Russian President Vladimir Putin made a state visit to China from May 16 to 17, 2024. This is the first foreign visit of the Russian President since the issuance of a warrant for his arrest. The composition of the delegation made an indelible impression: the president took almost the entire cabinet with him, leaving Mishustin and Medvedev on the farm. He was also accompanied by the heads of large companies, including Oleg Deripaska. It’s easier to list those who were not taken to China.

The Cannes Film Festival is a riot of different film colors. In this palette, there is not much discussion of even a truly detective story with the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who managed to illegally leave his homeland and come to Cannes just a week or two ago. Rasoulof's film "The Seed of the Sacred Fig", included in the main competition, became the reason for another criminal prosecution of the director.

Performance “Tomorrow there was a war” May 21 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer and playwright Boris Vasiliev. Dozens of famous films and performances have been based on his works. Today they are especially in trend. Therefore, they continue to be filmed and staged in theaters.

On May 16, near the Moscow police station in the Nagatino-Sadovniki district, real Caucasian passions broke out: relatives tried to return 19-year-old Chechen Liya Zaurbekova, who had escaped from her family. She managed to leave not only the department, but also Russia. But the previous high-profile story ended with the kidnapping of a Chechen girl. In the summer of 2023, Seda Suleymanova was forcibly taken from St. Petersburg, who could possibly have been killed by relatives in her homeland.

Photo: AGN “Moscow” Everyone dances! No, it’s not like that: everything has gone up in price! By early May, annual inflation was 7.8%. Rosstat reported this. And if you take the data from the federal service only for the past month, they are not at all cheerful.

Andrey Belousov came in English Almost nothing is known about the personal life of the new Minister of Defense. “Interlocutor” decided to fix this. Moreover, his personal turned out to be closely connected with the state. His home is his fortress “English Quarter” is one of the largest premium residential complexes in the center of Moscow. And one of the most unique. On the one hand, the Garden Ring, that is, the very center, is not far away.

In Iran, near the borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey, the helicopter of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi crashed. In addition to him, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan Malik Rahmeti and Ayatollah of Tabriz province Ali Hashim were on board. The day before, on the morning of May 19, Raisi, together with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, opened the Gyz-Kalasy dam, located on the border Araks River.

The stern, now former governor of the Tula region, saying goodbye to the region, shed a stern officer’s tear. What caused a hurricane of applause, and even ran away from the podium somewhere. He then tried to laugh it off - saying it was an allergy, but this is unlikely to save him from entering the annals of stingy tears. In this regard, many remembered Osipov’s tears in Transbaikalia, when he listened to the story of a large family living in a dilapidated house.

There are fewer and fewer productions by directors who have gone abroad in Russian theaters. All the more valuable is each performance that is not removed from the repertoire. The Moscow Art Theater continues to host the cabaret performance “19.14,” staged by Alexander Molochnikov, who now lives in the USA. They tried to cancel the production.