Top news for May 22

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Top news for May 21 ✹ Putin and Lukashenko held a joint drill of the nuclear forces of Russia and Belarus. ✹ In Russia, they decided to postpone the introduction of an additional charge for international traffic (including VPN traffic). ✹ Iran’s supreme leader banned the export of enriched…

Top news for May 22

✹ Six people were killed in a strike on a college in the self-proclaimed LNR. Putin instructed the Defense Ministry to prepare a response.

✹ A bill on punishing Russians who left the country “for offenses against the interests of the Russian Federation” was recommended for adoption in the second reading.

✹ Putin’s rating continues to fall. Russians believe that in mid-May he was working worse than at any time in the past year.

✹ Searches and interrogations took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy, which had been accused of disloyalty to the authorities.

✹ U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted her resignation.

Text of the day. You have almost certainly already heard that “Max” spies on its users. But you likely have no idea how many different surveillance tools have been built into this messenger. It is possible the developers even used a neural network for eavesdropping.

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