How the Red Army was crushed The first five marshals of the Soviet Union, (from left to right). Tukhachevsky (shot), Voroshilov, Egorov (shot) are sitting, Budyonny and Blyukher are standing (arrested, died in Lefortovo prison). Photo: Wikipedia From the transcript of meetings of the Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR*: June 1–4, 1937. The meetings, on the instructions of Stalin, were conducted by People's Commissar Voroshilov.

Priest Andrey Mizyuk - about how Boris Grebenshchikov* pronounces words that are no longer heard from the pulpit BG concert in Yerevan. Photo: Tatyana Britskaya / Novaya Gazeta 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT BORIS BORISOVICH GREBENSHIKOV OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT BORIS BORISOVICH GREBENSHIKOV. I have never been to a large and full-fledged concert of Boris Borisych. That's how it happened.

Khasis gave an interview to Sobchak. They both present a rapist, a liar and a murderer to society as a hero Evgenia Khasis and Nikita Tikhonov in court, 2011. Photo: ITAR-TASS / Artem Korotaev 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER VIKTOROVICH MINKIN OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER VIKTOROVICH MINKIN Evgenia Khasis served 16 years in prison for complicity in murder.

The State Duma Commission to Investigate Foreign Intervention has prepared bills that limit the rights of Russians who have left and were convicted in absentia on politically motivated charges. The initiative was announced by the head of the State Duma Security Committee Vasily Piskarev.

There has been a resolution in the confrontation between the Prime Minister of Armenia and the Catholicos - in favor of the Prime Minister Armenia. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan during the liturgy in the St. Sarkis Church.

Photo: AFP The leader of the Venezuelan opposition, 58-year-old Maria Corina Machado, appeared in public for the first time in almost a year in the center of Oslo: late in the evening of December 10, she went out onto the balcony of the Grand Hotel, the traditional residence of Nobel laureates. Supporters greeted her below, writes NRK.

Photo: Irek Murtazin / Novaya Gazeta Former employee of the department “K” (banking supervision) of the FSB, Colonel Dmitry Frolov, did not appear at the meeting at the Moscow Garrison Military Court, where a retrial of his case began on December 11. Vedomosti writes about this. As the lawyers said, Frolov is abroad due to health problems.

First interview with Evgenia Khasis and Ksenia Sobchak AUDIO VERSION This material has an audio version on Youtube. Read by Irina Petrovskaya. Evgenia Khasis and Ksenia Sobchak. Still from video Ksenia Sobchak was again ahead of everyone and took the first interview in freedom with Evgenia Khasis, an accomplice in the murder in January 2009 of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova.

The head of the ancient archeology department of the Hermitage, Alexander Butyagin, was detained in Poland at the request of Ukraine, writes the local publication RMF. According to journalists, Butyagin ended up in Warsaw during a trip from the Netherlands to the Balkans. As it turned out, Kyiv is looking for the scientist for “conducting illegal archaeological searches in Crimea.” After interrogation by the Warsaw prosecutor's office, the court arrested the archaeologist for 40 days.

“Social architects” continue to build a single and only true globe-forming national-imperial worldview - including in philosophy Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta (18+) THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV. Philosophers have only explained the world in various ways, but the point is to change it.

There is no threat to crooks from the bans; we are talking exclusively about state control over the lives of citizens Photo: Oleg Elkov / TASS It seems like not a day goes by without news from Roskomnadzor that it has blocked something else that millions of people in Russia used to freely (and easily) communicate with family and friends or to get information about what is happening in the world.

We talk with political prisoner Afanasyev about the state of affairs and bodies, physical and celestial Minus thirty, tits are pecking at cigarette butts and heating pipes emerging from the ground to the surface. A magpie has arrived and is pecking at the glass wool. Here's another one. Screams. So there will be a letter. This is true. We continue talking about prison and freedom with the journalist, now a prisoner, Mikhail Afanasyev.