From the author During work in eastern Ukraine, many soldiers asked me to photograph them as a keepsake. I photographed and sent the resulting pictures to the people who are depicted on them, their children, wives, friends. Every day we see different photos “as a keepsake” on the Internet. But what is the story of a photograph of a person who has gone to the front? Dry data on the number of dead no longer touch people much, these are statistics.

Russians ceased to consider the necessary replacement power © TV Center Only 45% of the participants in the public opinion poll conducted by the Levada Center spoke out in favor of the change of power. A year ago, the replacement of the authorities supported 60% of the inhabitants of Russia.

In September, a book of journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan “The Red Web” (“Red Network”), published in Public Affairs, appeared on the shelves of the US and Britain bookstores. It is written in English, but talks about Russia, more precisely, about the formation of the Russian Internet and the strengthening of it control of the authorities.

Medinsky commented on the closure of the Russian-Turkish center © Irina Shymchak / Muzklondike.ru According to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, who closed the other day the Russian-Turkish scientific center of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9252 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

"Russian booker" awarded to Alexander Snegirev © Wikimedia Commons Today, December 3, at a press conference in Moscow, the chairman of the jury of the Russian Booker literary prize Andrei, and the hair laureate announced the 2015 laureate. He became writer Alexander Snegirev, he was awarded for the novel "Vera". According to the curator of the award Igor Shaitanov, “this choice was sensational, although no one doubted that this author had a great future,” TASS reports.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9252 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

“I wish you an interesting evening, because I can’t wish you a pleasant evening,” my dear lady at the checkout, giving me a ticket, advanced me. However, in the light of those going around and walking around the opera for the “pleasant” somehow, it seems somehow inconvenient ...

The editors of "Poster" was dismissed © Lina Markina / Facebook The editors of the Magazine "Poster", about a change in the format and frequency of the release of which was previously announced, was dismissed in full force. About this today, December 3, wrote on Facebook by the executive secretary of the editorial office Lina Markina. The other day it was announced that the magazine "Poster" would be published more than once a month, and once every three months.

Mikhail Zygar leaves the post of editor -in -chief of "rain" © Mikhail Zygar / Facebook Since January 2016, the editor -in -chief of the rain television channel Mikhail Zygar will leave his position, remaining on the channel as the host. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source on the media market.

Today, December 3, another festival of German cinema begins in the St. Petersburg Aurora. Among other achievements of German cinema (for example, a very good directorial debut of Timm Kreger “Kingdom of Birds”) at the festival will show Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Doc Fassborder. RVF is an indispensable attribute of any cultural German program in the year of the 70th anniversary of the director. Ivan Chuvilyaev - about why Fassborder is not the past, but the real one.

The official Turkish version of the events of 1915 is well known : there were no Armenians genocide. Even many Turkish intellectuals share this point of view. But the “Turkish world” is not limited by the territory of Turkey, and a little more than a year ago I began to interview from Turkish cultural figures living in Europe and America to find out about their perception of 1915 genocide-thanks to the Goethe-Institute for the support of this project.

The Festival "Finally in the Cinema" comes to St. Petersburg © "Pioneer" Frame from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany" From December 5 to 26, the Rodina film center on Caravan Street in St. Petersburg will host the Festival “Finally in the Cinema”, organized by the Pioneer film company. The program has four famous Hollywood films that have never been released in Russian rental.

In Russia, multimedia projects of photographers from seven countries of the world will be shown in Russia © Alvaro Laiz / Mediacrowd Alvaro Lais. From the Wonderland project From December 10 to 12, in 12 Russian cities, shows of the Third Roulet will be held - the offline direction of the Mediacrowd project. The program has short documentary multimedia works of photographers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Great Britain.