Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the control of the territory of the Azovstal plant . According to the official representative of the department, Igor Konashenkov, on May 20 the last group of military personnel surrendered, in which there were 531 people. In just a few days, 2439 soldiers left the plant.

The territory of the Azovstal plant completely came under the control of Russian troops. This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. As stated in the department, over the past day, the last group of 531 people who were at the plant surrendered. A total of 2,439 people have surrendered in the past few days.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has declared businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and chess player Garry Kasparov “foreign agents.” Khodorkovsky and Kasparov were included in the list of individuals - "foreign agents" for "carrying out political activity." The Russian Ministry of Justice linked Khodorkovsky to Ukraine, Kasparov to Ukraine and the American Human Rights Foundation.

The talk show “Let them talk”, which has not been aired since February 22, will return to the air of Channel One. This was announced on the air of the Good Morning program. As follows from the announcement, "Let them talk" will be released not several times a week, as before, but on Saturday evenings.

Many Russians who left the country at the beginning of the invasion have already returned home. This is how they explain to themselves and others this decision Oleg Kharseev / Kommersant After February 24, at least 150 thousand people left Russia. Many left in the early days of the war, fearing that the borders would close, and the authorities would introduce martial law and declare universal mobilization.

The manufacturer of Putinka vodka, the Baikal-Invest company, has filed an application for registration of trademarks with the letters “Z” and “V”, which have become symbols of the invasion of Ukraine. RBC writes about this with reference to the register of Rospatent. If Baikal-Invest's application is approved, the inscriptions "We do not abandon our people" and "The power of the truth" will appear on the bottles. Vodka "Putinka" has been produced since 2003.

Some say that "underwent denazification" Olga Maltseva / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Russian military in the Kherson region, May 2022 In mid -May, several videos appeared in social networks, on which the residents of Crimea and regions of Ukraine, engaged in Russian troops in 2022, apologize to the Russian military and citizens of the country. In most cases, it is unclear under what circumstances the rollers were shot.

The Oklahoma Legislature passed a law on May 19 that almost completely bans abortion. It is reported by CNN.

Meduza reports from Kharkiv, where Ukrainians are cleaning up the mess left by the city's failed invaders REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes Vladimir next to the remnants of his home in the village of Mala Rohan, Kharkiv region. Next to him is a burnt out Russian armored vehicle. May 19, 2022 On May 15, Western military experts declared that Ukraine had won the “battle for Kharkiv.” Analysts pointed to the retreat of Russian detachments around Kharkiv in the face of Ukrainian counterattacks.

Airports in the south of Russia are closed for almost three months. This is how their employees live now Vasily Shitov / TASS Immediately after the start of the war, the Federal Air Transport Agency closed 11 airports in the south of Russia until March 2. Since then, their opening has been postponed for almost three months, and many employees have lost their jobs or fell under the reduction of salaries; Some had to look for a part -time job.

The Naberezhnye Chelny City Court fined rapper Alisher Morgenstern in an administrative case on drug propaganda. Morgenstern was fined 100 thousand rubles under the article on the propaganda of narcotics on the Internet. The court found that Morgenstern's videos contain "multiple scenes in which close-up images of leaves of a plant similar to the cannabis plant are shown as a tattoo on the performer's chest." Morgenstern's defense promised to challenge the court's decision.

How Ukrainian journalists turned footage from a Russian soldier’s phone into a short documentary On May 11, the online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda released a short documentary called “The Occupant” (“Okupant,” in Ukrainian), which tells the story of a Russian lieutenant named Yury Shalaev. According to the newspaper, 24-year-old Shalaev served as the commander of a motorized rifle platoon in a military unit based in Shali, Chechnya.

Claims were presented to other publications for "Materials on the alleged attack by Russia on the territory of Ukraine" At a court meeting on the Medusa complaint about the decision on its blocking, on May 20, 2022, Roskomnadzor submitted a document on the basis of which this decision was made. Medusa was blocked in Russia on the basis of the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office to restrict access to information resources (number 31.27.2020/ID2145-22 of February 24, 2022).

The State Council deputy of Komi from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Viktor Vorobyov was declared a "foreign agent" because of the refund of the money for a train ticket in London. He told " Mediazona " and " Sever.Realii " about this. The deputy provided journalists with fragments of the Justice Ministry's responses, which stated that in March 2020, Vorobyov received two thousand rubles from the UK.

The Office of the FSB of Russia for Crimea initiated a criminal case against the 27-year-old actor Bogdan Ziza under an article on preparation for the attack, Kryminform reports. On the night of May 16, the building of the city administration of Yevpatoria was doused with yellow and blue paint, and also tried to set fire to a incendiary mixture. The city hall said that they tried to set fire to the entrance in the building.