New story by Dmitry Bykov Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta Vera Fomina's husband came back from the war dead. She was lucky: others were missing an arm or a leg. The city was small, poor, everything was in plain sight. Vera heard howling in the neighboring houses, saw frightened children, bawling old women, and avoided disabled people who looked at their neighbors with hatred, as if their neighbors had maimed them.

Hospitals of the First World War. From the chronicle “The House of Merchant Anosov” From the taiga, the dense taiga, From the Amur, from the river, Silently, a menacing cloud The Siberians went to battle. Vladimir Gilyarovsky . March of the Siberian Riflemen. 1914 August 1914. In the district Borisoglebsk there are patriotic manifestations: two thousand souls of all classes are walking along Okhlyabininskaya Street with a portrait of the emperor.

“Military operation” as a case of practical application of imperial ideology Illustration: "BUT" Battles on the fields of dystopia A “special operation” is also an active ideological operation, the practical application of a state ideology that has actually developed and is even enshrined in the Constitution in the form of “traditional values.” Actually, the refusal to rotate the highest power in Russia (resetting presidential terms to zero), recorded in 2020, is not just a political or

The authorities no longer need laws: they are leading the country into the “golden age of the USSR”, sweeping away all those who disagree in their path Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta The outstanding historian Reinhart Koselleck joined the Wehrmacht in 1941 at the age of 17, was wounded, was captured on May 9, 1945 and spent more than a year in a camp near Karaganda, and then spent his whole life collecting images of war memorials for the catalogue.

The life of the writer Georgy Vladimov has its own “millions of torments” Russian literature is blamed for what is happening. There are many voices about her guilt. She is being drowned or has already been drowned so much that no one knows her or remembers what she really is like. It was replaced by pop media noise. Many live and do not understand that what they are being sold is a substitution.

We read the diary of 17-year-old Tatyana Romanova. She is a nurse in a hospital during the First World War Tatyana and Olga Romanov are sisters of mercy. Photos from open sources 17-year-old Tanya keeps a diary in the midst of war. There is an endless stream of wounded from the combat area. Hospitals are overcrowded. Every day Tanya and her sister Olga go to the hospital, bandage the wounded, and assist surgeons in operations.

The complete disappearance of imported drugs was avoided, but the crisis in the pharmaceutical market continues. How Russians get the drugs they need After the start of the SVO, Russian pharmacies and medical institutions experienced a shortage of more than 70 medicines and medical products. Including vital ones for people with orphan, oncological and chronic diseases. There were not enough medications for patients with pain syndrome and palliative patients.

Alexander Genis. Pilgrimage to the Land of the East Bomb shelter When the Ukrainian tragedy began, I, like many friends and colleagues who write in Russian, felt, along with grief, disappointment in what I had been doing all my life. It turned out that the books we wrote did not change anything, did not help anyone and did not convince anyone.

Excommunicated from world sports, Russia is moving into the era of “infighting”. With corresponding results Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta LANCELOT We won't be able to leave. ELSA Nothing. After all, it can be a lot of fun at home too. Evgeny Schwartz. "Dragon" They dropped the clamp on the floor. Both paws were torn off. We won’t leave her anyway, because we can’t live without her. I was driving from St.

What language do Russian emigrants speak in Yerevan? Yerevan. Photo: Alexander Patrin / Kommersant And the first Armenian word that I learned when I arrived in Yerevan was “handsome.” My first landlord stood at the entrance to the unfinished bakery and looked very Russian: sweatpants, a cross-body bag (the kind market traders use to put their cash in) and powerful tattooed forearms. “Che,” he said into the telephone receiver, “ga, lav.” And many more Armenian words.

New story from the “Cherkalin case”: billions allocated by Russia for the restoration of Donbass could be invested in a Mediterranean resort Businessman Sergei Glyadelkin invested millions of dollars in a resort in Croatia at about the same time when Russia was missing billions of rubles for the restoration of Donbass. Coincidence?

The story of volunteer Maxim Meshcheryakov, whose life the state wanted to value at 75 thousand rubles — I was born in a closed military unit in Chekhov and now I live there. My dad was a military man. In 2019 I married Maxim. Before him, I had another marriage, my first husband was a military man by profession - a contract soldier, and he has a five-year-old daughter. Maxim's son Sasha was born. He is two years old.

The absolute majority of Russian and Ukrainian believers belong to Orthodoxy. But why does the Ukrainian Church constantly run away from the Russian Church? Between two poles “Ukrainian Orthodoxy is only dogmatically the same as Russian, but in everything else it is very different.

Three days with Dr. Kurmyshkin, who saves Russians with rare diseases even in conditions of “budget deficit” and who is being persecuted by the Investigative Committee Alexander Kurmyshkin. Photo: Ivan Zhilin / Novaya Kurmyshkin is an unconventional doctor. He not only observes and advises patients, but also helps them seek treatment through the courts and even goes on picket lines when some regional health ministry refuses to purchase the necessary drugs.

After the departure of Hollywood distribution leaders, cinemas were confused: what to show, to whom? Numbers as a diagnosis On February 24, like a jack-in-the-box, a sickening mystical thriller about sacrifices, “The Devil's Box,” appeared on the screens. The Awakening of Evil" . Not a good sign. And so it began. In April 2022, cinema turnover fell by 43% compared to the same period last year. In the first quarter, box office receipts from screenings of Russian films abroad fell by 53%.