In the middle of winter in Moscow, it was sharply warming and a delopad began on the streets Soldier stands - cleaning is coming, Moscow, Red Square , February 2, 2016 It is better to walk in ice, standing on the spot , Moscow, January 29, 2016 Wipers go on duty, Moscow, January 29, 2016 All December, Muscovites were waiting for snow and waited in the new year, Moscow, February 2, 2016 "On Labutenes" , Moscow, January 29, 2016 The pedestrians were funny seed, theatrically bounced, carefully

On the night of February 1, the Moscow Philharmonic opened an online sale for the next season; over 46 thousand subscriptions were sold in 4 days. The excitement has already been compared with the “queue for Serov” that has become a meme Comparison with the crush in the Tretyakov Gallery on Serov, of course, is not entirely correct, even if the number of sold philharmonic subscriptions is more than usual. The increase in subscription sales is observed every year, along with queues and hype.

On February 3, the press secretary of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, Alvi Karimov, through the official website of the Chechen government, addressed an open letter to the EU Ambassador to the Russian Federation Vygaudas Usackas The short message contains reproaches and insults: the diplomat allegedly exceeded his authority and offended Kadyrov with offensive suspicions. The appeal, of course, did not appear just like that.

A week is not only big events worthy of serious magazine articles. It is also a bunch of a variety of trifles: inconspicuous, background stories, phrases spoken by characters from the point of view of great politics secondary, but bright. Or even the statements of people from the first row, but random, lost behind more significant matters and words. However, no portrait - a portrait of the era too - is not full without small features.

On February 2, President Vladimir Putin appointed General Alexei Dyumin by the acting governor of the Tula region with his decree. Previously, Dyumin served as a president’s specialist, on special assignments in the Security Service of the President of the FSO (SBP FSO), then commanded the super -secret forces of special operations in the Ministry of Defense.

On February 4, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it firmly linked the lifting of sanctions against Russia with the return of Crimea to Ukraine. Resolutions of the European Parliament regarding Russia are adopted approximately twice a year. But this year, such events are likely to happen more often. Let me note right away that the parliamentary resolution is not a normative document, and it does not give rise to immediate legal consequences.

The fight against internal enemies as the penultimate trump card in the year of parliamentary elections Prohibitions, repression and just nonsense - a menu for new elections for disappointed Russians The proposal of the director of the Institute for the Analysis of Political Infrastructure Eugene Tunik to cancel all the elections in Russia until sanctions are removed from it, it fits perfectly into the already habitually delusional series of deputy and political initiatives of the third Putin

The New Times, along with the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" collects help to sick children A wheelchair is not scary. Scary - this is when there is no wheelchair. Vika Kozlova is a year and a half, she does not walk and will never walk. Vicki has spinal muscle atrophy (SMA). This is an incurable genetic disease, constantly progressing. Vika is under the care of a children's hospice. It often happens that when a person is deprived of some opportunities, he receives a lot of others.

What is the victory of the book “The Tale and Life of Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev” at the literary prize “Nose” Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev, the author and the hero of his own life, between the supervisor Irina Prokhorova and the hero of Gogol - a revived nose In the Russian literary process, two epoch -making events occurred.

*“Chronicle of current events” - a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “And no lustration is needed for them. That is, lustration in general, as a purification of power, we need, but this is not a tool for retaliation against those who organized political examination.

“This group is somewhat similar to a closed order, it is poorly entered into a coalition with others and relies on a power resource that Putin is for them.