Former RISI employee Alexander Sytin talks about the ideology of the new nobility, Orthodox immigrants from the KGB Until 2009 , the Russian Institute for Strategic Research (RISI) was part of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, then he was reformatted in the structure, the founder and main customer of the work of which was the Presidential Administration of Russia. The retired Lieutenant General of the SVR Leonid Reshetnikov was appointed to the post of director.

Vitaly Portnikov: Our guest today is a Ukrainian director, actor Akhtem Seytablae . Akhtema is known to the Russian viewer from the film Haitarma , which last year received Nick, one of the highest awards of Russian cinema. Incidentally, he received just against the backdrop of famous events around the Crimea, which gave a cultural event also political engagement. I would like to start a conversation with Akhtem not about his cinematic activity, but about television.

Mariupol has undergone artillery shelling over the past day, 20 people were killed, dozens wounded The UN Office for the coordination of humanitarian issues reported that the total number of forced immigrants from the eastern regions of Ukraine exceeded one and a half million. The UN refers to the data of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, which registered 922 thousand internally displaced persons. About 600 thousand refugees took refuge in neighboring countries.

A wave of poisoning of stray animals swept through Russia. Pets were injured and pets Moscow parliamentarians intend to contact the State Duma with a proposal to tax owners of pets, as well as introduce mandatory registration and passporting of pets. According to the deputies of the Moscow City Duma, such measures will force citizens more responsibly to their favorites, and will also help the authorities bear the costs of maintaining shelters and keep records of hopeless animals.

American foreign policy "realists" recommend US Congress to think about achieving a compromise with the Kremlin Why does an influential American political scientist recommend that Washington not insist on the right of Ukraine to join NATO? How to resolve the conflict between the right of the people to choose from the path and political reality? How can the West and Russia disperse the following on a counterclaim?

Murder in Paris. Journalists, two police officers. Ear -shaped world reaction. "I am Charlie." A few days later already: "I am Volnovha." Million rallies in Paris in support of Charlie and a millionth rally in Grozny against Charlie. Tens of thousands at a rally in Kyiv in memory of those who died near Volnovakha, and two dozen on the same campaign at the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow. They will recall about Charlie for a long time, I am sure that in Paris a monument will be erected.

The police examine the body of the deceased as a result of the shelling of a residential quarter in Mariupol On January 24, the artillery shelling of the residential quarters of Mariupol began. There are dead, wounded, destroyed houses The victims of the artillery of pro -Russian militants in Mariupol on January 24 were 26 people, more than 90 were injured . Residential buildings, church and supermarket were destroyed, the work was suspended by the Azovstal metallurgical plant.

Simonopetra Monastery on Athos In the mid -eighties of the last century, I visited Athos, in Greece. On a steamer with a gallun without a floor designation - the floor on this steamer is always the same, male - we set sail from the village of Uranopol at dawn and moored two hours in another century. In Karia, the center of the monastic reserve, I went into the tavern and asked the soup. They brought me a plate with two floating flies.

Requirements to let the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko as a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) are “deprived of legal grounds”, since “it is accused of a crime that is committed before the election by a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This was written on Twitter by the head of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs Alexei Pushkov.

Halver a century ago, Winston Churchill passed away. He was only four years younger than Lenin. The thick -striped, in the cylinder, with a bulldog expression on his face and a cigar in his teeth, Churchill is so similar to the caricature image of the bourgeois, which is incomprehensible: either the caricature was painted from him, or he himself was fumed under the caricature.

On the role of a priest in the Russian Church, a conversation with his father Grigory Mikhnov-Wedenko from Old Russa. Yakov Krotov : This release of our program is dedicated to a meeting with an interesting person, the essence of which we will now find out. We will call our program conditionally "priest or priest?" Before us is the father Grigory Mikhnov -Vovyutenko , a man with two surnames, many faces and a very stormy, as I understand it, biography.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko urgently returns from Saudi Arabia to Ukraine to hold a meeting of the National Defense and Security Council (National Security and Defense Council), his press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on Twitter. In his appeal, the president condemned the shelling of Mariupol from the Gradi plants and called the incident a crime against humanity, the jurisdiction of the Hague tribunal. “We are for the world, but we accept the enemy’s call.

In battles in the east of Ukraine from January 17 to January 22, 18 Ukrainian military were killed, 235 wounded. According to the Ministry of Defense of the country, the loss of separatists during the same period amounted to 600 people, 175 were injured. Representatives of the so -called "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR), in turn, report more than 750 killed military personnel of the Ukrainian army.

Two action artists were arrested after the action on Red Square. They are interested in the FSB On January 20, the action “Expelled the devil. The desecration of the mausoleum” was held in Moscow: two young people doused the “holy water” of the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square with shouts “Get up and leave”. The performance lasted 15 seconds, after which the police detained young people, the next day they received 10 days of arrest.