After restoration, Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" will be exhibited in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in a special armored glass case. About this, according to Interfax , told the director of the gallery Zelfira Tregulova. “We received a call from Sberbank willing to support the restoration and ensure that this work is safely exhibited after a lengthy restoration in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in a special armored glass case,” she said.

About the metaphors of the Soviet past and why they are reproduced in the present Opening of the Olympic Games in Moscow, 1980 Photo: Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos / Grinberg Agency We approached the dramatic line. And the reason what is happening to us today is not in politicians, although in them too. Our main trouble is in a totalitarian heritage that lives in the minds of modern Russian society.

Former Minister of Construction of the Russian Federation Mikhail Men can be appointed as the new presidential envoy to the Central Federal District. writes about this Vedomosti , citing sources. Until recently, the post of plenipotentiary in the Central Federal District was occupied by the former Minister of Agriculture, ex-governor of the Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeev. In the new government, he received the post of Deputy Prime Minister in charge of agriculture.

The governor of the Magadan region, Vladimir Pecheny, has filed a voluntary resignation. President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation and appointed acting head of the region Sergei Nosov. The corresponding decree was published on the Kremlin website. Vladimir Pecheny took the chair of the governor of the Magadan region in September 2013. Prior to that, he led Magadan. Earlier today, the resignation was announced by the head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov.

The famous writer celebrated her 80th anniversary Lyudmila Petrushevskaya at one of the concerts-as always, in one of her famous hats photo: Sergey Karpov / ITAR-TASS When overtakes the text NT: *What does it mean to be a writer in our time? And how much is more joyful than life now than it was in Soviet times? Or, conversely, more bitter? * I do not work in the generally accepted sense of the word - that is, I got up in the morning, sat down to write. I will boast now.

Lies and self -deception are the basis of a social contract between the authorities and the Putin majority Photo: FoxFordSocial.com / Anonymous Crowd The Voice of America asks the Armenian radio: "Can a simple engineer buy a car in the USSR?" After a long pause, the Armenian radio replies: "And your blacks are linked." What do you think about the updated version of the Boeing Capacor MN17? Answer: And the Ukrainians of the Tu-154 shot down and did not pay compensation. And in general ...

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, ordered a collective donation of DNA materials - this should help establish the family affiliation of children born in the countries of the Middle East and help them return to Russia. “At this stage, for the unhindered export to Russia of our children born in the countries of the Middle East, on my instructions, a collective delivery of material for DNA will be carried out.

The court arrested the accounts of the Summa group as part of a criminal case against its co-owner Ziyavudin Magomedov on fraud, embezzlement and the creation of a criminal community. This was stated in the Tverskoy Court of Moscow by lawyer Victoria Tsiryulik, TASS reports . She did not specify the amount of the seized funds. On March 31, the Tverskoy Court arrested the Magomedov brothers and Artur Maksidov for two months.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow until August 5 left the owner of the Summa group of companies Ziyavudin Magomedov in custody, accused of organizing a criminal community and especially large-scale embezzlement of budget funds. For the same period, the arrest was extended for the businessman's brother Magomed Magomedov and the former director of the Inteks company, which is part of the Summa group, Artur Maksidov, Interfax reports .

In Russia, VAT can be increased from 18 to 20%, which will help collect about 2 trillion rubles for the budget over 6 years. As Vedomosti writes, citing its sources, this option is one of the most likely, although not final. The government needs money to implement the “May” decree of President Vladimir Putin, for which it is necessary to find an additional 8 trillion rubles. The already announced increase in the retirement age will give the budget another 2 trillion rubles.

The head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, announced his resignation. “Today I made a conscious decision to terminate my powers as the Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in connection with the resignation of my own free will. I always understood that personnel rotation should occur at any level. He did it himself in personnel work. Today that moment has ripened in Yakutia. The President of the Russian Federation was elected for a new 6-year term.

By appointing the government, the president took up the regions. The head of Yakutia was fired, where Putin received the worst result in the March elections. Sobyanin and Vorobyov who did the task go to a new term The Kremlin approved the reassignment of the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin (left) and the governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov (in the center) Photo: mosreg.ru Get out of confidence Returning from the St.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that “Instagram should be closed,” because with his help, “a terrorist attack was committed in Leningrad.” The FSB previously reported that an explosion was organized in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, 2017 using the Telegram messenger. According to RBC , Bastrykin made a statement, speaking at a congress of commissioners for children's rights.

Political strategist Mikhail Vinogradov - about the meaning of personnel scatters in the country's leadership, the struggle between groups of influence, the potential of updated power and its resistance to external and internal threats Photo: novoye-vremya.com What tasks do Vladimir Putin and his environment seek to realize at this stage of restart of power?

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Apple demanding to stop the distribution of the Telegram Messenger application hosted in the appStore in Russia, as well as the distribution of its service push notifications for Russian users. “In order to avoid possible actions by Roskomnadzor to disrupt the functioning of the above services, Apple, Inc. we ask you to inform us as soon as possible about the further actions of the Company aimed at resolving these problematic issues,” says .