More and more painful symptoms are appearing in the Russian economy, which is already quite difficult to hide. This includes inflation, a shortage of personnel, and an increased tax burden on small and medium-sized businesses. The result is a decrease in tax revenues . In many regions, layoffs have begun; in 2026, this process is expected to be even more widespread. Republic asked economist and entrepreneur Vyacheslav Shiryaev* to make a diagnosis of what is happening in the Russian economy.

Luigi Zoia, an Italian writer and world-famous psychoanalyst, former president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology, contacted the Republic editors. On the anniversary of the end of World War II, he published an open letter to his Russian colleagues in several foreign publications. He chose our editors to publish the Russian translation - we present to the attention of our readers his entire text, without paywall.

The 79th Cannes Film Festival is my 13th. The first time I came to the Croisette was at the invitation of François Ozon, who was presenting in the competition the film “Young and Beautiful” - a film about a young girl from a completely bourgeois family who, for no apparent reason, decides to engage in prostitution. Ozone then said hello to Buñuel and young Catherine Deneuve from Belle de Jour.