The author of the text Masha Hessen photographer Vladimir Semin June 10, 2025 Retro score read: 25 min. In early June, the head of just Russians, Sergei Mironov, was not the first to invite Vladimir Putin to remove the moratorium on the death penalty in Russia since 1997. And although, according to surveys of recent years, the number of supporters of the highest punishment is reduced in society, more and more often various statesmen talk about the need to return it.

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court recognized the unconstitutional refusal to the same -sex pair in the right to marry. Thirty, twenty years ago it was impossible to even imagine what it would happen someday The day after the historical decision of the US Supreme Court, in New York and other cities of the country, a festive parade of pride in LGBT was held.

On November 29, the media reported that the case of an administrative offense was initiated against Louis Vuitton and a protocol on the illegal use of the land was drawn up on Red Square, where a giant LV pavilion was established in the form of a suitcase of the famous brand. The story caused an incredible scandal. Why? The chain pavilion stood for a short time on Red Square.

On the hearings on the appeals of crew members and activists Greenpeace, who are in the regional court of Murmansk The icebreaker Arctic Sunrise is still under arrest. Murmansk.

The scariest line in Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's letter is the following: "Now I understand that I should have gone on a hunger strike back in May." She explains exactly what happened in May: lawyer Dmitry Dinze, who had recently joined Tolokonnikova's defense, wrote to the prosecutor's office a complaint about the conditions of detention in IK-14. “The deputy head of the camp, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, immediately established unbearable conditions in the colony.

A year ago, on August 17, a sentence was announced to the Pussy Riot punk group punk groups Carnival in Dusseldorf. 11 February 2013 In Moscow, the day of the sentence has already come, and in New York there was still an evening. The Fashion Hall of Ace Hotel was crowded to crowds and stuffiness, and there was still three hundred people on the street: and there was a crowd in summer stuffiness.

On August 17, a year has been performed from the date of the sentence - “two -steps”, as the president put it - in the Pussy Riot case. Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are still in the colony, Ekaterina Samutsevich-at large. For what they fought and what the soloists of the famous punk group achieved-analyzed The New Times Pussy Riot promotion in front of Red Square. January 20, 2012 Over the past year, the Sitters from Pussy Riot changed our perception of the court.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was personally present at the hearing In what wonderful mood we left the building of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mordovia. And what not to rejoice? The court passed quickly, the presiding judge was extremely and truly polite-and the varieties of false politeness Protecting Pussy Riot participants had enough: the courtesy of judges can be condescending, mocking, emphasized and formal.

Maria Alekhina, visitors to the Perm Regional Court were able to see only by video communication In this game, someone is necessarily being held in court. Moreover, it is never known who it will be. Once, for example, at a court in Berezniki, this is a city in the Perm Territory, where Maria Alekhina was serving a sentence from December to July-Oksana Darova, a burned local lawyer: was so emphasized politely, even somewhere, a judge was carefully behaved, which could be found.

Before the liberation, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova remains eight months, but the thought of how and what she will do when she comes out is already scaring her. During a meeting in the colony, Tolokonnikova spoke about Leo Tolstoy, about the “wrong language” and her own creative crisis Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, concluded IK-14, Republic of Mordovia, January 2013 (Elena Masyuk/New Gazeta) “Hera was weaned from me! Hera is shy about me! " Nadia herself is shy.

Once upon a time, when I was pregnant, one rabbi offered me to marry. I refused, or rather, we refused together with my beloved woman. For some long time we lived together and intended-to the extent that a modern person could intend-to live together always. We raised the adopted son, and after a couple of months I had to give birth to a daughter. We came to the rabbi, in fact, in order to conduct Giyur (a rite of accepting Judaism) for the son and, since we went, the “names” of the daughter.

“What is it? - asks the audience in the cafe "13" lawyer Irina Khrunova. We all joked about it, resigned, sit here, but what is it? She took her into a convoy, she was sitting there alone! " For one hour forty minutes, while the judge wrote a decision, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov sat alone in the convoy room - a tiny room next to the courtroom.

We conduct a live broadcast from a tooth meadow. In the courtroom - Masha Hesse Today in Mordovia, in the court of the small village of Zubov, Polyan considered the application of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova about Udo. They were predictably refused UDO, but the most amazing thing was not allowed to pronounce the last word. We conducted a live broadcast from the courtroom. The last word of Tolokonnikova can be read here . 19.52 shouting in the hall. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova did not utter the last word.

Could journalist Ilya Zhegulev from Forbes publish fragments of his conversation with Boris Berezovsky less than a day before the businessman’s death, given that Berezovsky asked him not to do this? Does the “new newspaper” and opposition journalism discredit a letter allegedly written by the creator of the social network VKontakte Pavel Durov Vladislav Surkov? Is such a form of organization of scientific activity as the Academy of Sciences hopeless in the 21st century?

Pavel Durov is the founder of the social network "VKontakte" Could journalist Ilya Zhegulev from Forbes publish fragments of his conversation with Boris Berezovsky less than a day before the businessman’s death, given that Berezovsky asked him not to do this? Does the “new newspaper” and opposition journalism discredit the publication of a letter allegedly written by the creator of the social network “VKontakte” by Pavel Durov Vladislav Surkov ?