The Bolshoi Theater has canceled screenings of the ballet A Hero of Our Time directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, which were to be held on May 5, 6 and 7. This was reported in the telegram channel of the theater. As they say in the message, instead of "The Hero of Our Time" they will show the ballet "Master and Margarita". The reasons for the replacement at the theater were not specified, adding only that previously purchased tickets for performances remain valid.

The Soviet emigrant Alex Kats became one of the first Russian-speaking policemen in New York. He told us his story The family of Alex Katz left the Soviet Union in the late 1970s due to anti-Semitism. Once in New York, Katz soon began working in the police: he was a guard in a huge prison complex of Rairers, was engaged in house violence, solved the problems of Russian-speaking emigrants in the Brighton Beach area.

In the city of Goryachiy Klyuch, Krasnodar Territory, the funeral of Wagner PMC mercenaries who died in the war in Ukraine took place. Video of the funeral has gone viral. Earlier, the city administration opposed further burial in Goryachiy Klyuch of the military who died at the front, insisting that the resort city is not a place for mass graves.

The US authorities, without advertising this, resumed the deportation to their homeland of Russian citizens who fled from the mobilization announced in Russia. The Guardian writes about this, referring to the lawyers of the Russians. After the start of the war in Ukraine, the American authorities stopped deporting Russian men who asked for political asylum due to mobilization. Now, according to lawyers, this practice has resumed.

The Kremlin press service reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly visited the Donbass and, in particular, the occupied Mariupol. Putin allegedly flew into the city by helicopter and then toured several districts in a car. “Behind the wheel of a car, he traveled around several districts of the city, examined the coastline in the area of ​​the yacht club, the theater building, memorable places,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

In Moscow's Open Space, police disrupted an exhibition of comics by artist Sasha Skochilenko, who is accused of spreading "fake news" about the army. Writer Masha Pushkina, who participated in the event online, said that about 40 people came to the presentation and it lasted about an hour and a half before the police broke into the premises. “Eight security officials in full gear and masks put everyone who did not manage to escape face down on the floor,” she wrote on her Telegram channel.