I don't like saying goodbye. It seems to me that good moments are recorded in eternity. But I don’t remember the bad things. *** Masha Eismont came into the editorial office. Waving her arms, she told how she called the police because in the passage she saw a gypsy woman with a child, too big to be wrapped up in a sleeping baby, too calm to be sober. The police didn't come. Masha was waiting. After 40 minutes, the gypsy became suspicious and tried to escape. Masha follows her.

PublicPost is closed - the founders do not see prospects for the development of the project. This is, of course, very sad. For 19 months we have been following the development of the Russia project and trying to understand what its prospects are.

Photo: collage PublicPost Loud events, the life of ordinary people, the endless struggle with terror, the arbitrariness of the security forces, religion and customs - about everything that is in the Caucasus today, we wrote directly from the gulsh of events. The Caucasus in the representation of Russians is terror. Terror in the Caucasus really exists, and, as it turned out, at the state expense.

I remember it was a cold Moscow autumn. I recently returned from another country, wrote a little for different publications, and moved from fee to fee. There were some fragmentary offers to work in editorial offices, but there was a feeling that everything was not right. That's when PublicPost fell on me. At that time, editor-in-chief Nikolai Klimenyuk noticed me somewhere in the vastness of young Russian media and suggested meeting me. Appointed in the khinkalnaya.

When you call complete strangers, there is a high probability that you will be shouted at. Sometimes this really happens. The list of people I called at work and who sent me is not very long, but I remember all these names well. I came to PublicPost as a middle-aged introvert. Talking on the phone with strangers was extremely difficult for me. I was shy, but gradually I learned. The hardest thing was to call Mikhail Boyarsky. This soft hoarseness, the intonations familiar from childhood...

I was one of the first to come to PublicPost, four months before the site opened. I was called to the project a few days after I graduated from the university - on June 1, 2011, having not really recovered from my exams and diploma, I signed my first contract for my first journalistic job. Four producers, two editors and one film editor—that’s the lineup we launched with.

I have not worked on PublicPost even a year. But a year in the media is a lot, much more than a year in accounting. At the end of last summer, children were just beginning to protect against "harmful information" and even threatened to protect against harmful words. And we did not joke very originally that it is known what place is, and the words denoting this place may not be soon. My first text on PublicPost - " Classics of a movie that can become obscene " - was also, in general, a joke.

Today Khodorkovsky is 50 years old. For me, this man played a very important role in my life. I only spoke with his parents a few times, but I understand well why he is the way he is. It’s hard for MBH now, but it’s harder for them... I wrote MBH a little congratulations. I don't know if he will read it. If he doesn’t read it, I’ll hand it over personally next fall. Despite everything, today I want to believe that this will happen. Dear Mikhail Borisovich! Happy Birthday to you!

Photo: Reuters Return to the project "Lingua Franca" According to Alexander Lukashenko, before he came to power in 1994, Russians in Belarus were sitting on their suitcases, expecting every second that the nationalists would come and drive them out of the country. But when the current head of Belarus took the reins of power into his own hands, the situation immediately magically changed. “We are ready to share the last piece of bread with the Russian people,” Lukashenko vows.

No one in our country in modern times has been so tortured, no one has been bullied so cynically, mercilessly and for a long time as Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky. And no one since the legendary heroes and martyrs of the Soviet dissident resistance has behaved so steadfastly and so modestly. It is probably this combination that is called the word “nobility”. Formerly the richest man in the country, today he is a camp inmate with ten years of experience.

It’s generally not very good when a person receives congratulations on his birthday through a video message, and it’s absolutely terrible when a person has not received any other congratulations for the past many years, except for congratulations through a video and in some such canned form. I sincerely hope that this is the last video congratulation that Mikhail Khodorkovsky receives in his life. For the rest of his long life, he will receive congratulations only in person.

On the eve of the anniversary of the former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who turns 50 today, Levada Center conducted a survey among 1.6 thousand residents of 130 settlements in 45 regions of the country. According to the survey results , 33% of Russians are in favor of the early release of Khodorkovsky. 16% of respondents are against his release, 52% found it difficult to answer.

Photo: Reuters/PublicPost Collage On June 26, Mikhail Khodorkovsky turns 50 years old. The ex-head of YUKOS will celebrate his anniversary in a Karelian colony; he will have a meeting with relatives. He spent almost 10 years behind bars. A few days earlier, Khodorkovsky admitted in an interview with The New Times that he would have shot himself if he had known what awaited him after his arrest in Novosibirsk in October 2003. “For me then, my current experience would have been a shock,” he said.

Photo: Photo from the archive of Mark Redkin Chairman of the State Duma Security Committee Irina Yarovaya introduced to the State Duma a new version of the bill providing for up to 5 years in prison for “justifying Nazism.” In accordance with the bill, sanctions are provided for denying the verdict passed by the International Military Tribunal, as well as for denying the activities of the armies of the anti-Hitler coalition countries in maintaining international peace and security during the

Photo: Anya Ayvazyan/PublicPost When I found out that a grocery store from Nigeria had opened not far from the Kuzminki metro station, I was almost not surprised. There are a lot of Africans in Kuzminki. True, it was difficult to immediately understand where the noisy and always laughing guys come from, whom I meet every evening at the exit of the metro: there are almost no Francophones among them, few speak English. It turned out that they were all Nigerians.