On April 8, 1986, speaking to employees of the Volzhsky Automobile Plant in Tolyatti, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev used the word “perestroika” for the first time. Thus began a six-year era that led to tectonic shifts in the worldview of Soviet citizens, and ultimately to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Director of the film "Mr. Nobody vs. Putin" David Borenstein - about filming at a school in Karabash, about work ethics and how Russia differs from China Still from the film “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin.” Photo: Pavel Talankin / Made in Copenhagen On March 16, the US will present the next Oscar, and one of the nominees in the Best Documentary Film category is again associated with Russia. “Mr. Nobody vs.

Blogger Maxim Kononenko was the face of the Russian Internet. His cynicism brought him money - and destroyed him from the inside When in May 2024 it became known about the death of Maxim Kononenko, a publicist and blogger, who worked for the Russian propaganda media for many years, supported power and poisoned those who disagree with her - many independent journalists dent him in social networks.

The district police officer from the Ural village wanted to work honestly and bring police officers to justice. Now he is accused of beatings In the winter of 2022, in the urban -type village, in the Sverdlovsk region, employees of the cemetery, digging the grave, stumbled upon unidentified bodies in plastic bags. For more than a year, police were silent for this find, until in 2023 the former district police officer Yuri Zolotko spoke about what had happened.

The Tinder swindler is at our place. The Vladimir fraudster pulled millions out of women for years until one of the victims stopped him Since the spring of 2023, Dmitry Frolov has been in the St. Petersburg pre-trial detention center-a fraudster who was overwhelming single mothers in different regions for many years, pretending to be a rich businessman in love with them and drawing millions of rubles from them.

Women fence out husbands who beat them. But after this it is women who are judged after this Among people convicted in Russia for a false denunciation, there are many women who were victims of domestic violence. They burn their husbands - for example, lie to the police that they were attacked by robbers on the street. As a result, men who have beaten their wives are not punished, and criminal cases are initiated against women.

Interview with the photographer Alexander Gronsky, who shoots Moscow wartime, like no one In the XXI century, photographer Alexander Gronsky renewed the landscape genre and became known all over the world - he received many international art and journalistic awards, including the prestigious World Press Photo . His photos look like the great painting of old masters, and people on them also become part of the landscape.

Two girls from Russia got married to the United States and returned to their homeland during the war. Here is their story In recent months, Russia has finally criminalized any orientation, except for heterosexual: in November 2023, the non-existent “LGBT move” was recognized as extremist, which allows the security forces to put people in the insulator even for earrings of rainbow flowers.

Older people from the "new regions" should now pay a pension in Russia. But it is almost impossible to get it According to official figures, about 700 thousand people live in the territories of Ukraine annexed by Russia in 2022, to whom the state should pay a pension.

He struggled with the opposition, sat for the arson of United Russia, fought for the LPR, committed suicide due to censorship. Wild story of Andrei Murza Morozov On February 21, 2024, Andrei Murz Morozov, a sergeant of the Russian army, who fought in the Donbass since 2014, the author of the popular telegram channel “We have been written from Janina”. According to the most common version, the reason for suicide was his conflict with Russian propagandists.

Resolves can knock out the duty, scare his wife, pacify his neighbor. How does this market work in Russia? On Russian ads, you can find many strong men who offer their services in solving delicate problems and difficult issues - whether it is business or personal.

Moscow philanthropists are accused of children's trading. They believed that they were fighting so much In October 2023, in Moscow, the court sent three women under the arrest. One of them by that time raised 19 children and repeatedly appeared in the media as an exemplary mother -in -law; There were 15 children in the family - and in addition, she organized a shelter for women affected by domestic violence, and helped charitable organizations dissuade pregnant women from abortion.

The Russians end with them in refugee camps in the Netherlands. Why? In mid -January, it became known that the transgender girl from Russia Antonina Babkin, who received a refuge, committed suicide in the Netherlands. Over the past year, this is at least the fourth case of suicides of Russian -speaking refugees in the Netherlands. "Cold" tells who these people were, why they committed suicide - and how it is related to the problems of the system of working with refugees in Europe.

Historian Mikhail Suslov believes that Putinism is a full -fledged ideology (like Marxism, for example). We found out what it means The British Academic Publishing House Routledge is published by Mikhail Suslov’s book “Putinism. The ideology of the Russian post -Soviet regime.

Alexander Gorbachev asks 50 questions about Russian and Russian -language music during the war At the end of December, Russian streaming platforms summed up their own results of 2023: among the most popular musicians were pop singer Anna Asti, rapper Macan, the group of three days of rain and others. Judging by ratings and charts, you can not suspect that the country is fighting. And indeed: Russian music continues to live and change-contrary to the war in Ukraine, and somewhere thanks to it.