Ten excellent films that you could miss in 2023 Shot from the film "Strange Life." Source: IMDB Among the Barbie and Oppenheimer, the new films of Scorsese and Scott, the “Words of the Boanding” and the final of the “Heirs” it was easy to miss dozens of festival favorites and films, which had not been released in Russian rental.

Tatyana Lazareva - guest of the first in 2024 of the release of the podcast "Wait - see" The heroine of the first in 2024 of the output of the Podkasta “Zaporovym”-actress and TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva. Together with Tatyana, we summed up the results of 2023, and also talked about confrontation with the authorities, departure from television, about the future president of Russia, coup ditch, laughter during the war and that helps to find strength to continue to live and not give up.

A volunteer in Russia’s underground support network for Ukrainian refugees tells his story Vyacheslav Korshunov holds up a poster saying that journalism is not a crime. Photo from private archive “I want to have this on me forever. It’s part of me, and I don’t know if I’ll ever forget it,” says Vyacheslav Korshunov, showing me a child’s drawing of a black cat, with the sun and a blue cloud in the sky above and green grass growing beneath its feet.

In 2023, the democratic opposition in Poland intercepted the power from the conservatives. But to achieve the legalization of abortion and other changes, it will not yet be possible The protest in Krakow on July 25, 2023. Photo: Artur Widak / Nurphoto / Getty images Two months after the triumphal for the democratic forces of the parliamentary elections in Poland, political parties united in the coalition for victory managed to agree on the new cabinet of ministers.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against a 22-year-old Moscow resident after video footage emerged showing her burning her Russian passport outside a nightclub in the western Russian city of Bryansk during New Year’s Eve festivities. The detained woman was identified by Telegram channel Baza as blogger Yevgenia Hoffman. Multiple onlookers crowded around and filmed her burning her passport and posted the video online.

The share of secret decrees by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023 reached 49.5%. Putin set the previous record for secret decrees in 2001 at the height of the Second Chechen War, found out after analyzing data from the website for the official publication of legal acts. Mediazona Presidential decrees are numbered sequentially, and the counter is reset annually. Thus, by counting the number of missed numbers, you can understand how many decrees were classified.

On New Year's Eve, the police detained thousands of migrants to recruit “volunteers” to war. Novyevropa found out how the Azamat operation was being prepared Photo: EPA-EFE / Anatoly Maltsev New Year's Eve for migrants from Central Asia in St. Petersburg turned into a nightmare: more than three thousand people were detained on the streets of the city: men, women, children, old people. Police and the Russian Guard also went through the apartments where citizens of other countries live.

Armenian director Shoghakat Vardanyan talks about her documentary account of her brother's death in Nagorno-Karabakh Shoghakat Vardanyan. Photo from personal archive As Shoghakat Vardanyan began journalism school and her brother Soghomon was completing his compulsory military service in September 2020, the Second Karabakh War broke out. Soghomon was immediately sent to the front line. On 1 October, he called his mother for the last time. After that he disappeared.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case for desecration of the coat of arms of the Russian Federation (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) against a 22-year-old resident of Moscow, who burned her Russian passport on New Year’s Eve. This was reported in the department’s telegram channel. According to investigators, she burned her passport on January 1 near a club in Bryansk. Eyewitnesses filmed the incident and posted it on the Internet.

The aftermath of the strike on Kyiv. Photo: Strana.ua The Russian military continued its bombardment of Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday morning, launching massive drone and missile strikes on both the capital Kyiv and the second city Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Air Force said . According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the strikes killed at least four and injured 92.

Journalist Anatoly Golovkov - about the new book of Alla Bossart “There are many Bukoff” and herself. Bonus: several stories of the heroine of the review Nastya Goltinsk / "New Gazeta Europe" Alla rushes into the dispute as announced. Not like children dive into a lake from a cliff - they are still afraid, move from foot to foot. In front of the lake, Alla, too, would hardly have to lift up. Despite fearlessness.

The results of the year in the Russian theater are superior to all expectations: the authorities humiliated almost everyone and overtook everything that the industry has achieved over the years of freedom The giant symbol Z in support of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on the building of the theater Oleg Tabakov, March 29, 2022. Photo: Konstantin Zavrazhin / Getty Images Big finale Let's start with recent.

Main The consequences of a missile strike on a high -rise building in Kyiv. Photo: country.ua On the night of January 2, Russian troops attacked Ukraine drones, after which Kyiv and Kharkov were subjected to missile impact. The Russian army launched 35 shock drones of the Shakad-136/131 type, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said . As the statement says, all the drones were shot down.

The story of a volunteer who worked in a secret shelter and helped Ukrainian refugees arrange a life without the participation of the Russian state Photo from the personal archive Over the past two years, the Bryansk and Belgorod regions have shown themselves as the richest deposits of human characters. In these areas, bordering Ukraine, many volunteers work. They help refugees find money for tickets, collect food, clothes for them and give shelter.