We especially need to remember the astrologer Remember the stargazer? 50 years ago the film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” appeared and instantly became incredibly popular. Phrases and words entered the Russian language, almost like “Woe from Wit.” Everyone remembers the heroes, and not only Stirlitz and Muller. Pastor Schlag, Parteigenosse Bormann, Professor Pleischner, SS Brigadeführer Schellenberg, radio operator Kat... I bet you forgot the astronomer. A tertiary extra character.

After the start of the “special operation” in Ukraine, perhaps the only “window to Europe” was the Russian-Finnish train “Allegro” from St. Petersburg to Helsinki. Now it's closed too The Finnish company VR announced that, due to sanctions imposed on Russian Railways, it is ceasing joint operation of the train. Until March 27, he walked, as the Finns explained, at the request of their government. So that their fellow citizens can leave Russia.

Interview with HSE professor Irina Busygina about the participation of universities in the “special operation” and the end of social sciences in Russia Irina Busygina is a Russian political scientist, professor, Doctor of Science. She worked at MGIMO for fifteen years and left this citadel of “foreign policy expertise” after Crimea, when, in her words, she felt a change in relation to colleagues towards those who do not agree with the Kremlin’s decisions.

Oscar nominee Anton DYAKOV on why we burn On March 27, the golden Oscar statuettes are awarded. Normally, we'd be watching Russian nominee Anton Dyakov cross the ocean to attend the ceremony, presenting his award-winning film Boxballet. But during the “special operation” Anton Dyakov managed to shoot the film “I’m Burning!”, in which he expressed his emotional state of what was happening. It turns out that the Apocalypse can be funny.

Elena Osipova, a 77-year-old artist, has been taking to the streets of St. Petersburg for twenty years with her poster paintings, written on the topic of the day. Some call her the conscience of the city, others - its shame. Just as some consider the “special operation” a national tragedy and humanitarian catastrophe, others consider it a liberation action. But Elena Andreevna is most frightened by indifferent people, even more than by her opponents.

Further consolidation of Western countries against the Kremlin. What happened at the European meetings of NATO and G7 Russia’s military “special operation” in Ukraine has created a crisis in Europe and the world that has not been seen since World War II: military, political, humanitarian, energy and, probably, food. An international summit, also unprecedented, took place in Brussels on March 24 and 25.

The wife of a Saratov conscript soldier is seeking his return home from Ukraine “Everything is fine with him” “On the hotline of the Ministry of Defense they say that Artem is on a combat mission, everything is fine with him. I ask: when will they send my husband back to me? The President promised two weeks ago! The operator replies: the question is not for me, I can only check the name against the lists of killed, wounded and prisoners,” says Saratov resident Svetlana Kuzmina.

How to neutralize aggressive state propaganda. Practical guide. TAKE THIS STRIP. TURN ON THE TV. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. How to neutralize aggressive state propaganda. Practical allowance TAKE THIS STRIP. TURN ON THE TV. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING.

WHAT NOVAYA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ELENA KOSTYUCHENKO SAW WITH HER OWN EYES Kherson was occupied by the Russian army on March 3. First, the city was encircled: the surrounding villages and the Chernobaevka airfield were occupied. Then the Russian military entered the city. How was Kherson taken? “Stupidity or betrayal, perhaps both,” says former governor of the Kherson region Andrei Gordeev. - So we have four lines of defense.

Russia on the way from the iPhone to the death penalty and back Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, the former president of Russia and now deputy chairman of the Security Council, has found a new hobby: the death penalty.

The exploitation of labor must correct the mistakes of capital The story of the 59 thousand employees “scheduled for release” seems more interesting than it might seem at first glance.

The radio station “Echo of Moscow” left the editorial premises, from where it had been broadcasting for more than 26 years. Irina Vorobyova - about why these walls on Novy Arbat are a legend I was asked to write a column about how the Echo editors left their office. To be honest, I have to look for words. Because when you see empty studios, an empty corridor without the famous photo gallery, and “just offices,” you find yourself in icy space.

Orientalist, sinologist Mikhail KARPOV - about the prospects for great Russian-Chinese friendship — How is Russia perceived in China now? As a partner in competition with the West, as prey, as a competitor? Or maybe it's a partnership that has now become a liability? — Now in the Russian information space there are quite a lot of myths about China, not only in propaganda, but also in analytical ones. You have to break through certain mental obstacles, some ideas that are false or close to false.

I often think: where is the line, Lead, like whitewash, That border, that scorch* that has divided us forever into those who have locked themselves in the closet, Where they passionately scold the West And love symbols in the form of “z”, - And those who are not locked there? Having scrolled through a couple of dozen feeds, Now I’ll hit without aiming: The secondary sign is resentment, The primary sign is inferiority.

Why is the Motherland embarrassed to talk about its soldiers who died on the battlefield? On March 23, Lesosibirsk said goodbye to paratrooper Ruslan Tokarev. The coffin was brought to the city exhibition hall. The mayor's office announced the farewell not on the official website, but on its social networks. Then she published a report from the ceremony in the city newspaper Zarya Yenisei.