Yuri Afanasiev passed away on September 14, 2015

September 14–18 On September 17, Thursday in the apartment of the editor -in -chief of the site "Sputnik and Pogrom" Yegor Prosvirnin was a search. According to his lawyer Matvey Zen, the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Exciting of hatred or enmity” applies to the material “for what we are, what will be and what will not happen” behind the authorship of Prosvirnin. During the search, all equipment and carriers of information were seized, Zen added.

On September 15, a message appeared in the news about the conversation of the famous musician and part-time fighter for the rights of the LGBT community of Elton John with Vladimir Putin Before this sensation was refuted by Putin’s spokesman Peskov and its authors themselves, the prankers Vovan and Lexus, many leading media of the world and Russia managed to illuminate the topic.

Neither military bases nor weapons contracts are so important for Moscow. The main thing is not to yield to the pressure of the West The activation of the military efforts of Russia in Syria caused a nervous and sharp reaction in the West. In the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the idea that Moscow is interested only in the struggle against the Islamic State group (IG)**.

The Yekaterinburg Center for Modern Drama brought to Moscow to the Artmigration festival, the performance of the memory of the rock musician Alexander Bashlachev A tape, filling all the playing space, is the main image of the play “Sashbash.

An exhibition of works by artist Charlotte Salomon, who died at Auschwitz, has opened in Salzburg, Austria. Art historians believe that she became the forerunner of the modern art language. photo: wikimedia.org, © SALZBURGER FESTSPLETE/RUTH WALZ

There are immediately six landing ships of the Russian Navy in the East Mediterranean, an established air bridge, according to which Russian Ruslan delatias supposedly “humanitarian aid” in Syrian Latakia, many international observers are confident in the Kremlin’s readiness to support Bashar al -Assad with the help of “green men” and heavy weapons.

Is Syria’s collapse into several states and why Bashar al -Assad resembles Babrak Karmal - The New Times was told by the Syrian journalist Muja Abu Alejadail In fact, Syria has already been divided into three states: the Islamic State group* captured the East and the Center (Racca, Manbij, Dire-Ez-Zaur), rebels from the free army, in which almost all groups that are not subordinate to the IG* and Al-Qaeda are currently fighting, control the North and South (Aleppo, Deraa), under the control of

Cultural event and a political scandal in the country where the Institute of Reputation was destroyed Sergey Dovlatov in the studio of Radio “Freedom”, New York, 1990 to be famous ugly, ”Boris Pasternak once told Russian writers. Later, already in our time, it turned out that it was much worse to be famous and dead - this is not only ugly, but also very inconvenient: there is no way to protect yourself from not the best of zealous descendants.

On September 17, a search was conducted in the apartments of Yegor Prosvirnin, editor-in-chief of the nationalist website Sputnik and Pogrom, and his mother. Prosvirnin is accused of "inciting hatred and enmity" and was summoned to the TFR for questioning. On the same day, a search was also carried out at the home of the St. Petersburg nationalist Nikolai Bondarik.

The New Times collected the arguments of cultural figures who agreed to take part in the Dovlatov Festival, organized by the government of the Pskov region Alexey Bokov, festival producer ( text from Facebook, to comment for NT declined ): We greatly respect the choice of those who refused to travel to Pskov. But this is a festival about people and for people, and some of the participants are flying from abroad, which causes a lot of organizational difficulties.

Why Russian cinema was left without prizes at the Venice Film Festival For the whole world, the 72nd Venice Film Festival ended with the triumph of young Venezuelan cinema (gold was taken by debutant Lorenzo Vigas for the drama "From Afar"). And only for Russia - an unfair defeat of ours. There were no Russian films in Venice, but there was Alexander Sokurov.

On September 16, the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, announced the personnel cleaning among his subordinates, promising the resignation of those who could not cope with the presidential instructions. All this happens against the backdrop of the August demand of Vladimir Putin to cleanse Crimean offices from corruption Personnel rotations in Crimea are always a little more than just personnel rotations.

Alexis Tsipras again became Prime Minister of Greece. In the early parliamentary elections, his Party “Siriza” gained 35% of the vote, the main rivals of their right -conservative “new democracy” - 27.

Why did Latakia become a headache of Damascus and Moscow, and is it possible to defeat the Islamic State with Russian military help* - The New Times was explained by the leader of the Syrian opposition movement Syria Peace Movement Muhammad Adnan Around mid -August, the Syrian Free Army units (SAS) intercepted the tactical initiative from the government forces in the province of Latakia, and just a week ago they managed to take control of several settlements near the city of Latakia - the