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The most important link of the week: since October 1, the Dozhd TV channel has been hosting debates between candidates for the opposition coordinating council. The spectacle is not without interest, although sometimes it makes you sad.

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Vladimir Kulistikov
“Answer to Alexey Venediktov”

Alexey Venediktov expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that in the sensational film “Anatomy of Protest-2” the TV channel did not properly indicate that the Ekho Moskvy journalists mentioned there belonged to the radio station. In response, the head of NTV composed a poetic message to the head of Echo of Moscow.

Quote:
"My holding friend to the grave,
Lexey Lexeich Venediktov!
Everyone will tell you: “Gamarjoba!”
In the shade of Colchis eucalyptus trees.

And there is no fun waiting for you there
Still the same important person:
After all, life with advertising on Echo
It’s all Tbilisoba for him!”

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Yaroslav Tankov
“Children gave up prom to save a classmate from death”

Written with the anguish characteristic of Komsomolskaya Pravda, but no less touching, this is the story of a girl who is saved by a whole class of her fellow students.

Quote:
“For fourteen years I have been running a charity column in our newspaper. Usually adults turn to it - they ask for both their own and strangers. But recently the child called for the first time.”

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Andrey Bashaev
"Rotten Power"

A detached and somewhat snobbish, but nevertheless powerful essay by a young documentarian, a student of Marina Razbezhkina, who was making a film about a Muscovite farmer.

Quote:
“I spent the next few hours trying in vain to get the car out. Svetlana Nikolaevna left somewhere, demonstratively driving past me in a brand new jeep. The Uzbek workers on the farm, apologizing and distorting their words, refused to help, citing the owner’s decree. I ran out of gasoline, cigarettes, and patience. It became dark".

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Maria Kuvshinova
"Iranian Cinema Day"

Report from the “picket of film critics” held in support of the disgraced Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

Quote:
“The protest, it turns out, didn’t go away at all. There is a great demand for it, but the forms are becoming outdated and devalued rapidly - and any non-trivial offer on the market has every chance of hitting the jackpot.”

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Natalia Kostenko
“Putin’s anniversary will be celebrated as an all-Russian holiday”

“Vedomosti” about preparations for “The Anniversary” - the plans for the holiday turned out to be even more interesting than the event itself.

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“On the same day, a certain “National Committee-60” submitted an application to hold a procession and rally in honor of Putin called “Anniversary Movement.” The route of the procession will pass through places significant for Putin: the Mariinsky Palace (the beginning of his political career), Liteiny Prospekt (KGB), etc. The organizers of the action will propose to erect a monument to Putin by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli.”

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Denis Volkov
“The protest movement in Russia at the end of 2011–2012”

A very interesting study of the latest protest movement - no emotions, just statistics.

Quote:
“This analytical report aims to answer a number of questions. Why did the protests occur after the elections, while before the election violations did not cause outrage? Why were the protests peaceful and civil in nature?”

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