We explain how the countries of the former USSR treat the holiday In Russia, on May 9, victory parades will be held in 28 cities, and at the “Immortal Regiment” event they are going to honor participants not only of the Great Patriotic War, but also of the war with Ukraine. At the same time, five countries of the former USSR banned the St. George ribbon; Victory parades and Immortal Regiment events are being canceled in some CIS countries.

20:42 Former press secretary of Vesna, Artem Uimanen, was detained in St. Petersburg for 48 hours in the case of “telephone terrorism,” according to the movement’s telegram. Vesna notes that now Uymanen is not in the movement. Earlier, Viasna activist Polina Barabash was detained in the case of "telephone terrorism". 19:56 Russian planes fired three rockets today towards Odessa, reports with reference to the head of the press center of the Defense Forces of the South, Natalya Gumenyuk.

97-year-old Raisa Sinitsin survived the blockade of Leningrad. We talked with her about the wars of the past and the present - and about how to remember them so as not to repeat them The documentary “War of Rai Sinitsina” was released in a limited film distribution in Russia. His main character is a 97-year-old woman who survived the blockade of Leningrad and living in Israel for the past 30 years: now Sinitsin is headed by the World War II Veterans club in Holon.

Writer Dmitry Glukhovsky - about why the authorities lifts the fallen from mass graves Victory Day is sacred, how the victory itself is sacred. Nowadays, when every death at the front occurs online, when she has its own page in social networks and when it comes directly to you in a mobile one, even a hundred who died in the war seem like a disaster. Twenty -seven million! How to imagine this at all? This is in every family, which means there are dead.