In Moscow, the Gaidar Forum completed the work, which celebrated his decade this year. As before, we saw here the grimaces of officialdom, politically engaging gestures and a cheerful student laugh - after all, most of the listeners are students of the RANEPA. Of the most unpleasant performances, it is probably worth calling the speech of Anatoly Chubais.

About Russian forums in Europe This fall, Budva, Prague and Vilnius accepted hundreds of “global Russians” living in Russia and outside - artists, politicians and experts. For all the dissimilarity of these meetings, they were related by goals: freedom, creativity and the good of the country. Hook - anxiety signal Autumn was troubled. Shocked IL-20. Attacks on Israel. Syria Syria Systems S-300. The maneuvers "Vostok-2018". The capture of Ukrainian courts. The arrest of Leo Ponomarev.

The project "Project" published a study entitled "Another Russian World", about how many Russians leave the country. Researchers compared the data of Rosstat about those who left Russia with foreign statistics on the number of Russians who have arrived. It turned out that Rosstat underestimates the scale of emigration six times. Against the backdrop of the usual lies of officials in Putin's Russia, the underestimation of an unpleasant figure is six times quite decent.

Vitaly Mansky’s film “Putin's Witnesses” is the so -called mounting movie. How does it differ from documentary? The author takes the finished material and moves it. Let me remind you that Mansky was one of the discoverers of post -perestroika television. Invented new genres, the formats, in which there was a great need then, worked on federal channels. And accordingly, in position, he was a person close to power, then still new, fresh, not quite disrupted.