About the essay of Vaclav Gavel "The power of the powerless" Vaclav Gavel performs at a rally. Photo: AP / TASS As always on Saturdays, we continue to study the device of the dictatorship using literature. Last time, we agreed to leave artistic prose for a short time and consider closer the philosophy of dictatorship, the philosophy of freedom, the sociology of propaganda, the anthropology of protest and other "non -artistic" things.

Putin repeated the numbers twice, and no one told him that our story is much longer than it seems to the president Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the new composition of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.

Listening to this song, “cleansed” by artificial intelligence, you feel dumb delight - as if Lennon sings in the same room with us Camerators of The Beatles John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison at London Airport, 1966. Photo: AP / TASS Now and that had not yet had time to go out, and she was already surrounded by a thick crowd of rumors, opinions, versions and the most thick hype. This is a dying thing Lennon! No, he recorded it in 1977, three years before his death.

Like kids sent to an orphanage with living parents, they help the Russian authorities build a bastard society Photo: Gabriel Grigorov / TASS The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow* issued incredible, transcendental terms for rendersitologists and surrogate mothers who worked in the program of surrogate motherhood. 19.5, 17.5, 16 years - they do not even give even for murder. "New" resembles the details of this monstrous process.

Once this investigation was called the success of military counterintelligence. As a result, all the bribe takers escaped with conditional sentences. These are likes in social networks Photo: Semyon Likhodeev / TASS As follows from the message of the city press service of the courts, this is the fifth “fragment” of a large-scale investigation of total bribes in the 103rd section of the Gosarhstroynadzor. Like previous decisions in this case, the punishment turned out to be conditional.

The court investigation in the case of Sasha Skochilenko was completed Alexandra Skochilenko in court. Photo: Alexey Dushutin / "New Gazeta" The parties move to the debate, and then the court will bring the verdict to the artist. At a meeting on November 3, the prosecutor’s representative was not ready to answer what time the charge would request Alexander. He promised to do this during the debate on November 8.

Postcard from the heading of Sergey Mostovshchikov and Peter Sarukhanov #but to Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The level of our life is growing steadily, and the rest of the world is difficult. So let's drink for the fact that the forces of world gravity never make our standard of living below the level of the sea of ​​our capabilities!

Snow phalluses left no one indifferent - neither citizens nor officials. The latter launched law enforcement forces and tractors Photo: Telegram channel Sveetekb At the end of October, snow fell in Yekaterinburg. It turned out to be unexpectedly a lot. The city stood in 10-point traffic jams. Drivers who did not have time to replace summer tires, sadly remembered the "bottom of the tin." The pedestrian paths drowned in snowdrifts and a dirty mixed mix of snow and sand.

A protocol for a child psychologist, a criminal case against a journalist and a sugar-extremist. Who else was planted or going to plant in Russia This year will be a record in the number of convicted "stateizers" and "spies". According to the Judicial Department, for the entire 2022, 17 people were convicted under the articles “State treason” and “Spying”.

How the condescension to the pogroms looks against the backdrop of the "Ingush business", in which there was neither violence, no damage, nor hatred A week after the pogrom in Dagestan - with mass riots, the actual seizure of the international airport, violence against the police, multimillion -dollar damage, inspections of documents arranged by the pogroms in search of Jews, and frankly anti -Semitic calls - it became clear that its participants would escape relatively soft punishment, despite