Records of the director Anastasia Patlay On the collection of the material for the play “Hour 18” - interviews, documents, certificates, statistics - a large team of theater.doc - playwright Ekaterina Bondarenko, directors Anastasia Patlay and Zosya Rodkevich worked. One of the stages of the work was to “keep a documentary diary”-the girls recorded their feelings from meetings when collecting material, some information that surprised them or, in their opinion, could be useful for a future play.

How TV translates the complex of information inferiority Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" An insidious cyclone was approaching Moscow. The TV quickly revealed the cause of the atmospheric sabotage: "Everything bad comes to us from Europe." This discovery heats not only meteorologists, but also Tolstoy. Dropped thoughts are stored in Peter Olegovich.

In St. Petersburg, the jury acquitted Arkady Nusimovich, Gennady Levinsky and Alexei Gevorkyan, accused in the case of an armed attack on police officers and embezzlement of 24 million rubles. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The jury found the defendants not involved in the crime under six counts.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky threatened the creators of the film “Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams” for missing deadlines. This is stated on the website of the ministry. “The film received the maximum irrevocable support from the Ministry of Culture of Russia, its production is delayed. In any case, you will have to pay a fine of several million rubles.

There are no crimes against the “strangers” much less: they simply began to talk about them less often. The results of the expert report Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" The Owl information and analytical center presented two reports on the nationalist movements in Russia and the Hate Crimes in 2018 on Tuesday, January 22, in 2018. Owl experts noted the "unprecedented decline" of political groups of nationalists, which has lasted since 2014 in connection with disagreements in Ukraine.

Advisor to the President of the Central African Republic (CAR) Valery Zakharov confirmed to Fontanka the existence of two defendants in the investigation into the murder of Russian journalists in the CAR - gendarme Emmanuel Kotofio and an instructor from St. Petersburg Alexander Sotov. Kotofio, according to the Dossier Center, followed the journalists and kept in touch with Cellular. “Sotov really worked as an instructor in the Central African Republic.

The Moscow Regional Court upheld the sentence of Dmitry Grachev, who cut off the hands of his wife Margarita. In the appeal, the man wrote that he did not understand why he received 14 years of strict regime. Margarita Gracheva's lawyer Mari Davtyan told Novaya Gazeta about this. She added that the court rejected the complaints of Grachev and his lawyer, left the decision of the court of first instance unchanged. Accordingly, the verdict entered into force.

The secret of successful reforms is not in the nationality of people, but in how they lived before they began. Forty years ago, serious economic reforms began in China, turning a half-starved country, which suffered greatly from the consequences of Maoist experiments, into a global industrial workshop, into a world leader in economic growth. And now, for at least thirty years, we have been talking about whether it was possible for Russia to follow the Chinese path in reforms.

A new puncture puncture: drugs in Oyub Titiev is not drugs? Lawyer Zaikin and Oyub Titiev. Photo: "Memorial" In Chechnya, on January 21 and 22, the trial on the head of the local branch of the Memorial Oyub Titiyev continued. He is accused of storing 200 grams of marijuana. Not for sale and not for use, but just like that. Every day, a person has been going on a blade with his human rights for the last 18 years. The speaker of the Chechen parliament has just called him an enemy of the people.

The head of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation, Alexander Zubkov, left his post during his two-year suspension for doping. This is reported by Interfax. “I wrote a statement to the presidium of the federation on the temporary removal of my powers for the duration of my disqualification,” Zubkov said.

The Yekaterinburg poet and rapper Naum Blik (Dmitry Jordatius) opposed the cutting of the square at the Drama Theater, on the site of which the city authorities decided to build the Cathedral of St. Catherine. “No good intentions can justify the destruction of trees for the sake of stones. The square in the center of the stuffy megalopolis for the fifth temple within a radius of a kilometer. This is not pleasing to God.

For the first time in Russia, a criminal case has been instituted against members of an “unwanted organization” In Russia, for the first time, a criminal case was opened for participation in the activities of an organization recognized in the country of undesirable (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case was brought up in Rostov-on-Don against a member of the Federal Council of Open Russia Anastasia Shevchenko.

Maxim Kantor answers the patriots who accused Dmitry Bykov of sympathy for General Vlasov and the justification of fascism As this is characteristic of Dmitry Bykov’s restless talent, he once again managed to pose such painful questions to society that it is unpleasant to answer. Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" It is more convenient to shift the one who asks is easier to declare the question unacceptable; After all, the writer touched the most sacred - war!

The State Duma Defense Committee approved a draft statement on the revision of the political assessment of the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan in 1979, TASS reports . The agency notes that the document emphasizes the historical injustice of the condemnation by the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in 1989 of the decision to send troops to Afghanistan.

UPDATED&NBSP The WADA& Committee has reported that Russia could be banned from the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo if data from the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory is tampered with.