The Chuvash holiday Akatuy (the end of spring field work) has been celebrated in Ulyanovsk for 30 years, but this year an anti-war stand appeared at the celebration with the words “Bāpçācāp tēnche” – for those who do not know Chuvash, it was duplicated in Russian: “Peace without war”.

The pro-Kremlin media spread the story of the “Russian Spartans,” defenders of the village of Slatino in Kharkiv oblast. Legend has it that on May 15, 11 Russian soldiers were defending against an enemy that was not twice, not ten times, but 30 times larger! Of course, the defenders repulsed all assault attempts, waited for help, inflicted colossal losses on the Ukrainians, and did not lose a single soldier themselves. The story is beautiful, just a pity it has been made up. This can be understood from the way the authors have bullshitted about the forces of the parties, but what about the facts?

Russia on the whole and the colonies in particular likely lack good news. A series of humiliating defeats and the defeat of a few battalion-tactical groups at the attempt to cross the Seversky Donets River, the complete withdrawal of the Russian troops from five regions (Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernyhiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv regions) are difficult to be powdered by Soloviov’s and Skabeieva’s speeches. The matter is that in the coming weeks the situation is going to get only worse as Ukrainians have already made a significant counter-offensive success in the Kharkiv region. By the end of May, the Kharkiv region is so far likely to be the sixth region which the Russians will heroically retreat to the previously prepared positions’. 

Kremlin propaganda has been affecting Russians since diapers. And that’s hardly an exaggeration. Imperial chauvinism and war are instilled in Russian children from the first years of life.

Active recruiting for the Chechen unit was halted almost immediately with the argument that there were already more people interested than necessary. This completely unexpected turn is complemented by other news, giving it an alarming undertone.

Now that the “special operation” has exposed the true state of the indigenous peoples in the Russian Federation, many have realized that for Moscow nobody can fit in: the Kremlin is equally at ease destroying both Ukrainians and RF citizens, regardless of their nationality. However, many indigenous people who were born and raised in the Russian Federation simply cannot imagine any other attitude towards them. Moscow has stolen their chance to live in a state of their own, and now it is trying to make sure that their children and grandchildren do not get that chance. It is reported by the Telegram channel «Жил один злой осетин! Царди иу мÆсты ирон! — [Æ]»  whose address we publish here.

The former Putin’s buckler Dmitriy Medved continued outpouring all his thoughts in the stream of consciousness in the social media. Today ‘Dimon’ commented on the G7 Ministers of Foreign Affairs’ statements. He has shot his mouth off too much again which would be a topic of interest for legal experts and psychiatrists. To say nothing of the traditional Kreml fakery towards  indeginous nations. 

The “exemplary” Chechnya also pays a bloody price for participating in the Kremlin’s aggression, but, as might be expected, these losses are hushed up, and only the “unprivileged” Chechens suffer them.

The imam, a member of the city counter extremism council, was convicted of distributing literature of  extremist nature.

Russia’s aspiration to compulsively absorb new and new territories can’t be fulfilled so easily as it used to be in the last centuries. Now they have to look back at possible consequences, however very reluctantly. Hence the empire slowed down its expansion and not yet outlined plans for the Ukrainian Kherson oblast. 

In Russia, Soviet-era military equipment is being upgraded to be sent to the war in Ukraine. Hence shortly someone can carelessly smoke at the armor repair plant in Yekaterinburg. 

Prior to the elections the presidential race leader of the self-proclaimed Southern Ossetia Alan Gagloev supported the idea of joining the Russian Federation. However, as soon as he learned about his victory in the elections, his opinion changed. The prospects of joining Russia might now seem less beneficial, and even worse than the status of a failed state. However, it might also signify that the Kreml doesn’t want additional tensions. 

Under the guise of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, the destructive war, which Russia called a “special military operation”, began the transition to a new world order, destroying the world order that had formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The so-called Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, Mansur Soltayev, visited Dimitrovgrad prison where prisoners were on a hunger strike. According to him, Chechens serving their sentences there have not complained of religious discrimination, but they have voiced complaints about strict rules, poor medical care and restrictions on visits.

Russia did not become the country we see now overnight. For decades, the entire civilized world has been watching the Russian Federation turning into another reincarnation of the “prison of nations”. However, only the war has forced the international community to rethink some things that previously they were afraid to think about, lest they bring trouble. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Western policy toward Russia is changing dramatically. And mostly, it happens according to the “better late than never” principle. This is what the world-renowned Israeli and British virtuoso pianist of Russian origin, Evgeny Kisin, said in an interview with Canadian magazine Stir.