In the “Photo Journal” there is a new archive from the collection of Arthur Bondar, authored by a serviceman of one of the communications units of the 11th Tank Division of the Wehrmacht, known as the “Ghost Division”, which during the invasion of the USSR in 1941 passed through Ukraine, participated in the attack on Moscow and in the battles against General Panfilov’s formations in the Volokolamsk direction.

In Ukrainian society, over the past six months, the mood has noticeably improved: faith in victory and in a better future for their country has grown. But people do not believe in an imminent peace - the majority are convinced that Russia will violate any agreement as soon as it is convenient for it, so territorial concessions do not make any sense and are therefore unacceptable.

Thousands of Houthi supporters on the streets of Sanaa Photo by MOHAMMED HAMOUD / ANADOLU / ANADOLU VIA AFP On July 20, the Yemeni Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia. The Strait of Hormuz has already been effectively closed since the end of February due to the war between the United States and Israel with Iran, and now the last sea route through which the kingdom exported oil is under threat - through the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes deep into Russia became the main news story of this summer. There has been an extensive discussion online about whether they can be enjoyed. Part of it was the sensational post of politician Yulia Galyamina that the escalation of violence that destroys human lives cannot stop the war. She was immediately hit with a wave of criticism from the Russian opposition in exile.

Ksenia Sobchak at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2026. Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP For five years now, the intelligentsia who left Russia have spoken unkindly about Ksenia Sobchak, accusing her of working for the Kremlin. Sobchak, in turn, does not reach into his pocket for an answer. This balance of mutual reproaches was upset this summer when hackers hacked Sobchak’s correspondence (the authenticity of which she immediately denied).

This material (information) was produced and (or) distributed by a foreign agent Project “Republic” or relates to the activities of a foreign agent Project “Republic” Dmitry Bykov This is a continuation of the joint project between Republic and SamTamBooks, “Big Little People.” Famous actors, musicians, journalists and writers read stories from the book “The Head of Fairy Tales” by Alexei Fedorchenko and Lydia Kanashova.

We are publishing a transcript of a fragment of the Republic Smoke stream , where Oleg Kashin*, Zinaida Pronchenko* and Konstantin Shavlovsky discuss everything that is happening around Boris Nadezhdin*, Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Remeslo. They also argue whether it was necessary to vote for Sobchak in the 2018 presidential election.

Protest against the resignation of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov. Kyiv, July 20, 2026. Photo by DANYLO ANTONIUK / ANADOLU / ANADOLU VIA AFP The last time this happened in Kyiv was back in 2004, when Ukrainians took to the streets in support of a specific person, staging the Orange Revolution and initiating the now persistent habit of Maidan as a way of telling the authorities that they were wrong. Mikhail Fedorov, whom the Ukrainians married now, was 13 years old back in 2004.

Yesterday we announced the Summer promotion with Republic , the main product of which is a printed issue of Republic-Weekly with texts by Zinaida Pronchenko*, Dmitry Bykov*, Konstantin Shavlovsky, Oleg Kashin* and a photo project by Tatyana Sikorskaya. The introductory column by editor-in-chief Maxim Conspiracies* is traditionally open to everyone.

“In the fall I didn’t pose any danger. But now he has become dangerous.” Boris Nadezhdin* worked in Russian government and Russian politics for 40 years, drank tea with Putin, Kiriyenko and Volodin. And now he has fallen into disgrace. At the height of the Duma campaign, he was declared a “foreign agent” and was almost put behind bars.

Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Replace Writers? If so, which writers and how exactly will it be replaced? With the release of each new AI model, catchy headlines appear in the media, and the global literary community begins to feverishly. Poet and publicist Stanislav Lvovsky, who has been researching the possibilities of AI for many years, explains who on the literary front should start worrying and look for another job.

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash* sued the taken away residence permit from Lithuania. Now he and ten other lawyers from different EU countries have created the Aliens community to protect migrants from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from discrimination in Europe.

“A natural question arose, whose portraits, well, more broadly speaking, images are actually found in positions, in dispositions and vehicles. Memory and chatter brought the following result. Naturally and by a huge margin, religious symbols - icons and derivatives - took first place. Comrade Stalin is on the third. Well, the second one, of course, is anime.

Photo: Johnny McClung / Unsplash The official defender of children's literature in the United States, author Mac Barnett, provoked a scandal by saying that most children's books are “trash.” But the real problem is not bad books, but that children stop reading altogether, says writer and editor of The New Yorker Jessica Winter. We are publishing a translation of her article about the children's reading crisis.

Yuri Trifonov has a story “Exchange” - one of the most terrible and poignant in the cycle of “Moscow stories”. Soviet housing exchanges have sunk into oblivion, but people still exchange houses in the 21st century. And these exchanges are no less troubling - they transform us from owners of our homes into managers of them.