Multiple News Snippets on Geopolitics, Conflicts, and Russian Affairs
Russian companies receive offer to build container ships in Chinese shipyards
According to Alexander Kakhidze, CEO of Fininvest and Chairman of the Russian part of the Business Council, regular shuttles through the Grodekovo-Suifenhe and Kamyshovaya-Hunchun railway checkpoints to Russia's largest dry port Artyom can be launched now
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Russia needs no Eurovision with its ‘sexless monsters’ — senator
Today it is more important for Russia to invest in its own cultural projects and cooperation with friendly countries of the CIS, Asia, BRICS, Airat Gibatdinov said
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US statements about control over Hormuz meant for home audience — Iranian envoy to Minsk
According to Alireza Sanei, the US authorities know that the strait is controlled by Iran
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Europe, while lecturing China, fails to see lawlessness at home, in Ukraine — Russian MFA
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that racism and xenophobia have reached threatening proportions in the EU countries themselves
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Putin discusses with UAE president situation in Middle East and around Iran
Both sides reportedly noted the importance of continuing the political and diplomatic process to work out compromise peace agreements "with due regard for the interests of all states in the region"
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NATO secretary general to put pressure on EU defense companies to please US — FT
According to the newspaper, the North Atlantic Alliance is interested in European industry helping to meet Washington's demands for increased defense spending to mitigate Trump's "anger" at the alleged inability of allies to support the United States in the conflict in the Middle East
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Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises to 2,969 — Health Ministry
The Health Ministry noted that Israeli planes and drones continue to attack ground targets in the southern provinces of Nabatieh and Saida, so the number of casualties may increase
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Xi Jinping mentions Putin during conversation with Trump — The New York Times
The Chinese leader, while giving the US President a tour of the Zhongnanhai state residence, recalled that he had spoken with the Russian leader at the same location in 2024
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Air defenses shoot down three more drones heading for Moscow — mayor
Response teams are working at the site where debris fell
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Air defenses down another nine drones heading for Moscow — mayor
Sergey Sobyanin stressed that "an attack involving nine drones flying towards Moscow has been repelled"
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Ukrainian attacks kill child, leave another ten civilians injured in DPR
One child was killed, and another ten civilians, including a minor, were injured in Kiev’s aggression on Saturday, Denis Pushilin said
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Tehran to strike enemy infrastructure similar to that attacked in Iran — top diplomat
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that Iran will attack US infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region
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Simplified issuance of Russian passports to boost protection of Transnistrians — embassy
The diplomatic department noted that the adoption of the decree was "dictated solely by humanitarian considerations
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Air defenses shoot down another drone heading for Moscow — mayor
Two drones have been shot down since midnight on Sunday, the city’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said
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Russia’s weekly inflation at 0.07% on May 5-12, 2026 — Statistics Service
Since the beginning of May, consumer prices in the Russian Federation have edged up by 0.06%, and by 3.17% since the beginning of the year
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Air defenses repel another attack involving ten drones heading for Moscow — mayor
According to Sergey Sobyanin, 64 drones have been shot down
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UEC becomes world leader in combat aircraft engine production in 2025
UEC CEO Alexander Grachev noted that, being cut off from international cooperation in 2021, the corporation had to work "in isolation" for five years
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Financial nightmare: How Russia's worst crisis began 20 years ago
On August 17, 1998 Russia announced it's defaulting on its debt
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British PM could voluntarily step down in favor of Manchester mayor — newspaper
Sources cited by The Daily Telegraph said this scenario is possible if different factions within the Labour Party unite around Andy Burnham
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Russian combat aircraft a cut above NATO weapons in combat — UAC CEO
According to Vadim Badekha, the country’s aircraft manufacturing industry became much more efficient
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Iran divides countries into three categories based on use of Strait of Hormuz — TV
According to the TV channel, all states are divided into three categories — "hostile," "neutral," and "friendly"
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Israel, Lebanon agree to extend ceasefire for 45 days — US Department of State
Spokesperson Tommy Pigott says the State Department will reconvene the political track of negotiations, and a security track will be launched at the Pentagon with military delegations from both countries
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Insurance for ships passing through Strait of Hormuz turned out to be unclaimed — FT
According to the publication, the program did not meet the requirements imposed on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz
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EU preparing for possible energy supply crisis due to conflict in Iran — Spanish newspaper
The EC assures that there is currently no risk to supplies, though markets are feeling the impact of rising Brent crude oil prices, which has led to higher gas and oil prices in Europe
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Repair of power lines feeding Zaporozhye power plant may begin at end of May — Likhachev
For more than two months, the station has been powered by only one line instead of two, Rosatom CEO said
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About 80,000 people march in London — Sky News
The patriotic march under the slogan Unite the Kingdom, organized by the founder of the British far-right movement English Defense League, Tommy Robinson gathered about 60,000 people
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Money for Yermak's bail collected, but not transferred due to fear of checks — Rada deputy
However, the deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak notes, on Friday evening, the State Financial Monitoring Service warned banks that the sources of funds for the bail would be checked and sanctions would follow in case of violation of the rules of financial control, this is why the money raised for Yermak was not transferred to the court account and Yermak remained in jail
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Russia downs 67 Ukrainian UAVs over regions in last two hours
Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed by the air defense systems on duty over the territories of the Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Bryansk, Voronezh, Rostov, Tula, Krasnodar, Moscow Regions and over the Black Sea
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Russian embassy calls on Moldova to resume constructive dialogue on Transnistria
The accusations that Russia is ‘violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova’ do not stand up to criticism and look like a hypocritical attempt to cover up double standards against the background of the practice of mass distribution of Romanian citizenship
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Zelensky may need allegations of Russia plans to attack to divert attention — senior MP
Leonid Slutsky noted that the head of Kiev regime could be trying to create a background for yet another "terrorist provocation, possibly not against Russia alone"
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US leader says he did not underestimate Iran during conflict
According to Donald Trump, Washington deliberately chose not to destroy part of Iran’s infrastructure
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Some construction work resumes at site of Unit No. 2 of Bushehr plant — Likhachev
According to Rosatom CEO, the reactor and steam generators for the second power unit is being manufactured as planned
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Sarmat needs no advertising, no one else has analogues — Russian deputy foreign minister
This system allows guaranteed penetration of both existing and any missile defense systems still in the development phase, Sergey Ryabkov said
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IAEA ignores daily Ukrainian attacks on Zaporozhye nuclear power plant — Likhachev
It is alarming that the IAEA secretariat does not actually notice the daily attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, civilian infrastructure and the killing of Russian citizens by the Ukrainian military, Rosatom CEO said
