The heads of the DPRK and South Korea, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in met in the demilitarized zone. The results of the talks will be announced tomorrow. The Yonhap news agency reports that the meeting lasted two hours, at which the leaders of the two Koreas exchanged views on the implementation of the declaration signed at the end of the first negotiations. They also discussed holding a North Korean-US summit.

The Central District Court of Kemerovo extended the arrest of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kemerovo region, Alexander Mamontov. He is accused of negligence during a fire in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center and embezzlement of budget funds. According to Interfax, Alexander Mamontov's arrest was extended to 72 hours at the request of the prosecutor's office.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he intends to run for another term in the mayoral elections. Voting will take place in September 2018. Sobyanin announced the decision to nominate his candidacy at the celebration of the birthday of the Active Citizen project. He added that he hoped for the support of Muscovites. Sobyanin's words are quoted by Interfax.

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya turns 80 on May 26 Plays, stories, stories of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya never belonged to the category of "women's literature". She is not a writer, but a writer. Marble, golden letters of names, Eternity. Force breaking through to the foundations of being. Of our contemporaries who write now, and the ink has not dried up yet, only two are quite classics, and in some places even geniuses. Vladimir Sorokin and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.

The painting by Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan", also known as "Ivan the Terrible kills his son", was removed from the permanent exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery. On March 25, a visitor damaged the canvas, he was detained. Interfax The directorate of the Tretyakov Gallery told that the painting was seriously damaged. The canvas was torn in three places on the figure of the prince, and the frame was badly damaged by broken glass.

Interrogations, arrests and searches from political activists and not only became almost everyday line of news. The authorities intend to clean the country from everyone who is trying to resist.