This story has everything that we have become so accustomed to over the past fifteen years: both a raider seizure, and a cut of government dough, and Putin's PR, and just idiocy. But, alas, this is not about a squeezed-out metallurgical plant or another sawn-out government program “to educate patriotism”, damn them, it’s about how the Kremlin “mastered” a unique spiritual uplift that brought half a million Russians to the streets of Moscow on May 9. Longing, brothers.

Children's parade in Rostov-on-Don, May 14, 2015 Nikolai Karamzin completed the “initiate letter” to the “History of the Russian State”, addressed to Emperor Alexander I, the famous phrase: “The history of the people belongs to the king.” The letter has an author’s dating - December 8, 1815. Soon it will be possible to celebrate the anniversary, unexpectedly relevant, because for two hundred years, power in Russia has not forgotten about its imaginary right to folk history.

Exactly thirty years ago, on May 7, 1985, the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers adopted a resolution "On measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism" In a series of great May anniversaries, one remained unnoticed - the anniversary of an event almost forgotten, but in all respects fateful.

In the theater.doc played the premiere of the play "Swamp business", dedicated to the three years of events on May 6 Gamaki, lampshades, soft light - it may seem that the action takes place on the country veranda, and not on the threshold of the prison (actress Marina Boyko) The premiere of the “Swamp business” again aroused the fiery love of power structures for the art of the theater: the “theaterwomen in civilian clothes” reached out in the mansion on Spartakovskaya.

On May 9, 2015, a procession of the “Immortal Regiment” was held throughout the country - the descendants of the front -line soldiers came out with their portraits on the streets and squares of cities In Moscow, according to the organizers, more than 500 thousand people took part in the action. At the last moment, even President of Russia Vladimir Putin joined with a portrait of Frontovik's father.

The rapid rapprochement of Russia and China involuntarily resurrects in memory the events of 45 years ago on the island of Damansky: for 15 days of armed confrontation due to a bit of land with a size of 1 km2 on the Ussuri River, dividing the two countries, 58 Soviet border guards, including 4 officers. Then, in March 1969, only crazy could dream of “turning the east” and “contracts of the century” with the Chinese.

Prime Minister David Cameron held the first meeting of the updated cabinet of ministers-for the first time in the last 18 years, he consisted of conservative deputies. Why did their party won and what they are going to do in the first place - the New Times found out David Cameron with a group of communities of deputies-conservatives, London, May 11, 2015 At first glance, changes after triumphant elections on May 7, 2015 are insignificant. At least personnel.

Photo of the week To the anniversary of Victory, Irkutsk Nerpinaria presented the audience with a new military-patriotic program. During the representation, trained Baikal seals, the Baikal seals, demonstrate movements in the system, shoot from toy rifles, make sabotage sorties with plastic daggers in the teeth, overcome an obstacle lane and raise a flag for marches and lyrical songs of the war years above the pool.

NT: On May 9, in Moscow, the largest military parade in post -Soviet history was held: 16 thousand military personnel and dozens of modern combat vehicles passed along Red Square, and military helicopters, strategic bombers, fighters, etc. flew over Moscow. What did the Kremlin say to this parade? Andrei Movchan, economist: It seems to me that the parade, like many other similar things, is not a statement, but a product that is sold.

Chronicles Replicas behind the stone wall about the mysterious visit of John Kerry to Sochi , the film adaptation of the adventurous and patriotic novel by Vladimir Medinsky and the Gorbachevsky Anti-Alcohol Campaign Opinion Victory: The aftertaste by Ivan Davydov-that the current events of the current events of current events told us about us. On May 11–15, the economy with Yuan in early May signed multibillion -dollar contracts with the PRC.

In Moscow, without an extra pump, dozens of Russian-Chinese contracts have been signed for tens of billions of dollars, and investments are mainly from the PRC. Why Xi Jinping is so generous with Russia - the New Times sorted out Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the ceremony of signing joint documents, Moscow, May 8, 2015 In early May 2015, something like a temporary plywood entrance covered with white cloth was attached to the left wing of the President-Hotel.

Why did the Communists manage to establish a bust of Stalin in Lipetsk and failed in Orel? Where else in Russia there are monuments and memorial boards to the leader of the peoples? How the Russians react to the return of the great leader - the New Times sorted out Stalinobus on the streets of St. Petersburg, May 5, 2010 In the wake of preparation for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, the Communists tried to erect monuments to Stalin in several Russian regional centers.

May 13, Wednesday The court recognized the arrest of a member of Monstance legal. The Novosibirsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the Zaeltsovsky court, who previously arrested the artist and activist Artem Loskutov. Both vessels found Loskutov guilty of participating in an unauthorized action before the city hall building on May 1, 2015.

In the satirical film of Riad Sattuf "Jackie in the Kingdom of Women", men wear hijabs, being completely dependent on women Men in the fictional republic of Bubun consider violence a natural part of their life Director of the film Riad Sattuf - by origin Sunnit from Syria, so he knows about the oppression of one gender with another firsthand. As a cartoonist, he illustrates a weekly humorous column in a tragically famous French satirical magazine Charlie Ebdo.