At the end of the Munich Security Conference in the Pskov region, mass exercises of the airborne The thunderous sound of soared fighters split the sky over the village of Kislovo, and a thick striped cat went hiding under the house without unnecessary thoughts. Outside, only a tail remained, fluffed according to all the rules of panic.

On February 16, the local history museum of Velikie Luki hosted the 26th regular meeting of the Public Council on Historical and Cultural Heritage under the Culture Committee of the Administration of Velikie Luki. The Public Council supported the request of the Children's Art School to install a memorial plaque to the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Alexei Alekseevich Bolshakov on the building of the school that bears his name.

A year after the murder of Boris Nemtsov: people in Russia remain in power who are absolutely satisfied with his absence in politics Late in the evening of February 27, 2015 in the center of Moscow, on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, a hundred meters from the walls of the Kremlin, politician Boris Nemtsov was killed.

Provocative art can evoke completely different feelings In Pskov, a month ago, two art exhibitions opened almost at the same time, which were opposite to each other in almost everything. One exhibition is large-scale and entirely built on computer technology. Its author is Konstantin Khudyakov. The second exhibition is intimate, consisting entirely of discreet illustrations to Pushkin’s “Belkin’s Tales” (a few days later it moved to Pushkinskie Gory).

The likelihood that the single-mandate constituency in the State Duma elections will remain with Kozlovsky Jr. is very high “I can assure you absolutely firmly of one thing: he will not achieve the glory of Ivan Kozlovsky. Never!" Victor Dragunsky. "Deniska's stories" The Russian trend, when the children of major politicians and industrialists gradually come to power, has also been characteristic of the Pskov region for several years now.

After communicating with the Pskov farmers, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev sincerely wondered why they vote for Turchak Members of the Pskov farmer agrarian association in recent years have studied the road to Moscow quite well. And in the capital itself, it seems that they are also happy to see, because they are constantly invited to congresses and meetings.

Ivan Tsetsersky, head of Pskov: “When they offend indiscriminately, like any person, it is unpleasant for me. Where they offend objectively, I try to analyze the situation and still help the person, at least a little. In fact, today people do not ask for manna from heaven. They ask for the most basic things. And I am very worried when our current city budget does not allow financing important areas.

Russian citizens still do not personally relate to the terror against opponents of the Putin regime The demonstrative murder of Boris Nemtsov and Kadyrov’s public threats against opposition politicians and journalists are undoubted evidence of the Russian government’s slide into increasingly harsh forms of authoritarianism. Meanwhile, a strong, institutionalized authoritarian regime, as a rule, does not need terror against the opposition and the most active part of the population.

The boundaries of common sense are deliberately blurred You read the so-called news, and it seems that this is not news at all, but tattered quotes from melodramatic books. Compare: “The harm of love is obvious! And most importantly, I’m tired of the false and vulgar myths that accompany this element...” This is from a fiction book. “Love is a false value, alien to Russian culture,” is already one of the most popular news items on February 15, 2016.

The city authorities are in no hurry to fulfill their promises to build ground parking lots in Pskov And time, in a good way, came, and so already five or six years ago. Back in 2013, the number of vehicles registered in Pskov exceeded 100 thousand cars.