Writer Vladimir Sorokin became the winner of the literary award "NOS" for the novel "Manaraga". The broadcast was conducted on the award website. Alexei Salnikov received the Critical Community Prize for his novel The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It. The shortlist of the award includes the books “Text” by Dmitry Glukhovsky, “Inshallah.

The expert of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation will tell where to look for Russia on the map of the future technology. The Yegor Gaidar Foundation under Novaya Gazeta’s information partnership continues the new season of the Faculty of Economics, in which leading Russian experts in simple language talk about the main subjects of the economy and technology.

The consequences of an abnormal snowfall for Moscow and its inhabitants. Comments Photo: Roman Romanov, for "New" Over the weekend in Moscow, 122% of the monthly rainfall - a record of the new century. The capital who turned out to be under the snow is going through difficult times: for clearing the city, they attracted the army, dozens of flights were canceled in Moscow airports, and due to the difficult road situation, the authorities allowed the children not to go to school.

A CNN employee accidentally discovered documents from the US Department of Homeland Security on security measures during the final of the national football championship in the pocket of the seat in front of the plane, the channel reports . There was also a boarding pass for a scientist who works for the ministry. He is responsible for the program, which is used during the practice of the actions of the authorities in the event of the spread of anthrax spores.

Acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev dismissed the government of the republic. The decree was published on the website of the head of the republic. According to the document, the government must fulfill its obligations until the formation of a new cabinet of ministers. Anatoly Karibov has been appointed Acting Prime Minister of Dagestan. Prior to that, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the region.

The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (part of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine) opened a criminal case against the German deputies after their visit to Crimea. The department's website says that the case was initiated under the article on "violation of the procedure for entering the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine" (part one of article 332-1). Punishment under this article provides for imprisonment for up to three years.

The Yakut City Court fined Pussy Riot member Olga Borisova 20,000 rubles for a rally in support of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, which she held in Yakutsk last summer together with another member of the group, Maria Alyokhina. On Twitter, Borisova said that she found out about the fine after she tried to find out why the money was debited from her card. At the time of debiting, the account had four thousand rubles, now on the card, according to Borisova, minus 16 thousand.

Former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 125 years in prison, according to US media, including Reuters , The Washington Post and CNN . This is his third term. This time, his former doctor was found guilty of three counts of sexual abuse of girls at the Twistars Gymnastics Club in Eaton County, Michigan. Nassar pleaded guilty.

The development of technology may lead to the fact that voters, using verified accounts in social networks, will evaluate the activities of the deputy. This was told to Novaya Gazeta by the head of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Policy, Information Technology and Communications Leonid Levin. According to the head of the committee, "it would be nice" to extend to parliamentary activity the semblance of the rating system that exists in journalism, and which will develop in the future.

Belarus will show the film "The Death of Stalin" banned in Russia, Interfax reports with reference to the country's Ministry of Culture. They said that experts watched the film and found no violations of the law. "There are no comments on the film's distribution," the Ministry of Culture noted. On January 24, on the eve of the film's release, all screenings for The Death of Stalin were canceled in Belarus.

In the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, Dmitry Borisov, a person involved in the case on March 26, was interrogated, accused of attacking a policeman during a rally in Moscow. Borisov said that during the action he saw how the police began to detain his friend Yevgeny Anokhin, who was filming mass detentions on video. According to Borisov, the police did not introduce themselves, did not explain to his friend the reasons for the detention.

The Kiev court rejected the appeal of the former president of Georgia and the former head of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, against the decision of the court of first instance: he was denied the status of a refugee or a person in need of additional protection. It is reported by RBC-Ukraine. Saakashvili's defense intends to challenge him in the cassation court.

The State Duma Committee on Legislation did not support the United Russia bill, which prohibits being a senator or deputy if a relative works in the Duma or the Federation Council, RBC reports , citing the committee's review. It states that "parliamentarians are completely independent in their decisions taken within the framework of their professional activities", and that subordination or accountability is "excluded".

Demand for shovels in Russia increased 11 times compared to the previous week due to heavy snowfall. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in the press service of Yandex.Market. In addition, according to the estimates of the service, the demand for snow blowers has also increased.

9 pictures of Dmitry Markov - one of the best modern photographers - from tomorrow's exhibition Vyshegod, 2016. Photo: Dmitry Markov On February 6, in the Moscow Center for documentary photography, Fotodoc opens an exhibition of one of the most interesting modern documentary photographers Dmitry Markov. The exhibition presents Markov’s book “Russia. #Draft". This is a sincere author's view of the life of heroes - provincial, homeless, helpless, naive ...