In today’s summary:Fierce battles in the north of the Kharkov region – the Russian Aerospace Forces began to use three-ton FAB-3000 glidersVolchansk is increasingly reminiscent of Stalingrad – both in the nature of the fighting there and in the degree of destruction in the cityRussian troops “opened” new directions, including …

While in Russia, the writer Boris Akunin is included in the register of terrorists and extremists, criminal cases are initiated and are put on the wanted list, he continues to write books. The tenth volume of the series “The History of the Russian State” (covering time from 1917 to 1953) …

On June 2, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili signed into law the controversial bill “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” as the parliament overrode Salome Zourabichvili’s presidential veto (see EDM, May 13, 22). The Russian-style “foreign agents” bill was originally withdrawn in 2023 under intense public pressure but was …