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Date
05/16/2026
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Kirill Martynov
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Novaya Gazeta Europe
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“The police prefer not to get involved with SVO officers.” The main events of the week - in “Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov

The main events of the week - in “Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov

The Russian army gained strength during the “truce” and dealt one of the largest blows to Kyiv - the entrance to a residential building was destroyed, 24 people were killed, including three children. Ukraine responded with a strike in the Ryazan region, and four people died there too. Meanwhile, a man who returned from the war is suspected of murdering a 15-year-old boy, and the Vologda governor Filimonov calls for honoring the SVO participants in the same way as WWII veterans or war children.

Director Bortko proposes to solve all problems in Russia with nuclear weapons, and the prosecutor from the Leningrad region advocates the introduction of the death penalty in the context of the “SVO”. Yana Lantratova became the new ombudsman - she helped forcibly remove Ukrainian children, promoted LGBT and childfree bans, and proposed creating labor camps for people with alcohol addiction.

80-year-old human rights activist Nina Litvinova committed suicide due to the ongoing war and the inability to help political prisoners. In Russia, meanwhile, “torture insurance” appeared in the colonies.

And the traditional cringe of the week: Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile are promoting drugs, there was a mass fight at a poultry farm over a kiss between two men, and the hero of social networks was a guy who got drunk and left for another city in a carriage with coal (he was then detained by security forces).

These and other events of the week are commented on in the latest issue of “Terrible News” by Kirill Martynov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe.