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Any drawback can be turned into a dignity, according to the Katitsa of Lishka. The Serbian Ceramist, part-time engineer-builder, lives in the Russian village for 25 years: sings in the choir, makes plates and creates jewelry from ceramics that take prizes at international competitions. As part of the Siberian festival of ceramics, Katitsa came to Tomsk with a master class. There we met. In one of the halls of the first museum of Slavic mythology, laughter and jokes are heard.

On the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a “special military operation” in Ukraine in order to “protect the inhabitants of Donbass”. We continue to follow the main events in our online. About how the events developed, read online for February 24th . About the main events of February 25 here About the events of the third day we led online here.

Anti-war protests continue to take place in Siberia. So, in Tomsk, on Novo-Sobornaya Square and on Ushayki Embankment, people come out in the morning with posters to stop the war with Ukraine. “I want the hostilities to stop. And also so that they stop lying to us. So that we know what victims there are on our side, on the side of Ukraine,” Galina told TV2.

Tomsk honored the memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed seven years ago. Flowers and memorial posters were placed at the Stone of Sorrow on Novo-Cathedral Square. At the same time, initially more posters were placed at the Stone of Sorrow, including one dedicated to the latest events in Ukraine. However, they were later removed. Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the night of February 27-28, 2015 in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the containment forces to be placed on a special alert regime. Putin announced this at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Gerasimov.