In the program of Alexander Podrabinka "Dejavu" - Evgenia Lesin, Jan Mahonin, Karl Volokh and Andrey Zubov Alexander Podrabinek: We continue the conversation begun in the last issue of our program. How to protect freedom and democracy from a revenge of totalitarianism? Is it possible? What instruments of public administration are needed for this? For whom does lustration pose the greatest threat? And who exactly is the most dangerous for the newly established democracy?

Oles Buzina Quotes of Freedom April 17, 2015 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 16:50 17.4.2015 And again about the "drain of the Donbass." Murder Olesya Buzina: It's a shame to rejoice Most (except perhaps debtors in foreign exchange mortgage), the Direct Line with Putin upset the supporters of the war with Ukraine. Putin: We are not going to revive the Empire.

Video review of the latest events in the broadcasting region Radio Free Europe/Radio "Freedom".

The story of a Russian who volunteered to Donbass and discovered that he was not in the army, but in the gang Russian entrepreneur Bondo Dorovsky, who was engaged in oil business, and then worked in a Moscow construction company, decided to volunteered to the east of Ukraine. He was convinced that he was going to fight with fascism. The Dorovskys were accepted into the "Ghost" brigade Alexei Mozgovoy, who was operating in the Lugansk region, then he fought in the territory of the DPR.

Obama: In 2009, Russia suspended the supply of S-300 to Iran at the request of the United States and I am surprised that the embargo was so long

From St. Petersburg, Radio Liberty Viktor Rezunkov reports

From Mozart to hardbope and cologne Yeardley. A page from the Sinopsis of the life of Harbi Hankok.

Two in the morning, calls the phone on the bedside table. "Hello, you are worried about journalists from Moscow." A polite, stretching vowel voice on the other end is kindly interested in whether it is convenient for me to speak. I mock a roar in my throat, I finally wake up. From me, located in Khabarovsk, they need a report - with a photo and video - about the crash of the trailer "Far East".

In St. Petersburg, a group of organizations included in the Coalition "Democratic Petersburg", on Friday, notified the city authorities of the demonstration and rally on May 1. As the Radio Liberty correspondent Viktor Rezunkov reports, the Pervomaisky march, as reported in the application submitted in the Smolny Coalition, Democratic Petersburg, will pass at once under a few slogans: “Yes, the European choice! There is no war policy!”, “The world of Ukraine!

"Direct Line" with Vladimir Putin demonstrated the unprecedented low material level of Russians. They asked his advice on how to live in a pension of 6 thousand rubles and for a salary of 9. What did the president answer them? They are discussed by Konstantin Smirnov and Valery Khomyakov. Presenter Elena Rykovtseva.

Promotion of LGBT activists in St. Petersburg LGBT activists went out with pickets to Nevsky Prospekt, and also arranged a flash mob Petersburg LGBT activists and their supporters organized two promotions on Friday, dedicated to annually held for about 20 years in the United States, and since 2006 in Europe the day of silence . This is the name of a youth action dedicated to the problems of silence in discrimination, hatred and violence in relation to sexual minorities.

Monument to Lenin in the village of Lugansk According to Moskal, on Thursday, "patriotic activists of the village tied the face of the" leader "with a yellow-blue mask, and then" handed "the national Ukrainian flag" On Friday night in the village of Lugansk, a monument to Lenin fell. This was reported on the website of the head of the Luhansk Regional Military-Civil Administration of Gennady Moskal.

Oles Buzina A certain "Ukrainian rebel army" in a letter to the political scientist Vladimir Fesenko took responsibility for the murder of a number of political and public figures in Ukraine The Ukrainian police are trying to determine the sender of the letter on behalf of a certain "Ukrainian rebel army", in which she takes responsibility for the murder of a number of political and public figures in Ukraine, including Oleg Kalashnikov and Olesya Buzina.

Lenin Square, Simferopol, April 16, 2015 The inhabitants of Crimea even before the start of the broadcast asked more than 10 thousand questions. What they asked Putin and what he promised them The traditional "direct line with Vladimir Putin" this year was different from the previous ones. For the first time in the history of his communication with the people, residents of Crimea annexed by Russia had questions to the president.

Kramatorsk - demolition of the monument to Lenin April 17 During the procession along the central streets of the city on Friday, a technician drove up to the square in front of the building of the Kramatorsk city council, a cable was thrown onto the monument, and the statue was tumbled down In the central square of Kramatorsk, a monument to Lenin is destroyed. The city is now the administrative center of the part of the Donetsk region controlled by Ukraine.