There is a shortage of gasoline in Moscow, as well as throughout the country. Many gas stations are not working; Open gas stations are noticeable from afar - they have long queues, where drivers sometimes spend an hour or more. They cannot be removed, if you believe the gas station attendants who claim that the gas station is a “special facility.” And yet, Bereg photojournalists managed to make a report.

More and more posts and videos are appearing on social networks about how Russians spend hours (and even days) at airports waiting for departure. On June 16, after another attack by Ukrainian drones on the Krasnodar region, a collapse occurred at Krasnodar airport. A drone threat regime was declared in the region and civil aviation flights were stopped. Huge queues lined up at the boarding gates at Krasnodar airport.

The idea of ​​luxmaxing—“maximizing appearance” for young men—has become widespread on the Internet. The ideal of male beauty from the point of view of lookmaskers is a fit, muscular body, a thin face with a pronounced jaw, thick hair and a certain eye shape. To achieve this look, some guys start eating right, exercising and taking care of their skin, while others resort to taking steroids, “beauty injections” and plastic surgery.

“I realized that I would not physically survive in these conditions” Oksana (name changed), lived in the southern region of Russia before moving I first thought about emigrating back in 2022, when I divorced my husband; I was considering Turkey for moving. But then my daughter was two years old. Mom didn’t want to go with me, and I couldn’t have done it alone. In addition, I thought: where should I move, who will need me there? I wasn’t ready financially either.

Be careful, this text contains obscenities. If this is unacceptable to you, do not read it. — Will we get to Sadovod? - a tanned, gray-haired man in a light shirt asks, running into the bus. “The Gardener is on fire, no one is allowed in there,” the driver sternly answers the passenger. - I'm not joking! It is not surprising that the elderly passenger did not know about the fire in the shopping complex: federal channels once again ignored the news about attacks by Ukrainian drones.

“We registered the house, but four months later a lawsuit arrived: demolish it at your own expense, there will be no compensation.” On one of the Russian real estate websites you can find an amazing ad. The owner of six acres in the Sova cottage village, located just 42 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, lists the advantages of this place: developed infrastructure, a reservoir is very close by, and in the center of the village there is a lake with carps.

For St. Petersburg, SPIEF always becomes a stress test: it causes traffic jams, buses are overcrowded, mobile Internet and city Wi-Fi fail, and this time, on top of everything else, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked an oil terminal and a corvette in Kronstadt with drones on the very first day. The organizers expected that more than 20 thousand people from 100 countries would come to the forum in 2026.

“Private gas stations sometimes receive fuel and sell it. But it’s almost impossible to get there.” Marina (name changed), lives in Simferopol I recently bought a car, only managed to fill it up three times - and now my swallow is standing in the yard and covered with dust. For me this is not just an inconvenience. I work outside the city: the journey takes 15 minutes by car, and an hour and a half by bus. I have two children.

“Many people decide to close their business and go to work where they can earn more.” “In recent months we have been doing business parkour: we constantly look around and quickly analyze what we can rely on,” Anatoly Yudin, co-owner of the Moscow chain of nail salons Milky, describes the state of the beauty industry. His business is more than ten years old, and at the beginning of 2026 he first experienced a sharp drop in revenue - compared to January last year, it fell by a quarter.

“I woke up at three in the morning and thought it was a thunderstorm.” For the first time in a long time, there is truly summer weather in St. Petersburg: it’s 20 degrees outside, the grayness and coolness are gone. The sun is shining in the sky above the city among rare clouds, against which a column of black smoke rises above the oil terminal burning on Kanonersky Island. This is the Kirovsky district of St.

On Children's Day, the Bereg cooperative shows what modern playgrounds look like in Moscow. In recent years, toy tanks, police cars and Kremlins have appeared on them. Architectural journalist Asya Zolnikova asked the architects of children's spaces and a child psychologist where they come from and how they can affect children.

Breaking the habit of reaching for your phone and aimlessly scrolling through social media can be very difficult. But there are methods to combat this behavior that have been shown to be effective in research and are likely to work for you. We collected these recommendations into one checklist, and also learned from a psychotherapist specializing in addictions what to do if nothing helps.

The Moscow Art Theater released Hamlet, directed by Andrei Goncharov, with Yura Borisov in the title role. Tickets for the premiere cost tens of thousands of rubles, and Russian celebrities - for example, Oleg Menshikov - fiercely criticize the director for his free handling of the play. Theater critic Alla Shenderova talks about the premiere. Yura Borisov does not look like the usual Hamlet - but this only benefits the theater.

Alina fourth-year student at Starobel Pedagogical College, friend of the deceased Veronica Dashchenko and Oksana Tereshchenko I am from the Troitsky district [Lugansk region]. The war started when I was finishing school. My parents and I decided that I would study in Starobelsk, because they didn’t want to let me go far from them, and financially they couldn’t afford anything else. Oksana Tereshchenko - we called her Ksyusha - from Bulgakovka, Kremensky district .

Be careful, this text contains obscenities. If this is unacceptable to you, do not read it. “When will they calm down?!” Local resident Natalya hears for the first time from a Bereg correspondent that Zelenograd was hit by drone strikes on the night of May 17. Natalya is 57 and usually gets her news from federal TV channels, but propagandists did not pay attention to the largest drone attack on Moscow since the beginning of the war. “I still thought it was so loud?!