Yuri Saprykin talks about the music and the life of one of the most incredible Russian musicians of the last decades Pavel Smertin / Kommersant Alexander Gradsky died , and it sounds as if a huge iceberg broke away from continent ice and went into a distant drift. There was always such a feeling from him-something endlessly of his own, firmly soldered into the local context, well-known and never disappeared from the eyes, but not studied, too large, completely separate.

Peter Mamonov died. Yuri Saprykin says goodbye to this great musician and actor Mamonov at the Golden Eagle film award ceremony. Mosfilm, January 27, 2007. Dmitry LEAD / Kommersant Musician and actor Peter Mamonov died on July 15. He was 70 years old. At the end of June, he was hospitalized with Covid. At the request of Medusa about the lives of Peter Mamonov - Dandy, Meloman, eccentric, hooligan, resoner and old man, journalist Yuri Saprykin says. Peter Mamonov lived several lives.

We read the transcript (to applause, of course) Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Russian President Vladimir Putin made an annual message to the Federal Assembly. Putin’s performance was repeatedly interrupted by applause. We specifically reviewed the message again to find out what we liked the most in Putin’s performance by deputies, senators, officials and other seniorly. Vladimir Putin: For us, family, friendship, mutual assistance, mercy and cohesion came to the fore.

Caution, very touching material! Evgeny Feldman For the first time in eight years, the singer of Zemfira was released by the new album "Borline". While everyone is discussing a new album, we asked our readers to share memories of the old work of the singer. Here are the most touching stories about albums, songs, love and chamomile. The letters are given completely-we only edited them a little so that it was more convenient to read.

Readers of Medusa say that the verdict to Alexei Navalny means to them Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Simonovsky District Court of Moscow replaced the policy of Alexei Navalny as a conditional term with the real one. We asked readers to share with us what they feel after the sentence. Less than a day, the editors received thousands of letters. They are mainly about despair, pain and fear.

Here are the videos being made about Navalny and his investigation Alexei Navalny is in Matrosskaya Tishina, but this does not prevent him from being the main character of the Russian-language tiktok: teenagers hang his portraits in schools, joke about his relationship with his wife Yulia and condemn the arrest (and they also discuss preparations for the January 23 protests a lot, but this is a separate issue).

25 years ago, “Old Songs of the Main” came out. Yuri Saprykin explains how this project helps us understand the history of Russia Exactly 25 years ago, on the night of January 1, 1996, public Russian television (current Channel One) showed “Old Songs of the Main” - a film that became the beginning of the famous music cycle.

“Literature lives thanks to serials, Dudya and Urgant”: Yuri Saprykin on the book results of 2020 What will this year be remembered for in literature? Why have series and movies become the main way to promote books? How is the super-popular "Queen's Move" related to the work of Vladimir Nabokov? And how can the philosophy of the Stoics and Leo Tolstoy help us in the fight against police brutality?

Yuri Saprykin - About the new book by Leonid Yuzefovich In the editorial office of Elena Shubina, the novel by Leonid Yuzefovich Philelin, whose events took place in the 19th century, was published. The author of the Winter Road this time describes the war for the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.

Here it is - a selection of the worst events of the first half of 2020: epidemics, war, invasions of locusts, fires. Then we thought: “Ahh, what a nightmare! It will definitely not be worse, never, definitely not in this century. ” So three months have passed. July In July, it seemed that Koronavirus had retreated a little. Yes, in Russia there really was a decline, but in other countries the situation, on the contrary, has worsened.

The other day he turned 60 years old! Fireflite59 / Shutterstock.com “Zaporozhets” is one of the main symbols of the Soviet automobile industry, which turned 60 years old on October 1, 2020! We asked readers to tell stories about Zaporozhets. It turned out touching and funny. Stories were slightly edited Vadim Uncle had a yellow “Zaporozhets”, then I was about seven years old. Once we were going to go somewhere, and attempts to open the passenger door were unsuccessful.

Readers "Medusa" retell dialogs with scammers from the Bank Security Service Malvestida Magazine / Unsplash Fraudsters calling people under the guise of employees of large banks have become so commonplace that they have long turned into memo heroes . People are so tired of their calls that they come up with scripts for dialogue in advance. And even those who did not encounter them immediately begin to suspect something wrong - and then everything goes according to an unpredictable scenario.

Half of the class cried! Alinute silzeviciute / shutterstock.com At the beginning of the new academic year, we asked readers to send us the most crazy stories of school years. Readers were not shy. We received hundreds of stories about different combustion. We share the most-senior. For the convenience of reading history, they were slightly edited. And we do not recommend you to repeat some combustion below. School of Magic Igor About the sixth grade.

For several days now, protests have been going on in Belarus, which began after the presidential elections. Internet is regularly disconnected. However, short videos sometimes appear on tiktok. We have collected popular videos about Alexander Lukashenko, protests, the performance "Flowers are better than bullets" and everything that happens in the republic. For those who do not know what is happening in Belarus. In 59 seconds!

And you tell us if there was something good 2020-just disgusting! Something terrible happens every month! Invasions of locusts, the collapse of the economy, the loss of stars in the sky, the plague. What is happening for humanity can easily be described by one meme. Here: Now we will recall the worst that has happened over the past six months, and you try to calm us down and share something good at the very end.