When, on Monday, Vladimir Putin in his historical lecture reproduced almost all the basic provisions of the “satellite and pogrom” in ten years, some joked that Yegor Prosvirnin had been engaged in Putin. The events of Thursday make this joke more gloomy - Prosvirnin moved to Putin, but not the time of the "satellite and pogrom", but on the last day of his life, at the time of the fatal step.

On the morning of February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation” by Russia against Ukraine, citing Article 51 of the United Nations Charter on the “inalienable right of self-defense” (in the event of an armed attack on a UN member state). Lawyer and specialist in international law Gleb Bogush explains what a declaration of war means today from the point of view of law and what legal mechanisms are available to stop it.

“There was a desire to take revenge on both the enemy and even more to those who brought us to this shame”: an excerpt from the book of Aron Schneer “Captivity” Soviet prisoners of war in 1941 Photo: Bundesarchiv The publishing house Fifth Rome published a new, corrected and supplemented edition of the famous book of the Israeli historian Aron Schneer . Soldiers and officers of the Red Army in German captivity ” (for the first time the book was published in Russian in Israel in 2003).

Publishing House "Peter" publishes the book of Travis Langley and Michael Uslan "Joker. The crazy king of the criminal world. " In it, the authors dissect a cult negative hero using the creators of comics about Batman, Joker and Harley Quinn, as well as specialists from the world of psychiatry.

Kharkov resident 50-year-old Viktor V. (asked not to indicate his full last name) recorded several voice messages for Republic about what has been happening to city residents in recent days. Correspondent Maria Litvinova deciphered them. Kharkov, Ukraine, evening of February 25, 2022. I'm in the basement, so it might be hard to hear. And the Internet is weak, so I will send a little at a time.