On the first of April 2019, the cost of washing in a public bath on the 17th line of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg sharply jumped from twenty-five rubles on a preferential day to sixty. For permanent visitors, this became another symptom of a prolonged decline in the colossal sanitary and hygienic empire, built in the USSR for residents of communal services.

On May twenty, the inauguration of the new president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky took place. For the past few months, the Russians and Ukrainians are closely monitoring everything that is connected with him, and wonders if he will fulfill his promises. Samizdat publishes the story of Roman Gavrilin, who learned something important about Zelensky long before the election campaign, debate at the stadium and the presidential chair.