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.