Maria Vorontsova was among the co-founders of the new Alumni Association at the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine (FFM) of Moscow State University. An NGO with this name was registered on May 26 at the address of the university on the Lenin Hills. “We Can Explain” writes about this.

Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova once again “exposed” Ukrainian laboratories funded by the United States, which allegedly produce biological weapons.

Paleontologists for the first time described the soft tissues of the ancient crocodylomorph Montsecosuchus depereti, finding traces of its original coloring and signs of a developed respiratory system. The study was published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society and was carried out by specialists from the Miquel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology (Catalonia, Spain).

In today's summary: In the Konstantinovka direction, there are reports of “chaotic cleansing” carried out by the Ukrainian military in Konstantinovka In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports on progress east of Dobropolye In the Sumy region, the territory of an equestrian school was attacked - three horses were killed, 10 more animals were injured Ukrainian aircraft-type UAV hit a bus with a children's football team in the Bryansk region The General Staff of the

After the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, prison terms for politically motivated cases in Russia increased sharply: if in 2021 the average term was 6 years 7 months, then in 2026 it is already 11 years. This is stated in the report “Enemies, not criminals” of the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial". The authors of the report write that political repressions after the start of the war changed not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively.

On June 17, crime boss Ilya Traber was detained in St. Petersburg, Fontanka writes . According to the publication, a criminal case has been opened against him, and searches are underway at addresses associated with him. Update. Together with Traber, his business partner Vladimir Danilenko was detained . According to preliminary data, they were detained as part of a criminal case regarding the contract killing of Vyborg City Council deputy Alexander Petrov.

The US Department of Labor has sent letters to all state governors demanding immediate action against “fraud, waste and abuse” in unemployment insurance programs. Otherwise, states face suspension of administrative funding, reports the Associated Press. The letters are the latest in a series of similar announcements by President Donald Trump's administration to crack down on abuses in programs that receive federal funding but are run by state governments.