The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

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Social networks - about the plans of the Kremlin, the fun of the Unarmeans and Dadin

Why did President Trump recorded the American press in the "enemies of the people"? Press - a means of information or a counterweight to the government? Why do the media lose the trust of the Americans? Do the “false news” pose a threat to American democracy? The program of Yuri Zhigalkin is discussed by American experts.

Chekhov and music. *** Radio anthology of modern Russian poetry. The verses of Vladimir Druk. *** tell the Vilnius taxi drivers. *** “My favorite records” with journalist Yuri Veksler.

Anton Chekhov Excerpts from the program Vladimir Abarinov : “Anton Chekhov never studied the game on any musical instrument. But in childhood, together with his brothers, he sang in the church choir. Church singing is mentioned in many texts of Chekhov. And the story “The Singers” indicates a specific work that the church choir is led - “Kheruvimskaya” Bortnyansky, No. 7. This anthem is also called by the first words: “Individuals of Cherub” ...

Ildar Dadin - Russian opposition civil activist The Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of the Altai Territory will come on February 25 with an unscheduled inspection in colony No. 5, in which the opposition activist Ildar Dadin is located. This was told by the chairman of the regional PMC Alexei Belous. Earlier, the wife of Dadina Anastasia Zotova said that her husband was still not released.

The resettlement program of dilapidated housing on Sakhalin seems to be developing very successfully, new houses are actively building, people are being relocated. It only turned out that they have to move to those who do not want it, and the families who need new housing turned out to be at the end of the line for relocation.

Human Rights Watch logo Israeli authorities refused to extend the work visa to the director of the Human Rights Watch human rights organization department Omar Shakiru. This is discussed on Friday on the organization’s website. The HRW said that the decision to refuse to extend the visa caused surprise in the organization, since human rights activists are in regular contact with the Israeli authorities.

The Vienna Land Court decided to release the Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash in the case of his extradition in the United States. The demand of the prosecutor’s office for his detention was rejected. This was announced by RBC by a source surrounded by Firtash. The day before, the same court refused to detain the businessman in the case of issuance to Spain. At the same time, he was obliged not to leave Austria and took a passport from him.

Estonia celebrates Independence Day . In the morning, state flags have been posted throughout the country. Wreaths at the Freedom monument in Tallinn were laid for the first persons of the state, including President Kersty Kaliulaid, speaker of Riigikogu Ayki Nestor and Prime Minister Yuri Ratas. Then a military parade took place, in which more than a thousand military personnel from eight NATO countries took part.

No one knows how this story of civil resistance at the walls of the Kremlin will end, the authorities would be happy to put the name of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov, but the defenders of the national memorial, having survived the second frosty winter, are ready, in the heat and cold, to go out for round -the -clock duty.

A group of Crimean Tatar activists was condemned in Simferopol Almost midnight on February 21. In the corridor of the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol there is a bailiff in black uniform and says on the phone: “Yes, we work on the fullest. As the leadership says, we have a“ public order day. ”There are a lot of them around the Crimean Tatars. There are a lot of them in the corridor, men are closer to the doors, behind which the judges on duty hold one meeting after another.