So believes Timothy Snyder - an American historian, author of books about fascism and totalitarianism. Here is its text for The New York Times Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta The Russian political regime after February 24 is often called fascist - however, serious research has not yet appeared on this subject.

The Russian authorities will study the option of exchanging the detained Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainian soldiers who left the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. This statement was made in Donetsk by the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma Leonid Slutsky . "We will study the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk for the Azovites.

Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said that the sanctions have led to serious problems with logistics in Russia. “Those sanctions that were imposed today on the Russian Federation practically broke all the logistics in our country. And we are forced to look for new logistics corridors,” he told reporters during a visit to the Astrakhan region.

The commander of the airborne assault company Adam Khamkhoev, who is the nephew of the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, died in battle in Ukraine on the night of May 21. This is reported by the Ingush edition of Fortanga, referring to the words of an “informed source”.

On the morning of May 21, about 30-40 anarchist activists seized a villa in the city of Burgau on Lake Attersee in Austria, which, according to the invaders, is owned by the head of VEB.RF, former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.

Wives and mothers of prisoners and dead fighters "Azovstal" - about the defenders of Mariupol Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol has been in the siege since the beginning of March. This was the last point not occupied by the Russian military in the city, which lost its connection with the outside world.

The Russian president’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova is in a relationship with a ballet star named Zelensky Liubov Moiseenko Russian ballet master Igor Zelensky may share a last name with Ukraine’s current president — but he’s actually the father of Vladimir Putin’s granddaughter. A joint investigation by Meduza, Current Time TV, and the Dossier Center has revealed that Zelensky has been in a years-long relationship with Putin’s purported second daughter, Katerina Tikhonova.

Update: The author of the monument to Andrei Sakharov, sculptor Grigory Pototsky, told RBC that the sculpture was in Moscow temporarily, and on May 21 it was installed near the Sakharov school in Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. The monument to the scientist, dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov has been removed from the Muzeon Arts Park on Krymsky Val in Moscow.

The criminal stole 31 iPhones, eight Apple Watches and four Mac computers from the office of the Russian representative office of the TikTok video service in Moscow, TASS and Baza report . The theft in the office of Tiktok Rus LLC on Bolshaya Yakimanka happened at the end of April. A TASS source said that there were no signs of forced entry on the locks of the office, so the police assume that the criminal had the keys.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has published a list of names of US citizens who are banned from entering Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained the publication with "incoming requests about the personal composition of the national" stop list "". The department did not specify in what period of time visa restrictions were imposed on people from the list, while the list includes dead people (for example, Senator John McCain, who died in 2018).

Interview with the head of CIT Ruslan Levieva - about the criminal case, forecasts about the course of the war after the capture of Azovstal and the state of the Russian army Roman Pilipey / EPA / Scanpix / Leta weapons of a Ukrainian soldier in the house that is located on the front line. Gulyaipole, Zaporizhzhya region, April 27, 2022 Conflict Intelligence Team is a group of independent investigators who studies the movement of military equipment during Russia's invasion to Ukraine.

The publication "Important Stories" claims to have found one of the Russian soldiers who allegedly participated in the murder of eight people in Bucha, Kiev region of Ukraine. The New York Times reported earlier on the mass murder that took place in early March. Using facial recognition services, Important Stories found that one of the photographs published by the NYT depicted 37-year-old Chingiz Atantayev. He was captured on a surveillance camera located near the scene of the murder.

The student asked Maria Zakharov about the invasion of Ukraine. In response, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry gave a “lecture” about the relations of the two countries and 30 Pentagon Biolaboratories ” Daniil Rumyantsev / E1.ru Maria Zakharova at a meeting with students of UrFU. May 20, 2022 On May twentieth, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, met with international students of the Ural Federal University.

Volodymyr Zelensky gave an interview on the occasion of three years as president. Brief summary I understand where Ukraine's place is, and I fight for it together with the people. I don't want to get stuck in the jaws of great empires. We didn't start the war, but we will end it. The war is difficult, and victory will be very difficult, it will be bloody, in battle, but the end will definitely be in diplomacy. Because we want to get everything back, and Russia doesn't want to give anything back.

This is the first picture of the Russian invasion. She was shown in Cannes RR At the Cannes Film Festival, the premiere of the film "Mariopolis 2" of the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaraviravichus was held. The picture was mounted by him by the co -author and civil wife Anna Belobrova and the editor of Dunei Sycheva from the materials that the director shot during the siege of Mariupol. KVDVEDAREVICHUS died - it is reported that he was to be captured. Anton Dolin talks about his film.