The best years. Notes of the former dean Shaninka, who still exists Photo: Shaninka group (MVSHSEN) - VKontakte 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ZHARKOV VASILY PAVLOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ZHARKOV VASILY PAVLOVICH. Shaninka was buried 15 years ago and continues to be buried now. But as long as there is at least one living soul left there, I will not write an obituary for her.

How the rhetoric of the US president arranges and why it threatens the whole world US President Donald Trump signs numerous decrees on the first day of his presidency in the White House oval cabinet in Washington, the District of Colombia, the USA, January 20, 2025. Photo: jim lo scalzo / epa-efe Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, promises his citizens a new “golden age”, which is going to achieve by emergency and freedom from liberal decency.

While the parties to the conflict in Ukraine will see the grounds for its continuation, the ceasefire will remain a good desire for the minority Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant Recently, calls for a truce in Ukraine began to sound quite often.

Domestic policy in Russia: development models, challenges, goals and methods of achieving them Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The second half of 2023 began with the rebellion of Prigozhin in the context of the still preserved expectations of the counterattack of the Ukrainian army. Prigozhin did not reach Moscow, and two months later he died along with the entire top of the Wagner PMC in a plane crash near Valdai.

The future of free Russia is possible only for our great -grandchildren, but to create it - through the opening of universities in Europe for exiled Russians - you need now Members of the Russian -speaking community during the protest against the war in Ukraine. Hague, Netherlands, September 2022.

Six and a half years of the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev became an amazing example of consistent liberalization of the totalitarian regime, when sometimes in a matter of months Soviet people gained and mastered more and more civil and human rights. The freedoms that we found under Gorbachev and lost in the 2000s,-recalled The New Times The first thing Gorbachev did was the first person of the state was tried to restore the connection with the country.

How we stopped being afraid of "red-brown" Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta" The voting results that took place in September in the regions of Russia are not interested in the fact that in just several cases throughout the huge country, United Russia lost to other spoilers, loyal Kremlin. All talk about increasing the competitiveness of the political system, and even about the coming “dawn of liberation”, so far look premature and in the existing context can cause only a bitter smile.

In early June, 370 years old from the beginning of the salt riot - the famous Moscow uprising of 1648. Some historians at the beginning of the 20th century even called these events the "Russian revolution." The New Times was looking for historical parallels Salt riot, 1938. Artist Ernst L Isser * According to the rules adopted in historical science, the date related to events until the beginning of the 20th century is indicated by the Julian calendar, operating in Russia until 1918.

Sometimes the expeditions into the past end unexpectedly: it is amazing, but the Muscovy of the 17th century was very similar to our today's “Moscow kingdom” Photo: The New Times Studio The expectation of the arrival of the Antichrist, followed by the Apocalypse, is an almost integral plot of folk Russian life during the time of Moscow Rus'. Mass psychosis on this basis became especially strong at the next line of centuries or in the transfer or other transition of power.

In anticipation of the next inauguration of Putin, it makes sense to recall that such a long rule has become possible thanks to the “successor” operation. However, in this maneuver of GDP - not the first Photo: Wikimedia.org "We have always been free to complain to our slaves ..." Ivan the Terrible. From correspondence with Prince.

Sales as a national tragedy All terrible catastrophes of recent times among the opposition community find a rather standard explanation: the matter, they say, in corruption. Without at all begging the destructive significance of the permissiveness and uncontrolledness of officials and security officials, perhaps it is still worthwhile to look a little deeper, to the essence of the problem.

Vladimir Putin, who announced a new campaign in power, has someone to compete with The longest period of reformist rule in Russia is the reign of Alexander II, called the liberator for the abolition of serfdom. Under him, judicial reform began, zemstvos (local self -government) appeared, other liberal transformations were carried out.

How Donald Trump Saves Authoritarian Regimes The growing conflict between Russia and the West is primarily due to Russian domestic policy, which requires the presence of an external enemy and the threat of war to legitimize the existing regime. At the same time, it is rightly noted that so far Moscow has been forced to play the game “on its own field”, defending domestic authoritarianism from the global democratic movement. It would seem that this is a doomed position.

On the 100th anniversary of October, the series "Trotsky" is released on the television. Trotsky on an armored train. Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council It makes a speech to the Red Army, February 24 1923. Photo: AP Photo Lev Trotsky, which was symbolic, was born on the day of November 7, in 1879. And at exactly the age of 38, in 1917, he made a gift to himself, which became the top of his life and predetermined his death. This name traditionally causes a storm of emotions.

November 4 is the Day of National Unity, to which the post -Soviet authorities of Russia are unsuccessfully trying to replace the "red day of the calendar" *Assault on the Moscow Kremlin by the militias of Kozma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky. November 4 (N.S.) 1612. *Photo: GK170.ru Indeed, this holiday, established in 2005, did not, of course, did not. And I want to hope that he will not.