Why are the current Russian realities so sadly predictable, where to look for a way out of the political and spiritual crisis in which the country was, and what role people of creativity can play-the famous Russian writer and a sixthe-senior dissident, sent from the USSR for a human rights activity after perestroika, shared his thoughts from The New Times on the eve of his 85-year-old anniversary Photo: TRV -Gorod Russia-2017 is increasingly compared with Moscow 2042 and others, written even

As the younger partner of Berezovsky and Abramovich became the leading censor of the Russian media and film industry Photo: tvkinoradio.ru The largest movie networks in Russia-“Formula Cinema” and “Cinema Park”-committed an unprecedented act-due to threats from the Orthodox activists, refused to roll the film “Matilda”.

Beautiful girls, a long ruble and Japanese language - about the reasons that made them change their place of residence, The New Times talked with the subscribers of their groups in social networks, which moved to the capital from other cities Photo: Flickr.com/andrey Stekachev Moscow: Work “... I was 6 years old when my parents decided to move to a well -fed Moscow to earn money.

A rally of opposition policy in Vladivostok has become the most massive in the city over the past seven years Photo: Sergey Shevchenko In September 2017, Alexei Navalny began a series of campaign rallies across the country - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Rallies take place as part of his election campaign-Navalny became the first candidate to publicly announce the desire to participate in the 2018 presidential election.

Aleksei lawyer, teacher Konstantin Dobrynin - about the situation around Matilda, religious extremists and Natalya Poklonskaya Photo: Konstantin Dobrynin/Facebook “Matilda” has already been shown in several cities of Russia, but the passions around the film do not subside, threats to the creators continue to sound, the intelligentsia does not without fright start kitchen conversations about “Orthodox terror”.