As the best monument to the Gulag, there is an untouched gulag In a sense, this is good-I do not dare to condemn the authorities-to plant Ponomarev to the table of the author of the Gulag. Such a gift for the anniversary, a visual monument to the Solzhu: the lion says - I do not regret, we answer - I will plant! Events for the table is not a triumph or a seal: no, it is necessary to mark such things with a whip, it is necessary to celebrate such things.

Security officials intercept the political leadership from pragmatists Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" They say that the presidential administration has reasonable people who are not alien to moderate liberalism. These are the very pragmatists-technocrats who understand only the language of numbers and cold calculation. The ideology of such technocrats is indifferent, they see violence only as an instrument, but by no means enjoy them.

Memory of Lyudmila Alekseeva - from the editorial office and friends Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" Lyudmila Alekseeva. The accuracy of her life determined the constitution for an honest restless soul. She proved that a decent, highly appropriate person in our time has no age. That kindness and participation in the process of achieving and maintaining dignity does not have a deadline. And a particular person has such a period.

Reconstruction of the armed conflict in the Kerch Strait according to the FSB and GPU Representatives of the FSB of Russia held a briefing on Saturday, during which they presented the position of the investigation in the case of 24 Ukrainian sailors detained by the border service of Russia off the coast of Crimea.

Archival photos of Sergei Kuznetsov from Spitak, destroyed by an earthquake 30 years ago Photo: Sergey Kuznetsov, especially for "New" From the editorial office The earthquake on the morning of December 7, 1988 destroyed the northwestern part of Armenia in half a minute. The epicenters of shocks with a force of 10 points fell on Leninakan (now Gyumri) and Spitak, which were destroyed almost completely.

Natalya Mashkova, coordinator of the charity foundation “Volunteers to Help Orphans,” who lives in Moscow, said that residents of her building are collecting signatures against renting out one of the apartments to families with children with cancer, Takie Dela reports . According to her, the initiator of the collection of signatures was the senior resident of the building, who is sure that oncology is an airborne disease.

It seems that the new head of the Lipetsk region does not even have the right to choose deputies for himself Photo: Alexander Ryumin/ TASS Oleg Korolev led the Lipetsk region for twenty years.

US President Donald Trump has said that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his post by the end of 2018, reports . Reuters “I really appreciate his service,” Trump said. There is no word on who will become the new White House chief of staff, but the US president noted that he could appoint someone "on a temporary basis." Retired General John Kelly was named Trump's chief of staff in July 2017.

Guess what Roskomnadzor with the new site of Navalny about the tactics of protest voting Photo: Sergey Fadeichev /TASS Roskomnadzor blocked the Internet page of Smart Voting 2019.vote. So the politician Alexei Navalny called the system a week ago, which should allow the opposition forces to be coordinated and in every specific elections to put a single candidate against the opponent from the authorities.

China has demanded the immediate release of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Canada at the request of the United States, Reuters reported , citing the country's foreign ministry. China called the incident "extremely unpleasant." The country's authorities also warned the Canadian side of "serious consequences" if Wanzhou is not released.

What is worth checking the fund of Alexander Sokurov? Photo: RIA Novosti The Police of St. Petersburg announced the completion of the verification of the Alexander Sokurov Foundation “Example of Intonation” on the morning of December 7. In the eighth minute of the working day. There were no violations in the fund, that is, grounds for initiating a criminal case. It became known about the audit itself the day earlier, just when President Putin was in St. Petersburg.

Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" In Moscow, a human rights activist died, one of the founders and chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseev. This was reported on the website of the Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia (HRC). Alekseeva died on the evening of December 8 at the Moscow hospital No. 15. She was 91 years old. Lyudmila Alekseeva began to engage in human rights activities in the USSR. Since 1968, she was subjected to searches and interrogations.

The raw material countries have again agreed to reduce oil production. Will Russia benefit from this? Photo: RIA Novosti On Friday evening, December 7, countries included in the OPEC+ organization (not to be confused with simply OPEC, the main difference between an expanded format - the presence of Russia in it) agreed to reduce oil production at the level of 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.

The state of health of the opposition can be critical Oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin was supposed to leave the Arkhangelsk colony on November 30, but this did not happen - now he was arrested again, waiting for a court in his fifth criminal case. A couple of days before the release, he was brought to court, a 64-year-old man threatens another imprisonment for up to five years.

Without the state, Nyuta Federmesser will have nothing to anesthetize the dying The Russian intelligentsia argues whether to cooperate or not to cooperate with decent people in power. The question is good, but no longer relevant. The people who put it on just don't really understand where they live. The founder of the Vera Hospice Fund, Nyuta Federmesser, joined the ONF. And last year she received a presidential grant. And now the liberal establishment is reminding her where the buoys are.