On October 7, more than a hundred people gathered at Solovetsky stone in St. Petersburg to recall the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anna Politkovskaya. By the eighth anniversary of the death of the journalist, the International Promotion "Memory Week", initiated by the human rights organization Amnesty International, is timed to. The goal of the campaign, which takes place from October 6 to 12, to support those who today in Russia advocate compliance with civil rights and freedoms.

"Parmesan is me" It turns out that if you ask passers-by who “vatniks”, “dills”, “Colorados” and “Parmesans” are, you can learn a lot of new things. “Colorados are those who work like beetles,” “Parmesan is me”—these and other answers in Novaya Gazeta’s short explanatory dictionary of political memes. What would you answer?

Russians with bulging eyes rush around the shops in search of more or less reasonable prices for food, and the authorities continue to repeat about “we won’t let the West bring us to our knees.” Novaya asked the St. Petersburg people's representatives whether soaring prices forced them to eat less. It turned out that some deputies had to seriously limit themselves to meat.