Meet the Soviet physicist who hosted the USSR’s best-known underground parties and recorded the greatest writers of his era Semyon Katz for Meduza Alexander Krivomazov was a Soviet physicist who spent the 1970s and early 1980s organizing house parties with writers and artists in his small one-bedroom flat in Moscow. The parties grew into an underground literary institution, away from the watchful eye of official Soviet censorship.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Smart, like Lenin and Kamenev taken together. As a rebel Sergei Shnurov accepted the Kremlin’s invitation to go to politics Musician Sergey Shnurov is now also a politician: on February 20, he joined the Boris Titov business mobuds-sophistication party. According to rumors, in this party the cords will take part in the elections to the State Duma of 2021. However, the musician himself answers direct questions about this so far evasively.

Police are questioning Navalny’s contributors across Russia, searching for anyone who thinks he cheated them. ‘Meduza’ spoke to two people who have been interrogated. Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Russian authorities raid the Anti-Corruption Foundation’s office in Moscow. December 2019. On February 20, journalists learned that police have started questioning individuals who have contributed money to opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s offices and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

As the matter of the Penza "network" is connected with the murder of Ryazan. Investigation "Medusa" In Russia, a campaign unfolded in support of the defendants in the case of the “network”, who were sentenced to huge terms - from six to 18 years - on charges of creating a “terrorist organization”. The basis of the case is the testimony that the defendants gave to the FSB employees under torture; Complaints of the illegal actions of the operatives were ignored.

Today, Medusa has been an investigation that can be called one of the most difficult in the history of the editorial office. This is a text about the Penza defendants in the case of the "Network". Unimaginable prison terms, torture certificates, absurdity of accusations - all this led to a wide campaign in support of convicts. People united to achieve a fair trial of this case and revision of the sentence.

On February 16, the British blogger Kevin Freshwater posted on Facebook the video “Finish the song”. In it, Freshwater approaches strangers on the street, starting to sing different compositions, and offers them to continue. The last heroine of the video is a woman from the metro, which he asks to sing the Oscar -winning song “Shallow” from the film “The Star Born”. And she sings, and how!

Opinions of Western historians in the podcast The Naked Pravda The eighth episode of the English -language podcast The Naked Pravda - about how modern Western researchers evaluate the Molotov -Ribbentrop pact and how the states use historical memory for political purposes. Russian President Vladimir Putin regularly accuses Poland of unleashing the Second World War.

Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA In his January 2020 address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin didn’t just announce radical constitutional reforms. He also promised the Russian people a series of social welfare boosts, from free hot lunches for elementary schoolers to increased allowances for families with children. To make those proposals a reality, the new executive cabinet led by Mikhail Mishustin has introduced a State Duma bill amending the federal budget.

The leadership of the State Budgetary Institution “Ritual” dismissed or transferred to remote cemeteries the workers of the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery, who complained about their immediate supervisor. This is what Open Media writes about. Of the 30 people who signed an appeal about claims to the head of the territorial department of funeral services for the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, Roman Molotkov, five were fired.

Russian citizen Olesya Krasilova was detained at the Tenerife airport in Spain's Canary Islands on February 14, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “According to the unofficial information we have, O.L. Krasilova into custody, possibly due to some kind of appeal from the American side, ”the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Foreign Ministry clarified that Krasilova is an employee of the All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine organization subordinate to Rosselkhoznadzor.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has announced on his website that Moscow officials are using the city’s extensive facial recognition system for public surveillance cameras to track individuals subject to quarantines. Two-week quarantine periods have been instituted in Russia for all individuals who may have been exposed to the COVID-19 coronavirus. As of February 21, about 2,500 people had been placed under quarantine in Russia.

The St. Petersburg Health Committee will conduct an investigation into the performance of a stripper in the city morgue. Rosbalt was informed about this by the committee’s press service. “We will conduct an investigation. It will be necessary to understand whether there is a basis for verification,” the department clarified. A video of the stripper's performance was published by Fontanka. The girl danced for the employees of the Forensic Medical Examination Bureau of St. Petersburg.

Low-cost airline Pobeda will cancel four international flights in its summer schedule amid delays in the delivery of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. This was reported by the airline's official representative Elena Selivanova, TASS reports. We are talking about flights from Moscow to Italy (Bari, Genoa, Palermo) and to Turkey (Dalaman). The low-cost airline ordered 20 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, TASS reports. Three aircraft were supposed to join the airline's fleet in 2019, and another ten in 2020.

The Moscow authorities began to follow the Chinese everywhere, but they almost did not notice this. But noticed how the attitude towards them changed Sergey Chirikov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta passengers who arrived from Beijing in terminal F of Sheremetyevo Airport.

“Criminal Man” - noir in the Georgian language about the witness of the murder, who is returning to the crime scene all the time. Trailer Subscribe to our YouTube on April 2, the film of Russian director Dmitry Mamuli “The Crime Man” , whose premiere took place in 2019 at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizon program. The protagonist accidentally becomes a witness to the murder of a famous goalkeeper.