The real reasons for the resignation of the director of the Tretyakov Gallery can only guess The director of the Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva was suddenly dismissed by order of the Minister of Culture. Instead, Zelfir Tregulov, who switched to this position from the post of head of the Rosiso Museum and Exhibition Center, was appointed. The museum community is perplexed: officially declared reasons for the personnel change are slurred and unconvincing.

Kerch is the city closest to Russia in Crimea, only four and a half kilometers from the once Ukrainian -Russian border. What has changed and what remained the same in the city almost a year after the annexation of the peninsula?

Ukrainian troops are ready to withdraw heavy weapons from the line of warfare in the Donbass in case the separatists do the same. This was stated by the representative of the National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko. According to him, the “generally” situation in the Donbass is stabilizing.

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?

The trial in Cairo over supporters of the Muslim Brothers, May 2014 The court in Jordan on Sunday sentenced one of the leaders of the Muslim Brothers by 18 months of prison-for criticizing the decision of the authorities of the United Arab Emirates to prohibit the activities of Islamic organizations.

How has Ukraine changed a year after the change of power in the country? A new series of courts over NPOs who refused to recognize themselves as foreign agents. What does Vladimir Putin go to Budapest? Ksenia Sobchak will present the book of his father "Stalin. Personal business"

Marso Field, 24 March 2012 The book “Politics of Apolitical: Civil movements in Russia of 2011-2013” was prepared by young scientists of the Laboratory of Public Sociology (Moscow-Petersburg) in cooperation with the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University. On the political activity of 2011-13 and civil initiatives of 2014. The inertia of Soviet depolitization, injuries of the nineties and their overcoming.

Dmitry Peskov Dmitry Peskov, a press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke out for strict compliance with the agreements agreed by the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine in Minsk on February 12. According to Peskov, which is given by Reuters, "the entire sequence of actions is mentioned in the package of measures to implement the Minsk agreement .

All the years of the Soviet regime by the name of Gumilyov, his verses were inhabited, “dedicated” came around. Knowing and love Gumilyov was part of a certain “Code of Honor”. We are not talking about the fate of the poet himself, but about his folk myth, about the reflection of his personality in the reader consciousness of the twentieth century. Ivan Tolstoy: On the air, the program "Alphabet of dissent." Hello, Andrey. Andrey Gavrilov: Good afternoon, Ivan. Ivan Tolstoy: Gumilyov Sr.

Newsweek reporter Anna Nemtsova about the Ukrainian war. How to illuminate the conflict on both sides?

In eastern Ukraine, since the beginning of the ceasefire announced last night, the separatists fired at the positions of government troops 10 times. The General Staff of Ukraine reports that the shelling is powerless, there are no losses among the Ukrainian military. In the Luhansk region, when shelling the city of Pogasnaya, two local residents were killed. Shells got into the store, clinic and private house.

Can a boy play dolls? Is sexuality a personal business or a state? Tamara Lyalenkova: The theme of today's discussion - “education, or the awareness of the floor” - is provoked by two events.

How is sexual identity formed in adolescence? Is sexuality a personal business or a state? Can a boy play dolls?

Are the chances that the Minsk agreements will be observed? Was European mediation justified?

The beginning of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan May 15, 1988 In Russia today, the 26th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan is celebrated. Memory events are held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza, Sakhalin, in Naberezhnye Chelny, Barnaul, Perm and Sevastopol. The Soviet Union introduced troops to Afghanistan in 1979.