Despite the fact that the authorities did not hold large -scale events that were dedicated to May 1 this year, festive actions were still held in a number of Russian cities and virtual locations. Two events took place in Novosibirsk at once. The procession in the city center, where about 200 people came, was headed by mayor Anatoly Lokot. During the action, he justified the invasion of Ukraine.

The head of the Fair Russia -For Pravda party, Sergei Mironov, spoke about his experience in using the neural network to generate images of Kandinsky, developed by Sberbire specialists. Mironov complained that the neural network forms a deliberately negative image of Russia and a positive image of unfriendly countries. Probably, after that, the developers of Kandinsky made changes to the work of the neural network.

Journalist Anatoly Buzinsky tells how chess became sexy and saved his life The Russian grandmaster Yang Nepomnya lost the match for the world chess crown Dean Liezhena from China. Nepomnya was considered an unconditional favorite, and Dean became a participant in the duel in many ways by chance-due to the refusal of the strongest chess player of the planet of Norwegian Magnus Karlsen and the disqualification of Sergei Karyakin supporting the war.

The protests of May 1968 changed Europe and the world. We talked with philosopher Peter Ryabov about those events and what they mean today 55 years ago, Paris was captured by levoradical students - they built barricades, fought with the police, wrote on the walls and shouted slogans that sound like poems: “It is forbidden to prohibit!”, “Be real, demand the impossible”, “I love you! Oh, tell me this with cobblestone in your hand!

On Monday night, Russia launched a new massive missile attack on Ukraine. An air raid alert was issued throughout the country. Kyiv and Kherson, as well as Kiev, Kharkov and Sumy regions and Kherson were under attack. Also, a powerful explosion thundered in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region. At half past three in the night, nine Russian Tu-95s from the Murmansk region and two Tu-160s from the Caspian Sea fired 18 cruise missiles into Ukraine, 15 of which were shot down.