Security forces in Myanmar on Sunday opened fire on protesters against a military coup in the country. According to the Associated Press, citing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 18 people were killed and 30 injured during the crackdown. “People were reported to have died as a result of the use of live ammunition against crowds in Yangon, Tawei, Mandalay, Myeika, Bago and Pakhouku,” the UNHCHR said in a statement.

Alexander Auzan - about perestroika initiated by M. Gorbachev Photo: TASS "In Russia, in five years, everything is changing, in 200 years - nothing." This minted formula Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin designated the symptoms of the tragic problem of Russian historical development. This problem was repeatedly discussed by Russian thinkers, many philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century expressed their thoughts about where it came from.

The governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov refused the proposal of the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky to lift the ban on public events and their attendance, referring to the country's chief sanitary doctor. Vishnevsky stated that the governor's answer was incorrect from a legal point of view.

After a generation - how will they do with the monuments of evil? Photo: RIA Novosti Sobyanin’s decision to leave Lubyanskaya Square without a monument is essentially correct, and in the form a paternalist and arrogant, because the mayor single -handedly chose the third option, which the Muscovites were deprived of. And it does not cover the problem, but prolongs. It’s not a matter of which monument to put, but that we have such an archaic dispute in general.

A criminal case was opened against the head of Navalny's headquarters in Nizhny Novgorod, Roman Tregubov, for violating sanitary and epidemiological rules (part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code). He announced this on Twitter, posting a notice from the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city.

Natalia Zubkova, editor-in-chief of Novosti Kiselevsk, left the city after numerous threats and attacks. this She announced on her YouTube channel. Zubkova blamed Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov for what was happening, to whom she wrote “dozens of complaints”, but all of them were redirected to the region and the city. She also blames the prosecutor of Kiselevsk, Aleksey Trefelov, as well as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kiselevsk, Artur Rozner.

We discuss with Ilya Yashin in the audio project "To be continued" On the anniversary of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Russian opposition and former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, we publish his monologue on the future of Russia, as he envisioned in 1992. In the new episode of the To Be Continued podcast, this text is read by Ilya Yashin, Boris Nemtsov's closest associate during his lifetime.

Member of the public monitoring commission Alexei Melnikov confirmed the transfer of politician Alexei Navalny to the Vladimir region. He told Novaya Gazeta about this. “We cannot now say for sure that this is exactly the colony, and we cannot now be sure that he is not currently in the pre-trial detention center there. We can only say one hundred percent that he is in the Vladimir region, ”Melnikov said.

What theater needs a vague time and what to watch first The specttral "How important it is to be serious." Photo provided by the press service of the Mayakovsky Theater “Observers,” Mikhail Plutakhin called his first performance. He goes to the Museum of the History of the Gulag. On the long table along the stage are things, objects. They were brought from the uranium mines of Kolyma and Chukotka, found in camp huts, on landfills, in ruins. Now they are participants in the performance.

The Boris Nemtsov Foundation awarded the politician Alexei Navalny an award "for courage in upholding democratic values ​​in Russia." This was reported on the Foundation's website. “Navalny not only showed incredible personal courage, but also made a huge contribution to exposing corruption and increasing the level of participation of citizens in the still extant procedures in Russia.

New Newspaper Explainer The winter of 2014 was remembered not only by Kievans. The effect of the events of Euromaidan is felt to this day both in Ukraine and in Russia. Myths about “American cookies” and “atrocities of the Right Sector” are still scaring impressive Russians. The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Olga Bobrova worked on the Maidan in those days.

The founder of the club "Groundyer's nesting" died Alexander Ermilov. Photo: Marina Larionova There was no excellent person. Friend and knight. Alexander Georgievich Ermilov left us. That's all. The era “Groundwar’s nest”, his main brainchild and pet, probably over. Miraculously, he created this tiny concert hall, believing in the viability of poetry and guitar. Miraculously placed it almost 25 years ago in a special theater and musical place in Moscow.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the national emergency use of a single-dose vaccine by Janssen, owned by US corporation Johnson & Johnson. This was reported on the website of the regulator. The issued permit will allow people aged 18 years and older to be vaccinated with the new drug. "The FDA has determined that Janssen's COVID-19 vaccine meets the criteria set for an Emergency Authorization," the regulator said in a statement.

In Russia, 11,359 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected over the past day, according to the infection control headquarters. A day earlier, 11,534 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the country. In Moscow, 1,737 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected over the past day, which is 161 more than the day before. In St. Petersburg, 939 new cases of COVID-19 were registered, in the Moscow region - 617, in the Nizhny Novgorod region - 387, in the Voronezh region - 295.

Documentary project "Novaya Gazeta" about people who got out of the bottom and began life again Zhenya was the first to whom we were going to take off the plot. To talk - so far without a camera - he invited to come to his house. We decided that to visit the homeless (albeit former), empty -handedly indecent. As luck would have it in the nearest store, huge cakes with cream were sold, pathos and the price of which could confuse our hero.