Five years ago, the bloodiest European war of the 21st century began in eastern Ukraine. Here's what's become of those early separatist leaders. Dominique Faget / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A presentation in Donetsk of the flag of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, October 19, 2014 Full-scale combat started in eastern Ukraine on May 26, 2014, with the battle for Donetsk airport.

Actor Robert Pattinson (Twilight, Good Time) has been confirmed to play Batman in a new film of the same name, due out in 2021. According to Deadline, Warner Bros chose between Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult (Tolkien, X-Men), but chose the former. The publication writes that the project about Batman with the participation of Pattinson will be a trilogy. The film was originally supposed to star Ben Affleck, who has played Batman in several films since 2016.

A censored edit of ‘Rocketman’ premieres in Moscow, unleashing a meme war Gavin Bond / Paramount Pictures The world-famous musician Elton John has been openly gay for more than a quarter of a century, and at one time drugs were also an integral part of his life. Naturally, all this features big in “Rocketman,” the new biopic from Paramount Pictures, starring Taron Egerton. The film even features an epilogue before the closing credits, where audiences learn that John ultimately fell in love.

David Appleby / Paramount Pictures Frame from the movie "Rocketman" From the film "Rocketman" about Elton John in the Russian rental, scenes with drugs and same -sex sex were cut out . A closed show of the picture in Moscow took place on May 30.

Rapper Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office regarding the beating of visitors to the Hip-Hop Mayday rap festival in Moscow on May 1 by Rosgvardiya and police officers. This was reported by Pravozashchita Otkrytki, which will represent his interests. The musician “asked to establish the reasons why law enforcement agencies blocked access to the free city festival and to check the actions of the employees,” the statement said.

This week, a new roster was announced for Russia’s Higher Attestation Commission (VAK), which is charged with forming dissertation committees and reviewing defended dissertations. The roster triggered a heated controversy among many of the country’s leading academics.

Only memes - about remote scenes from Bayopic about Elton John Gavin Bond / Paramount Pictures Singer Elton John is an open homosexual. Drugs were an integral part of his life. Of course, all this is reflected in the biographical film "Rocketman". The authors even inserted a fragment into the credits, which says that the musician eventually met the love of his life. There is also a photograph of Elton John with his wife - director and film producer David Fernish.

The Tushino Court of Moscow sentenced Yevgeny Senchin to two years and 11 months in prison, who was accused of setting fire to the wooden church of St. John the Evangelist in South Tushino. The temporary wooden church of the Apostle John the Theologian on Lodochnaya Street caught fire on the evening of November 6, 2018. A suspect was soon detained , who, according to the police, explained his act as a protest against the development of the park.

On May 23, the Supreme Court of Mari El overturned a lower court's decision to block the VPN service HideMy.name and sent the case back for a new trial. Representatives of the service told Meduza about this. The service was blocked in 2018 based on a decision by one of the district courts of Yoshkar-Ola. Representatives of HideMy.name were not involved in the process; according to them, the service employees were unable to find out the reason for the blocking.

Alexey Yershov, the director of Theater To Go, was arrested on Red Square after he stood at the Moscow landmark holding a poster with the slogan “Against the Stanislavsky Method,” journalist and Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov reported.

Readers of Medusa talk about their most cool! - grandparents Kakanang Tasanavites / Shutterstock.com In mid -May, Medusa asked readers to tell about their grandparents - what they do and how they surprise children and grandchildren. As a result, we chose 50 stories that impressed the editor most (and honestly, it was very difficult to choose - you sent so much wonderful). Click the “next story” button and read them in random order.

Mikhail Klimentyev / TASS / Vida Press May 25 ↓ VTsIOM, a state-owned polling agency, published a survey that placed Vladimir Putin’s approval rating at 31.7 percent, the lowest figure since Putin came to power in 2012. May 30 ↓ Journalist: How does the Kremlin explain the drop in Putin’s approval rating? Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov : There are a many different approval ratings for Vladimir Putin .

Food.kiro / Shutterstock.com Quote “The hazard is also hazardous: according to studies, the use of rabbic hookahs creates additional risks of the spread of infectious diseases due to the fact that the structure of hookah is a favorable environment for the propagation of many types of bacteria,” the press service of the Ministry of Health reported on May 31, recalling the need to ban focal bars. Are theless hookah is also harmful to health? Yes.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation responded to criticism from RAS academicians from the “ July 1 Club ,” who condemned the formation of a new composition of the Higher Attestation Commission ( HAC ).

A bronze panel depicting the feat of 28 Panfilov men will be placed in the main temple of the Ministry of Defense, which is being built in Kubinka near Moscow. This is stated in an article about the progress of the temple's construction in the official newspaper of the Ministry of Defense, Krasnaya Zvezda.