How the Riga residents said goodbye to Mikhail Zadornov and how they will remember him On Wednesday morning, the funeral service of the writer and satirist Mikhail Zadornov took place in Riga. The turn to the Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky on the main metropolitan street Brivibas stretched almost by a kilometer: the police vehicles had to suspend the movement on the next street. Someone cried. Even the mayor of Riga Nile Ushakov and his wife came to say goodbye to Mikhail Zadornov.

The abbot of the Sretensky Monastery, Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, in conversations with President Vladimir Putin, "expressed dissatisfaction" with the work of Kirill Serebrennikov. It is reported by Dozhd with reference to two federal officials. When this happened, what kind of works by Serebrennikov the bishop spoke with Putin and what he answered him, is not specified.

What is happening in Zimbabwe, where a military coup actually happened and the “eternal” president of Mugaba was arrested Photo: EPA On the evening of November 14, to the capital of Zimbabwe, the city of Harara from different military units of the country advanced armored vehicles. At first, three explosions allegedly occurred in the city, and then there were reports about the capture of the ZBC guest company.

The leader of the Artpodgotovka extremist movement banned in Russia, Vyacheslav Maltsev, said that he had begun the process of obtaining political asylum in one of the European countries. about this He spoke to the TV channel "Present Time". “It is very easy to get a visa if you are a real political refugee. If you are really wanted for a political crime, there are no problems,” the politician said.

Ksenia Sobchak and Andrei Nechaev agreed to create a pre -election coalition, in the framework of which the Civil Initiative party will gather to the congress to nominate Ksenia Sobchak to the presidency. This was reported on the YouTube channel Sobchak. Sobchak said that she met with different parties of the democratic sense, and a few days ago she called them to unite.

Five new presidential candidates: Berkov, Shagin, Chacha, Tsvetkov, Alex Leslie All five are artists, but in principle, anyone can, at least, apply for this. St. Petersburg writer Alexei Smirnov reports a mass mailing from portals on employment: “Hello, Alexey Konstantinovich! The 2018 presidential campaign is already coming! Earlier, Alexei Navalny, Ksenia Sobchak, Ekaterina Gordon declared his ambitions for this post. We carefully read your resume on Superjob.

Friends and relatives of a 25-year-old resident of Mordovia, Yuri Ebel, who died in Syria, said that he was a contract soldier and traveled to Syria several times. It is reported by RBC. “I went to Syria in October. It was his third trip, and in the summer he said: "This will be the last time." There is no way to say that it is extreme. Prior to that, he traveled in the spring of 2017 and at the end of 2016.

The People's Artist of the RSFSR Vitaly Shapovalov died Photo: RIA Novosti This story was written fifteen years ago. Vitaly Vladimirovich read him and, calling me on a home phone, said: “Vladik! Everything is true there. You haven’t lied anywhere and have never embellished anything. ” Today, when another Apostle flies to the Taganka heavenly ship, I share love and gratitude with you. A gloomy man in a gray windbreaker passes through the crowd near the theater cash register. I greet him timidly.

Lawyer Vadim Kobzev, representing the interests of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to check the employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for involvement in the attack with green paint on Navalny in April this year. the corresponding complaint The oppositionist published on his blog. The document says that 202 days have passed since the attack on Navalny.

Interview with the ideologist of the “Our” movement Boris Yakemenko - Ilya Azar Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The third hero of the Azar and Campaign’s column, in which the New Gazeta tells readers about the most interesting and unexpected applicants for the presidential chair, was the Associate Professor RUDN and the author of the textbook on the basics of Orthodox culture Boris Yakemenko. He calls himself the main intrigue of the upcoming elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree introducing a list of indicators by which the work of regional authorities will be evaluated. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. Evaluate the effectiveness of the activities of regional authorities, according to the decree, will be based on reports that the heads of regions will now be required to submit annually to the Russian government.

Outstanding pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim celebrates the 75th anniversary Photo: yarcenter.ru The title of one Berlin newspaper is quoted by the burgomaster of Berlin Michael Müller: "Barenboim Gift for our city." Barenboym is included in the list of "100 living geniuses that have changed the world." Starting to work in the Berlin Staatsop in 1992 with a contract for 4 years, Barenboim was thinking of leaving at the end of the contract, but his friends dissuaded him and he “lingered” in

Representatives of the governments of Venezuela and Russia signed an agreement in Moscow, according to which the authorities of the Latin American country received a ten-year deferment in the payment of a debt totaling $3.15 billion. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Finance, which was reviewed by RBC.

The newspaper of the administration of the Tajik city of Shahrinav has changed its name from Khakikati Shahrinav (Shahrinavskaya Pravda) to Fayzi Peshvo (Leader's Grace), reports . Radio Liberty The decision to change the name in the editorial office was explained by the "call of the times". According to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Hikmatullo Sattori, the old name of the publication did not correspond to modern realities.

The main witness for the prosecution in the case of the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, Yuri Zudheimer, came to court. At first he read the testimony on paper, but the judge Tatyana Vasyuchenko asked to remove it.