At the Russian Antiwar Committee conference held last week in Strasbourg, the former Russian prime minister debated with columnist Tatyana Rybakova about the prospects for the Russian economy in the fifth year of the war in Ukraine. We publish the most interesting parts of their conversation

The film about Russia during the «special military operation» is based on Claude Chabrol’s «The Unfaithful Wife,» released in 1969. The key elements seem the same — a jealous husband, a disappointed wife, the difficulties of disposing of a body — but this is just the skeleton onto which Zvyagintsev has layered distinctly Russian flesh and muscle.

Former Florida deputy sheriff John Mark Dougan fled the US to Russia in 2016 to escape criminal charges. Ten years later, he lives near Moscow, enjoys Russian pancakes, goes to the banya—and helps Russian authorities promote disinformation in the West

The Malian military junta is losing control of the situation in the country. This does not mean its rapid and inevitable fall—but the fragmentation of Mali into zones of influence controlled by various groups, where no laws apply, has already taken place.