Ukrainian soldiers of the Black Raven battalion ride in vehicles along a road covered with mesh to protect equipment from drone attacks. Photo by IRYNA RYBAKOVA / THE 93RD KHOLODNYI YAR SEPARATE MECHANIZED BRIGADE / AFP From May 9 to 11, Putin and Zelensky publicly discussed the possibility of a direct meeting for the first time in eight months.

On May 14, we held the sixth Republic Smoke stream : journalist Oleg Kashin visited Zinaida Pronchenko and Konstantin Shavlovsky. One of the topics of the broadcast is everything that happens with FBK. We are publishing a transcript of this discussion. @widget type=reference id=601 Zinaida Pronchenko: Now let's move on to another announced topic - the topic of FBK and scandals around this organization. I don’t know how long you watched these interviews: Zhdanova, Alleman...

One of the main theatrical premieres of the year was Hamlet by Andrei Goncharov at the Moscow Art Theater with Yura Borisov in the title role. The play was released on May 14, and it has already been subjected to devastating criticism by pro-government telegram channels, actor and deputy Dmitry Pevtsov, and even the artistic director of the theater. Ermolova Oleg Menshikov. How much are figs in the pockets of the residents of the Patriarch’s these days? - says theater critic Alyosha Gorin.