Monument to those killed during the Great Patriotic War and a stele with the names of those killed in Ukraine in the Chunsky district At the end of May, the mayor of the Chunsky district of the Irkutsk region, Nikolai Khrychov, proudly announced that another student of the local multidisciplinary technical school, Danil Zhukov, had gone to the front after taking an academic leave. In total, according to locals, at least 60 students and graduates of this technical school ended up in the war.

For seven years now, the Russian service of “Svoboda” has not had my program “Your Letters” on the air, but they, letters, still happen. One of the latest: “In 2014, Bandera’s people took power in Ukraine, ready to shed people’s blood without counting. Just pay and send weapons. Press down local Russians and generally dissatisfied people, and then go north with a fight. Finding a reason is not a problem.

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The Kremlin media are expectedly silent that on the night of June 15, a Russian drone hit the dome of one of the main Orthodox shrines, the Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv. The news media only reported that a fire had started there, and then repeated the words of the Ministry of Defense that an American Patriot air defense missile allegedly fell on the Lavra

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.

Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Tuesday, June 16 01:17 Vladimir Zelensky met with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Britain imposed new sanctions against Russia 05:27 Alexander Lukashenko accused the Vatican and Israel of deceiving Russia during negotiations on Ukraine in 2022 08:42 Murder of Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky in Poland 14:07 JD Vance denies that The US will invest in Iran's economy.

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Show more Collapse The echoes of the strikes at oil refineries reached retail gas stations. After a drone attack on TANECO and TAIF-NK in Nizhnekamsk, the TANECO plant completely stopped oil refining, Reuters reported. The result is a fuel crisis in the Volga region. At Tatneft gas stations in Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Samara and other regions, strict limits have been introduced: AI-92 is dispensed at 20 liters, AI-95 at 10, and in some places diesel has disappeared completely.

Bank of the Angara Hundreds of residents of the Angara villages in the Bratsk and Ust-Udinsk districts of the Irkutsk region found themselves virtually cut off from the mainland. The only connection with civilization in the warm season for these remote taiga places has always been the Meteor passenger ships. People used them to get to large stores, hospitals and pharmacies. But this year, regional authorities were unable to find money for Meteor flights.

How the history of financial dependence led to the emergence of a project for women's mutual assistance - SISTERRA. What requests do they come there with and what kind of support are they looking for? What is a “Boston marriage” and why is it gaining interest again today?

Artist Semyon Skrepetsky in Berlin, June 12, 2026 Information digest "Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky." Tuesday, June 16 01:17 Vladimir Zelensky met with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit, Britain imposed new sanctions against Russia 05:27 Alexander Lukashenko accused the Vatican and Israel of deceiving Russia during negotiations on Ukraine in 2022 08:42 Murder of Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky in Poland 14:07 JD Vance denies that the US will invest in the Iranian

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How the history of financial dependence led to the emergence of a project for women's mutual aid - SISTERRA. What requests do they come there with and what kind of support are they looking for? What is a “Boston marriage” and why is it gaining interest again today?

Gas station "Tatneft" in Orenburg, June 15, 2026 Russian regions are faced with problems in fuel supply and a jump in gasoline prices. The situation worsened after the TANECO oil refinery in Tatarstan was damaged by a drone attack on June 12. As of Tuesday morning, June 16, it is known that limits on the sale of gasoline and diesel have already been fixed in several regions - Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod regions, as well as in Moscow, St.