Russia is actively increasing production capacities at its military plants. We are talking about enterprises at which tactical and strategic aircraft, combat helicopters are produced and repaired, as well as collect military drones and controlled ammunition. This is stated in a new investigation into the project "Schemes" of the Ukrainian Radio Liberty Service.

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On Wednesday evening, a new speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Mike Johnson, was taking office. The current election of the speaker - the procedure, usually routine - can apply for several lines in future history textbooks. For the first time, she dragged on for 22 days due to the inability of lawmakers-republicans to come to an acceptable candidate.

Almost every day, St. Petersburg artist Victor Bogorad places his old and new works on Facebook. For the most part, these are humorous drawings, at the same time very funny and slightly melancholy. The author marks them like sketches, and in fact, about each picture you can compose a short story. True, the artist never gives tips in the form of explanatory signatures.

US President Joe Biden accepted in the White House Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Van and, who is in the United States on a three -day visit. According to the Russian Voice Service of the Voice of America, the conversation lasted about an hour, it was attended by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

Lithuania and neighboring countries will conduct exercises in case the need to close the border with Belarus. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania Agne Bilotay. She did not name the alleged date of the beginning of the exercises. On Friday in Vilnius, a meeting of ministers of the internal affairs of European countries bordering Belarus and Russia took place . Representatives of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Poland and Ukraine took part in it.

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The American authorities said that the Russian military execute their soldiers who refuse to comply with orders and go to the front line. Earlier, independent media spoke about the penal battalions of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine. “In order to achieve a result on the battlefield, Russia continues to show indifference to the lives of its soldiers,” said John Kirby, representative of the national security of the United States.

As artist Norman Rockwell visited Moscow and created the famous canvas, which was stolen and then found in the collection of Stephen Spielberg

Masha Trotsky, collage Artist, psychologist, emigrant Masha Trotsky Schedule, photographer , jeweler, journal illustrator Masha Trotzki, psychologist by education. Her quite successful artistic career began in Moscow, but after the annexation of Crimea, her family decided to emigrate. Masha does not like the definition of a "political cartoonist", but this is part of her international career.

Victor Medvedchuk (in the center) The Village Publication writes on Friday that when preparing an investigation about the Russian Yacht Fleet, journalists found a new yacht from the former Ukrainian deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, who lives in Russia after the exchange of prisoners between Kiev and Moscow. "Village" writes that the Medvedchuk family, which the media is called "Kum Putin", after his exchange at the military Armed Forces, received a yacht worth more than 9.5 million dollars.

Former president of Belarus, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in an interview with the Belarusian service, Radio Liberty said that the country's European future is the only alternative that she sees the so -called "Russian world." “Now it is clear that Belarusians will be able to live freely and with dignity only if we return to their roots and join the European Union,” she said. “Russia is a devastation, it is a war, maybe an iron curtain in the future. We are Europeans in our values.

"What are these rules? Who are they invented? It is completely incomprehensible ... Some kind of nonsense, nonsense," Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Forum was in full swing from indignation with the collective West, who deals "replace international law with some incomprehensible order." A couple of days later, the Hamas militants produced the world's own understanding of the international order, cutting and killing, by force and crippling all who came across in the way.

On the Web that is on a day in a row on the documentary "Abramovich Collection", shot by the Narra Berlin film studio and the cooperative of independent journalists "Bereg". The biographical film about the billionaire Roman Abramovich was entirely laid out in YouTube and is accompanied by an annotation, from which the audience learn that they are offered "a portrait of an amazing and mysterious hero, which is known as a lot, but in fact - almost nothing." Many the film seemed too complimentary.

Ivan Rychlova and Yirzhi Bulis, 1988 Slavist, translator, literature historian Ivan Rychlova belongs to a generation who managed to understand what control of the Soviet Union and Communist power over the life of citizens of Central Europe. The view of the Slavists of this region on Russian culture differs from the Anglo -American or German approach. These are two similar tools, but two different political-historical modes that were formed after the Second World War.