On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the Polish director Andrzej Wajda, The Historical Expertise published a book by Ivan Belyaev “What did the ashes hide from us?” This is a kind of guide to the recognized masterpiece of world cinema, filmed in 1958 based on the story of the same name by the writer Jerzy Andrzejewski, the film “Ashes and Diamonds”.

Ukraine – Dismantling of the Lenin monument in Ternopil, western Ukraine, August 8, 1990 60 years ago, a small group of Soviet students in different cities of the USSR read the manuscript “The Decline of Capital,” which turned out to be partly prophetic. Its idea was that it was not the socialist revolution that won in the USSR, but a bourgeois revolution of a special type: the party nomenklatura became the owner of the means of production.

The head of the FSIN department for Chechnya, Akhmed Adayev, received the rank of colonel - he is responsible for sending prisoners to war. According to the authorities, since 2022, 571 convicts have been sent from the colonies of Chechnya to the front. This is supposedly the highest figure in the country.

Elon Musk on the day of SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange, New York, USA, June 12, 2026 American entrepreneur Elon Musk became the first dollar trillionaire in history after the start of trading in shares of the aerospace company SpaceX. On Thursday, the company offered 555.6 million shares at $135 per share in its initial public offering (IPO). As Reuters notes, SpaceX's IPO became the largest in world history.

One of the peacekeeping school seminars in Ukraine A seminar of the Ukrainian Peacekeeping School is being held in Prague, the goal of which is to find opportunities for dialogue between Russians and Ukrainians, despite the ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine. Among the participants are Russians with an anti-war position.

Magomed-Amin Gatagazhev A native of Ingushetia, Magomed-Amin Gatagazhev was released after eight months of imprisonment in a migration prison in Croatia, where he continued to be held even after a court decision banning extradition to Russia. The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted him. As human rights activist Roza Dunaeva told Kavkaz.Realiya, Gatagazhev’s release took place on June 9.

Adam Kadyrov during his wedding. 2025 The 18-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov, received the title of “Hero” of the republic for the second time. The official wording says that the reason for this was “outstanding services to the state.” For the first time, the younger Kadyrov became a “hero” in October 2023 after beating Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in the case of arson of the Koran, in a pre-trial detention center. He later held several government positions.

Ukrainian artillery fires near Pokrovsk Peace in Ukraine, alas, is far away - perhaps further than just a few months ago, when several rounds of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives with the participation of the United States gave some hope. Now they have been suspended, although, as US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg somewhat paradoxically believes, this is good: according to him , Ukraine continues to effectively resist Russia on its own.

Drone attacks on the Don and Kuban, the death of Kadyrov’s “personal killer” in the war in Ukraine, new orders of relatives of the head of Chechnya, special conditions in the Akhmat special forces and the absentee sentence of Rostov activist Anastasia Shevchenko - about this and not only in the next episode of the Kavkaz.Realii podcast.

On the night of June 12, drones attacked Togliattikauchuk in the Samara region and an oil refinery in Tatarstan. The authorities of the Samara region warned of a drone attack at night. Ukrainian monitoring telegram channels reported an attack on the Togliattikauchuk chemical plant. The company supplies a quarter of the entire Russian market with rubber. In Nizhnekamsk, the TANECO oil refinery, which is part of the Tatneft group, is on fire.

On Russia Day, Ukraine massively attacked 15 regions with drones. Industrial enterprises were hit: in the Samara region - Togliattikauchuk, in Tatarstan - several oil refineries. In the city of Nizhnekamsk, a drone hit a residential building, there were injuries. All public events for Russia Day were canceled there. For the first time in 23 years, there will be no concert on Red Square.

Collage: Putin and Roblox soldier Roskomnadzor is changing tactics and proposing to create a national VPN. What else can we expect? Roblox has been unblocked in Russia: the platform opens without a VPN. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the story with Roblox shows that all services can return if they comply with the law. True, there is a nuance with Roblox - general chat is no longer available to Russian users.

Photo: Telegram channel Supernova+ “According to preliminary information, there are no dead or injured,” the head of the region said. On the night of June 12, drones attacked JSC Togliattikauchuk, one of the largest petrochemical enterprises in Russia, located in Togliatti (Samara region). Astra writes about this. The authorities of the Samara region warned of a drone attack at night. Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces “tried” to attack the region.