Almost all the nomination lists of the film season include “Train Dreams” Still from the film “Train Dreams” This is a meditative, wonderfully charming, airy, gloomy movie of melancholy. An adaptation of the 2011 story by American novelist Denis Johnson, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. "An American Epic in Miniature" about the long life of the "little big man" Robert Granier.

In Yekaterinburg, a crowd of unknown people attacked the authors of the YouTube channel “Beautiful Russia” Evgeny Anisimov and Evgeny Russkikh, writes Ura.ru. According to journalists, the incident occurred on the night of January 8 in the Oktyabrsky district, where Anisimov and Russkikh arrived for a business meeting. “Then eight people attacked them. They began to brutally beat them, without explaining anything,” said the publication’s interlocutor.

In different countries, the national messenger does not have to have a three-letter name Photo: picture alliance / SvenSimon Against the backdrop of endless advertising for a three-letter national messenger, whose name conflicts with both 168-FZ “On Advertising” and the notorious 809-FZ on “traditional values” (which require everything and everyone to be written in Russian), a logical question and healthy curiosity arises: what is it like there, outside the vast homeland?

The snowstorm paralyzed Vladivostok and revealed civilian heroes Snowstorm in Vladivostok. Photo: Valeria Fedorenko / Novaya Gazeta It is snowing in Vladivostok and the southern part of Primorye. Strong by local standards. This happens sometimes, and every time it somehow goes wrong. On Sakhalin or in Murmansk they would laugh - they say, a sparrow is knee-deep, but the residents of the southern (latitude of Adler!) city are not in the mood for jokes.

“Greatness” by Sergei Mostovshchikov, illustrations by Pyotr Sarukhanov That night it was quiet and there was a moon in the sky I slept as if in a fairy tale Vene-Suela. And suddenly a misfortune blew from the ocean: Nicolas Maduro was captured by special forces. And in the morning - Paris, Place Pigalle, blinds Frenchman Sarkozy was kidnapped by his enemies. Then suddenly hof broy, hande hoch, doppel hertz. They grabbed it, but there was no Bundeschancellor Merz.

Screenshot from video In the village of Utulik on the shores of Lake Baikal, felled trees were noticed in a conservation area near the water, writes “People of Baikal” with reference to activists opposing the logging law . According to them, a wooden foundation for future construction was installed at the felling site. Local residents claim that a cafe is planned for this site. Some trees nearby are tied with ribbons - this is a marking for new fellings, activists explain.

In St. Petersburg, defenders of a building that is being demolished, despite everything written on paper, were arrested Demolition of the building of the All-Russian Research Institute of Paper Industry. Photo: Andrey Bok One of the defenders of the building of the former All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of the Paper Industry, which is being demolished in St. Petersburg these days, 54-year-old Anton Glukhov, has been charged with hooliganism.

The heads of the Russian Federation and the Russian Orthodox Church tried to give the most important Christian holiday a military-political sound It will soon be four years since the beginning of the Northern Military District, and it would seem that Patriarch Kirill has brought up during this time all possible arguments in support of the “holy war” and even “canonized” the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces who died at the front as martyrs.

1957 - 2025: church and Marxists, the junta again, “shoot, we’ll figure it out later,” import substitution, paternalism and the rise of Chavez.

Our history was not only rewritten, but also re-shot. Sometimes I had to do several takes Visit of Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov and Yezhov to the new Moscow-Volga canal. In the second photo, Yezhov is no longer there. Drown. Photo: archive Once, in the late 70s, I was on a business trip to the Kirovograd region, and the famous collective farm chairman, twice Hero of Socialist Labor Gurtova, personally showed me his “state”.

How they erase in Russia: body parts, cigarettes, drugs, faces of actors and... memory Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta Liquidation In Soviet times, we did not know about blurring. At that time, the main assistant of censors was scissors. Kromsali decisively did not correspond to ideological norms “moments”. Censorship and Soviet cinema are the same age. The first Soviet document on the introduction of censorship in cinema dates back to February 15, 1918.