Alexej Nawalny, the immortal: Portraits of the Russian oppositional by artist duo Joel Gamnou on the wall of Palais Schwarzenberg painted in Ukraine's national colors, right behind Vienna's Russian war memorial.

An Iranian man from Balochistan region, Masoud Hamidifar, has walked 1,100 km from The Hague to Vienna, as a protest against the Mullah Regime and for democracy and womens' and LGBTQ rights in Iran. He is welcomed at Vienna's Heldenplatz by exiled Iranians, marching together with him the last kilometers to the UN headquarters at Vienna International Center.

Rightist FPÖ's Norbert Hofer and green candidate Alexander van der Bellen slug it out!

The Concordia Award 2016 for excellence in journalism is given to the winners in the Austrian Parliament.

This years EU elections favor the opposition parties. A tight race between SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ for strongest party is expected.