“Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov Every Saturday, Kirill Martynov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, comments on the main news that happened in Russia and the world over the past week. The truce for May 9 seems to be Putin’s attempt to “save” the parade: it will, however, be held without equipment, and the Internet will be turned off in Moscow.

Russian military personnel during military training in the Lugansk region, Ukraine, January 14, 2026. Photo: Alexander Reka / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA What is happening in the village, for which fighting has been going on for more than a year? And where else is the war stuck?

Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” Russian youth are looking for an alternative to war in the ideas of communism “If you do not urgently take financial, economic and other measures, then in the fall what happened in 1917 will await us. We have no right to repeat this!” - said the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov at a State Duma meeting on April 22, Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev. Photo: Regional Government Now they have announced a hack On April 29, the Anapa Region publication published an “exclusive interview” with the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev.

Elle Fanning, still from the TV series “Margot Has Money Problems.” Photo: Apple TV “Margot has money problems”: we figure out how the series with Elle Fanning about the online fan turned out The comedy series “Margot Has Money Problems” from the creator of “Big Little Lies” and studio A24 is now airing serially on Apple TV+. Elle Fanning plays a single young mother who decides to make money on OnlyFans, while her mature, divorced parents try to restart their lives separately.

Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and US President's son-in-law Jared Kushner canceled their trip to Kyiv, which was planned for April. This was reported by the Kyiv Independent, citing sources. According to them, the main reason is the lack of any progress in peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The Americans see no point in a visit that can only highlight the deadlock.

He said that this is all the machinations of AI and LGBT Ukrainian intelligence stated that it inserted an agent into Apti Alaudinov’s entourage and listened to the conversations of the command staff of the Chechen Akhmat battalion for three months. This is stated in the GUR press release. Ukrainian version. According to Kyiv, at the beginning of 2025 they established contact with an Akhmat serviceman. He installed a listening device in the meeting room of the Akhmat command staff.

Photo: Aaron Schwartz/EPA President Trump told Congress that U.S. military action against Iran "has ceased" under the current ceasefire agreement - so he does not need to seek parliamentary approval to continue the conflict. Associated Press reports . At the same time, in his message, Trump “made it clear” that the military conflict may be far from over. Statement of the law.

Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the creation of a gambling zone on the territory of the Altai Republic. The document was published on the official legal information portal. The new gaming area will be located on the territory of the Manzherok ski resort, which, in turn, belongs to Sberbank and is headed by German Gref. This will be the sixth such zone in the country; another one has been operating for more than ten years in the neighboring Altai Territory. Position of the authorities .

Konstantin Larionov. Photo from personal archive. "Wind" talked to him Konstantin Larionov is 29 years old. He heads the interregional socio-political organization Candidates' Headquarters , created during the presidential campaign of Boris Nadezhdin. Right now, the “Headquarters” is preparing for the new elections in 2026 and is becoming a rallying point for observers, independent members of TECs and candidates in local elections and single-mandate constituencies.

On May 1, a sports relay race was held in Perm for the prize of the Zvezda newspaper. This was announced by the mayor of the city Eduard Sosnin. “Teams of enterprises and factories traditionally took the start line: the relay combined work and sports, history and today,” he wrote. Judging by the official's footage, teenagers, state employees and pensioners took part in the event. Perm 36.6 notes that the Zvezda newspaper is part of a media holding controlled by the governor.