On New Year's Eve, 25 years ago, there was no great director who gave us “Ivanovo Childhood”, “Passion in Andrey” and “Solaris”, “Mirror” and “Stalker”, “Nostalgia” and “Sacrifice”. On New Year's Eve, 25 years ago, there was no great director, who gave us “Ivanovo Childhood”, “Passion in Andrey” and “Solaris”, “Mirror” and “Stalker”, “Nostalgia” and “Sacrifice”. From a personal diary. December 30, 1986 Tuesday. Yesterday Andrei Tarkovsky died.

I can't imagine that in the same quarter of Golyanov peacefully coexist as ardent reactionaries who vote for United Russia, but also normal people. I can't believe the kids of both go to the same school. And the adults themselves visit each other. And there are no clashes on political grounds in the region. There are no heated discussions on the streets between conservatives and supporters of change. I do not believe...

Meeting point: Akademika Sakharova Avenue, 14.00 December 24. Outright Nazis popped up. During the night, at the “voting rooms”, who should speak at the rally, Tesak’s comrades twisted the votes. Garry Kasparov has no doubt that Tesak and K are a "Kremlin project" to have someone to intimidate people, imposing the idea that there is not much choice. What will you have to choose between the "Party of Crooks and Thieves" and Tesak ...

Dmitry Rogozin, a ruddy Komsomol leader and the man who "cleansed Moscow of garbage", became the head of the military-industrial complex A politician who was remembered for the xenophobic video of the Rodina party “Let’s clean Moscow of garbage” and, in the apt expression of Tatyana Tolstaya, “entered politics in Chubais like a flea on a dog” (meaning that Rogozin’s Duma election campaign in 2003 was built on criticism of Anatoly Chubais), reached the peak of his career ...

Nikolai Uskov, who headed the men's magazine GQ for eight years, will leave his post. His new appointment is the editor-in-chief of the SNOB magazine, owned by Mikhail Prokhorov. This is reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to its editor-in-chief Mikhail Kotov.

According to the idea of ​​the participants of the Tyumen action, young people had to go into one of the shopping centers with their mouths sealed and clap their hands. But the flash mob failed. Police officers detained protesters Nikolai Lambin and Anna Timina before the start of the action. According to Anna, an employee from Center E approached them and began to explain that their actions were illegal, and their action could be regarded as an unauthorized picket.

The Mother's Right Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides legal assistance to the families of servicemen who died in the army in peacetime. The chairman and the entire board of which work for free, on a voluntary basis. The Hewlett-Packard printer and copier, bought for the fund by a sponsor a year and a half ago, is an important means of combating the system. The foundation's lawyers who deal with the cases of mothers of soldiers deal with a huge amount of paperwork.

Even an ambulance refuses to go here, because people who need this help do not exist Ten minutes of driving from the Moscow Region platform Zakharovo, and you fall into oblivion: there is no military town of Noginsk-2 on any map or in any registry. In 2000, he was removed from the balance of the Ministry of Defense and was not accepted on the balance of the Moscow region. He was crossed out with people ... Palace 120x60 steps.

Well-known TV presenter and member of the Civic Chamber Tina Kandelaki wrote today in her blog that she will resign from STS, NEWSru reports . Recall that earlier her colleague Mikhail Shats accused Tina of trying to denounce. According to him, the TV presenter told STS General Director Vyacheslav Murugov that Schatz was participating in the organizing committee of the protest action on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue.

The Bank of Russia will reduce the refinancing rate by 0.25% from December 26 to 8%, Gazeta.Ru reports . The rate cut surprised experts who predicted it would remain at the same level. The Central Bank will also reduce interest rates on certain operations providing liquidity on fixed terms - on overnight loans from 8.25% to 8%, on lombard loans and on direct REPO from 6.50% to 6.25%, as well as on loans secured non-market assets or guarantees – from 8.25% to 8%.

How they are going to destroy the writer's town According to the counting chamber, the cadastral value of land in the town of Writers Peredelkino, determined by the Leninsky district of the Moscow region - 1204.71 rubles per square meter. This is about $ 4,000 per hundred square meters, which is at least ten times lower than the market price of land in Peredelkin. And after Peredelkino in the near future is part of Moscow, the price in it will generally take off to the ground to heaven ...

The discussion was moderated by Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Gorshkov and Head of the Center for Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Vladimir Petukhov. Among the participants are well-known Russian political scientists and diplomats representing EU countries in Russia.

Eduard Limonov appealed against the refusal to register as a presidential candidate to the Supreme Court, Fontanka.ru reports . On December 14, the necessary documents were sent to the Central Election Commission. On December 18, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation refused to register presidential candidate Eduard Limonov, due to the fact that he did not provide a notarized protocol on holding a meeting of the initiative group in his support.

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov will speak at a rally for fair elections on December 24, writes Lenta.ru . This was announced at a meeting of the organizing committee of the event by a representative of the organizers, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko. The list of speakers has not yet been approved. It is still being discussed. Speakers were voted on Facebook and Survey Monkey.

The well-known writer Boris Akunin, who previously announced that the profile department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would again check his novel for extremism, was outraged by the statement of the Ministry of Defense, which today refuted his words, NEWSru reports . As proof of his correctness, the writer published on his blog a scan of the explanatory note, which was written by the Zakharov publishing house.