The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Vladimir Mirzoev, director: The first thing that comes to mind is good advice to all against whom the law is directed: “Leave, guys, from this distraught country that has firmly decided to return to the archaic, to the medieval theocracy of the Iranian type, so dear to the hearts of leaders and priests. You can’t break a butt with a whip, etc.

What is it like to understand that you are homosexual? The New Times publishes excerpts from the records of such a teenager* - Well, you settled down. One on the entire bench. Let's move the ass. Healthy as a wall, the guy plopped down nearby and spread his legs wide, so that his gray cowards are stretched. Probably from a neighboring school. Where do they only get such bugs from? That's who needs to be sent to the army ahead of schedule: all the same, no sense will come out.

The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Kirill Serebrennikov, director: I have one wish for homosexual teenagers: “Guys, leave Russia as soon as possible. You won't be happy here." In 2010, journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created the It Gets Better project.

In the Moscow City Court, the debate of the parties in the case of Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov ended. He is accused of preparing an armed rebellion (Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to lawyer Kvachkov Oksana Mikhalkina, this article was never used before in Russian judicial practice, it was first presented to Colonel Kvachkov. Neither he nor his accomplice Alexander Kiselev admit his guilt.

The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Elena Koreneva, actress: The feeling that you are opposed to public opinion, you are not understood and not accepted as you are, accompanies people all their lives. This is especially painfully perceived in adolescence and youth, because a person has not yet formed a protective layer, he has not entered an open life, where he has the right to declare that he will live as he sees fit.

Nina Demurova wrote a book about Lewis Carroll, the author of the “canonical” translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonders. The New Times talked with her about a trip to India, about a crazy hatchman, about life principles and about the principles of translation Nina Mikhailovna Demurova (born in 1930) - literary critic, translator from English. Lewis Carroll's work specialist.

"Sharia Zone" inside East London At the exit from the East London Mosque after Friday prayer , Jack Jack Ripper once in the London district, once in the London district. Then the poorest immigrants from around the world began to settle. And in January 2013, several young men from Muslim families declared this territory the "Sharia Zone" "Bismillah-r-rhmani-r-rhim!" (“In the name of Allah, gracious and merciful”), ”shouts in Arabic alone. “You are in the Muslim district!

Mikhail Yampolsky about new paganism in Russia An attempt to introduce a criminal punishment for “insulting the feelings of believers” is nothing more than a new paganism A rally in defense of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow on Suvorovskaya Square. 2012 Mikhail Yampolsky - philosopher, philologist, historian and theorist of art, film. Doctor of Art History (1991). Since 1992-Professor of New York University for Departments of Comparative Literary Studies and Russian and Slavic Studies.

At the Berlin Film Festival, which will open on February 7, the film directed by Svetlana Baskova “For Marx ...” Here he is, the image of the new Russia? In the film "For Marx ..." Dissatisfaction of the workers acquires the features of the class struggle “Enough to endure the lawlessness!”; “Let's arrange a rally, and then a strike!”; "We are treated as cattle!" - The people scream in this film.

The authorities of the Moscow Region want to build 16 garbage plants in the region. The goal seems to be noble - the fight against illegal landfills. However, as a result, an even more terrible blow will be inflicted on the ecology of the region Illegal landfill on the outskirts of the village of Fenino (Balashikhinsky district) Today the suburbs was in the garbage ring.

The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Renata Litvinova, actress: When you are alone against everyone, you need to have strength and knowledge inside yourself that the time will come when, going against everyone, but saving yourself, you will be right. This is a wish for the strong. I do not know how much suffering and humiliation you will endure, but the obsession of a loner is stronger than even death.

The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?* Sergey Shnurov, musician: There is neither Greek nor Jew. These words were not spoken by me, and these words are already 2000 years old. Has anything changed since then? There are people. Everything else doesn't matter. In 2010, journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created the It Gets Better project.