Kirill Shulika “In fact, the criminal prosecution of Serebrennikov is no longer similar to 1937, although parallels are not only possible, but also necessary to be drawn. Because our country simply does not change. Or rather, the country may be changing, now the Internet has appeared, but people No. It is necessary to compare with 1973. Then director Parajanov was tried under that same article 122.

The legendary French chansonnier and actor Charles Aznavour on Thursday, August 24, received a star on the Alley of Glory in Los Angeles, Reuters reports. This happened in the 94th year of the artist’s life. At the opening ceremony of the star, Aznavour admitted that he was happy, and thanked for the honor that was provided to him.

The Association of Theater Critics (ATC) on Friday, August 25, published a statement in support of the director and head of the Gogol Center Theater Kirill Serebrennikov, who is currently under house arrest in the fraud case of 68 million rubles. The authors of the appeal called the detention of Serebrennikov in St. Petersburg and his escort to Moscow with an "intimidation action".

“When Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov directed his exodus from the board of trustees of the Cinema Fund and at the same time from the board of the Ministry of Culture, he probably staged a remake of the departure of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy from Yasnaya Polyana. The result was a comedy of the voluntary expulsion of Foma Fomich Opiskin from the village of Stepanchikovo” on a simple peasant cart,” writes a columnist for the Daily Journal .

The largest social network Facebook blocks over 1 million accounts every day for spreading spam, fraud or hateful posts, writes CNBC . This was announced by the head of the social network's security service, Alex Stamos. At the same time, he admitted that given the number of connections between users, the company cannot eliminate all threats, and sometimes posts and videos that do not violate Facebook rules are deleted from the social network.

In August, the average cost of the minimum package tariff of Russian mobile operators increased by 15% compared to October 2016 and amounted to 268.5 rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper writes with reference to the report of the Content Review analytical agency, issued with the support of Vimpelcom. Compared to April last year, this figure took off by a third.

The administration of the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory published a list of 18 dead when the bus fell with workers in the sea in the Kerch Strait in the village of Volna. The list is given on the administration website . Earlier, 17 dead were reported. There are 18 of them in the list, and it begins with the words "among the dead", that is, in the administration they made it clear that this number may not be final. We are talking about the dead, whose personalities are established.

Last week, the owner of an independent oil and gas company (NNK), the former President of Rosneft, Eduard Khudaintov, categorically denied information about the creation of a joint venture with the Chinese China Energy (CEFC). “This is nonsense, nonsense and provocation, just some fantastic,” he said . However, as the newspaper Vedomosti writes on Friday, negotiations continue, and the management of NNA often visits China.

“Several media outlets reported on the latest meeting of non-scientific fiction lovers held at the Ministry of Transport - a meeting on the construction of a high-speed railway from Europe to China,” the economist writes on his Facebook page. “So far, as you know, we were talking about the Moscow-Kazan high-speed road. The idea dates back to 2009, commissioning was supposed to take place by 2018. The cost of the project in 2014 was estimated at 1.07 trillion rubles - but nothing and not done.

According to the results of the reciprocal matches of the playoffs of the League of Europe UEFA, the players of the Petersburg Zenit mined a ticket to the group stage of the second most important European Cup, while Krasnodar completed its European campaign. “Zenit” on Thursday of St. Petersburg defeated the Dutch team “Utrecht” with a score of 2: 0 thanks to the double of Alexander Kokorin (9 ', 105').

Dmitry Novikov regarded the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on international affairs from the Communist Party of the Communist Party as idle talk of Poland’s claim for reparations from Germany following World War II. “The topic of reparations is a topic that was discussed at the conference of the leaders of the powers of the anti -Hitler coalition, including Yalta and Potsdam,” RIA Novosti quotes him. “Especially in Potsdam.

Sociologists calculated how many Russians are in the knowing loud scandal associated with the film by Alexei Master Matilda and the campaign organized against the rental of the picture by State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya. From the survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation, it turned out that 69% of respondents know nothing about the conflict, while almost half of the respondents are going to see the tape.

Employees of the Department of Economic Security and Anti -Corruption of the Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at Domodedovo Airport detained two passengers who flew from Kolyma with large batches of gold in ingots with a total cost of 11 million rubles. "In a hand luggage of a 40 -year -old air passenger who flew by the Magadan -Moscow flight, a yellow metal was discovered," said Irina Volk, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Court of the Perm Territory sentenced the driver of a taxi, which is found guilty of sexual abuse and the murder of a girl. Earlier, the man was already convicted of pedophilia, but this did not stop him from getting a job in the passenger transportation service. The court appointed a 46-year-old recidivist who lived in the Ordzhonikidze district of Perm, a punishment in the form of life imprisonment.

An engineer at the German automaker Volkswagen was sentenced Friday in federal court in Detroit to three years and four months in prison and a $200,000 fine for his involvement in the so-called diesel scandal. As reported by Bloomberg , this was the first verdict in this high-profile case against an individual.