We have already written about the new film by Boris Giller and Alexander Borodyansky. The Check is interesting as an example of non-state cinema, as a film that is rigidly focused not on critics, but on the viewer, as a project with a budget of more than a million US dollars -...

RUSSIA NEED A PERFORMANCE OF JOY The only Russian artist represented in the international pavilion "Expo-000" does not like gloomy art We met in Braunschweig. This is a town in Lower Saxony where seven...

"Three fires. Baku in the Fine Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries” Previously, the reviewer estimated on his fingers: things are solid when oil flows under it. Thus, in Baku in the 1910s. the Lianozovs-Mantashevs were supposed to patronize. In Baku...

The recent arrests of the leaders of the corporation "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" (UESU) were assessed by most observers as taking hostages in a protracted conflict for control over the Ukrainian fuel and energy complex in general and the energy market in particular....

No matter how stormy the financial sea is, it is firm and calm. Simple things are always missing in life. On TV we are constantly told: “devaluation”, “sequestration”, “monetarist approaches in the economy”. And what do we do with these...

As it turned out, Samson Leningradov was not only a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, but also an aristocrat Samson was lonely and genetically unclean. Either Pope Hamlet failed, or Mother Ophelia, or the documents messed up something, but the fifth point in Samsonov ...

Our correspondent, unlike the police, easily found the addresses of the brothels London "butterflies", returning home from the promenade, they themselves mold leaflets with their addresses to the walls of payphone booths. Employees of "Britishtelecom" still have not figured out: what ...

Boris Berezovsky, a generous oligarch, offered his stake in the ORT television channel to "journalists and other members of the creative intelligentsia." As our survey showed, both journalists and the intelligentsia are not averse to trying themselves in the role of managers...

Why is the Minister of Minerals Gaining Weight The fight against the oligarchs announced by Vladimir Putin back in the spring was received quite favorably by the broad masses. However, their footage is coming. And if the former went from business to power, now ...

Who will protect a particular citizen if his rights are violated? Prosecutor's office? Court? Public human rights organizations, the number of which is quite large today? Yes, in many cases, both law enforcement agencies and public organizations ...

The ultra-modern, super-spectacular animated blockbuster, which cost 20th Century Fox nearly $100 million to make, grossed a measly $17 million at the box office. Titan is the only cartoon to air on...

The First Hundred Days of Viktor Cherkesov

Lenenergo's plans to raise tariffs are usually the subject of trade union criticism. This time, electricity tariffs unexpectedly turned out to be woven into the context of the upcoming by-elections to the State Duma in the 209th district. And with criticism...

Muscovite Sergei Barinov joined the army in November last year and ended up in the North Caucasian Military District, military unit 34605. Were you beaten? Billy. Did you bully? They mocked. Like everywhere. They were taken to the training ground - because this is the North Caucasian Military District, and not ...

Even the absolutely disgusting goatish “me-ee!” seems like music after the howling of the security siren of the shy Zhiguli under a Moscow window. Everything turns into the melody of a gentle half-sleep vacation. However, something was missing in the sounds of the motherland ....