How Dmitry Bykov wrote a series about dissidents. The story "Application" from the collection "Pain/Shinning" Illustration: Anastasia Kshishtof / "New Gazeta Europe" What did I do in the last week? I just remember very well, because it was absurd enough to remember. Something from the series “would continue to play the ball” because - and what are the options? And I wrote an application for the script of the series "Dissidants", to which a good young director invited me.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two bombings in Iran that killed more than 80 people yesterday. This was reported by Reuters with reference to a telegram channel associated with a terrorist organization. The statement said two suicide bombers detonated their explosive vests at a funeral ceremony in the Iranian city of Kerman for General Qassem Soleimani.

The Russian and Ukrainian sides announced the first from August last year to exchange prisoners. 248 Russians and 230 Ukrainians returned home. Ukrainian military after liberation from captivity, January 3, 2024.

Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGY GUNEEV / KREMLIN / POOL Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed amendments into law that guarantee him and his family lifelong immunity from prosecution, his office announced on Wednesday.

While Putin is prepared to throw everything he has at this war, Ukraine’s Western backers are losing their resolve Police officers patrol Red Square in Moscow, Russia, late 31 December 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV MOSCOW — Harvard’s Graham Allison recently commented that, while China “is and will be the fiercest rival a ruling power has ever faced”, the current “demonisation” of the country “confuses more than it clarifies”.

As a favorite writer of the presidential administration, he led the cult glossy magazine Photo: Sergey Minaev / Telegram A fashionable glossy magazine in an authoritarian state is both an opposition and pro -government publication. Providing - because such a magazine should be on the side of the audience, that is, the wealthy class, that is, the elite.

On the night of January 4, the Su-34 bomber burned out at the Russian military airfield in the Chelyabinsk region, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said . “The combat aircraft was part of the air regiment of the 21st mixed aircraft division of the VKS RF Armed Forces. The reasons for the air of the aircraft are specified, ”they reported in the special service.

What worried Russians most in 2023? Illustration: Novaya Gazeta Europe The National Anxiety Index is a survey that has been conducted every three months since 2019 by the Russian Company for the Development of Public Relations (RCDSC), which works with major Russian corporations including Sberbank and Gazprom. The survey’s results always toe the official line.

The Russian army fired at the administrative center of the Kirovograd region of Ukraine, the city of Kropyvnitsky. This was announced by the head of the local administration Andrei Raikovich. The consequences of shelling. Photo: Main Directorate of the State Emergencies Ministry of Ukraine in the Kirovograd region As a result of the blow, an industrial facility was damaged, one person died, the enterprise employees were injured, the head of the region said. “Everyone has fragmentation wounds.

What happens to Slovakia after winning the elections of Robert Fitzo, who was called the new ally of the Kremlin In recent months in Slovakia, a new government has been working under the leadership of the Right Prime Minister Robert Fitzo. On October 26, he became the prime minister of the country for the fourth time, promising that he would conduct a “sovereign foreign policy”.

How in Russia people live without light, water and warmth The consequences of a pipe break in the south of St. Petersburg on December 4, 2023. Photo: Lifepetersburg Breakthroughs on the water supply, lack of heating in minus 40 degrees, as well as life without light for several days in a row. In the past 2023, the Kremlin did not focus on the problems with the housing and communal services.

TOP-9 scientific discoveries of 2023, which can change our life Illustration: Nastya Goltinsk / "New Gazeta Europe" What did science learn interesting this year? Novyevropa asked these questions to several scientists from different fields of science. Victoria Doronina, Assistant of the Department of Science of the Faculty of Education of the Manchester University (Manchester Metropolitan University) 1.

In the north-east of Moscow, a transformer substation caught fire. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies. Photo: social networks “At 05:44 a message was received about a fire on a high -voltage passage house 1/39. Upon the arrival of fire and rescue units, it was established that a fire at a transformer substation occurs, ”they told the news agency in the rescue service.

Khakass journalist Mikhail Afanasyev was put in prison for Fakes. Irina Kravtsova tells his story - and through her about how honest journalists live in the Russian province The text was first published in Novaya Gazeta Baltiy. Mikhail Afanasyev, 2005. Photo: From his personal archive In April 2022, the 47-year-old editor-in-chief of the New Focus magazine Mikhail Afanasyev from Abakan was arrested for his article about 11 riot police, who refused to fight in Ukraine.