On December 8, Denis Lutskevich, one of the defendants in the Bolotnaya case, was released When I went to Bolotnaya Square, I did not have any carefully formulated position. Some political issues were discussed in front of me, I did not understand everything. On May 6, 2012, I just wanted to understand the essence of political life: what did these people on the square want to say, what did they want to achieve? I walked ahead of the column - to look around.

From our columnist at the Washington Regional Committee US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Moscow this week in an attempt to determine the general directions for resolving the Syrian and Ukrainian problems. But Kerry's trip, which is set to meet with Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin, isn't expected to be much in Washington. Many are not even sure whether it is worth spending time on it. “Russia has stopped playing by the rules and is pursuing a dangerous course of escalation.

People are our second oil, ”said the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, at those times when the first oil cost so much that it seemed that the state will never have any problems with money. But today the first oil is around $ 40 per barrel. And the state needs money - for war, for the coverage of sacred territories, for the World Cup not yet taken away.

“I involuntarily felt sorry for Putin: no one can tell him that such laws and such practices are unconstitutional, which means that he committed an unconstitutional coup. In a modern country, no regime should be eternal, which means that a revolution is not only inevitable, but also necessary. Do you think the truth is extremism?

On December 7, the judge of the Basmanny Court of Moscow Natalya Dudar issued the first sentence under Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“repeated violation of the established procedure for the organization or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picket”), sentencing Ildar Dadin to 3 years in prison in a general regime colony On December 10, the verdict was expected to another defendant under the same article, to Vladimir Ivanovich Ionov.

“In the rays of the Sun” - this is the name of a documentary about the life of an eight -year -old schoolgirl Zin Mi in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, shot by the Russian scenario written by North Korean comrades.

About why the problems of truckers are not social, but political, where to expect new protests from and how the authorities will cope with them, the editors of The New Times were argued by a member of the Central Council of the Party of Progress Leonid Volkov, the leader of the National Democratic Party Konstantin Krylov, the independent deputy of the State Duma, the press secretary of the rally in the ledges of the drivers Taisiya Nikitenko and trucker Dmitry Pavlechenko NT: What do you think,

“Artdokfest” - the most important festival of documentary cinema in Russia - is complete without the support of the authorities. The authorities don't like it Frame from the incomplete film "My Friend Boris Nemtsov" On the opening day of the festival (it takes place from December 8 to 16), the organizers received a warning from the Ministry of Culture on responsibility for “showing films without a rolling certificate”.

Online conference of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, London-Moscow, December 9, 2015 “I involuntarily felt sorry for Putin: no one can tell him that such laws and such a practice are anti -constitutional, which means that they have committed an anti -constitutional coup. In a modern country, no regime should be eternal, which means that the revolution is not only inevitable, but also necessary. Do you consider the truth extremism?

For which the drivers of heavy car hate power, why they hope for Putin and what they think about the prospects of their own protest - The New Times found out on the spot The protest stalled, the driver decide what to do next, Khimki, on December 4, 2015, parking near the Khimki shopping center near Moscow. Today, 15 heavy trucks are parked here. People have been living in them for more than a week. One of them, Sergei, at 40, came here on his truck from St. Petersburg.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Moscow this week in an attempt to determine the general directions for resolving the Syrian and Ukrainian problems. But Kerry's trip, which is set to meet with Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin, isn't expected to be much in Washington. Many are not even sure whether it is worth spending time on it. “Russia has stopped playing by the rules and is pursuing a dangerous course of escalation.

The second round of regional elections was held in France. The sensation of the first round, held on December 6, was the success of the extreme right -right party "National Front", which received almost 30% of the vote.

Who will go to protest after the truckers and what will be a protester for it - The New Times asked experts Mikhail Vinogradov, president of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation 1. The protests in our Russia are still an emotional, spontaneous, impulsive character. Over the past 15 years, the protest movement has developed weakly. The reasons for this, in my opinion, are still not analyzed. Nevertheless, experience shows that emotional bursts are more difficult to predict.