Pussy Riot in the frontal place. A year ago The British magazine New Musical Express has published a list of nominees for 2013 music prizes. Among them in two categories-the “Hero of the Year” and “Musical moment of the year”-the Pussy Riot punk group is nominated. The nominees are nominated on the Internet, readers of the magazine vote for them.

Boris Pasternak For Russian emigration, the figure of Boris Pasternak by the mid-1950s became almost unlimited from other figures of Soviet literature. Neither in the direction. Behind Pasternak, there were no loyal performances, participation in collective letters. But he was not seen in anything “opposition”: he was not worked out more than others, did not excuse from a typographic machine or scene.

The story of people in the Hebron - under the control of the Israeli army, an interview with one of the founders of the Serbian Movement "rebel" Lithuanian dissident Antanas Terlyazkas about the experience of the resistance of the Soviet government, the economic crisis and "returners" to the Spanish village

Great Britain seeks to leave the European Union, but, quite possibly, this is a matter of a distant future.

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Fragment of the cover of the book Lars Ier The main literary event in Britain of this year (from a purely biased point of view, of course) is the access to the Melville Press publishing house the last part of the prose trilogy of Lars Ier , the novel “Exodus” (Exodus).

The State Duma simplifies the process of obtaining citizenship for certain categories of the population; In Israel, early Kneset elections are held (the post of PM is expected to retain Benjamin Netanyahu); In the US Senate, hearings are held about the circumstances of the death of American diplomats in Benghazi; Ukraine celebrates the Day of Coateness and Freedom. We’ll talk about this in the program.

What is pushing political prisoners to acts of despair? We are talking about this live with the activist of the "Other Russia" movement Sergei Fomchenkov.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: For almost forty days, the hunger strike of the “swamp business” Sergei Krivov has not yet threatened his health, ”the sailor’s silence said in the pre-trial detention center. “On the contrary, the arrested lost weight. It's okay: with height of 173, he had overweight - 80 kilograms, and now his weight is normal, ”the edition of the word chief of the medical unit of the investigative isolator Alexandra Ibatullina.

The inauguration speech of US President Barack Obama, which he said on the eve of Washington, gives ideas about the agenda of his second four years in the White House. This speech of the president and the problems facing him are devoted to the audio poddy "American questions", in which Brian Whitmer and Valentin Baryshnikov participate.

This year it all started at the end of December, that is, a month and a half earlier than usual. The year began with an outbreak of unusual flu and a “cruise” intestinal virus around the world and whooping cough in America. All that you need to know about them to avoid. Early beginning Last week, I returned from America, where a cold and influenza serve as the main theme for Small Talk this winter, because it is sick or ill -willed, it seems, every second.

Attack on LGBT activists near the State Duma January 22, 2013 Leading Mark Krutov, Dmitry Volchek. Fresh from above 22:20 22.1.2013 A significant part of today's news is associated with the speeches of LGBT activists against the bill 6.13.1 on the prohibition of the so-called “propaganda of homosexuality”. His fate will be decided on January 24 at a meeting of the State Duma Council.