2015: Events of the year

The word of the year is war. Still - a dead end, hopelessness, uncertainty.

Joy: Svetlana Aleksievich, Nobel Prize in Literature for a person who writes in Russian and considers himself a part of Russian culture.

Event of the year: the Last Address project - an innocently murdered country returns to its homes, where they lived, loved and where the "crates" were taken away from.

Deed of the Year: An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation on the forms of existence of a mafia state.

Warning of the year: three years in prison for Ildar Dadin is the first overtly political sentence. The authorities approached this line several times: sentences to Alexei and Oleg Navalny, sentences to prisoners of the Bolotnaya case, 20 years to film director Oleg Sentsov, etc., etc., but each time she bothered herself with “pads” - they “stole” , "attacked", "wanted to blow up". There were no equivocations here: do not dare to go out into the square.

The abomination of the year: the announcement of Dmitry Zimin's Dynasty Foundation as a foreign agent, a fund that every year, for 13 years, invested $ 12.5 million in Russian science, education, book publishing and socially useful projects.

Picture of the year: Pyotr Pavlensky against the backdrop of the burning door of the FSB and President Putin, tired, talking jokes, not knowing the answers and unable to formulate the agenda for the nation.

Hope of the year: 14% of the resistance and, as the protest of truckers and Transbaikal teachers showed, next year there will be more of them.