Pavel Pharmacist The Publishing House "Fifth Rome" represents the book of Pavel Aptekr "Red Sun. Secret eastern campaigns of the Red Army. " The book is dedicated to the secret campaigns of the Red Army and Navy, the border and internal troops of the NKVD to the east and southeast of the borders of Soviet Russia and the USSR.

Photo: Dmitry Gusarin/TASS In Russia this year, the next promotion "Blockery Bread" was held. According to the media, volunteers distributed slices of bread, symbolizing blockade rations, and memory lessons were held in schools. According to the initiators of the action, it should remind the now living “about the unprecedented crime of the Nazis, as well as the great feat and the courage of the peaceful population of the besieged Leningrad”.

December 19, 2019, 00:50 / Opinions Who does the mayor of Moscow want to talk to?

December 17, 2019, 01:09 / Opinions Why save Memorial? An attempt to ruin an organization with fines may result in the loss of a large archive of documents and memories of repression.

October 01, 2019, 00:52 / Opinions Everyone is conditionally guilty Replacing a real sentence with a suspended sentence for the defendant in the “Moscow case” Pavel Ustinov is actually a declaration of the presumption of guilt for everyone Pavel Aptekar Vladimir Ruvinsky , editorial writer Maria Zheleznova , editorial writer The guilty verdict, despite clear and convincing evidence of innocence, against Pavel Ustinov, handed down by the judicial panel of the Moscow City Court on Monday, is a

September 10, 2019, 00:33 / Opinions Who won the election Both the government and the opposition can consider a single voting day a success for themselves - but these are different victories Pavel Aptekar Maria Zheleznova , editorial writer The results of the elections held on Sunday showed that their Kremlin curators are ready to respond to previous challenges, but are not always able to stop new manifestations of discontent caused by an acute lack of political representation of significant

August 20, 2019, 00:29 / Opinions How to shovel history Alternative excavations in Sandarmokh are an attempt to shift public attention from the repressed to the victims of the Great Patriotic War Pavel Aptekar The continuation of the search for the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) in the Karelian tract Sandarmokh, the site of executions of political prisoners during the Great Terror, reflects the desire of part of the bureaucracy to switch attention to history from repressions to the

05 August 2019, 00:24 / Opinions When rectors are ahead of the police Loyalists propose tougher penalties for protesters, but such initiatives have failed in the past Pavel Aptekar The protests evoked the expected response from loyalists who were ready to proactively prosecute participants in actions not coordinated with the authorities and offering their own recipes for tougher punishment for protesters.

April 16, 2019, 01:14 / Opinions Work not according to degree Every second Russian does not work in a specialty acquired at a university or technical school - but diplomas of doctors and teachers are becoming increasingly in demand Pavel Aptekar The millions of people working outside of the professions they received at higher and secondary educational institutions symbolize not only the excessive specialization of education in Russia, but also the changes in the structure of the economy that

March 10, 2019, 11:26 pm / Opinions How bad people get into the civil service The arrests of Arashukov and Gorring were the result of selective work of personnel filters Pavel Aptekar Scandals involving officials and parliamentarians arrested on suspicion of serious crimes reflect failures in the work of government personnel services, which do not act as a filter to prevent dubious candidates from entering responsible positions.

February 11, 2019, 11:54 pm / Opinions One Hundred Years of Putinism The ideologist of the Putin era sees the future only behind the ideology of Putinism Pavel Aptekar The competition for praise for the current regime is intensifying, and as 2024 approaches, calls for its conservation will sound more frequent and louder. A policy article by one of the most important Russian ideologists, Vladislav Surkov, on the globality of Putinism as an ideology of the 21st century.

December 10, 2018, 23:56 / Opinions FSB instead of FBK Security forces are ready to use the investigations of civil activists if they help them in the fight with other departments for influence Pavel Aptekar Government agencies and intelligence agencies are ready to use the investigations of civil activists if it helps them deal a blow to a rival agency in a behind-the-scenes battle for influence.

November 20, 2018, 11:37 pm / Opinions What's wrong with talking about people as "second oil" Arrogant survival advice from officials and deputies is forming a new canon of communication between government and society Pavel Aptekar Many bureaucrats consider the population to be a resource like oil, gas or timber, from which maximum benefits should be extracted and costs, on the contrary, minimized.

August 29, 2018, 11:37 pm / Opinions Why Putin didn’t solve the pension problem Presidential amendments are symptomatic treatment, not radical correction Vladimir Ruvinsky , editorial writer Pavel Aptekar The discussion about raising the retirement age, which has not really begun, is closed: Vladimir Putin broke the silence and in a televised address to the people supported the government’s idea to immediately raise the retirement age - but with a number of amendments, concessions and

August 21, 2018, 00:23 / Opinions Belief in falsification of history versus knowledge of history A significant proportion of falsifiers who believe in a conspiracy is not surprising for a country where history is a weapon of ideological war.