Ukrainian soldiers from the Mariupol plant "Azovstal " were delivered to Taganrog. A source in the security forces of the Rostov region told the local publication 161.ru about this. "They brought 89 people to us, almost all of them are combatants ... They will be distributed further from Taganrog. Some of our [Ukrainian military] will also remain in the region. They are now an important object [for exchange]," the journalists' interlocutor said.

The United States has reopened its embassy in the Ukrainian capital, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said. "This day came. Today we are officially reopening the US Embassy in Kyiv,” the head of the US State Department said in a statement. According to him, additional measures were taken to ensure the safety of diplomats returning to Kyiv. As the representative of the American embassy Daniel Langenkamp explained , a small number of diplomats are returning to the capital of Ukraine.

Yuri Shevchuk made an emotional speech at the DDT concert Evgeny Feldman A video with Yuri Shevchuk appeared in Telegram and Twitter , who spoke out about his homeland during the concert of the DDT group. Where and when the recording was made, it is not specified. On May 18, the team performs in Ufa. The scenery on the video with Shevchuk’s speech is similar to the design of the scenes from the videos published in the social networks of the viewers of the concert in Ufa and the group itself.

The Kremlin decided not to postpone the single voting day, scheduled for September, and to maintain direct elections of governors. Three sources close to the presidential administration and a federal official told RBC about this. According to the publication’s interlocutors, direct elections will have to remain in all regions where this format is provided.

Here's what she writes about the West, Crimea and life in the 90s Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS The daughter of Vladimir Putin Maria Vorontsova probably consists in one of the chats of graduates of Moscow State University and speaks there on relevant political topics. This was announced by the editor -in -chief of Republic Dmitry Korzev, to whom one of the participants in the chat handed over the screenshots with her messages. Vorontsova participates in the correspondence under the name Maria V.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov presented his new film Tchaikovsky's Wife at the Cannes Film Festival and spoke out against the war in Ukraine. Film critic Anton Dolin, who is in Cannes, told Meduza about this. Speaking with a speech, Serebrennikov turned to the audience and said in Russian: "No to war." He expressed the hope that people of art would do everything possible to end the war and return peaceful life to Europe.

Zaporozhye NPP will work for Russia, said Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin, who came to visit Melitopol. It is reported by RIA Novosti. “Energy electricity is a commodity that cannot be stored in a warehouse. Therefore, if the energy system of Ukraine is ready to accept and pay money, then we will work, if it won’t accept - (the nuclear power plant) will work for Russia,” Khusnullin said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. McDonald's leaves Russia. What will happen to his restaurants, judging by the experience of Donbass, Crimea and even Iran? After 32 years of McDonald's work , he leaves Russia and sells its business. The company took such a step because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The network’s statement says that the conservation of business in the country is “more inappropriate and does not correspond to the values ​​of McDonald's”.

Roskomnadzor demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation remove articles about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and “racism” from the English-language Wikipedia.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has arrested in absentia the founder of Conflict Intelligence Team, Ruslan Leviev, in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army "with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation." This was reported by Mediazona online. During the court hearing, the investigator said that the case against Leviev was opened on March 16, and the second defendant in it is journalist Michael Naki.

Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading a bill that will allow not to execute in Russia the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) adopted after March 16, 2022. It is reported by TASS. According to such resolutions, according to the draft law, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation can pay compensation to the applicant until the beginning of January 2023.

The Nanolek company, a partner of the Chumakov Center for the production of the CoviVac coronavirus vaccine, announced that it had stopped the production of the drug, RBC reports. “Since December 2021, there have been no applications from the Ministry of Health for the supply of a vaccine, the company has not shipped a single dose of CoviVac,” Maxim Stetsyuk, deputy general director of the company, quotes the publication.

The Turkish authorities have blocked the start of negotiations on the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. This is reported by the DPA agency and the Financial Times , citing sources. According to the interlocutors of the publications, on May 18, NATO planned to discuss the applications submitted by the ambassadors of Finland and Sweden for the inclusion of these countries in the number of members of the alliance. However, due to Ankara's position, negotiations did not start.

Photographer Petr Kamanin captures Russia’s ‘peaceful’ capital in wartime Russia has been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly three months. Photographer Petr Kamanin has spent this time taking pictures of Moscow and Muscovites, in an attempt to capture how ordinary, everyday scenes have changed since February 24. Meduza shares these snapshots of the Russian capital along with the photographer’s commentary.

The European Commission on May 16 published a plan to reform the European energy system called REPowerEU, aimed at abandoning Russian energy carriers and combating the climate crisis.