Viktor Yanukovych's speech struck everyone with its senselessness. Why did he appear on the political stage after even the Russian leadership actually declared him a political corpse? He came out, said nothing new and left, ending his speech with the words “Ukraine is not dead yet.” The first assumption regarding Yanukovych's appearance was that he had finally learned a few words in Ukrainian and wanted to demonstrate it. However, something else is more likely.

The absence of a competent strategy again encounters the interests of healthcare and preservation of cultural heritage. Corruption schemes of previous years have led to a tangible reduction in territories located in the center of hospitals. They have no reserve for development at the place of registration. Having served the interests of commercial structures, the authorities put us before the vile choice: what is more expensive for you, people's health or some monuments?

City authorities have opened collection points for humanitarian aid from enterprises and trade organizations for the Ukrainian region Non-perishable food products, bottled water, and bedding are accepted from legal entities. The collection of humanitarian aid will be coordinated by the Center for International Humanitarian Relations. The operating hours of collection points in the districts will be announced additionally - a telephone message will be sent to all districts tomorrow.

Instead of two hundred kilometers of bicycle paths in St. Petersburg, ten will be built in the near future. But cyclists do not give up and invite experts to the development of cycling from London, Hamburg and Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. Movements "Cypeedization of St. Petersburg", "Bicycles" and "Beautiful Petersburg" create a bicycle. The task is to make Petersburg a city convenient for using bicycles as regular transport.

I keep thinking about the barricades. Not about the physical ones who were on the Maidan, but about others, those who have grown in our heads in recent months. The civil war that was used to scare Ukraine suddenly turns out to be our civil war, and it’s amazing how everything is tied up. Why did everyone suddenly become indifferent, and even politically indifferent people are forced to decide on a position?

Kiev photographer Lena Samoilenko travels around Crimea to see for herself and show others what is really happening on the peninsula Between Simferopol and Alushta, in the middle of a beautiful nothingness, there is the village of Perevalnoe. It is filled with three thousand people, a military camp, cats and one house of exemplary culture. We went there to see little green men with machine guns. We arrived and were overwhelmed.

Without saying anything substantive, Yanukovych turned on the countdown to the new history of Ukraine, and with it Russia The ten-minute statement made by Viktor Yanukovych on March 11 in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don both puzzled and brought expected certainty at the same time. The ten-minute pause at the Moscow Art Theater that preceded Yanukovych's appearance in public electrified the atmosphere in the hall where the journalists had gathered; it was felt even from afar.