Will old methods help the Kremlin or is it no longer working? We are discussing in the program “Facing the Event” with political scientist Ivan Preobrazhensky, editor-in-chief of “We Can Explain” Maskim Glikin and military expert Sergei Migdal.

To the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema. The film about unbreakable front-line friendship was shot in Tashkent during the evacuation during the Great Patriotic War, based on the story “My Countrymen” by Lev Slavin. The songs “Dark Night” and “Scows Full of Mullet,” performed in the film by Mark Bernes, became folk songs.

After the Russian strike. Archive photo Two people were killed and others were injured as a result of a Russian drone hitting a residential building in Krivoy Rog on the evening of May 12. Local authorities reported this. According to the head of the city administration, Alexander Vilkul, among the wounded was a nine-month-old girl whose leg was torn off. A fire broke out, which has reportedly been extinguished.

Illustrative photography On the night of May 12, the Russian army again used the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region to strike Ukraine - there were dead and injured there. According to Kiev, in total this night Russian troops used 216 attack drones to attack. Some of them were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Millerovo; UPD launches were also recorded from Bryansk, Shatalovo, Kursk, Orel, from the territory of Donbass and annexed Crimea.

Illustrative photo In addition, she asked the question: “Who is destroying the male population of the country?” The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan found a local resident ( "Idel.Realii" knows her name, but for security reasons the editors do not publish it ) guilty under the article of "discrediting" the army for several comments in the Telegram channel. The court ruling dated April 6 revealed "Idel.Realities".

“Tell me that I love her” - this inscription on the box of things was left to his wife Amina by her husband Ivan. So he said goodbye before leaving for the front line, but did not return from the combat mission. The soldier was considered missing. Amina subsequently tattooed the words her husband said goodbye on her arm.

The most interesting thing from our common past. An unfinished story. Unhealed wounds. Hopes still alive. Could Russia have taken a different path? Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy selects from our broadcast what is still relevant and has turned out to be eternal.

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The Golovinsky Court of Moscow on Tuesday sentenced the editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel, Tikhon Dzyadko, in absentia to 8 years in prison, accusing the journalist of spreading so-called fakes about the Russian army for posts on his Telegram channel about the killings of civilians in Bucha and Irpen. In addition to a term in a general regime colony, the court imposed a fine of 250 thousand rubles on Dzyadko and banned him from administering the sites for four years.

Emergency services workers at the scene of a fire in the Fastovsky district of Kyiv, May 12 On the night of Tuesday, Russian troops struck the Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson regions of Ukraine. At midnight, the three-day truce between Ukraine and Russia, announced by US President Donald Trump, expired. The sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire, but there were no massive strikes.

Graham Platner meets with voters With six months left until the US Congressional elections, both parties are campaigning aggressively. A historical pattern is on the side of the Democrats: the presidential party, as a rule, loses the first midterm elections after the election of the president. On the Republican side are administrative opportunities in many problem states. Until recently, it was believed that Democrats had a high chance of winning a majority in the lower house.

Trump and Xi Jinping, October 2025 US President Donald Trump flew to China on Tuesday evening. This is the first visit of an American president to China since 2017, when Trump was also president. On May 13 - in the evening local time - Trump arrived in Beijing. A solemn welcoming ceremony was arranged. BREAKING: President Trump is greeted by a formal state welcome and massive fanfare in Beijing ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Vladimir Putin Information digest "Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky." Tuesday, May 12 01:20 Russia resumed attacks on Ukraine after the expiration of the truce announced by Donald Trump 02:21 Vladimir Putin announced the possibility of a personal meeting with Vladimir Zelensky and gave a new version of the reasons for Russia’s attack on Ukraine 05:02 The Russian state budget deficit for the first four months of 2026 already exceeds the budgeted deficit for the entire year 09:33 Former

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan found a local resident ( "Idel.Realii" knows her name, but for security reasons the editors do not publish it ) guilty under the article of "discrediting" the army for several comments in the Telegram channel. The court ruling dated April 6 revealed "Idel.Realities".

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga announced Kyiv’s readiness to offer Moscow a mutual cessation of attacks on airports as a possible first step towards resuming full peace negotiations. Ukrayinska Pravda wrote about this on Tuesday, in particular, with reference to Sibiga’s comments to Politico. Sibiga believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be willing to join such an agreement as major Russian air hubs, particularly Sheremetyevo airports in Moscow and Pulkovo airports in St.