Today is the anniversary of Peter Vile. For us is a bitter date, since Petya has not been with us for almost five years. Watch the video memorization of Alexander Genis, listen to Vail's voice, these are little -known records from the Freedom Archive, read the interview with the publisher of "Poems about me" and "Words on the way" Varvara Gornostaeva.

Officials and homophobes did everything to disrupt the events of the "Quirfest" The sixth international sociocultural and human rights festival "Quirfest-2014" ended in St. Petersburg . To say that the festival, mainly devoted to the protection of the rights of the LGBT community, took place in difficult conditions, means to say nothing.

The head of the Mariinsky Theater opens the season with talking about music and morality in politics After March 11, 2014, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, the old friend of Vladimir Putin, Valery Gergiev put his signature under the letter of Russian culture figures in support of the position of the president in Ukraine and Crimea , the tour of the Mariinsky Orchestra in European and American cities began to be accompanied by protests .

A fragment of an interview with writer Vladimir Voinovich to the Radio correspondent Freedom to Yuri Veksler.

Seven days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

Demolished monument to Lenin in Kharkov Participants in the demolition of the monument to Lenin in Kharkov are exempted from criminal liability. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine closed the case of hooliganism without starting an investigation. The basis for the termination of the trial was that the head of the regional administration Igor Balut signed an order to dismantle the monument.

Our bread, our Khoper-informal tags of the all-Russian rally of solidarity for the preservation of the Chernozemye, against the decision to extract nickel on the Khoper River in the Voronezh region and for the country's food security that took place in Russia on September 28.

At the Donetsk airport, the separatists knocked out the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier from the tank. Seven military personnel were killed, nine were injured, Ukrainian media reported with reference to presidential adviser Yuri Biryukov. Over the past day, the separatists on tanks attacked Donetsk airport several times, controlled by government troops. Army positions in the Debaltsevo and Trudovsky area were also attacked, a special operation press center reports on Facebook.

The organizer of the "march for the federalization of the Kuban" is preparing to defend Ukraine as part of a volunteer detachment The Russian authorities included in the federal "list of extremists and terrorists" organizers of the march for the federalization of the Kuban.

Chairman of the "Union of Polyakov in Belarus" Mechislav Yaskevich Two leaders of the “Union of Poles in Belarus” were detained on Monday by Belarusian border guards while trying to enter Poland - Chairman of the Organization, Moshchelav Yaskevich and Head of the Council Angelica Boris. According to our radio station, a representative of St. Petersburg, Grodno journalist Andrzeji Pisnelnik, border guards took some personal belongings from the detained human rights activists, including laptops.

Nationalist Daniil Konstantinov, accused of murder, will make the last word in the Chertanovsky court of Moscow today. After that, the verdict will be announced. The prosecutor demands for the defendant for 10 years the colony, lawyers insist on the complete innocence of Konstantinov and declare that he has an alibi. The leader of the Moscow Defense League and the active participant in the general civil protest was charged with the murder of a young man of a street fight on December 3, 2011.

In Kyiv, trials on the officers and fighters of the Special Police detachment "Berkut" continue. On the air of the RS, politician Grigory Yavlinsky and musician Valery Georgiev speak of his attitude to conflict around Ukraine. In Latvia, the military exercises of NATO countries begin to the writer and journalist Peter Vail today would be 65 years old.

Russia and Ukraine: accounts for the war. The prospects of the two countries are discussed by the leader of the Civil Initiative Party, Doctor of Economics, former Minister of Economy of Russia Andrei Nechaev and Executive Director of the Blayzer Foundation International Fund, Master of Harvard University, Candidate of Economics Oleg Ustenko (Kyiv)

Participants of the IV Caspian summit (left to right) - Ilham Aliyev, Hasan Rukhani, Vladimir Putin, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today in Astrakhan, the Caspian Five summit ended. She agreed on the presence of two zones in the coastal and sea space of the Caspian. We are talking about a common 25-mile coastal fishing zone, while each side has the exclusive right to mining resources in a 15-mile zone.