The clip for the song “I am Russian” by the performer of Shaman on Utube was watched by more than 22 million people. For Russian musical propaganda, this is a rarity, notes the musicologist Anna Vilenskaya. She studied the music of Nazi Germany, the USSR and North Korea, as well as modern Russian patriotic songs. The researcher told the “paper” how musical propaganda affects a person and what the music of totalitarian states have in common.

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In St. Petersburg on January 3, heavy snow is expected in places. The Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg warns about the deterioration of weather conditions. On January 3, the chief weather forecast of the city Alexander Kolesov writes about the expected precipitation in St. Petersburg. The snow will bring the Magdalene cyclone. Kolesov reports that heavy snow has already passed in the south and southwest of the Leningrad region, and in St.

Honored Artist of Russia Valery Meladze for the first time in a few months published a post on Instagram-with a response to the grass from the Z-channels and Russian officials. The scandal occurred due to a video flowing in the social network, where Meladze communicates with a man in the hall during a concert in Dubai. The author of the video says: "Glory to Ukraine." To this, Meladze takes the microphone aside, answers and winks something.

The district courts of St. Petersburg considered 69 cases of violation of migration legislation following mass detentions in St. Petersburg on New Year's Eve. This was reported by the United press service of the city courts. Basically, the press service reports, all the detainees were appointed fines of 5 thousand rubles and fines with an obligation to leave Russia. Four people were placed in the Center for Temporary Contents of Foreign Citizens.

With the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities, and previously tightly limited the work of the media, conducted unprecedented repressions against independent publications.

Due to the incident with horses on Palace Square, which occurred on January 2, a carriage was detained. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg. The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the carriage is a 38-year-old woman-tried to escape from the scene.

Petersburgers drew attention to the fact that the previously operating discount on the subway travel through the Mirpei application of the Mir payment system has stopped action from January 1 - a full tariff is written off from the card. Last year, when paying for travel, the tariff contactless card was almost doubled - the benefit of payment in this way was up to 34 rubles. However, from January 1, 2023, Petersburgers pay full 70 rubles. The action acted from the Mir payment system.

The Enlightenment Project "All-in-law" collected on its website 90 popular science books that can be downloaded for free. In the selection - books highly appreciated by the experts of the " Blinds ". For free access, the works were laid out with the permission of publishers and authors, representatives of the project said. Books that have become free in 2022 are marked by the NEW sign. You can download the entire archive at once or just an archive with new books.