The widow of John Lennon Yoko, it awarded the Lennon-ONo Award in the amount of $ 50 thousand Russian punk group Pussy Riot. The award ceremony, which was attended by the husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Peter Verzilov, took place in New York on Friday, September 21. Yoko, it not only thanked the members of the Pussy Riot group for “that they tried to make freedom of speech the property of all women,” but also demanded their immediate liberation.

Shadow above the festival “Film” is our way. In Anapa, the annual open festival of the CIS countries and Baltic Cinema 2012 ended.

September 20. Marina Litvinenko gives comments after the hearing. The main corinet hearings (Public Inquest) in the case of the ex-owned FSB Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in 2006 in London with radioactive polonium-210, will be held in 2013, their exact date is still unknown. “In the interests of the family of the deceased, we must begin the inquiry as soon as possible,” said Coroner Robert Owen during preliminary hearings in the high court of London on September 20.

Agan tactics of marching should be changed. The "planned" marches need to be replaced with targeted ones. For example, soon there will be a trial of the detainees for march on May 6 - this is under this event and organize the next march. Moreover, in the immediate vicinity of the court. Planned regular processions "pass" with a bunch of slogans, but as a result, about anything and nothing, exhaling, there is no drive. Yuri Kornilov of course, many were frightened, but the protest remained.

"Nuremberg, who was not" On September 28–30, the festival of Russian documentary cinema will be held in New York in the film center of Traibek for the fifth time. This year, the festival is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the New Journal, the oldest publication of Russian emigration in the United States. It was created in New York in 1942 by the writer Mark Aldanov and the poet, critic Mikhail Zetlin, who fled from the Nazis of France.

CONTENT Feedback Short What is Russia on the eve of the election Half -life Dmitry Oreshkin The cross in education is the lessons of Orthodoxy and the lessons of life.

Why is Putin pressing officials Fire by headquarters. “Gudkov’s incident” parliamentary inviolability was sent to the urn. Sovereign people are about to ban the property and receive education abroad. The President personally gives out reprimands to the ministers. Other ministers and governors, having spent in their seats by Russian standards without a year, are already explained with investigators.

Excess people. On September 19, in the Moscow district of Mitino, a spontaneous rally of protest was held, which forced the capital's authorities to abandon the construction of the mosque - the problem of intolerance on ethnic and religious grounds once again reminded of itself. The New Times correspondent spent this day with those who hunt illegal migrants, and with those who protect them September 19, Moscow, 9 o’clock in the evening.

Not only did the danger of the collapse of the emergency wall on the Vlavostok -Khabarovsk highway, built to the APEC summit, also added the danger of the Sanba Typhun added worries.

The international scandal around the film "Innocence of Muslims" was an unexpected continuation in Russia. On September 17, the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia made a statement that the film is extremist, and appealed to the court with a request to ban its distribution in the territory of the Russian Federation.

With a hammock on Pussy Riot With the scandal, the opening of the exhibition "Spiritual Branch" in the gallery of Marat Helman at the "Vinzavod" began. The entrance to the gallery was blocked by several dozen Cossacks and Orthodox activists, dissatisfied with the fact that the paintings depict saints in balaclavas, and members of the Pussy Riot group with halo.

19 September 2012 The Khamovnican Court of Moscow was taken into custody of a resident of St. Petersburg Yuri Piotrovsky, who doused two icons in the XXS ink. September 20, 2012 On the Internet, the collection of signatures has begun with a demand to translate the activist of the Left Front Vladimir Akimenkov (accused of the “case on May 6”) from the Disseum of SIZO-5 to the civil hospital for the treatment of blindness.

Russian democracy does not need help Back to the "unloading". The closure of the Russian representative office of the US agency for International Development (USAID) will inevitably lead to the adoption by the American Congress of the "Magnitsky Law". “Now this is practically inevitable,” said the New Times, a high -ranking source in the Barack Obama administration.

Lessons of Orthodoxy and life lessons. Report from the Balaban school Cross in education. Since September 1, 2012, the school program has a new subject: "Fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics." The New Times studied the experience and consequences of religious education - in the city of Balabanovo, Kaluga Region, the foundations of Orthodox culture have been taught for almost ten years OPC cabinet in the Balabanov secondary school No. 3 - Where are you, red hat, are you going?

Without anger and despair. Mikhail Khodorkovsky's memoirs "Prison and Freedom" appeared on the shelves of bookstores. The former owner of Yukos, who has been behind bars for nine years, is trying to take a look at his life and understand where he went wrong and where he turned out to be right. Prison prose is a special literary genre. Many prominent people began writing while behind bars.