Associated Press staff, Ukrainian documentary maker and videographer Mstislav Chernov, photographer Evgeny Maloletka, producer Vasilisa Stepanenko and European correspondent Laurie Hinnant have been awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in the most prestigious nomination for Public Service. During the siege of Mariupol by Russian troops in the spring of 2022, Chernov, Maloletka and Stepanenko were the only representatives of the Western media who witnessed what was happening in the city.

On the evening of May 8, the Russian military shelled the city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region. Oleh Synyehubov, head of the regional military administration, says Ukraine recorded at least six hits from S-300 missiles, with some striking targets in the Kharkiv region. Information about casualties and the extent of the damage is still being assessed. There have also been local media reports of shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.

On the evening of May 8, the Russian military shelled Kharkov and the Kharkov region. According to the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, at least six attacks by S-300 missiles were recorded. As a result, there are hits in the Kharkov region. Information about the victims and the extent of damage is being specified. The media also report shelling in the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions.

A German court has upheld the ban on public display of Soviet and Russian flags and military insignia during the Victory Day events of May 8–9, commemorating the end of World War II in Europe. On May 5, Berlin police announced that Soviet insignia including the ribbon of St. George would be banned from display at the Tiergarten, Treptower Park, and Schönholzer Heide war memorials.

The US does not encourage the killing of civilians anywhere, said Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel. At a briefing on May 8, journalists asked a representative of the State Department to comment on the words of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov, about his readiness to kill Russians around the world.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg upheld the ban on displaying the flags of Russia and the USSR, as well as the St. George ribbon during commemorative events on May 8 and 9, reports . Bild On May 5, the Berlin police announced that it was forbidden to bring flags of Russia and Ukraine, symbols of the USSR, St.

Young Russian diplomats talk about foreign service and how it reshapes Russia’s Foreign Ministry insiders Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russia’s Foreign Ministry building in Moscow, October 20, 2022 Until the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s Foreign Ministry had a reputation for being perhaps the country’s most forward and progressive government agency. During the Medvedev presidency, the ministry pursued goals like “rebooting” Russian-U.S.

Svetlana Petriychuk has been jailed for her play about Russian women who convert to radical Islam. Her husband, theater director Yury Shekhvatov, spoke to Meduza the day after her arrest.

In Odesa, a Russian missile strike destroyed a Red Cross of Ukraine warehouse, the humanitarian organization reports . The missile strike caused a fire which “completely destroyed the humanitarian aid that was in the warehouse,” says a statement from the organization. A Red Cross press release adds that the organization will now halt humanitarian aid in the Odesa region and suspend work on several other projects.

One of the dead (twice convicted) fought in Ukraine. He noted his return from the front with his friends At the end of April 2023, in the village of Tolmachevo, the Novosibirsk Region, the local resident Vyacheslav Mokin shot two people from the hunting rifle and wounded two more. One of the dead is a participant in the Russian war with Ukraine, who celebrated his return from the front with his friends. They burst into the courtyard of Mokin’s house and attacked his wife.

The Russian political movement Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAR), along with Israel’s Human Rights Defenders Fund, has won the 2023 Aachen Peace Prize As the Aachen Peace Prize website notes , the Feminist Antiwar Resistance formed the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and protests the war, patriarchy, authoritarianism, and militarism.

A cardiologist at the Charite Clinic in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of killing two patients, according to the Berliner Zeitung. The name of the suspect was not disclosed, it is only known that he is 55 years old. The doctor is accused of two cases of killing patients in 2021 and 2022. Investigators allege that he deliberately administered excessive doses of a sedative to patients in the intensive care unit so that they would die. The exact motives of the cardiologist are not known.

While the system copes poorly: for example, fines are written out for long -haired men Majid Asgaripour / Wana / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The hijab remains one of the main symbols of Iran. The country's authorities see the responsibilities of women to wear a scarf one of the “bastards” of the Islamic system, which in no case should be abandoned. But a significant part of the population not only does not accept hijabs, but is also ready to actively protest against them.

In St. Petersburg, at the 82nd year of his life, actor Sergei Dreiden died. This was reported to the Fontanka at the Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater, where Dreiden was an invited actor of the troupe. On May 31, he was supposed to rely on the stage of the theater in the play of Andrei Mighty “Three Fat Men: Episode 7. Teacher”. Sergei Dreiden was born in the Leningrad Theater Family in 1941 in evacuation in Novosibirsk.

Artists from the St. Petersburg art group "Yav" presented a work called "Russian Cyberpunk" - these are the silhouettes of people to whom prostheses painted in Gzhel were attached. Photos of the work that appeared on the Obvodny Canal embankment were published by the artists in their Telegram channel.